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A few of you have mentioned the absence of @Jim Cowan who was also Charles Liston on the old board and wondered what he was doing and if he was OK and I reached out to him through email and he said he’s doing just fine but that he finds his general interest in being a part of a message board on a daily basis to have waned and that it only has its greatest value as an all consuming passion which has for the time being ebbed. He said that he’s excited about McGonigle and the starting pitching and sent his best to a number of you. Since it’s a personal message, I don’t feel comfortable relaying too many of the details, but my own concern was that something healthwise had happened to him - we are both 74 so that can be an issue - and it hasn’t. Anyway, that’s the scoop.

If he was a right winger he'd be elected President. The left purges their pedos. The right elevates and defends them. Shooting fish.... Jesus Christ...the stupidity

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. 😁❤️

This is spot on;

That guy made one of the greatest plays I have ever watched. I was sitting along the 3rd base line down around 3rd. The batter hit a ball right in front of the plate and it bounced so high it looked like a pop-up. Right down the line toward 3rd. I watched Aurelio. He turned his back to the plate looking over his right shoulder, the ball landed right beside him, which he short-hopped, turned and fired a bullet to 1st base. Out. One of the most incredible plays I have ever seen. It gets even better. We were heading home going back to Ohio and sitting at a streetlight somewhere by the park. Hot, windows down. He pulls up right beside us. I'm the passenger. I look over there and tell my buddy - hey, look - that's Aurelio. Yep, sure was. I yelled - hey, great play on that high hopper - never seen anything like that. Thanks, glad you guys had a good time. Light changed, he was off. Off the charts cool.

Saw this and laughed...

My favorite Goldwater quote

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

God bless you, my brother! I was worried I would have to do this, which I didn’t particularly want to do. But if you need to take a vacation sometime and it’s hard for you to work this in, message me, and I’ll do whatever I can to pick up the slack. The game thread has been one of those constants in the various iterations of our family, and I’m glad that you’re holding up your end of this tradition.

Crochet unraveling.

I don't know if anybody who can't spot the difference between Cale Iorg and Kevin McGonigle is worth even acknowledging.

Crucify him and see what happens.

Thanks to @Tigeraholic1 for doing the game threads all year.

And Vance is in Hungary, stumping for Orban, and wagging his finger at Europe … telling them the oil shortage is their problem because they stopped buying Russian oil. **** all of them. Let’s hope Orban crashes & burns in his election this weekend. And then hope we can do the same here this November

Sounds 15th century.

He can’t die tomorrow. My bag of confetti from Amazon isn’t coming till Tuesday.

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.

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.

He’s roping a slew of ‘em.

Something tells me that the Pope isn't going to lose a lot of sleep over this.

The self-own never ends.

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.

Tyler Collins and Cale Iorg are you comps for McGonigle? You're just messing with us now.

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.

When you start a war to distract from the Epstein files, but the war is such a disaster that you pivot back to the Epstein files to distract from the war.

For a bit of optimism, the 1935 Tigers went 3-9 in their first 12 games and went on to win the World Series.

lol

I think these takes of Clark being a bonehead are both lazy and false. Every interview I’ve seen with, he is humble and grounded. Ignore the chains and tattoos and whatever associations you might have with them. He’s solid.

