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They are all damaged, from the top on down. A mentally healthy person wouldn't work for him.

Alright now that the DOW is under 50,000, we can get to business!

I'm not falling for TX is going blue

My wife and I just started rewatching The West Wing on Hulu. Episode three (A Proportional Response) is about this very idea of the US using it's full might on a "lesser opponent". You might guess that it came to a different conclusion than Pete did.

Somewhere George Orwell is sad but laughing his a$$ off.

Like third base for most of Tigers history?

Wait til he protects us single-handedly with his Raised Eyebrow of Invincibility. Won’t we feel silly for having ever doubted him.

I read a scout said that when Kyler Murray runs with the football he looks like a toddler holding his mother’s phone, and I can never unsee that.

Frost Bank Center - San Antonio, TX

Yzerman fails again. He should’ve forced Meyers to come to Detroit.

Everybody put 2fa on everything you can and make as much social media as you can private. Be extra vigilant for scams/phishing. Putting this in the Iran thread on purpose.

Without getting congressional authorization

Ha, I came here to post both of those.

RIP Lou Holtz.

Best case is Cornyn wins and Paxton runs as an independent and sucks up the MAGA vote.

I'm willing to if Paxton wins the primary.

Great performance by Guilgud.

It’s worth challenging. Georgia was red until it wasn’t.

Certainly didn't help but is was mostly his right knee that did him in. He simply couldn't drive off it in the last several seasons so he was getting by hitting only above the waist. You could see that once in a while the knee would feel better and take the weight and you could tell because he would pick up his left foot on his swing, the rest of the time he was batting flat footed. On those rare occasions he could still drive the ball.

The Democrats literally have a reverend in the senate. Talarico can appeal to suburban housewives and religious Latinos. He’s not going to peel away Christian nationalists. He needs to build the Beto coalition, which he did, and pick up a few more suburban whites.

I'm pessimistic that Christian nationalists will be swayed by any appeal to the Sermon on the Mount Jesus. Most people will gladly cede their moral freedom to any institution that will offer them God's blessing for doing what they want to do anyway. Not too long ago I came across a John Guilgud video dramatization of a story told inside Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" It's a scene that brother Ivan is describing to his younger brother that expresses his view of "The Church". It's couched as being a dream he had about about the Inquisition so the author could get a way with telling it in Orthodox Russia, but at its heart it can too accurately describe the relationship between any highly institutionalized religious organization and its followers. And the Evangelical church in the US is definitely institutionalized - esp in the South. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxhvTAevdU8

Because in the end the little guy gets screwed by Trump’s Taxes

Paxton/Cornyn is an interesting general election challenge for the Dems. As a candidate, Paxton has anti DC status quo value and the energy of the true believer right wing. OTOH, the Dems have the chance to peel away more moderate voters or those just turned off by Paxton's grifting. I have to think Paxton would be easier to beat, but it's Tx.

Rough game. Cavs are great at using their (moving) screens to isolate and attack mismatches (Robinson), or get the ball into the paint to force rotation, and then finding the open shooter. Piston defense was constantly having to rotate and switch and we didn't recover fast enough. Guys were caught out of position all night leading to wide open threes that the Cavs knocked down. On the other side of the ball it took 7 quarters of basketball against the Cavs before we realized that we can do the same thing to Schroeder they do to Robinson. He's too small to guard and yet we didn't create and attack the mismatch until the 3rd quarter when Tobias went on a tear. JD was feeling his Player of the Week title a little too much in the first half. Pressing hard to score against multiple defenders rather than make the easy pass to an open teammate. It turned into a lot wasted possessions. Cade had a rough night on both ends. Tyson really bothers him defensively and the Cavs were doubling and swarming him a bunch. A lot of assists but still you need more scoring, or at least more efficiency, from Cade. He was also really bad on defense, missing rotations that led to open threes. JB continues to bow to whatever blackmail LaVert has on him. He was actively hurting the team again with turnovers, dumb fouls, and terrible shots. Just cut him at this point so JB can't play him. Any other player on the bench would be better in those minutes or just give more minutes to Ausar/Ron/Green. Speaking of, Ausar was awesome on both ends, especially his defense in the 4th. He changed the game and gave us a chance, but most of the others fumbled it. Cavs are a real problem for this team. They're ability to shut down the paint kills our primary offense and they have multiple ballhandlers that can break you down for easy shots on the other end. Ausar can only guard so many people, and JB feels the need to keep Robinson on the court even when he's getting targeted on every play, rather than going defense heavy with Ausar + Holland/Green.

