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you all know i’ve only done this before for the 2000 election to protest on behalf of Bush. I’m pretty emotional right now. This feels right.

My favorite Goldwater quote

Kenley Jansen sounds like the name of a hot sorority girl, but in this case, nope.

Not a chance! You think I'm gonna risk fate by adding him to be collection of star Tigers? Fate'll take on look at that go: Nope! Too soon my friend, and then he'll have a career ending injury. You think I want that on my head? No way. 5 years from now? Sure... but not now. I used to collect Bobbleheads for Lions and Tigers... but I started running into two problems: First, they didn't always make bobbleheads of the players I wanted, especially old star players. Second, and more importantly: They started getting SUPER expensive! Like $40-$60 for some of them. It just got hard to mentally justify dropping that on something that just sits on my shelf, ya know? So I really had to think about what I wanted to do going forward. Around this time I'd also gotten a 3D printer so I was sorta thinking about whether there was something I could do with that... maybe print little plastic jerseys or something... but I just couldn't find anything that I thought would be cool looking or interesting, and I certainly wasn't good enough to digitally sculpt anything, so I sort dismissed this. I honestly was in a bit of a funk thinking about what I was going to do. I mean, I know it's stupid to get depressed about something like sports "statues" and it's not like I was majorly depressed, but I was a little bummed Literally two days after coming to the decision that I was going to have to give up bobbleheads and being bummed about it, I was scrolling through youtube and saw a video on a piece of software called HueForge... and it all clicked together. So now once or twice a year I add a new "statue" by finding a good picture, cutting it out in inkscape, manipulate it a bit, create a 3D model with HueForge and make my own memorabilia. Much cheaper, and as long as I can find a decent picture I can do it of whatever player I want.

Well, for starters, you're missing that he doesn't K a lot, and his contact rate is elite.

Mazur has been called up!!

swing and miss? as a 19 year old, his K rate was 19.2% across low A and high A as a 20 year old, his K rate was 16.9% across high A and AA as a 21 year old, he is at AAA and its very likely he gets at least gets a cup of coffee in the majors, if not more he may not be a superstar but just about everyone ranks him as the #1 OF prospect is baseball for a reason geez. tough crowd

Secretary of small excursions

The TV graphic said the Tigers had 1 error after the inning was over. Just checked the box score online and it says they have 0 errors, so maybe it was just a mistake. Or they changed it already.

The Party is on a ride-or-die journey with Trump, because they are never going to be what people thought they were before, ever again. Not in my lifetime, anyway, and not in yours, either.

How about just call him McGonigle? If he develops a nickname naturally, that's fine. No forced nicknames.

The nice thing about this game being a night game after yesterday’s day game is that the Padres can restabilize the RF corner wall that McGonigle nearly knocked down in his 2nd PA.

I need help guys... I'm trying to decide to who add next? I think thinking maybe Jack Morris? Or maybe Lolich? I don't feel like there's any current Tigers who are super star level, at least right now. Well, other than Skubal but I already have him.

Is that game at LCA?

What you might be missing is that Max is not Kevin McGonigle, who has raised the bar that high for all the other prospects we will now inevitably be disappointed in when they don't rake out of the gate once they're promoted. Max is a different player with a different skill set and different timeline. I'm willing to give him that time to develop into his best baseball self.

Where I was the cops were on scene too. Its planned and organized. The protest has marshals who wear vests and make sure nobody is getting to crazy.

Britain has some great food. Of course, it all comes from south Asia.

The at bat...hmm...html didn't work.

The sense of fellowship and organization is so positive. So many people I talked to today were expressing inbetween raw emotion and coherent and long thought out discourses so many different ideas. Keep it up!

agree

Flat picture mounted on a 3D model base? Yes, kinda... the figure is mostly flat. Are the pictures 3D printed too? Yes! HueForge lets you take a picture and then, more or less, assign colors for different layers. Because the layers are very thin you get "bleed through" of the colors to give different shading. Did you use HueForge for the base? No. I just whipped up the base in OnShape, a free online CAD software. Is HueForge the 3D Modeler? Yes. After you do the necessary work preparing your image and then setting it up in HueForge, it spits out an STL. You import this into your slicer, setup various things like the layer height, infill (100%), and at which layers it changes filament. (If you have a machine with multiple filament inputs you can just swap it, otherwise you'd have to pause printing, and change filament manually.)

If Ottawa and Detroit both win today AND Columbus and NYI both lose in OT/SO AND Pittsburgh and Boston both lose in regulation, there’d be a 6-way tie at 88 pts with 9 games to go.

watching again... its at the 3:01 mark on the broadcast. He goes: foul down rf line ball high ball low (skips in so not a competitive pitch) foul off to the left foul down the rf side on a pitch he went and dug out of the bottom of the strike zone. (Dan Petry is imploring him to take it to 3-2 so the runners will be off. Foul off the umpire's mask. Umpire is checked for protocol. foul down rf side. reaches out to outside corner to flare a foul ball down lf side. ball low. (Seemed noncompetitive but maybe closer than i thought) base hit scores two. My impressions are that he's Kirk Gibson levels of mental toughness and insane bat/ball skills. Oh man that is a powerful combination.

If someone told Decker he should or would get paid $20 million after the season he had last year, and if he believed it, that’s pretty short sighted, even delusional. It’s just as delusional now to be playing the victim. I get the sense Brad would have brought him back, maybe even on a deal that would have paid him in the neighborhood of $10m with incentives. But Decker, who is now complaining about hardball being played, played hardball himself. You hate to see it end this way, but even worse would be letting it end with Decker playing out the final year of a bloated contract as a shell of himself, or on IR. Brad did nothing wrong.

