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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.

ABS is already hilarious.

He's been playing really well in Grand Rapids, I'm very glad to see the organization make this move.

Well he has 4 walks in his first 9 PA’s including one of Zach Wheeler today, so he’s having solid at bats.

I’m not a fan of Carpenter leading off. I get why Hinch likes that, but Carp is so aggressive at the dish and having him lead off just always seems like he’s in HR or Bust mode. Carp is at his best when he works a count a little bit and waits for the mistake.

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.

A couple more good Goldwater quotes. Sometimes I wish 73 year old me would have had a long chat with 12 year old me...

Huerter has been really good in limited minutes and now with more opportunity recently. I like him quite a bit more than Levert even though Levert provides a bigger need with shot creation. Hopefully this trend continues of more Huerter and less Levert.

am i not seeing kaline there? he might be a good choice EDIT: is that him way in the back? i think you could reasonably have any number of others. gibson, magglio both come to mind as being big parts of tigers lore

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.

All your crab legs are belong to us.

Did I say this year? I meant this March.

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.

There is some really scary economic data coming out about the refineries having been shut down in the entire gulf region. Couldn't possibly have been predicted by this government which was dragged into this war by the Israel lobby and fellow criminal Bibi.

When you think of guys who got good for a while and you didn’t expect it, names like Chris Shelton and Brennan Bosch come to mind. Their short-lived flashes of brilliance didn’t last. But Kevin has been on the radar from the start and has been expected to excel and overall we can reasonably expect him to rise to the occasion even though there will have to be a learning curve factored in here. I think we have good reason to believe we have more than a diamond in the rough on our hands here.

Lol at the shutdown extending because the pedo party doesnt agree with itself

Finally someone who can put the ball in play with runners on instead of striking out.

Yeah, I’ve wondered that, too. Or does Whitaker go to 3B and Trammell to 2B? Didn’t Whitaker start with the Tiger organization as a 3B and then was moved to 2B? I know later in his career he was going to move to 3B for some 2B prospect that was never to be.

No one is looking at Daniella anymore with McGonigle walking around

So THAT'S what a closer looks like.

Easy Grandpapa Grande, Easy

But alas, it was not

maybe it was....

Let's bust it open, boys!

MCGOATAGLE

So my poster for tomorrow is done as is my wife and daughters

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

The abandonment of those principals by those in power, I know many intellectuals still cling to it and are never trumpers, but i mean the politicians themselves,tells me the principals were just bull**** to rope in voters for the real battle-the culture war.

Ok, Boomer.

Lack of experience isn't even close to his worst trait. In addition to his sexual assault comments, he also had a number of racist comments. And called people of Maine stupid. He sounds like a real pearl of a human being. And I wouldn't be surprised if he does turn out to be a Nazi. I suspect people like him for 'personality reasons,' which is more than a bit concerning. I'm disappointed that my Senator has endorsed him. Is there really nobody in Maine willing to step up who has progressive views without this kind of history? And shouldn't we asking for representatives who don't have this kind of history? I definitely like Mills better. Come to think of it, I like Collins better, too.

The markets are in freefall - down 9% so far (that > $5 trillion in lost equity), WIT is back up to $99, the Strait is still closed, the mullahs are still in charge, US munition stocks are depleted, and NYT reports that now Trump is bored with the whole affair. So much winning.

He looks so out of place in a Padres (or Mets) uniform.

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