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I like Benetti and Dirks. A lot. It takes me back to Josh Lewin and Gibby. The nerd and the jock. Jasons quickness and vast knowledge of a wide range of pop culture always amazes me. I’m quite certain that some of his references go right over a lot of peoples heads. My brain operates in a similar fashion: when someone says something and i immediately have some movie quote or pop culture reference pop up. I don’t normally have the audience to verbalize them and, when I occasionally do, it has to be someone who gets it.

Starting to think that aggressively metering innings in the minors does little good.

This is absolutely insane. Anybody who supports this regime is a traitor to this country and the Constitution. If only these people were capable of feeling shame.

The thing is, his playfullness isn't forced. I think he's just a well read pop culture guy who's mind works that way. He could have had a career in morning radio back when that was a big thing. The drops. The quick cuts to something related to the subject. His makes his references too fast for me to think they are planned or scripted. It's just what pops in his head.

again, Commissar Noem says the US government is in Cali to enact regime change through military force and people are arguing about the little kerfuffle. We have been programmed by the media to ignore the meteor about to kill us all, and instead focus on 2 monkeys fighting.

Tigers announced he was to have the surgery on April 19, 2024. Then he had a hip or some other type of surgery in June. Not sure when he was cleared to pitch again but it probably wasn't too much later than the beginning of May 2025. So his recovery was roughly a little over 12 months he is effectively pitching in the majors in a little over 13 months. I find the utterly amazing. Interesting article about the advances in TJ surgery, TJ3. https://www.nyp.org/advances/article/orthopedics/dr-christopher-ahmad-why-the-tommy-john-surgery-must-continue-to-evolve 12 month recoveries are possible with the new techniques of bracing and protecting the tendon. By the way, least we forget, Dr. Frank Jobe developed and performed Tommy John's surgery

He was asking a question, which is perfectly within his purview as a United States senator doing oversight.

Occam’s Razor applies here. If he’s spouting Kremlin talking points, it most likely because he’s Putins Puppet. I don’t think the maxim of not attributing to malice what can be attributed to idiocy applies here.

Benetti is a good play by play man. He is intelligent and sometimes humorous, but I think he over does the pop culture stuff for my tastes. He is better with a straight man like Petry than Dirks who pushes him even further onto a tangent. I do think Benetti is better than anyone they've had on TV for a long time. Benetti/Petry and Dickerson/Dirks are their best combos.

All the side stuff aside, kinda nice UM and OSU won back to back titles shortly before the sport as we know it comes crashing down.

I’m all out of ****s to give to Dearborn. Go ask Tlaib for help.

It's so easy. The hardest part is getting the machine to accept your credit card. I like it better than dealing with an attendant.

I think the success rate of TJ surgery is over blown. Most pitchers return, and can be successful, but a lot of them lack the durability and velocity they had previously. The idea that TJ surgery makes pitchers stronger is a myth. It's the intense rehab and change in mechanics that can sometimes make them stronger.

No, his stance was not proven right.

Are we sure Brieske isn’t just Buck Farmer in disguise?

We don't exactly have a team of Rickey Henderson's but I would like us to try to steal a little more often if its somebody with decent speed like a Javy, Mckinstry, Meadows, Perez or Greene. The staying put and taking the extra base off hits works when you are you know actually getting hits but with the offense being in a funk now maybe we try to change that thought process and push things a little bit.

Your mistake was having any respect for Trump.

Beau Maeda

I get that the contact play works for the Tigers more than it doesn't, but it still sucks when it doesn't. especially when they put it on with the 3B in so close.

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

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.

He was due

Nonsense. It's just that most of the good stuff was already done by 1970.

Benetti and Steve Stone were magic for the Sox. Too bad we don't have a Steve Stone here.

He walked into an ongoing press conference and started shouting questions. You know damn well that's not how it's done, regardless of who you are. Had this been Padilla holding a press conference and Noem walked in and started shouting questions, you'd be here defending her getting tossed and you know it. This silly ass hypocrisy in politics is half the problem.

NO, NOT THAT! YES, THAT! It's here, it's finally here. Spaceballs 2 the movie is being made. They better call it Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money.

That's my take, spot on. Well said.

