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I have to do my taxes tonight. I have my thoughts on Jackie Robinson day. It's great we honor him and what he had to go through and he deserves all of it. But I've always felt that the way MLB frames this is an attempt to absolve them of the reason we need a Jackie Robinson Day. There's one reason we have this day and it's because MLB was run by a bunch of racists who didn't want blacks in baseball. Jackie didn't break the color barrier because "finally we had a qualified back person that could play". He broke it because of the courage of some to decide it was time. Still others didn't believe that and orgs like Boston and Detroit held out even further.

very rich now.

I'm radical left. I normally vote NDP but I did vote Liberal for Carney because he had a plan to improve Canada. Not concepts of a plan. I didn't vote because he is more right leaning or different from Trudeau. I voted for him because he is smarter than Trump. Carney is stability and Trump is chaos. The billionaires have learned since COVID that chaos makes them a lot of money. The rest of us need stability. Edit - If Democrats want the radical left vote, they need stability. I thought Harris was an excellent candidate but obviously there is a lot of men who did not and I think we all know the reasons. No fault of hers, it's the upbringing and environment those men grew up in. She did not bring stability and she lost. Trump promised stability even though everyone knew he was lying.

What if Dingler is great?

In the segment recorded with tigers officials and Kevin talking, it was apparently the first time in his life he had worn a suit aside from a tux to prom.

Hungary just took a hard turn to avoid jumping off the cliff into illiberalism. The left played a huge part by endorsing a conservative, a conservative that they don't agree with much on, except that illiberalism was not the direction they should be going. The left in Hungary in no way endorsed hard right policies, they simply didn't want Orban who was a much bigger threat. They know can regroup and focus on improving Hungary now that it was saved.

Its really beneficial to both sides. For teams they get these superstars on cheap deals. Sure a few end up in clunkers but the money now a days is silly so even if you have to eat 60 million in five years its not a death knell. For players, it might delay free agency by a year or two. But your still getting there around 30 and you get insane amount of guarenteed moeny and are set for life.

Would Trump even be able to pronounce Cyanide? It would probably come out as sayonara. Same difference I guess.

We can add Dillon Dingler to that, for as long as he's going to be any good, since he's already under team control through his age 31 season.

We did this for Keith and McGonigle. Hopefully we can do the same with Max Clark once he gets going and keep that core group together long term.

I love this organization! Tarik Skubal: ball’s in your court. How bad do you want to be part of this?

I live in a community that easily could have lost Selfridge Air Base if it weren't for goodwill capital that Whitmer got for being the better person and agreeing to try and work with Trump. Michigan and the rest of the great lakes states got the added benefit of additional funds to help keep invasive carp out of Lake Michigan too. In Whitmer's case I don't think she capitulated to Trump either in order to get some benefit for this state. Additionally you can make the argument that if Trump didn't get to pick the cabinet he wanted, that cabinet may have shielded him from being the trainwreck he is, arguably like they did his first term. Allowing Trump to pick his own cabinet, which an elected president should be able to do unless he's putting outrageously unqualified folks up for nomination is arguably one of the biggest reasons we're starting to see cracks in MAGA and unprecedented likability numbers in a time of war like we're seeing now.

It's not unique to the Times, but the tendency of American outlets to frame Trump attacking the Pope as a "feud" is a way to "both sides" a conflict that really has only one side to it. Which comes across as bringing Leo down to Trump's level (he's not) and making the conflict seem like it's mutual (it isn't)

It will also allow the scumbags on Youtube to sell more day trading courses. The, "I made $20 million day trading last year, but I'm going to waste time selling you a training course for $300" people.

WOOP WOOP! way to pull out the win!

Early polling shows a pretty close race in the general. Take that for whatever it’s worth (not much). We are all free to vote for whoever we would like and for whatever reason that we like. For me personally, policy and political issues have absolutely no bearing on my decision in this cycle. I will be voting and strongly supporting whichever candidate is more likely to ensure an outcome that Rogers and the GOP lose. I don’t think it will be the case but who knows, that may end up being Adbul El-Sayed.

For as irritating Javy can be at the plate - he does create some magic moments.

I can't believe Benetti and Dirks pretended as though touching the runner with the end of the glove wasn't enough to overturn the safe call. That smacks of broadcast homerism, and I have no respect for that.

exactly - there is a hierarchy of imperatives. Policy debate is fundamentally secondary when preservation of the system that supports policy debate and policy choice is what is being decided. When the election is really about "one man, one vote, one time" best not to be too concerned about the tax rates.

So....the rain in Metro Detroit is supposed to move out by 5:30 or so. I wonder how much rain the field at Comerica got? I'm sure Heather will have it in top shape... The driveway is very wet.

Dingler might stick around even longer than that

Lol Soderblom flashed skill with the Wings, the problem was that he never sustained it. It seems like the trade actually got him motivated to use his size, but we've seen that before with the Wings when he got called up after playing with Watson in Grand Rapids. But then eventually he turned back into the same player he always was. Floating around and not using his size. Good for him if this trade truly kicked him into gear for the rest of his career and he's now this .5 point per game player he was with Pitt the rest of this season (hardly what I would qualify as stud production personally). I'm more interested to see his playing style in a larger sample size when he's settled in after getting dealt. His underlying possession numbers are still bad, if you have only his Penguins sample it would be the worst of his career. We've seen this with guys like Walman, acting like he's some stud because he flashes now and then in another environment. He got paid and now he was one of the worst defensemen in the league this season. I think we need to let this one breathe before we start making sweeping indictments on the staff. I know people are mad but we have to have some context and nuance.

That phrase was somewhat common where I grew up in rural Michigan only different in the sense it was "Fight, fight, a n*****, a black and a white".....not sure why but that's I recall hearing it. Then again it's been a long time since someone would shout that.

