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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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 😁❤️

Why is everybody blaming the offense? They are not hitting home runs, but they are 8th in MLB in OBP and 10th in wRC+ The home runs will come when the weather warms up. The real culprit is run prevention: They are 20th in xFIP 21st in fielding This team is built on run prevention. That is where they need to excel. It's been terrible so far.

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I'm part Hungarian-American, so I've taken a fairly big interest in this race. My Nana was a Nagy and 100% Hungarian with some of her siblings born over there in Budapest. I hope Peter Magyar and Tisza destroys Orban and his Fidez fascists. More than that, I hope Magyar is truly a good person and lives up to the promise of a better, freer Hungary and reverses the backslide of democracy in the country.

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.

At least we got Damion Easley. 😉

Kudos for the return of the MiLB reports!

Every time I see a Virginia Tech game, I think about Estrepe. Every time I think of the White Caps I think about Billy Ringo.

Everything is so ****ed up even the stock market doesn't know what to do.

I don’t think Benetti forces his humor. I think he’s just got the kind of mind that makes associations very quickly and is glib in a playful way. I hear him make a pun that no one picks up on and he lets it go. If he didn’t let it go, that would seem forced to me. I got the opinion that he and Dirks can be too much, and too tangential. It just doesn’t bug me much.

I wish I knew how to link tweets here.....but I think 5 assists this early is ok. Tigers ML Report @tigersMLreport · 50m Eric Wagaman hits an RBI single to center but Max Clark throws Alan Roden out at home. It’s Clark’s 5th outfield assist of the season.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Proctor love is real. Brad loves his athletic freaks and Proctor is one of the freakiest physical specimens in this draft. Dan wants a run game that physically dominates defenses at the line of scrimmage. Proctor is the most dominant run blocker in the draft. You don’t have to pass block very often if you are always in 2nd and 3. But yes, sometimes their visions for how players will develop or fit in are not realized and you don’t want to whiff on a first round player who balloons to 400 pounds.

The Joy of Sects. 😉

The problem is you have a very narrow, and self defined, definition of “the left”. You’ve done this before where you pretend your sides **** doesn’t stink sometimes. And that’s objectively not true. And I say this as an adoptive member of the left. Yet I am sometimes reminded why I previously wasn’t. The idea of “impact” and “reach” isn’t quite relevant because most of the reach by the right is an ideological bubble so whether it’s 10,000 or 1M, the same number of votes take place.

Yes run prevention is the bigger issue, but while the offensive numbers are true in aggregate it's largely because of 2 lopsided wins, also true they've scored 3 or less in 6 of 13 games.

When their lips are moving, it usually means they are lying. I would suspect that we will find out that her relationship with Epstein is far more than just a casual email correspondence with someone that her husband was best friends with. She was dating Trump in the same time frame that he was still friends with Epstein in the early 2000s. So it is plausible that she knew him well enough.

No Rubio passed a law a few years ago requiring 2/3's in both Houses for just exactly this. They expected Trump to pull this horse****. Still... It is STILL Horse****!!!

Yeah, no more local TV for the first two rounds. Games will be on ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock, and Amazon. I think Amazon is just for the first two rounds. I'm looking forward to a time when each quarter of a game is on a different app.

I hope they lose by 50 tonight. Then I can bang my head on the wall when someone says they should start Jenkins and bring Cade off the bench in the playoffs.

I am less impressed by Greene every year.

Long story but one that still makes me emotional. My lifelong best friend died from cancer in May of 24. We met in kindergarten, went to all 13 years of school together, played sports together, roomed together at MSU, and shared a house a couple times in our early 20s until marriage etc. How does this relate to your post? One of my most vivid memories with him was an Eli Zaret/George Kell moment. I'm pretty sure it was on the Morning Crew show either the morning after they hit 35-5 or a few days before they did. He was a dairy farmer and some mornings I'd get up and go visit him in the feed room as he ran the silage unloader. George came on with Eli and started with "It's magical Eli, just magical" with his Arkansas twang it was unforgettable. For the rest of our lives he and I would use that phrase to describe things, sometimes seriously, sometimes sarcastically. Now and then that phrase comes to mind and I think of my buddy......

I am scared.

I remember almost everyone had them in love with Devin Witherspoon. That was probably accurate since they traded out of the 6th pick after he was off the board.

Every time I see Lakeland come up in the spring I think of HueyTaxi

What a world we live in where Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alex Jones are calling for the 25th Amendment to be used on this man. Both of them are still terrible people, Jones especially. But even a broken clock is right twice a day. If only either of the two would have called for this after the attempted coup on January 6th or any of the other crazy and lawless moments we've gone through with Trump.

Chris Webber traveled all that way to finally see Michigan win a National Championship. I hope he takes some time out for partying on his trip.

yeah I think his mind is just so quick. It reminds me of morning radio when they would do drops. He probably grew up on that stuff so it's second nature. I do the same thing, not as funny, but I could be in a work meeting and someone will say something that reminds me of a movie I love. That's where my mind goes. I don't think he has a list of funny things to say.

I think the answer lies within each player. At this level everything is so precise. Our own experiences aren't really relevant any more than it would be a weekend golfer comparing themselves to a touring pro. Some might prefer another glove and others might prefer the same. It's not one answer.

Nothing like celebrating this holy day like announcing your war crimes