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I sent this thread to Jones. Lawsuit forthcoming

the first step in straightening out this society will be to start sending people, maybe a lot of people, and especially official people, to jail for perjury. So far we are still going in the wrong direction. More and more official lying, less and less accountability.

What a great game for a national audience to get a good look at a really good team that is still flying under everyone’s radar even with the best record in baseball.

Jtodd

I don't think MAGA is strategic at all. They're just nuts.

Twins, KC and Cleveland all lose. The last 2 Tigers losses, those teams also lost.

well he did start out with too high a GB rate. So he has to find the optimum middle ground. This wasn't always his approach, it was a change that got him here, so that at least argues he has the capability to change again.

I think Riley has overcompensated on his fly ball approach and pitchers have found the weaknesses in his extreme uppercut swing. I am going to guess that he is going to have to work his way back to an approach that keeps his bat in the zone longer and lets him cover the outside better. He's pretty locked into the inside of the zone so far this season. There was reporting this spring about how he wanted to look for inside pitches - I think the league knows the answer to that is don't throw it there.....

that's no blanket, that's an afghan.

Lord Stanley, you admitted it, too. You are screwed.

I libelled Jones. It was Perez.

Total team loss today. Everything sucked. Just one game out of 162.

Third strike out of the day.

OK, let's parse the different meanings of "grit," "edge," "relentlessness," and "attitude." Every successful NHL team has a couple of forwards who are hard to play against, who are going to punish defenders in the corners or in front of the net. The Wings do not have this.

I really believe that the Trump administration wants protests and demonstrations so he can declare martial law and legally suspend the constitution. Total evil. Total cruelty.

Pitchers used to get cortisone shots in their arms to pitch with no concern for long-term damage...not the healthiest approach

And to top it off, it’s another Parlty Cloudy day.

Maybe a combination of things. How many careers were shortened by the "just play thru it philosophies", especially with pitchers? Also the investment in many of the players may play into it, especially in the terms of having multi year contracts vs one year deals. Not to mention player cost

I'm not all that happy with the current state of the Democratic Party but Bombers is more or less right IMO... There is zero harm in acknowledging this I would add this is, at least at this moment, a deeply polarized country, much more deeply polarized than it was in 2008. I agree with the need to break that, but we need to be clear that is something that will not be broken in one Midterm and Presidential election cycle... It's more of a generational problem

I think somebody posted that here and I remarked that Jones is not a catcher name. It's the name of a speedy outfielder.

Very impressive.

Skubal's on pace to have a 1.80 FIP with 210IP, if that holds up the only people to do that since WWII would be Gibson in 88, Gooden in 84 and Pedro in 99.

Impressive;

There have been 13 Joneses, but no more J. Joneses. The best one was Davy Jones (9 WAR). Here is my Tigers Jones all-star team (with only Jacoby Jones playing out of position): C. Jacoby Jones 1B. Tom Jones 2B. Dalton Jones 3B. Bob Jones SS. Ed Jones (aka Red Borom) LF. Tracy Jones CF. Ruppert Jones RF. Davy Jones DH. Lynn Jones SP Carroll Jones RP Todd Jones Others: Jahmai Jones, Elijah Jones Edit: I left out Jacques so there were 14 of them.

was Shanahan the last ex-Wing the Leafs hired? How'd that work out? >he just didn't have the juice to be a head coach for that Wings tenure it seemed like. Yup- they did get a big lift when he started, but then they eventually started looking just like the team he took over from Blashill.

I think I'm at the end of the boomer generation. Born in '60. But I don't believe in astrology. 😅🤣

Growing up and growing old in Detroit, I watched many, many NFL fans root for Dallas, Pittsburgh and other annual winners, over the Lions, who mostly always stunk. I never liked those traitors. Now, us diehard Lion fans are in hog heaven. Dan Campbell for governor. 🤣

Interesting that Sweeney sat vs a righty. Also, Dingler may very well be an all-star this year.

Good baseball teams tend to be those that can get above average value out the typically below average value positions - esp catcher. Dingler is playing at about a 6 WAR season pace.

And Cleveland lost.

Attendance.....40,132

This felt like a playoff game. At least that's how my nerves were taking it.

Keeping up with the Joneses

Tigers defense today has been amazing.

That was exactly the kind of phenomenal catch a bad fielder would make!

looking forward to the highlight of that Carp catch!

I can't believe Tigers legend Quintin Berry is still in professional baseball, great to see him help his former team!

Perfect. Dan and Dan on the radio feed.

Oh wow, game changer!

Well they knew the court had ordered him repatriated - I would assume they wanted the indictment in hand for when that ultimately happened. With a Trump admin there is always some sideshow going that a distraction is useful for, and there is also some distraction they are cooking up because the next sideshow is envitable. So nothing here is actually out of the ordinary. 🙄

Went 3-5 today with 2 doubles and a steal of home.

For the life of me I've never understood why they use such hard bases in the majors. I'm sure the umpires like that the surface can't move/flex, but how many arm, foot and knee injuries per year is that worth?

Mid term losses are standard, but lose of majority doesn't have to be. You have to win big enough to be able to lose some of the margin of your majority without losing your majority. Otherwise you really don't have a governing coalition nationwide. It's part of the wider aspect of why politics in the US is broken. When a party is at a point where it's own supporters are so conditioned they can't even think in terms of absolute majority wins as a reasonable target, you have party politics that aren't working. There are no doubt a lot of reasons - but whatever the causes, the symptoms are all there to see. It apparently isn't possible to construct a centrist party in the US anymore. The money isn't there, the energy is all at the fringes, primaries (and now social media) are too easily controlled by the extremes, we know all the diagnoses. So far we can't figure out the cure.

All this feels like such old news, which I'm sure is part of the design to turn us into a fascist autocracy de jure as well as de facto.

With AZ fall and 2025 WM, Briceno has 23 home runs in his last 231 at-bats https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=bricen003jos

Toledo L 3-2 Workman 1/2 Jung 0/3 BB K Melton 4.2IP 6H 2ER 7K Owens 1.1IP ER Erie W 12-4 Cruz 3/4 4RBI 2BB K 2B Anderson 0/5 BB Serwa 6IP 4H 4ER 2BB 4K WM W 5-4 11 Inning McGonigle 2/6 RBI 3K 2 2B SB Briceno 0/5 BB 2K Pacheco 0/4 BB 3K Mattison 1IP K Lakeland L 11-3 Franyerber 1/2 2BB Strong 2/5 K FCL W 6-4 Warwick 1/3 2RBI BB Osorio 0/4 K Jimenez 1/4 RBI 2K HR Diaz 5IP 10H 4ER BB 4K

June 6 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-6/d-day Incidentally, if you happen to be traveling in the foothills of Western Virginia between Lynchburg and Roanoke the National D Day Memorial is located in Bedford, Va. https://www.dday.org. Soldiers from Bedford were part of Company A of the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. 35 Soldiers from that small town were assigned to that Division, 19 died that day, another 4 would lose their lives before the end of the campaign. The greatest proportion of losses of any town in America