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If Maxwell dies in prison while Trump is POTUS, after Epstein died in prison while Trump was POTUS, it will be obvious to all that Hillary is hiding something truly dark and evil.

Cubs lost 11-0 today. No new concerns imho. The Tigers need bullpen help. Starter would be helpful. Another bat would be welcomed.

Those Nintendo switch patches on the Ms jerseys are awful

yeah the problem for Trump isn't who is on the list but who isn't on the list. WIth all their bluster and ranting if they released a list that did NOT contain Bill Clinton but did contain Trump.... well how would that look?

I cant wait to see you in the next shingles shot commerical 😉

I would not mind too much being deported to Ireland. My biggest fear of losing my citizenship at this point would be them trying to deny my social security and stealing my retirement money.

This is a bad series. They have been giving up football scores a little too often for comfort lately.

I recently heard "Maybe that grass is greener because you aren’t over there f-ing it up." I think that might be fitting for this one too.

Am I right or what? Zach McKinstry homers (8) on a fly ball to right field. Spencer Torkelson scores.

Bertitudes!

Love it when the scary woman puts MAGA in their place

So this series is, in fact, before the trade deadline?

Might not be the worst thing to get smacked around in a series before the trade deadline. Might be the extra motivation needed to add some pieces.

No me gusto

welp

Todd Jones got pretty emotional talking about his Tiger career and the history of our team. Showing the Ordenez walkoff that got us to a World Series and Ernie's farewell speech got to him. (Me too...sniff) It made me think how lucky I've been to see Al Kaline's 3000 hit and Cabrera's 3000th. Very special memories.

I'm leaning into it because the Republicans campaigned on it and promised to release it. Call the Republicans bluff and watch them scramble like cockroaches.

Threatening to deport US Citizens is a red line that should be grounds for impeachment…in normal times.

It's always about pitching AND defense. This team concerns me more about adding some more BP arms and maybe a good defensive third basemen. Just playing good ball the way they know how to and have been playing. Parker has to get better. He misplayed a ball yesterday. I don't know. I hate seeing games like yesterday. Raliagh guy is a beast.

I wonder how much of this is true believership and how much of it is a Hail Mary. She is a convicted felon, and for street crime, not business crime. Also, the husband is pretending he’d never heard any of the details of her crimes in his seventeen years with her, so that angle might be an attempt (in vain) to carve something out for himself if things go totally upside down for her.

Tiger's playing like the pre-All-Star blehs. Basking in their 6 selections. Let's get back to that gritty hard working team we know..

Nothing against Ben Johnson but I think people underestimate contributions to the offense by Campbell and Goff. I'm not expecting the Bears to do much more than tread water.

Saw Superman with my son who had seen it night before. I guess it’s what you would expect in an era where superhero movies are such a genre thing and it’s all incredible CGI. It honestly left me a little bit cold. I might’ve been expecting more from it than it was able to deliver and that might be my problem. I genuinely like the waving fields of grain Americana thing and the sense of humor of the Christopher Reeve films. I did get emotional at times I’ll admit during this new film. Yes there were parts that were stirring. But I didn’t find it as interesting, or as affecting as I did the first Guardians film by James Gunn where he wasn’t dealing with an existing body of work that was as revered and sacrosanct as Superman, so he had more creative leeway. Parts of the Superman canon were considerably revised in this new film which is daring, and I think appropriate, and I’m not going to spoil that for you. I did though find this new version more memorable than the other recent DC iterations of Superman so this is a step in the right direction for Superman and for DC.

Can we be done with the Carlos Hernandez experiment?

It's a single game. Relax. Even 100-win teams have about 10 of these. A shellacking like this can actually be good for the long run. Gonna have these now and then

Where's my bajillion runs?

They're ruining Skub day.

Can we please end the Carlos Hernandez experiment?

The Carlos Hernandez experiment needs to end. It’s ridiculous at this point that he’s taking Dylan Smith’s roster spot.

lol wut?

Wow, this sucks. If it’s been so long since we’ve had a true super star, I always worry that it won’t last. This totally ruins my night.

MLB app goes to commercial after “strikeout” of McKinstry. Come back to find out call was overturned and McKinstry has singled to tie it. Now the bases are loaded. I was pretty confused for 30 seconds.

The team was going nowhere with Avila and the question seemed to be - could he not judge talent or could he not develop it or both? I think we have the answer. He was a good talent evaluator that did not have a good handle on development. Harris came in and fixed that immediately and now we see that Avila was better than we thought. I think the current Tiger system is modeled after the Tampa system, and Tampa always develops good enough talent to basically contend every 3 out of 4 years. The difference here is - where Tampa trades away any player about to get into serious contracts, the Tigers probably can't get away with that as much. The Tampa fanbase doesn't have that ache for baseball that the Detroit fanbase does - and trading away your stars as they become starts would infuriate the fanbase here. If this was the Rays, Riley Greene would be gone, probably this year, even if the team was contending. The Tigers and Lions seem to be on a run of picking and developing good players - the kind of thing that if you stay this good, or even close to it, you should always have a shot at the playoffs. The way Brad Holmes is going with the Lions, a 9-8 season is going to seem like a failure. Imagine saying that just 4 years ago. The way things are clicking into place for the Tigers, and with the talent they have in the minors, losing a Tarik Skubal might not be as bad as some believe. I don't think the Tigers will be able to keep him. I think Steve Cohen's gonna offer him 60 million a year, especially if the Mets haven't won a series by then. Even if Skubal loves it here, he's not turning that down.

Their summer league uniforms look better than 95% of their throwback/alternative/city edition jerseys.

I hope some intern doesn't lose their job when they realize they forgot to add the dunk contest to this graphic.

I remember going to a game when McDyess was here, him and Ben were warming up shooting 20fters(would be outlawed nowadays) all around the court. McDyess seemingly made every one but Ben was making at least 75% as well, just looked so effortless but of course outside of some rare times it never translated to a game. It was at that point where I full understood just how good these guys are if left to shoot in practice scenarios and not to put much stock into how one looks in such situations.

The Buss family should have done a one hour primetime special on ESPN announcing who they are selling the team to.

What did they expect?

Wonder if he was a sympathy pick. Don was beemed about 2 weeks before the All-Star game and reportedly was never the same again. I started following in 1968 too so he never seemed good to me, but he was averaging a little better than 2 WAR from 1964 - 1967, a solid starter. In his 3 years after '68 he had a -1.5 WAR. Imagine getting a very serious life changing concussion with 2 days in the hospital and being back in 9 days.

I think the answer is that Democrats tried to run on normalcy and decency - that aligns with what most Democratic voters want, but it does not exactly energize the electorate. But Trump was able to reach just enough of the infrequent/disinterested voters to win. Some loved the racism, others loved the sexism, still others just liked that politics was interesting under Trump, unlike boring Biden. Trump said he would reduce egg prices. Biden/Harris tried to explain to competing market forces that worked against a more rigid elasticity in egg prices. I have totally come around on this issue that you must be 100% media literate - in all forms of media - to reach large portions of possible voters, and constantly bullsh|t everyone. Trump promised everything to every group on every platform he could find.

Or, Occam’s razor, he’s just a condescending asshole like he’s been his entire life.

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.

Brieske and Smith to the IL in Toledo if you were wondering about reliever depth.

The shingles stuff really did me in. It was both physically and emotionally a disturbing experience.