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I’m going to be mostly MIA for this upcoming series in New York with the evil empire. I’m going up to the mountains in central Idaho for three or four days for my only time this year. So there will be no celebrations on my part about six runs, but I hope they happen anyway. Will be doing a lot of hiking, hot springs etc. with one of my oldest best friends. Last year there were terrible fires with ash falling out of the sky and an air quality rating of 500+. Looks like this year‘s fires have subsided and there’s even a little rain on the horizon, which hopefully won’t come with lightning. Hope the Tigers somehow pull a rabbit out of the hat in the Bronx. Take care all!

It was murder on the high seas. I would be nice if every American could take off their Jingo glasses long enough to see a little reality.

this reminds me of a the column Brooks wrote this week. He defended that he 'can't' be a liberal even now because he doesn't agree with liberal welfare policy. What total naivete in a grown-ass man. If you don't get on the lib side now you aren't going to have the option to debate welfare policy in the future. Idiot.

That’s why I brought Sancho Panza with me.

He may catch Gehrig. Very impressive career, either way.

Just a quick hello to you guys tonight. 👋🏻 Enjoy the game. 🙂

Yeah, we want the Royals. This has nothing to do with current standings and everything to do with remaining games. The team with six games left against the Tigers has more chances to catch up than the one who has none.

its the bulls. they will always be cheap. their goal is to make the play in every year. building your team around josh giddey and coby white is a good step toward always achieving and never surpassing that goal.

A long overdue assist to firmer players https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/46208950/nhl-cba-sets-4m-annual-retired-players-health-care-fund

absolutely. In historical terms, 6.5% is a little high, but not any worse than rates often were in the 70s-80s-90's in periods when housing boomed. But people then were buying houses at maybe 2-5X annual income. Now 10x is as likely.

The Hyundai raid may be have been the dumbest one yet. But more generally, have they yet fined or even brought a single employer to court? This is exactly analogous to drugs and pushers. You can bust all the pushers you want, but as long as there are users, new ones will arise in their place because the profit is worth the risk from enforcement. You can bust and deport all the workers you want, as long as there is no effective penalty for hiring them, the profit from low wage workers is higher than any cost they bear from enforcement - (which only seems to fall on the workers). So the jobs for undocumented workers remain, and If the jobs stay, they will keep drawing illegal workers, who in the end will fail to be dissuaded from coming by all the depravity ICE throws at them for that purpose, because humans will just put up with whatever they have to put up with to support themselves and their families.

I think Danielson's style of game will mean he ends up being "better" in the NHL with higher quality teammates. He's a smart player who carries the puck well so I have high hopes for his impact on the Wings whenever he comes up. He may not be putting up gaudy AHL numbers but I think it is a good sign that he's basically doing everything for them as their 1C already.

It wasn’t true six months ago. It is now.

Must defeat the evil empire!

danielson is considerably taller than suzuki, horvat or compher. that's a plus for him. he was over a point per game player in juniors and did really well once he got to portland and away from the wheat kings. he's a center, so distribution will be his game. i thought he was on track last year but he plateaued a bit. he didnt show well in the playoffs but none of them did. people point to kasper's point totals in his final year and say how danielson was the same, but kasper waa coming off an injury and finished on a high note and played great in the playoffs. danielson did not. that's wjy he probably plays in the ahl this year until someone gets hurt. danielson looks like a defensive center with some playmaking chops. put him with a skilled winger and let him do his thing. i think he'll play well in the nhl, maybe better than the ahl.

I agree you can’t judge him on one game. I can point out that he made a coaching error in this game. Time doesn’t start until someone touches the ball so declining a kick out of bounds penalty will only result in them having to doing the same thing with the same time on the clock. They could do this a few times before the ref would declare an unfair act and penalized the receiving team. Kickoff OB was a better option. Timewise, the onside kick would’ve done essentially the same thing as happened by the deep kick that was returned. They would’ve had a least a slight chance to recover it. I think that also would’ve been a better option. Santos isn’t know for a booming leg. I don’t think kicking out of the endzone is something you can ask him to do with high confidence. Even more now as kickers are spending all their practice time trying to take something off it to land the ball in the field of play.

Bert you have me one-upped. I'll up on the west shore the Keewenah this weekend. I'll get the trees and sky, but no mountains . Lake Superior is cool (literally - it's already snowed up there once), but hard to say anything new in a water under sky picture (at least at my level of graphics skill!)

I think one can get on the save democracy side without embracing welfare.

wow...that's not Big Noon.

One of my all-time favorite contributions to this community. Thanks for the reset. It put a smile on my face

Is there really a decision? Sign with the team offering the most money. You're broke, owe a bunch of money, get the bag. Picking a team offering less money confirms he is terrible with money.

Wow, is that heaven Ray?

Feeling much better about John Morton now that Carlos Monarrez has given him the kiss of dumb.