Toledo Mud Hens Triple-A · IL 📊 St. Paul Saints 0, Toledo Mud Hens 1 #2 Max Clark 2-for-4 | 2 H, 1 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 0 K (1 SB) #6 Hao-Yu Lee 1-for-4 | 1 H, 0 R, 1 RBI, 0 BB, 1 K #26 Eduardo Valencia 0-for-1 | 0 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 3 BB, 0 K #27 Trei Cruz 1-for-4 | 1 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K Double-A · EL 📊 Erie SeaWolves 1, Chesapeake Baysox 4 #15 John Peck 1-for-4 | 1 H, 1 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K (1 2B) #30 Justice Bigbie 0-for-4 | 0 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 1 K #30 Peyton Graham 1-for-4 | 1 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K #30 Izaac Pacheco 1-for-4 | 1 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K West Michigan Whitecaps High-A · MWL 📊 Great Lakes Loons 7, West Michigan Whitecaps 3 #23 Jackson Strong 0-for-3 | 0 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K (1 SB) #30 Roberto Campos 1-for-3 | 1 H, 1 R, 0 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K Lakeland Flying Tigers Single-A · FSL 📊 Daytona Tortugas 5, Lakeland Flying Tigers 6 #3 Bryce Rainer 0-for-4 | 0 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K (2 SB) #21 Jude Warwick 1-for-4 | 1 H, 1 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K #24 Grayson Grinsell 4.0 IP | 2 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 0 HR #30 Jack Goodman 1-for-3 | 1 H, 1 R, 0 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K (1 2B)

Today was a perfect opening day. Wore shorts. Ditched my light jacket around 11:30. Got home and walked to the local bar for the final fish fry of the season. A mile walk after that. 20,000 steps and a tanned face. and a tiger win.

Maybe. The government is seeking only prospective relief, meaning that the EO is looking to end birthright citizenship for a particular class of persons moving forward. as you state. However, when the SG was asked at oral argument whether the administration would seek to apply its order retroactively, the SG refused to say that it would not. In other words, the government did not commit that it would not look to rescind the citizenship of US citizens who were naturalized under old laws. As Justice Sotomayor noted, the US has done this before when it rescinded citizenship for american indians. Given the cruel nature of this administration in regards to non-white immigrants, and the bipolar nature of donald trump, i dont think you can say with any certainty he would not look to deport as many brown people as his government agents could get their hands on. And if you disagree, why dont you ask stephen miller what he thinks.

No picture today. Pictures are for winners.

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.

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

6, of course.

I wouldn't compare Trump to Hans Solo. He's more a combination of President Skroob and Pizza The Hut from Spaceballs.

Naziholic going to root for Nazis. Was anything different then that expected...?

Maga doesn’t get to argue about the justifications for this war. No more foreign wars and wasting billions of dollars were core tenants of the movement. Both of Trump’s campaigns centered around this concept. The flip flop is ridiculous. They’ve all been played a fool by a con man and are too embarrassed to admit it. They continue to dig deeper and now look even more pathetic.

... will post 5+ fWAR this year. ... Will be unanimous AL ROY

ex-refinery guy here. The picture is actually very complex, many interdependencies. Each refinery is pretty much set up to run optimally on one type or mix (which may or may not also mean one or one set of sources) of crude oil. The flexibility of a given refinery to do something else varies with its particular equipment but profitability (ie prices go up) will almost always suffer, at least short term, if they are forced to switch crude slates. In the US, most midwestern refineries run Canadian crude or oil that comes by pipeline from the gulf. East coast refineries import more, West cost refineries source some local (CA is a big producer but nowhere near CA's consumption), a lot of Alaskan, some ME. Refiner's generally hike their prices the instant world oil prices go up, though in reality they have several days (not months) supply already on hand and any oil at sea may already be paid for, though that varies also, some tankers do arrive with the oil un-purchased and the deal is cut on arrival. I'm few years out of the biz now so I don't have any inside sources any more, but I would estimate that in the US, total imports from non North American sources are low enough that given the fall in demand that the increase in prices will produce, I doubt we will see outright US shortages, but don't ask me to bet on that, and there will likely be some local dislocations. The situation in Europe and in particular Asia is much different. They know their vulnerability to supply upsets so in general Asian refiners keep a LOT more crude inventory (month+) on hand, which is the only reason why you haven't had Asian nations (i.e. China) making more noise about retaliation against the US (trade etc) if this doesn't end soon.

The Red Wings could learn a lot about heart and consistency from the Pistons

the organization, writ large, is probably the best it has been in my lifetime. realistically, reinforcements can come from Toledo or from a trade, and Harris should have a lot of assets for a deal. they should win the Central, and once you are in the playoffs, then why not just win the World Series? it's been 42 years!