Love that series.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6406636/2025/06/11/best-worst-mlb-manager-2025-player-poll/ I was really surprised how little respect Hinch and the Tigers got in polling among MLB players. They asked 100+ players which opposing managers they would and would not want to play for. Hinch got only 4 votes. The leader Bochy got 20. Ten other managers received more votes than Hinch including Cora with Boston. They also asked about organizations and no one mentioned Detroit among the best and 2 players voted it among the worse. The Guardians, Twins and Royals were mentioned favorably with the Guardians ranking 5th behind the Dodgers, Yankees, Braves, and Cubs. The Tigers revival hasn't been long, but jeesh. Not only winning at all levels they often have the best team in the league. Probably takes time to be noticed.

I still say the Tigers should have hired Brockmire. 🤣🤣

My nephew-in law golfed with Darren McCarty Monday at Eqypt Valley in a pro-am, he is a buyer at Meijer. The LPGA is in GR this week and Meijer is a big sponser. McCarty had an orange mohawk and was trying to get Meijer interested in selling his CBD oil. My nephew asked him who he hated the most back in his playing days. And it was, you guessed it, Claude Lemieux.

JVL on the bulwark believes that DJT wants his own Kent State because he's enthralled by the idea of it as a show of strength. It mirrors what he has said about Tiananmen Square. I don't know if I would disagree with him.

Man, I am impressed because it got the meter of the song exactly right.

A little added context via ChatGPT

If there is justice in the world Miller will meet the same end as Khadafi did. Torn to shreds in the streets by a mob.

Ah, very low class

So Casey couldn't throw enough strikes again tonight; Eflin didn't make many mistakes but the Tigers took almost every one he did make; and Colt was screwed by the wall, as that ball easily would have cleared an 8 ft fence 20 ft deeper. On the plus side, Colt made a good throw from 3rd to 1st and his arm didn't fall off. Also this evening may get Beau back to Toledo.

That Orioles home run celebration with the hat is completely undignified, and doesn’t come close to running through the dugout with plush pizzas skewered on a stake.

Where's my ten runs?

Enjoy your win, Baltimore. Tomorrow is a nightmare for you.

Jesus are they just asking every team in the league? Monty Williams has some free time.

Maybe I’ve made a mistake by depending upon a baseball team to provide for me with entertainment and a feeling of accomplishment. Perhaps I should withdraw from socially constructed entertainments and begin a new life with new horizons and possibilities entirely my own.

well, I wouldn't assume too much. I'm sure they have data on optimum pricing for maximum return, but those numbers are always based on a short term market response.

cossa's late season performances are blocking cossa getting nhl ice time. not steve yzerman. would you rather have jack campbell in grand rapids? or this guy? personally, i'd rather have augustine, but he decided to go back to msu.

According to ESPNs WAR McKinstry leads all Tiger position players in WAR with a relatively modest 1.6. I say modest cause that doesn't even crack the top 30 in the AL so they haven't gotten elite production(atleast by WAR) from any non pitcher. But what they have gotten is plus production from a bunch of players, yeah the Tigers don't have any bats in the top 30 but they have 7 between 30 and 50 with an 8th(Carpenter) being just .1 behind number 50.

I had a Free Press route starting the day before my 11th birthday and kept it going, no ****, until the summer of my 16th birthday, when I switched to hourly jobs. It was a Free Press route, early morning gig. The platonic ideal was up at 5am and on the road to deliver within ten or fifteen minutes. Actually, it was more like up around 615am and maybe out in half an hour. Too many days I got home with only a razor thin margin to get showered and dressed to catch the bus to school. Too many of those times my mom had to drive me for missing the bus because I dawdled too much on the route. She was not happy about it. All seven of us kids had routes. Our house was were Paper Dropoff Central because three of us were paperboys at any given time, and there would be a couple other kids in the neighborhood with routes. So we'd walk out to the front porch and there were the paper bundles. I don't know how my dad arranged that, but we didn't realize how good we had it. Nowadays, kids don't deliver papers. I'm not even sure they're allowed to anymore. Now it's adults driving cars who deliver papers. We get the Trib and the NYTimes delivered on Saturday and Sunday. Our "paperboy" lives in Des Plaines—I know because the end-of-year tip envelope we get gets mailed there. Des Plaines is half an hour away by car even when the Kennedy is not under construction. And the Kennedy is under heavy construction right now. I know it's end of year when two things happen, even beyond the envelope: (1) the paper gets delivered all the way to my front door instead of on the walkway near the front fence; and (2) it comes around 7am instead of the usual 830am or 9am. Then, after the first of the year, everything reverts back to "normal". Imagine that.

I doubt if in the course of history, there has been any bigger impediment to progress and the improvement of the human condition than the enforcement of orthodoxy.

It's the third of June....