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Crucify him and see what happens.

i will disagree and say people are not scared enough. I understand fear paralyzes some people, but it is important to go down fighting and telling the truth. (see: Kamala Harris warning people that he would unleash the military on US citizens.) Trump was VERY VERY VERY CLOSE to stealing the 2020 election. If Mike Pence had derailed the Jan 6 count, it would have thrown the election to the House who would have elected Trump over Biden because of "the fraud". take seriously and literally MAGA when they say Trump should remain in the White House after Jan 20 2029. it's a stupid, stupid plan, but I can guarantee you, there is a plan. we are barely hanging on as a democracy. people need to understand that.

Why would Holmes publicly state his players are not very good and they are going to draft their replacements?

The strange demons over him is a nice touch.

He’s a blasphemous , stupid , ignorant mother-F’er. Plain and simple. I hate his guts.

Armando Galarraga's perfect game stolen by Jim Joyce's arrogance, the only guy in the world who thought Donald was safe.

Susan Wiles move.

Ahh, I took it as the guy mocking religion and laughing at the fact that MAGA didn't get pissed until Trump mocked Jesus with a picture, but mocking jesus with his actions over the years was fine. To me, I saw enough prior to 2016, but I'm still completely lost on how he maintained support after 1/6/21. But at this point, if it leaked he demanded his TP to be under vs over and that lost him more votes, I'm all for it.

He managed to mock and insult Christians on both Easter and Orthodox Easter.

Apples and bowling balls.

As Churchill famously observed, “You can always count upon Americans to do the wrong thing, each and every day of the year and twice on Sundays. The ______g morons.”

From 14 wins to 60 in two seasons - without getting a superstar - that's incredible. J.B. has to get coach of the year this year. Should have had it last year.

I lack confidence in the American people to do the right thing when it really counts. They failed us in ‘16, ‘18, ‘22, and ‘24 despite all the handwringing from th Lincoln project and bulwark and podcasters. Remember when Graham and Cruz and Collins were going to lose? Dobbs was supposed to end the GOP. That’s ancient history. Yes it’s cute when an R district goes from +47 to + 18 or a Democrat wins dog catcher in Montana. Until the House and Senate flips and then the White House goes D I’m not getting excited. This country elected Trump again after ‘16 and Jan 6. It’s who we are. It wasn’t an outlier. We are at the mercy of idiots.

Offensive on so many levels... so many levels

Jan 6 happened. Trump is actively trying to nationalize the elections. I think we have ample reason to fear he will do illegal things to stay in power. I agree taking stock of our fears is counter productive sometimes but risk assessment both negative risk (the crap that can go wrong) and positive risk (the risk of what you give up if you do not act) must be assessed equally.

It was being discussed in the World Politics thread because it applies more over there, but I do think we need to think a little bit about the rhetoric leading up to this campaign and all of the fears that people had (not unfounded fwiw) about what Orban would do if he lost, or how he would steal the election, or how they would throw out votes, you name it. The election came, Fidesz got their asses kicked, and Orban and went out there and whined and cried but, in the end, conceded. The fears, legitimate as they may have been, did not come to pass. To be clear, I know there are differences. The biggest one being that Orban is a rational actor and Trump is not..., but there's a lesson here in that we all have anxiety about what the President or Republicans in Congress will do in the event that they lose in the Midterms. We create wild scenarios in our heads. Some realistic, and some less so.... but that fear and anxiety does not help, it only paralyzes. That's what Peter Magyar and the Hungarian opposition taught us today. People need to stiffen their spines and be vigilant, but not constantly in fear and not treating Trump like he's a force of nature that can't be reckoned with. And that politics are over and do not matter (they clearly did in Hungary under a much more consolidated authoritarian system). And, as I've paraphrased Ulysses Grant many times saying, we all gotta stop worrying about what *they* are gonna do and start thinking more about what *we* are going to do.

they've achieved the best run differential in the division as of today. I wonder if this year's Pitching Chaos innovation is going to be Anderson as a virtual split starter for either of Mize or Flaherty to get them out of games early before they self-immolate without burning 4/5 relievers to finish the game. I might like to see this become a thing - If Anderson holds up.

Thanks! yes…. I think he DOES know it.

Lets still make game threads for Pistons playoff games and use this for everything not related to Detroit. Eastern seeds are set. West still has a few more games to finish up tonight.

they might have gotten to 50 last season if they had had Ausar full time.

Rusty Staub was my favorite Tiger until Tram came along. Dude would change his batting gloves for base running gloves every time he got on base, fully realizing he was probably never going to slide.

Trump was in Charlottesville last weekend and visited the winery that bears his name. Question, did he create a new varietal and what is it called. I'm assuming it would be white with a very watery taste

What a collection of incompetent, lazy thinkers, with no sense of their toxic and aggressive mix of ignorance and stupidity.

That's why destruction of government documents also has to be crime.

Meanwhile

...better than Bobby Witt Jr.

nap.

Clearest evidence yet of self-inflicted damage

This guy’s write up is worth a read. I said in another post that the front office looks like a DRW dynasty museum. This guy said something that serves as a counterpoint. He mentioned when a young player asked about Vladdy, “Who’s in the wheelchair?” This guy‘s point is that the young players don’t seem to have any understanding of the culture that made the Red Wings dynasty what it was. They might see some of these guys around the building but not understand the competitiveness that made them great. I don’t know what that means, but who is Draper competing against to keep his job as an executive the way he was competing to anchor the Grind Line? The front office seems like the place Wings greats have gone to take a victory lap.

My problem with Denver is the same I had with a healthy Lakers team. Bad defense.

