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The people who are complaining are people who just disagree with the Tigers operating principle. You have options as a team ownership: If you have the income you buy everything you want (NYM, NYY, LAD); or you build for a target window and go all out to win in that window (Tigers for a while under M Ilitch) and accept that you are going to leverage your future for your present; or you try to create your highest sustainable level of performance and hope that gets you a shot at the brass rings often enough. Those are choices that orgs make. Harris is on the third track. Many, many, fans want the 2nd track. But they should save their angst or just root for a different team, because if that is what you want, Harris is guaranteed to disappoint you every time. He's not on that page, and it's not by accident or incompetence.

I honest to God despise these incompetent talking heads who put our people (who are working to protect US interests & it’s citizens) in incredible peril. They’ll be absolutely no repercussions…. I don’t give a flying **** whether “she didn’t mean to”. These people put all of us in danger every damn day. Damn them all to hell.

If we don't blow civilization up or fry it into a post apocalyptic stone age, and the history of this America eventually gets written for posterity, it will go down as the 1st post industrial society to succumb to mass cultural insanity. There is no euphemism for where we are - as a whole this society has lost any semblance of sanity - if you define sanity as the ability to recognize and stop a self-destructive downward social spiral. We glorify death instead over life, ignorance over of knowledge, conflict over of comity, the noxious over the wise, the trivial over the valuable. I wish I knew where it came from, I certainly didn't see it coming 30 yrs ago but it must have been there coming down the tracks.

Compared to today's "conservatives" Nixon was pretty moderate. At least on domestic issues. If I remember 16 year old me, it was Viet Nam where he was hawkish. Watergate did him in but that was nowhere near what Trump has done in the past 8 months to this country. I don't know, it's been a downhill slide a while now. MAGAs make Birchers look like choirboys. BTW Goldwater was right.

The thing that gets me is how in our case the noxious bull**** we choose to endure doesn't, materially, make us any better off. Eight months in, on top of all the macro items G2 listed in his final sentence, from a policy standpoint the average American is materially poorer and worse off. Whether it be from the OBBB, extremely high tariff rates being imposed, inflation (some caused by the tariffs, some by other factors). We've had roving gangs of federal officials in multiple cities, despite the fact that the American public largely doesn't want it. Vital parts of the government, including now the CDC, are on fire... expertise is leaving, and if we have another pandemic anytime soon, we are boned. The list goes on and on. It'd be one thing if the cultural nihilism came with economic policies that were more beneficial (and popular).... but these guys are all stick and literally no carrot. There's no real reward for any of it, just a more divided, more inequal society and a government that exists to serve Donald Trump's vengeance and not it's people.

Republicans care more about protecting guns than Donald Trump.

Sorry about my linking struggles, the board tells me it won't embed stuff and then it does half the time? I even tried changing browsers and it would give me problems. https://x.com/LGRWProspects/status/1961493407546626351 Eddie Genborg scored today but I haven't been able to find video

She will be in danger. If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll acknowledge that his constant lying and revenge-laden rhetoric absolutely puts people he has issues with in actual danger of physical violence. Life- threatening, Deadly violence.

Iowa is a state to watch.

They need to win 1 of the 3 games in this series. If they can pull that off they still have 7.5 game lead and that should be more than enough at this point. Paddack and Flaherty do not inspire confidence. And when Skubal pitches, he goes up against Wacha, who is a tough nut to crack.

If it happened today, Marichal might get a lifetime ban and rightfully so.

Green Bay picking up Parsons makes them better, no doubt, but it doesn’t really move the needle much in my assessment of the division. It takes more than one man to make a division champion. Green Bay went 1-5 in the division last year, and failed to address what I see as their biggest defensive weakness this offseason, in the secondary. Position by position, Green Bay is still 3rd to Detroit and Minnesota almost everywhere. On top of that, their season was always going to be determined by whether they got more of the 2023 Thanksgiving Jordan Love or the 2025 NFC Wildcard Jordan Love. This trade doesn’t change that. I would be excited if I was a Packers fan. Every team wants a Micah Parsons on their team, and it’s them who swindled the senile old man Jerry Jones this time. But while it makes them better, I think it ultimately makes them 9-8 instead of 8-9; it doesn’t transform them into a Super Bowl contender overnight.

He has two years left on his rookie deal ($11 mil and $19 mil). He just came off a catastrophic injury. I suspect if yesterday Detroit had offered him 4/$188 mil, $120 mil guaranteed, he would have signed it in a second. But why would Detroit do that? I suspect they will extend him after this season, and maybe it will end up costing them a bit to wait, but when you figure he is playing this season about $40 million under market, that puts overpaying a bit down the road in context.

Imaging bumping this thread for that and not something that happened in the war.

The Republicans have always cut mental health and substance abuse treatment programs since I've been in the field. It might not always make the headlines, but it always happens. This year, more than others though.

Harris is doing an excellent job. Not perfect but who is ? I am very comfortable with his approach and trust his decision making. I just hope we can keep him for many many years.

Fire @gehringer_2! 🙃

How do we know that Hutch isn't the one holding up a new contract? If he were to become a free agent after this season, I'd understand the consternation from fans, but he's not. Hutch's camp might believe that it's in his financial best interest to wait until this coming off-season to sign a new deal.

I’d say so. https://x.com/annieagar/status/1961176992851853418?s=61&t=don8lQTnTq5FKXq14p2GMw

The remainder of the season after the deadline date is, practically by definition, a small sample size.

You know where you will find a lot of mental health issues in America? Look among the homeless. Probably a higher proportion of damaged pysches there than anywhere. You know where you don't find a lot of mass murderers? Among the homeless. Why? Because they can't afford to buy or have places to store guns and cache ammo. QED.

Mental health issues + guns = way more mass shootings than mental health issues - guns.

I am sympathetic to Eric's point that mental health is a factor, particularly as we become more isolated and AI becomes more prevalent. But "mental health" is a pretty amorphous topic that, in a country of 350 million people, isn't going to lend itself to a one-size fits all solution. Like, even if the GOP didn't just scream "mental health" as a way to run out the clock on the news cycle and actually cared about making progress on that front, I don't think there's a policy change or additional funding on that issue that brings down the prevalence of these events at scale that doesn't involve access to guns. And that discussion has been determined to be off-limits and politically incorrect by our GOP overlords.

apparently he's still doing occasional work for them. he's doing a piece for today's pre-game show.