Jim Cowan

Bannon you are such a beaut, thinking that Kennedy would own the libs.

You're the human rain delay.

Tigers with OBP of .333 or better: Vierling, Rogers, and Baddoo.

Weird stat: Greene hasn't hit a double yet.

He celebrated by taking the golden sombrero today!

I've probably said this before but I saw Richard Jenne doing standup, pretending to announce the names of delegates to a political convention, with their state mottos, and he said "From New Jersey, the 'what the f*** are you lookin at' State,..."

I have a good war story about a relative, my great uncle Roy was a stretcher bearer at the Somme. Of course he got hit, and ended up in a hospital in London. And while he was there, the Canadian army stopped his pay. He wasn't on active service. He had to write a letter home to get them to send him some money.

Korea never got much air time here, hard to say why exactly. The Canadian army did participate, about 25,000 people, but it does not get remembered as an important event the way that the World Wars do. My recollection of the reason often quoted for American military activities had something to do with "the spread of communism", but there was never a communist bogeyman here. So perhaps the war does not have a compelling reason in peoples' minds in the way that WW2 does.

That is very offensive.

That's interesting, that there were two organizations, the Legion and the VFW. As for your perception that "When you and I were young in the 60's, 1945 seemed impossibly long ago to *us*", my point is that no, to me it did not. It seemed like I just missed it. It still does.

I was 5 years old in 1957 and WW2 seemed like yesterday, just because so many of the men who were at church every Sunday with their families had been there, including a tail gunner, and a guy with a prosthetic leg, and so much of programming like "The 20th Century" with Walter Cronkite was so focused on WW2. And a few years later in 1962, playing baseball in an organized league, the league was sponsored by the Legion, I think that you guys call it the VFW. And compared to today there was not much bullying in elementary school in the late 1950's and early 1960's but I can tell you this for sure, there was one kid at the school of recent immigrant German ancestry and he was bullied very severely. So, I am here to say that in the 1950's, in my neighbourhood, the war was still immediate. It was not a distant memory, not at all.

Does Putin really think he can ramp up the murders to get onto the same plane as Stalin? Really? Putin is garbage, does he really think that tens of thousands of ruthless murders of innocent people will get him up there on the pantheon with Stalin? There's no chance. At his current murder rate Putin would have to live for about 400 years. But we are blessed here to have breathless daily updates from a Putinchik about how the murders are progressing. These are not military exercises. They are murders. War crimes. Punishable by death.

You mean like maybe a maternity hospital? No wait, a kindergarten? No wait, a day care centre?

Vlad plays chess at a different level. He's pulling strings we can't even see.

Is Ugueth Urbina still inside?

Never heard of either one of these guys. But then I've never heard of any of the guys on the Toledo staff either.

Yeah, Verlander seems like an ex-Tiger but Scherzer really doesn't. It's been a long time since both have been gone, I don't imagine that they will sell very many extra tickets.

He must have heard his father talk to his mother like that.

Good question

Same here...and I didn't even say anything bad about him.

I had McLain and Hernandez, forgot about Verlander, was going to take Newhouser.

Here's something I've been waiting to see, and it is happening now. Malloy has 2 singles in his last 16 AB, with 6 K's, and has not drawn a walk in the past 7 days. Let's see him figure things out once the pixie dust has worn off, and stay in Toledo for another month.

I imagine that they all look up to him and feel lucky to be around a Hall of Famer.

I thought that inflatuation means that everyone is farting a lot

Nevin, man, you needed to do something there.