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Lineup is out and Jones is our best hitter apparently

Was Zach McKinstry's injury bad? I wasn't watching live and just found out about it.

Not meant to be an invitation to violence... "Who will rid Michigan of this meddlesome rain?"

I had a memory from my childhood of being at the Detroit Catholic Social Services pancake breakfast around Christmas one year. This would be in the 1970s, i'm about 10 yrs old. We are there because my mother, a neo-natal nurse, has signed us up to be foster parents for a 10+ year stretch of having infants in the home. We've already had them for a few years at this point. Generally one-two babies under a year old in the home at any given time and usually for just a month or so each. Occasionally we would have one for somewhat longer, we'd grow attached to those. Much harder to deal with.. Anyway, at the pancake breakfast all the kids were given door gifts wrapped up in nice shiny Christmas paper. I, for some reason, did not like the first one I got and went to the lady at the table who was giving them out. She told me she couldn't take it back unless it was wrapped. I went away to an unoccupied table to sulk but then noticed that the table cloths were made of festive looking Christmas paper and had tape holding the paper to the tables. I was able to rewrap the present with this table's paper and tape which did not look exactly like the ones that were being given out but technically it was now wrapped. She exchanged it with a "you got me" laugh and I got a cool Spitfire model airplane that helped me celebrate Christmas for me by strafing imaginary German soldiers for the rest of the morning. FTR, family is very much not Catholic. Mom was the daughter of a baptist pastor and Dad is very Anglican/Episcopal.

This Lugo character needs to be dealt with.

Remains due.

Jake is beyond due to go yard.

I wish for a massive inning in the bottom of this one.

Dante’s Hell was hottest or worst est for traitors.

Strong take. Moving on.

Until your good friend starts chopping off his fingers to spite you.

You do or do not believe in the great "man" or great person school of history?

Have you been lately? Dublin in particular is one of the more expensive cities in Europe. Not Switzerland expensive but still a bit spendy.

No glove would have helped the Royals 3B with Dingler's hit in the 8th.

Did you guys talk about McGonigle's massive payday already and are now talking racial slurs until they come back into common use?

Branch Rickey was no racist.

Particularly in a country that has a Confederate History month in the month those traitorous losers lost the civil war.

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.

I think I would be annoyed to have to work for any of these people. I once interned for a GOP rep and the guy was getting free labor from me but insisted I use his title when talking to him. While that seemed pretty innocuous to me at the time, it really bothered me when i saw how he treated others. Now Slotkin seems like she'd be a bit more difficult than others to work for, just a feeling. Daughter from a wealthy family and all that. That said, they are ham sandwich and I'm voting for that over any GOP person until Trumpism and MAGA is no more.

agree.

Dude deserves his day to be sure.

We have now beaten an American league team. I own a copy of the book above. It is not for sale.

This is insane...from his 1976 season.

I saw a 1977 Fydrich start in which he was very good. I can't recall the team he played although i think it was the blue jays.