McGonigle! Those are super cool. What’s the story behind them.

Might as well sweep the series.

@IdahoBert isn't allowed to wear pants until the Tigers lose...

…is on pace for a 24 WAR season

I meant to say "13 pitches" not "13 pitchers". I had just woken up. Like McGonigle, Bergman started out 0-2, worked the count full and then delivered. (SPOILER ALERT)

and the other thing that Trump's real estate background has never taught him is that unlike property that just sits there waiting till a deal closes, the interconnected web of the world economy doesn't just start back up when the fighting stops. Oil fields, large industrial processes, supply chains all take time to start back up once damaged. Futures markets are already telling us that the expectation is that oll prices are not coming back down for months even if the fighting ends tomorrow.

I was watching ithe 8th inning n bed last night McGonigle's AB reminds me of Dave Bergman's 1984 AB vs. the Blue Jays on Monday Night Baseball. 13 pitchers. Foul after foul after foul until he hit the game winning HR. The pitches he took. This dude's the real deal, man.

Bullpen: 3 innings, 1 hit, 1 BB, 7 Ks

So many positive things happening this year already. Two great wins.

This is really really really really really satisfying. And I never once posted in the wrong thread.

now Nick can have a beer in the dugout

Perez might have for that matter.

Torkelson is not Ricky Henderson.

Back at ya!

This is one of the only self aware things Truimp has ever said:

I wonder what our resident Trump supporter makes of this? 🤔 I’ve been thinking about the Republican betrayal of the party’s own tradition because of a comment about my work by Glenn Loury, the conservative Black economist. When I was on The Glenn Show in December, he criticized my new book American Contradiction because of my “apparent disregard for the positive contributions of conservative thought and policy to American life.” Loury and I could probably agree about many historical contributions of principled conservatism, including respect for America’s constitutional tradition and rule of law, skepticism about concentrated governmental power, and support for the independence of civil society and private initiative. I’m sure we’d agree about the importance of patriotism, civility, tolerance, and other values that have been part of a democratic conservatism—democratic in the sense of upholding the democratic “rules of the game,” including free speech and fair elections. But as Trump has acted with reckless disregard for those principles, Republican leaders, major donors, and corporate supporters have either fallen silent or actively enabled his lawlessness and corruption. That complicity makes you wonder: Were they ever serious about those conservative principles? And since they don’t speak up for them now, what do they stand for? Since when, for example, was it a conservative principle to concentrate all federal power in the president and deny Congress its constitutional role? How does a party that ostensibly opposes centralized state power square that opposition with the centralization of power in one man? ... HOW DID REPUBLICANS COME TO BETRAY their own philosophy? A key factor has been the party’s weakness, the fear that it was only getting weaker, and a consequent openness to desperate measures that could enable it to entrench itself in power while it could. In his 2017 book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy, Daniel Ziblatt argues that the strength of conservative parties in the 19th and early 20th centuries determined whether a country followed a stable, settled path to democracy or an unsettled path with authoritarian reversals. Britain’s history is an example of the first; Italy’s, the second. Although Ziblatt’s book is about Europe, the political process he identifies seems to be playing out now in the United States. “Strong conservative political parties,” Ziblatt argues, “led to a stable long-run path of democratization” for several reasons. Conservatives had “a realistic basis for assuming electoral success” and “the resources that allowed them to sideline their own radicals.” They accepted the “rules of the game” in a democracy because they believed they could win that game or at least keep radicals on the left out of power. But when conservative parties saw themselves as likely to lose, they often turned against democracy. That has been the story of recent American politics. In this case, Republicans have also turned against their old leadership and many of the defining elements in the conservative tradition. ... In every election in which Trump has run, he has warned that this is Americans’ last chance and that they won’t have a country unless they elect him. If you’ve agreed that America is in extreme danger, it has made perfect sense to repudiate a conservatism that didn’t just fail to prevent the dire trends wrecking the country but contributed to them through its support of pro-immigration and free-trade measures. Republican elites haven’t cared all that much about Trump’s betrayal of conservatism because of what he hasn’t betrayed: the party’s corporate and class allegiances. Trump’s populism is all in the rhetoric and the scapegoating, not the substance of government. His tax legislation in 2017 and again in 2025 has redistributed income upward; his government appointees side with corporations over workers. Pro-business policy is what many Republicans mean by free-market policy. They are not bothered if the “invisible hand” is replaced by a “conspicuous fist,” as long as that fist generally comes down on their enemies. Republicans go along with the betrayal of conservatism also because they care more about results than rules, whether those are the rule of law, the rules-based international order, or the rules of civility and decency that Trump routinely flouts. They admire that Trump gets things done and look the other way at how he does it. Although they must know he is corrupt, because he hardly makes a secret of it, he is also delivering the result that matters most to them: power for “us” over “them.” What Stephen Miller famously said about international politics—“we live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power”—reflects the mentality now dominating the Republican Party. Some analysts make the mistake of intellectualizing Trump and taking seriously the ideas of the various schools of right-wing thought that compete to provide fig leaves for the worship of power. But as Jan-Werner Müeller has suggested, it’s an error to assume that right-wing political leaders today are “inspired by comprehensive worldviews” or “that far-right parties succeed because voters find their philosophies attractive,” when the leaders are opportunistic and self-interested and “most citizens have no clue” about what right-wing intellectuals are saying. The driving impulses on the right are old and primitive. As Never Trump conservative intellectuals discovered to their horror, ideas and principles don’t much matter in the party that Trump took over. It’s a world where, as Miller says, strength governs, power governs, force governs—and conservative thought is expected to be loyal and submit.

For people who fall for the troll. https://youtu.be/z_brpPpjZ5I?si=gwJWHbB90mWO8jVH