RHP Casy Mize v RHP Will Warren per MLB App

Tony Gilroy on Charlie Sykes (Sykes was quite the fanboy let me tell you), was basically...when you are in the situation of autocracy threatening democracy (as I'm sure everyone here including the people cheering it on agree) policy differences are out the window. You are at the stage where the only moral position is to fight the autocracy. In Andor, Gilroy used the example of the French Resistance in WWII but there were many others as well where there were all sorts of petty squabbles between factions of the resistance groups. I gather Charles de Gaulle's forces were in gang warfare against communist resistance forces all over London during the run up to D-Day. Brooks is like those Monarchist resistance groups still pining for the Hohenzollern kaiser to return to Germany.

This led me down the Jim Walewander rabbit hole this morning. If you have 30 minutes and want to hear everything you never wanted to know about Jim, listen to this podcast: https://www.suburbspod.com/2024/09/30/episode-1960-jim-walewander-punk-rock-ballplayer-part-1/. He owns his own restaurant with his son now in Virginia. Very interesting guy.

Enjoy your trip, Sir Bert, and be safe! Recalibrate for the stretch drive.

I’m older than most of you here, and I’m fairly certain I won’t see it, and will hope for all the younger here that their grandchildren will maybe see it happen.

Oh man...the stories coming out about the "process" in the Venezuelan boat attack are very alarming. They did not involve the DoD lawyers at all. They normally do the interdiction/capture in these cases. They are calling the people on the boat "affiliated or associated with" the purported gang. The Coast Guard which actually has arrest authorities were not involved at all. So, this was Adderall and Jim Beam making a decision to take down a "drug" cartel.

And there are a lot more sophisticated tools at this regime's disposal. And just because everybody thinks Trump is dumber than a bag of rocks sure doesn't mean that nobody around him knows how to use those tools.

i think a lot of these guys have the self-awareness of a 15 year old.

A good opportunity to point out that if Bill Freehan were in the HOF he'd be far from the worst person to be in there. He'd not even be the worst Tiger in there.

This is why the whole fantasy of Trump being suddenly disgraced, falling out of power, and he and all the MAGA elite being publicly frog-marched to justice is just that: a fantasy. As with the traitorous southerners who were allowed back into national power in the late 19th century, and top Nazi scientists who fled to the US and were accepted into the economy and society here, there will be a spirit of reconciliation between the top MAGAs and the remaining American elite in the interest of reestablishing peace and normality, and the poison ideology would survive and merely evolve within whatever the new world would become.

Yea, I'm sure they do. That's some funny stuff right there. Inflation is created by printing money - and finding other ways to create more - aka credit (see M2). The bigger the pie, the bigger the piece. Since they are the swine banksters, they get it first. Cha-ching. They don't lose, they run the world. And when they **** it up they get bailed out. And will again.

cheaper maybe, but quality, maybe not. Stems and seeds and things you don't need. Giggle. I haven't kept track, kind of wish I would have but never thought about it, after a few years of M squared pot Mecca, I can't say I have ever found even one lonely little seed. If I had, I would try to get the little guy back on life support. Never know what might happen. From the wayback machine; we caught the back seat of a car on fire one night because a seed popped (using a corncob pipe) and landed in the seat and we didn't know it. It was hot.

One of my theories is that TV really doesn’t even need play-by-plays, especially nowadays with graphics giving you so much information. It’s a medium for analysis. Conversely, I believe analysts are superfluous and possibly even detrimental on radio, which is much more of a medium for play-by-play description. I love listening to old Ernie/Paul broadcasts, where for the most part it’s just one guy talking during his innings. That way they could concentrate on keeping the listener apprised of what was happening instead of trying to maintain a conversation. It also allowed the broadcasts to breathe much more; during lulls in the action they’d lay back and just let you enjoy the sounds of the ballpark.

He might. I think Harris might sign a big free agent this winter if he determines a deal that’s right for what we need. But even if he doesn’t, so what? Is that such a failure on his part? I don’t understand why the key benchmark of success for Harris has to be whether he signs big stars to big years and big money, and if he doesn’t, it must be because he’s cheap or he’s scared or he’s lazy, all of which have been suggested by various people (I don’t mean you) at various times about him for not signing or trading for expensive contracts. I understand other teams have been aggressive signing big stars for big money and lots of years and we haven’t. The Yankees have Judge and Cole and Fried and Rodon and Bellinger and Stanton. The Mets have Soto and Lindor and Alonso and Manaea and Nimmo. The Dodgers have Ohtani and Snell and Betts and Freeman and Glasnow. The Phillies have Wheeler and Schwarber and Harper and Nola. The Giants have Devers and Adames and Chapman and Ray and Lee and Webb. The Padres have Machado and Bogaerts and Tatis and Musgrove and Darvish. They all have big stars making big money for lots more years and the Tigers don’t. What none of these other teams have that the Tigers do is 76 wins and the best record in their league. So maybe winning in today’s game is not necessarily about who has more of the biggest stars making the most money into the 2030s. Maybe winning today’s game is about something else. And as fans of the Detroit Tigers, we’re about to find out one way or the other. Not for nothing, Milwaukee has even fewer high-priced stats and a lower payroll than us, and they’re doing even better than us and everyone else. And they’ve been winning that way for years. Maybe that’s the organization Harris is emulating and not any of the big-spending coastal teams, one of which he left to come here. So maybe Ilitch, Harris, and the Tigers will sign Skubal for many many years and nine figures. Maybe they won’t. I’m in for the ride either way.