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It really doesn't matter what they call the parade. Holding an expensive parade after gutting the government supposedly to cut the deficit is incredibly hypocritical and insulting. What do we need a military parade for? Everybody in the world already knows we have the biggest, most powerful military in the world. It's not North Korea.

I enjoyed seeing the Red Sox lose last night on my phone just before I fell asleep and of course as my iPhone spies on my activity, it informed Facebook of what I was doing and this is what came up on Facebook just now. All it took was one time, once, for Facebook to think I had forsaken the motherland and fatherland of baseball for me — the Detroit Tigers — for the algorithmically approved Boston Red Sox. It’s never thought of doing this for the Rockies or the Rays when I’ve watched those games, but when it comes to a “real team” like the Red Sox oh boy howdy, that’s red meat.

I wonder what happened to that Greg Pappas guy. Has anyone gone over to Orioles hangout to troll them and offer up Jung and Malloy for Gunnar Henderson?

The Tigers are playing .000 ball (0 for 3) this season in games when they have a chance to move 20 games over .500.

I was watching that and when I watch other teams, which is rare, it feels like they’re living in the last century. They’re always talking about how it’s “hard for a guy to come off the bench after six or seven days without swinging the bat” and that doesn’t happen with the Tigers. Nobody seems to be going from 1st to 3rd the way the Tigers do. The Tigers play a different brand of baseball. And a lot of the broadcast teams seem like stuffy old fogies in suits and if I’m 73 years old and I think they’re old fogies they are. I like our broadcast crews on both TV and radio both a lot more than what I hear on other broadcasts.

From a different angle on the AI stuff. I am working on a history project and need to build a website. There are many "help" type ways you can go. It seems to be very AI intensive, and they try to push it. Give us some details and we build you a website, and it will. I looked at the WIX/Wordpress stuff. Always a button to let AI take over. Mine is simple. It doesn't seem to get that. I spend more time editing the pages. I honestly had a better site with the old 2000 Microsoft Front Page or raw html code. You can also save all Office documents in html format. Used that too. Just playing. So I got curious. I spun up Grok, just for fun. Entirely different thing than a webpage. I posted a picture of a mechanical coin changer and asked AI how to use one. Ten minutes and a bunch of BS answers later that sounded like the same corporate BS I heard for the last 40 years, and it had no idea how to make change. It was entertaining though. Junk in, junk out, same as it's always been. It won't end well.

Every 12 year old should experience adults dodging you over their unpaid $1.75 tab.

I have zero respect for anyone who says immigrants pose a cultural problem.

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And yet in places like Commerce Twp, Michigan pickup trucks roar up Commerce Rd past the high school with a flag representing a nation that tried insurrection against the U-S.

I think they should use mannequins or crash test dummies. And they should be looking at their phones the whole time for realism.

Orioles Park at Camden Yards - Baltimore, MD Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: FanDuel Det Game Time Forecast: 86 Partly Cloudy Starters: RHP Sawyer Gibson Long TBD

Dingler bloops in Greene! It’s not dramatic, but it counts.

Good call.

I sure could use a game where we score runs in bunches.

This might be my favorite and he was so nonchalant about it.

Here is one of the funniest clips on the Internet. It’s real, but a joke outtake “special” episode of Manager’s Corner with Weaver and host that obviously never made it to the air.

Not from walking to the mound, from kicking dirt on umps. 😝

He nails it..

They just optioned Kjerstad down to AAA again. Bet they wish they could get Stowers back from Miami. I just popped over to the Orioles hangout, and they are very much doom and gloom over there.

Because it's a bad look that could potentially cost them ticket buyers in the future. As a marketer, I can attest that they have a concern about it. Ever go to a game in iffy weather, and/or for an iffy team, where they announce 30,000 tickets sold but clearly less than half of them showed up? It could be said why should the team care, they got the money, mwah hah hah hah. But even beyond the loss of in-game revenue, no-shows also creates bad energy both in the ballpark and on TV, and that can affect excitement for the team and, consequently, ticket sales. It's not only about today. It's a long game for them.

There are roles that Stellan is so perfect for you can't even imagine anyone else doing them.

The real ghoul behind the curtain is Miller.

The Judge one is amazing

do they like pizza?

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True, unless you have a 100% indigenous bloodline, somewhere along your family tree is an immigrant.

