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All the more reason to not have half the country bully them then, isn't it?

LOL - but I think he was also 0 for the previous three games. The walk rate is great, and he is hitting the ball over the fence, though his contact rate is down since promotion, but the sample size is too small to mean anything.

Dan’s call of the grand slam. Greene Grand Slam.m4a

As bad as people think the defense played last year, they were 7th in the NFL in points allowed in the regular season, at 20.1 points per game. This was in spite of giving up 27.8 ppg in the last five weeks. In weeks 1-12, they averaged giving up 16.9 ppg which would have ranked #1 by nearly a full point. So no, it is not unrealistic to think they will have a top ten defense or even a top five defense. Nor is it unrealistic to expect they will have the top offense and the top defense.

Truth is, a lot of the programs that might help stem the flow of poor migrants, like the Peace Corps and/or USAID programs, are ones that the current regime has cut to the bone. Seems as though the best way to help with the issue is to work with the countries to help combat poverty (for example). The cynical side of me is that many of the extreme Republicans secretly want the borders open, not only for cheap labor but so they can continue to use it to rile up their voters.

Skipper back on the practice squad.

Once again, what happened this morning in Minneapolis is unacceptable.

It is also more evidence that for some, the difference between AAA and the majors is a significant hurdle. Even Jung, couldn't hit for power at all in Detroit, but has double digit homers in Toledo. Malloy is another example. It doesn't mean they don't have a chance, but it means numbers at a level don't necessarily mean if the player is going to succeed (or fail) at the next level. What are their at bats like? What is their statcast data showing? etc

so basically women won't come near him anymore?

A rookie cannot deny a waiver claim. If he is claimed, he is gone. They either must think he’ll get through, or they aren’t concerned if he doesn’t. Maybe they have a claim on someone they think is a better fit? Personally I hope he clears and joins the practice squad.

So much winning, or is it Whining https://bsky.app/profile/whetmoser.com/post/3lxf3pimse22c

good time for Zach to make up for some of his recent McStinky defense.

Butler should be benched for that.

Get out of this stadium. Too many odd things happening.

Only 700 more AB’s to go! <ducks>

SCORE RUNS DUMMIES

Jason said the longest Tiger HR in the statcast era.

471'???? hahahahaha, wtf

Don’t get that at all. They have the best safety combo in football with Branch and Kerby. Arnold should be much improved in season 2 and they signed DJ Reed on the other side at corner. Thats a great defensive backfield. Jack Campbell could get really good very quickly. Anzalone is still great and Barnes was coming on big time before getting hurt. Hutch sounds like he’s back to full strength and that will be huge. Davenport is legit if he can stay healthy. Reader and Tyliek in the middle with Lopez backing them up. Alim will be back sometime in the 2nd half too.

WTF? The Lions defense was top 10 last year and now it's healthy.

Must Win

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-collapse-of-bipartisan-immigration-reform-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/ The easiest explanation is that Republicans in both the House and Senate yielded to objections from their all-but-certain presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump. Once the House Speaker stated publicly that he would not allow the Senate bill to reach the House floor for a vote, Republican senators were unwilling to run the political risk of supporting a measure that would not become law. However, there are deeper reasons for the deadlock over immigration. The last comprehensive immigration reform was enacted almost four decades ago, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. This bill represented a grand bargain between elected officials who sought to extend legal protection to millions of migrants who had entered the U.S. illegally and officials who were most concerned about stemming the flow of such migrants. The bill accomplished the former but had no discernible impact on the latter, leading many conservatives to denounce it as an “amnesty” bill.

Dems may have had the votes in theory, but you are correct to the degree there was no immigration bill all Dems would agree on at that point. The best chance at reform was with Bush, there was an absolute majority given the sum of Dem and Repub support then, but the GOP would not allow a bill to pass the with majority Dem support (Hastert rule idiocy). the Dems are whistling past the graveyard if they don't figure out what to do with their faction who do believe that open borders are a moral imperative. There may not even be that many but as long as the Dems can't control the narrative about it, it's a problem. it's a commendable moral stance, it's just not a politically viable stance. But for decades we've had this weird collusion between the pro immigration parts of the left and the business interests on the right who are happy to support anti-immigration political talk, as long as they know they can count on enough division among the Dems so that between that and their own duplicity, they can keep anything from actually happening. Finally the public frustration over inaction helped give us Trump and the business community is going to see their worst nightmare scenario come to past - either there is going to be a recession, or lower end wages in the US are going to rise.

Personally I'm glad the 2009 Democrats brought health insurance to millions of people instead of passing a maga immigration plan. Only MAGA would think that sucked.

I see we've "evolved" to "2009 Democrats shoulda been like 2025 Republicans when they had a chance because the 2009 Republicans didn't have enough votes to block the 2009 Democrats from being 2025 Republicans" stage of the discussion. Solid

this is a much more general problem then just immigration. It's just the current worst case. We pass too many laws in the US that no-one is really interested in enforcing. We pass them to make 'statements' even though they may be impractical or unworkable or just in nobody's interest but the sound bite a CongressCritter got from it. That leaves half the people frustrated who understand it's bad law, the other half irritated that 'the laws on the books aren't enforced' and leaves the state police power constantly tempted with the corruption to practice selective enforcement, and in general degrades both respect for and compliance with rule of law by both the public and the government.

Its always the dems fault for not stopping the Republicans good enough

I’m with you. I like the occasional pop culture reference in a ballgame. Just not a whole truckload of it. You and I come from an era when a play by play announcer would practically never make a pop culture reference or joke. When announcers started doing that, we were still young enough to think that was unique and cool and fun. It started up shortly after Monty Python and Saturday Night Live and Airplane the movie and the like started changing the rules of how funny works for society. And it started creeping into other areas of life, and baseball broadcasts comprise an area of life. Announcers couldn’t overdo it because it felt like they were getting away with something in the first place, and we liked that part of it. But now things have evolved where everything is unironically self-referential all the time. Just look at all the Pixar movies and MCU content and such. Everyone in them is always joking about themselves and everything around them all the time. It’s not special or unique anymore. Far from getting away with something, it’s practically expected to be part of the landscape. So when we see a guy a couple generations behind us leaning into that, It looks like overkill. But to people who came up at his time and after him, growing up seeing all the same video content, it’s the norm. So we may or may not like it, but it’s not good or bad per se. It’s just a different time now, just like our time was different from our parents’ time during the war. And that’s also why we like Dan. Dan is a boomer, so Dan is all business on the job. But it’s also good that Jason is there when you want to lighten things up. In that respect, they provide perfect relief for each other.

don't know if there was empty air, but definitely no empty chair with Rod Allen