Tiger337

I met both he and his wife when I went to Lakeland. Very nice people. I also met yoda and couga down there. Not surprisingly, couga spent most of the time talking liberal politics. I mostly agreed with him, but wow here we were at a minor league game surrounded by a bunch of old white male Floridians. 😀

I am looking forward to everyone panicking when one of the pitchers gets crushed in his first outing. Also looking forward to seeing which young hitter is making the all-star game after getting two hits in his first game.

It seems that most of the pitchers and catchers have already reported, but it's never a bad time to post a photo of Charlie Gehringer.

I am not following this case very closely, but the answer seems obvious to me. The MAGAs probably feel as if they have more to gain politically from Biden being viewed as too old and weak than it is for him to be charged with a crime. In MAGA world, being seen as weak is far worse than being a criminal.

I don't have children, so I probably don't understand the effect of social media on them. Hasn't there always been bad influences on children? There has always been bullies and bad influences. When I was a kid, I used to wander around outside all day and some of my friends definitely were not good influences. In one case, my parents forbid me from seeing the family next door anymore. In later generations, people talked about the evils of music, tv and video games. It seems like whatever is happening today is believed to be worse than anything before it and it's going to destroy our young generation. It seems to me like young people today are nicer and smarter than they were when I was young, so where is the terrible influence?

40 years.

As he posts on social media.

As predicted, even the left wing media is now kissing Trump's ass. They need him bad. Even the "failing NY Times"

OK, I got it.

You thought that!

I don't know who you are talkng about, but when I said "by the end" I meant long-time MLB success. Are you talking about Keith? I thought that was more recent than 24 days. but he doesn't qualify anyway. Fryman or Granderson might qualify.

That's capitalism man.

Whitaker and Trammell were two of the first players I followed closely from the lower minors all the way to the end. they both develped so beautifully. I thought it was always going to be like that! Still waiting for the next Tiger to do that. 😀

The only problem is he is dead. Still might be a better option that what they have though.

Whitaker's OPS+ by progressive age quartiles: 20-24 94 25-29 119 30-34 122 35-38 131 He was hitting well enough at the end that he could have served as a platoon DH at the very least. The Tigers wanted him back for another season and Trammell tried to talk him into a 20th season together, but he wasn't interested. There were also rumors that the Yankees were interested in him after his last season, but that would be just sacrilegious.

Fielder got all the attention, but he was only the third best player on that team.

My response to that has always been that if elections were easy to rig, Trump would have rigged it. That's a fact.

I don't especiallycare about Biden or the Democrats one way or the other. My main function in this forum is to vent about how uniquely horrible Trump is. I was laughing at your post not because of anything you said about Biden, but because you suggested that Trump did not take the documents for his persnal gain. How is that even possible with him?

Having a president who has a difficult time speaking and communicating is not "dumb ****". That is a very important part of a President's job. Then again, Trump doesn't speak well either.

I think there are very few Biden voters who would switch to Trump if Harris got the nomination. There might be some right leaning independents who dislike Trump who would avoid her.

I was being dramatic. I'd lke to see it torn down, but not all at once.

I heard a long interview with him last night. Again, he sounds a lot like Curtis Granderson and he would be a fan favorite if he succeeded. I am curious to see what happens with him, but I have the same concerns as eveyone else. Can he field any position OK enough to hide him? If he has to be DH, is his bat good enough to carry him? He has a great eye, but I agree that's a skill that will be difficult to bring into the majors against superior pitchers every night.