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… and totally stupid. Trump is on the polar opposite side of Theodore Roosevelt’s quote, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

Gotta vote on bills that will help his private sector position before he leaves.

Not the most important point, which Serwer covers, but for all of Kirk's rambling about culture, education, housing, financial and essential services, what purpose does *he* serve for society? What 'essential services' does he, guy behind a microphone flapping his gums, contribute to the world? Bringing up housing in particular is really hilarious when you consider who it is that actually *builds* housing in this country. It ain't guys sitting behind a microphone flapping their gums, that's for sure.

Recent opponents have been the Cards, the Cubs, Cleveland, the Royals, the Giants, and the White Sox. All those teams other than the White Sox have better than average Team ERA's, with KC and the Giants being in the top 5. Two of the games against the Pale Hose were cool days. Not to worry.

Should have saved the cardboard fans from COVID.

What's wild is Los Angeles is supposed to host the Olympics in 2028. The IOC should have them in Paris again and boycott the US. It's too unsafe.

The other thing about that is that Hoerner said, “You're having a really bad day.” Hoerner personalized the criticism. If he’d said, “You really missed that one bad”, he probably would have gotten away with that. But once an hitter goes after an umpire’s competence or, even worse, his integrity, he’s asking for the rest of the game off.

This is a complete 180 from where we were even five years ago!

I agree with Oblong in that as a fan, I don’t give a s***. I’m watching to watch the game. I also believe teams shoot themselves in the foot some when they parade empty seats in front of cameras for literally half the time a game is on. That’s a real problem for them, and I think it’s interesting to contemplate.

Those seats are overpriced everywhere. That main problem is the whole club aspect where people are incentivized to leave the seats and go someplace they can get swell food and drink as a lubricant to hobnobbing and networking. It’s not just that they have to walk clear across the ballpark to access club privileges—it’ll be the same thing when they finish the club underneath the seats.

After scoring 30 runs in 3 games against Boston a few weeks ago we have now gone 23 games where the offense has been relatively quiet. Only twice have we scored 6 runs during this run and have scored 3 runs or less in over half the games. Despite that they are still 14-9 during this stretch which is just remarkable given the aforementioned run issues.

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I watch some “art house“ films, not a lot but some, and I just watched the independent 2017 film Columbus shot entirely on location in Columbus, Indiana. This southern Indiana town is recognized worldwide for its stunning modernist architecture, a fact of supreme indifference to most of its citizens. In fact, this was entirely lost on me when I visited Columbus several times when I lived in nearby Bloomington. Now 50 years too late I get it. Would’ve could’ve should’ve… Casey, a 19 year-old librarian who is going nowhere and whose mom is a recovering meth addict, finds solace in architecture when she looks at a building in her hometown for the hundredth time and finally senses its serene healing beauty. It sounds overwrought and painfully sensitive, but the film makes you a believer. She befriends Jin, played by Korean actor John Cho, who is in town standing watch at the hospital over his dying father, a famous architecture scholar. The story of their friendship is not sentimental or cloying, but honest and authentic. They bond over this common passion for architecture and help each other move on to the next stage in their lives. It’s very believable and nothing at all like a schmaltzy Hallmark film. The queen of Indie films Parker Posey is in it too. Every shot in the film is magnificent and breathtakingly composed.

Looks like everyone is denying the report.

Pretty expensive for a guy that turns 35 on Thursday, averaged 11/4/4 on below average shooting, and has 3/$100m left on his contract. I think I might be the one asking for a pick.

Trump is federally occupying a US city but at least the vice chair of the DNC is focused on primarying Democrats.

I'm seeing there 's a No Kings Day rally at the County Courthouse Saturday. Several retired military brass will be on hand to speak.

Not debatable really. Jokic is far and away the best 2nd round pick ever

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My maternal grandmother was a knitting and crocheting queen. My two sister and I had ponchos in multiple colors and patterns, and there were blankets galore in those late 60’s- 70’s popular colors- brown, orange, burgundy, cream, that Pukey green, yellow. We never got those variations of pretty blue color ponchos. My cousins got those. I think we were told they got the blue colors and we got the other is because they had blue eyes and we all had brown eyes. ….. so, “ don’t it make my brown eyes blue”. (Crystal Gayle) 🫤