In Bouton's book he relayed a story Joe Morgan told him about Rose. Rose had slid home but was called out. Back on the bench he told Joe "If I was black I'd have been safe". Joe said "If you were black you wouldn't have had to slide"

Lessons for the Democrats? By Calder McHugh Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the 2026 Liberal National Convention in Montreal, Canada, on April 11, 2026. | Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images MONTREAL — What happened last year in Canada is by now a matter of political lore. Harnessing a wave of Canadian nationalism in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s belligerent rhetoric, Prime Minister Mark Carney implored voters to get their “elbows up” and led his Liberal Party to victory after trailing badly in the polls. Then, in January, Carney won international acclaim for delivering the most consequential speech at Davos, arguing that a “rupture in the world order” required a new approach from middle powers like Canada. Yet even as Carney’s global stature grew and his popularity surged, his Liberal Party remained short of a majority government — until last night. By sweeping three special elections, Carney finally has a majority in Parliament. The victory should keep Carney in office until 2029, and it enables him to more easily enact a domestic agenda that includes trade policies designed to reduce Canada’s economic reliance on the United States. But it also offers lessons for center-left parties around the globe as they struggle for relevance amid the rise of the populist far right. The election results come on the heels of a jarring — and perhaps revealing — moment in Canadian politics. Last week, Marilyn Gladu, a former Conservative MP, crossed the floor to join the Liberals, becoming the fifth member in a year to do so, along with three other Conservatives and a New Democrat. Gladu, however, stood out among the group. A social conservative who won her safely Conservative riding in 2025 by over 15 points, when she arrived on stage at the Liberal Party Convention in Montréal on Friday, she was such an unlikely convert that her appearance was met with a mix of modest applause and pointedly folded arms. In the media scrum afterward, as journalists shouted questions about her seemingly contradictory past positions, she insisted that this is what her constituents want. “It’s going to be good for the riding … good for the country … and it’s good for me personally as well,” Gladu said. The last point is the operative one. Success has begotten success for Canada’s Liberals. People like a winner. And Carney has laid the groundwork for this directional change. As POLITICO’s Nick Taylor-Vaisey recently noted, the current version of Canada’s Liberals looks a lot more like that of the early 2000s, when social conservatives were more commonplace within the party. And while much has been made of the backlash to Trump that has advanced Liberal Party fortunes, Carney has also signaled he intends to be a big-tent leader, ideologically and stylistically different from his more polarizing predecessor, Justin Trudeau. A technocratic former central banker more comfortable in board rooms than on the stump, Carney has nevertheless leaned into gladhanding with voters. He has cast himself as a change candidate — and revisited a decade of Liberal policy on climate, taxes and federal public service expansion — without entirely jettisoning Trudeau’s priorities. “If I’m a Conservative … I want to campaign against giving Liberals a fifth term rather than Mark Carney a second,” said Gerald Butts, the chairman of the Eurasia Group and a senior strategic advisor to Carney and Trudeau. “But in order to do that, you have to make the case that he’s the same old, same old. And I think that’s going to be a tough brief.” For now, as political parties of all stripes around the globe become more insular and more insistent on purity tests, Carney’s broadening of the definition of a Canadian Liberal is expanding his coalition at home. And his willingness to forcefully buck the United States has made him a leader in nascent global attempts to build a new Western alliance without Washington as its beating heart. But, as pollster Philippe Fournier said, “When you have a big tent, how much can you stretch the fabric until it snaps?”

I want them to draft a TE to see the forum have an aneurism.

April 15 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-15?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0415-04152026&om_rid=

When Von Hayes went to the Phillies. Pete Rose said: "I was suprised to find out that you were white because everybody told me how fast you were." To give the devil his due, Rose was not racist though. He reportedly went out of his way to befriend Black players at time when things were still segregated.

Also, the Yankees. Remember what Casey Stengel said about Elston Howard.

Games with six or fewer total strikeouts (both teams combined) in 2025: 7 games out of 2,430 total (0.3% of total games). Compare to 1975: 304 games out of 1,934 total MLB games (15.7%). Nothing short of a strikeout revolution, directly tied to Chicks Dig The Long Ball.

That was the point of my post. "Well past time for these rankings to finally convert into on-ice results."

WHY HAVEN'T WE CALLED HIM UP YET!??!?!?!?!??!

They should have an Andy Messersmith day? All the things you say are true. He is a reflection on the bigotry. But there still had to be that one guy who broke that barrier. Hank Aaron had to face death threats for breaking the Babe's record. Willie Horton had to try to mollify a mob in his uniform. America has and will suck regarding race relations. Plenty of evidence about. Be it woke virtue signaling or actual bravery in the face of ignorance...I'm giving him the nod.

McGonigle is getting all the attention, but Dingler has been really impressive too going back to last year. Both are players who have a good chance at being players who play in multiple allstar games.

So annoying when you're tied and take a 3 point shot.

Wenceel caught a foul ball right in front of him. They asked Logan to go interview him. He's from Calgary on a business trip. They kept filming him and people kept telling him he's on TV.

I looked up that acronym on my google machine, and that was the response I got.

Jake? Jake who?

Took a nap this afternoon. Had a dream that DJT was on his deathbed, the last face he saw was that of a nurse who immigrated from Somalia.

I don't anticipate it being close. Gas prices + war + Trump's general putzery + blasphemy + JD Vance + Mike Johnson = a 1994, 2006 or 2010 wave.

The SEC is officially changing the pattern day trader rule. The minimum will drop from $25K to $2K. I think I read the rule will go into effect after 45 days.

Which means Putin was funding CPAC.

Neat picture. 5 and 6 were pretty good. 😂