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I hadn’t intended for this piece to immediately be partisan…should have known better. Your response would probably play well in congress. Pointing fingers is the norm. Bipartisan endeavors for the sake of fiscal sanity are indeed rare in Washington, on both sides. Neither candidate will touch this issue because campaign promises in return for votes is easier.

This is what concerns me about this presidential cycle. This piece is a balanced look at what isn’t being addressed in the campaigns, a mountain of growing debt! https://www.wral.com/story/harris-proposals-would-increase-the-national-debt-but-trump-s-would-add-even-more-study-finds/21660778/

Jack misses Fett.

For me… The best outcome in the playoffs is that the Tigers win the World Series. The runner up consolation if that doesn’t happen is that the Dodgers DON’T win the World Series. A huge bonus to that consolation would be that the Dodgers don’t even make it to the World Series.

Even Al Avila wouldn’t have made this trade. Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants. The 57-year-old, whose life reportedly inspired the 2005 Hollywood movie, “Lord of War,” starring Nicolas Cage, spent decades selling Soviet-made weapons in Africa, South America and the Middle East before being arrested in 2008 in a U.S. law enforcement sting operation. Since his release, Bout has joined a pro-Kremlin far-right party and won a seat in a local assembly in 2023, seemingly turning the page on his days as an arms broker. But when Houthi emissaries went to Moscow in August to negotiate the purchase of $10 million worth of automatic weapons, they encountered a familiar face: the mustachioed Bout, according to a European security official and other people familiar with the matter.

I remember this episode very well.

-or- In a battleground state like North Carolina, a vote for anyone but Trump is in effect a vote for Harris. Do you consider the above statement to be equally accurate?

I’ll admit that we went for a walk when it was 5-0. I also admit I asked my wife every 15 minutes to check her phone for the score until we got back in.

Agreed. Before today’s first pitch I said that to lose two here is too much to overcome going forward. Must win Monday! No pressure Skub 😉

Before we write this series off…if Skubal pitches well and we get a few runs for him on Monday, the Tigers can take the home field advantage.

Babyface struggling.

The only guy in the lineup with playoff experience is Vierling if I’m not mistaken. Learning experience for a lot of the younger guys at the plate.

He’s got a couple more innings. We’ll see.

Is there any rain in the forecast!?!

This is as clear an example as there is of how desperate and irrelevant this man is. The term, ‘Reaching for straws’ doesn’t begin to do this one justice.

But…she is standing by a body of water. 😁

This guy should have been a weather forecaster. He’s wasting his talents here.

I’ll always see Sparky as my guy in the AL but from 1980 to 1990 Whitey Herzog was my guy in the N.L. I loved those teams he put together.

I never understood the front office decisions to refuse requested pay raises to Roger Craig and Gates Brown after the 1984 season. Contrary to today’s plethora of staff coaches, Brown and Craig accounted for the gist of the dugout staff. Letting both your pitching and hitting coach walk at that point is puzzling to this day to me.

Think Detroit Tigers World Series in 2006 and 2012. That’s all you need to know.

Best compliment I’ve received in some time. Thank you.

I voted Johnson/Weld in 2016. I have no regrets. In fact, in hindsight it looks better everyday with the **** show in Washington. Agreed, most view it as a protest vote that doesn’t really matter most of the time. I get that. “Yeah, they suck equally” The term, “Voting for the lesser of the two evils,” comes to mind here. I guess I’ve voted for the lesser of two evils for years. This time around I can’t do it. There is no way I can vote for either candidate when I don’t believe either candidate is fit. That these two are the only choices we have is a reflection on this country that got us to where we are. For what it’s worth, years ago I stood for a state office during a statewide election. I was a registered Libertarian. I received the obligatory 2% “protest vote” at the time. I am now part of the largest registered voting block in the country-unaffiliated. I don’t want my name associated with either of the two major parties. I understand the consensus opinion on this but that’s where I am.

Well, you pointed out how well the federal government works. What’s next?

I’ll put it this way, I don’t follow Trump at all, honestly. What I know of him through media reports and the like…my impression is that he dislikes ANYONE that disagrees with him, regardless of color or anything else. He will use any person, regardless of race, to promote himself. His using the bible as a campaign prop is beyond the worst one could imagine! He preys on those that idolize him. He doesn’t care who he destroys as long as it benefits him. Trump exploits people’s worst intuitions and will use these things as it benefits him.

A huge congratulations on the Francona hire! I didn’t see that one coming at all. Good to see he’s gotten his health issues addressed and is ready to get back in the dugout.