I had a moment I had to apologize for at work today. I said "I guess Crenshaw will be looking for work, which will be slightly harder since he's missing an eye." That's a bit rough.

Or just maybe they will be more focused on things that are directly affecting them like affordability, instead of this dumb culture war ****.

I’m confident that he’d be ok if he snorted some up his nose from a toilet seat. He should try it himself as a public service to us all.

yes but derik queen!

vibes

And yet teams still need more than ten guys on the pitching staff. No chance they’d be able to reduce a pitching staff to one. In this game, them’s the breaks. The important thing is not that teams have to figure out how to boil down their staff to only the one guy who can get out major leaguers so he can pitch every inning in a season, but to ensure that their ten guys who can’t get out major leaguers does at least a marginally better job at it than all the other teams’ ten guys who can’t get out major leaguers. That’s how it’s always been, and that’s how it’ll always be.

To be fair it's been a bit since I was a cable subscriber who added on the extra to get the RSN, but I seem to remember it was more in the range of $10-15 more and I did some other channels that I'd occasionally watch. I suppose I need to really look at it more on a per game basis... I figure I watch maybe 10-15 games a month (sometimes more, sometimes less depending on when they are on and what time I have). So let's say 12 games per month at $20 per month... that's only $1.67 per game... less if I watch more games. That's really not terrible. I'm sure I spend more than that per day on various drinks... and it's far less than going to watch a 2-hour movie (not that I really ever do that). It still sucks to think of paying another $20 per month for yet another subscription.

Cleveland is a tough match-up for Detroit. The playoffs are going to be a battle, and I can't wait

By the way, the Tigers play Panama at Joker Marchant tomorrow (Wed. March, 4) with Flaherty as the starting pitcher. AND… they play the Dominican Republic again in the DR w/ Burch Smith starting! So it’s a split squad day and one of these depleted teams is playing the DR All-Star team. The game against the Dominican Republic will be broadcast on TV at 2:05 EST and have a Tigers radio feed but the game at Joker Marchant starting at 1:05 EST has no live coverage. Thursday is an off day.

They can't even intentionally foul

Obviously the Lions roster isn't as good today as it was with D-Mo, but this isn't the roster they're going open the season with, and with the multitude of needs the Lions have, D-Mo was kind of a luxury. Getting a 4th, a future 7th and a back-up interior lineman is incredible value for him. I see this as Holmes acing the midterm exam, with the final still to come.

Every game, LaVert hurts this team. Why is he even in the rotation?

seems like a game they'll need 4th quarter cade to win.

I'm at the point where I wonder if Robinson is in the playoff rotation.

Watching LeVert dribble the air out of the ball when Cade is on the floor drives me nuts. You get 3 seconds to make a move, if you have nothing after that then give it up

I’m looking forward to an oppo taco just so I can say it.

I don't know who Matt Seelinger is, but I have a feeling I'm not going to have to learn.

Yes, the comp pick for developing a black coach was traded for a white wide receiver. The Rooney Rule failed.

Being an incompetent boob is the feature and not the bug in this administration

Think they'll accept a depth OL + a 4th this year and 7th next?

There are a lot of good RB options. James Connor is intriguing. Reunite him with Petzing.

Bahrain is one of my least favorite circuits. I’d love to trade it for Imola.

Yes, I remember that too. I worked at a station on the edge of town. Open field to the West. 6 am, cold as ****. Had to take the cap off, which had a padlock. Froze in winter. So fun. Junior in high school. Went through the oil embargo of 73-74. Had to ration gas. Not on the bingo card. We had cars lined up down the street. What's crazy...Before that happened that year, there was a huge concert somewhere around here out in the sticks. Big name bands. When I went to work on Sunday morning the place was full, even parked along the streets to get in. I opened the door, called my boss and said - get the hell out here. What a zoo. I got to meet and talk to the guys from Brownsville Station. That was super off the charts cool, and I did smoke in the boys room.