A few magical moments for me in the modern millennium. Game 5 of 2006 ALDS, defeating the Yankees (against everybody's expectation). And seeing the Tigers include the fans in the celebration, Kenny Rogers dumping a bottle of champagne on a cop, etc. So many iconic moments and a series result that nobody predicted. Game 4 of 2006 ALCS, Magglio Ordonez's walk off homerun, clinching a spot in the World Series. Verlander's first no hitter in 2007.

This isn't very clear to me... Are you saying there's a possibility you'd want Proctor?

The Hawks have missed the playoffs the last six years and eight of the last nine and are still next to last in the NHL this year. So they’d already in a 10-year rebuild.

I will roll a game thread out once we know what sorry ass team we are playing.

Again, a lot of the same fears and anxieties in the lead up to what Orban would do to stay in power were filtered in the media and among a lot of American observers. The voters spoke and they did not happen. Just think we need to consider that when thinking about our own situation. I understand that January 6th happened and that Trump (unlike Orban) is not a rational person. But I see the thought that democracy is over or that politics do not matter at all often (including to an extent on this board when engaging), and regardless of what stupidity he or his party have up his sleeve, I don't believe either thing is true. Democracy is not over, people are engaged (10 million people showed up to the last No Kings protests, no matter how much it was downplayed by the media), and things are always changing. People are pissed at the cost of gasoline, the cost of housing, being stuck in a stupid and pointless war. People were pissed when the administration was instigating a terror campaign on the people Minneapolis (one, btw, that the people of Minneapolis beat back and defeated). And yes, I truly do think there are a lot of people pissed off at his attacks on democracy. Maybe that wasn't the case in 2024, but things change in politics. This administration is terrible, they will do countless bad things between now and November and now and 2028. But I wish more liberals or anti-Trump folks understood that being joyless or hopeless (or projecting joylessness and hopelessness) all of the time may be a good coping mechanism... but ultimately it does not make anything that may happen in the future any more or less likely. I speak to that as well having watched the Hungarian opposition build over the past couple of years as well.... they started from a much worse situation than we find ourselves in, but there was a lot less wallowing or "woe is me" going on. They did the work... we need to as well.

Almost everything about the league's regular season is embarassing nowadays. from marginal players setting records for offense, to teams deliberately playing g-league lineups to lose games, to sitting star players every other night, to the massive blowouts as teams do not care if they win. its a real problem in the nba. the fact that the players do not care enough about the game to play every night is an issue that will haunt the league. i dont know how you fix that. they should give the commish the ability to punish teams for sending out inferior lineups to lose. give it real teeth and not the half-assed measures they use now. in other words, give the commish the ability to take picks away, or to lower the draft odds, or say the team cant pick higher than 8th because of repeat tanking offenses. they can tweak the lottery in ways that will help, but i doubt they have the cojones to do it. make a win "floor". if you dont finish with at least 25 wins, the highest you can pick is 8th. something like that. but make it so teams have to win a certain number of games during the year.

Hornets beat Miami Orlando beats Philly to become the 7th seed Hornets beat Philly to become the 8th seed West Clippers beat GSW Suns beat Portland to become the 7th seed Portland beats LAC to become the 8th seed

Don't be fooled. it's actually Trump sucking the life force out of another of his poor supporters to keep his rotted corpse from decomposing on the spot.

Name checks out. Late career Tanana was similar to Kenny. Age and guile killing them.

Rory got it done. Fun to watch. Incredible golf course. Can you imagine the score us mortals would shoot there? I would need someone to deliver a box of golf balls about hole 7.

You can never have enough pitching. Ever. That is all.

I didn't see a 60 win season coming. Even with all the injuries, we just kept winning. The worse loss all season, IMO, was the loss to the Nets when they came back in the last few minutes. That stunk. But so many close game wins this season made it a very special year. 60 wins...

The Hungary election result is huge. Everything the conservatives have been doing in the US was modeled after Hungary. It gives me hope that this right-wing authoritarian movement in the US can be not only defeated but crushed.

My second hand Phil Gardner story. Part of my wife's job when we moved to Detroit was to manage the Tigers radio network. WXYT had won the contract after several years at WJR. My wife had a get aquatinted meeting with Phil and his wife shortly before the season started. She mentioned how I was a Pirate fan growing up and that our son was born approximately 9 months after the 1979 World Series. The kicker, he's our only child. His wife laughed, he turned an interesting shade of pink.

It's just not that complicated. In a capped league there are only so many avenues to get better - lopsided trades, drafts, and better development. Unless your FO can outperform other FOs at those tasks, you will never put a better team in the ice than your competition. So to say that this FO "did as well as.." is useless. They have to do *better* than the other guy, otherwise you just stay where you are. So not many second rounders make it? That's a loser's take, if you are going to win *you* need to be the guy that finds the 2nd rounders that do. That may sound harsh but that's the reality of pro sports, it's not a forgiving business. SY often bemoans the fact that it's hard to better - so the 1st step is finding people who can do what's hard. What sports organization goes 10+yrs under performing its competition without any personnel changes being made? We are basically waiting for the blind squirrel to stumble into a nut somewhere with this org (OK they did once with Moritz so they've already burned one allotment of luck). If they want a different result, it's time to have different people driving the result, or maybe turn it over the ClaudeGPT.

A prime example of Trump telling us, right under our noses, exactly what he planned to do and we were not quite sophisticated enough at the time to see it that way.

Well, I decided I couldn’t wait any longer to adopt a new cat. So, meet Jessie - 7 yr old male, 13.5 lbs, brown tabby w/green eyes… who the shelter described as somewhat grumpy. That adjective made me know we were a perfect match. 😁❤️

You growed up.