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29 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Nothing says freedom like banning speech you don’t like.

That’s not speech. It’s a product. A vessel. Individual are still free to write and talk.  Freedom of speech doesn’t include the right to an audience. 

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

For as long ago as Bob Weir was famous and as entrenched a name as his has been in rock culture ever since, he was still under 80 years old when he died. This is borderline amazing to me.

I’ll throw in Steve Winwood as a comp for that kind of thing. His first #1 hit was 60 years ago. I know you and I have discussed him before. (Came up on a FB memory a few days ago). 

1 hour ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Just nothing there upstairs 

I just figured the old guys needed a break and now I’m mad I passed up on seeing them at the Sphere. Got to see him 3 times though so there is that, including kind of an intimate setting at the Fillmore a few years ago. 

Was it announced he was sick?  I didn’t see anything. Must have been fast. 

3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Just a random observation, but while ICE's ostensible charge is centered around enforcing immigration law, it's noticable how little "immigration" factors in to this operation. Or that they aren't even bothering with the pretense that this operation is about "immigration"... It's purely about harassing a large metropolitan area because they can.

If they keep this up, they are going to end up turning "abolish ICE" into something the median voter actually agrees with.

My problem with this is these voters seem to have short memories.  We are 9 years into this and have been thru several dozen moments that should have been turning points for the average “swing” voter.  
 

A point I saw made recently;  

“Our country isn’t like this because we have Donald Trump as our president.  We have Donald Trump as our president because our country is like this”.  
 

This isn’t directed at you but I am tired of “this is the moment it’s over”.  It will never be over until he’s dead.  There are no such moments.   

I don’t know of a better way to share this here

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPuTWm7Eomv/?igsh=MXRjb213cXd6dHBlZw==

Damn. He had a hell of a life and I enjoyed watching his IG posts the last few years as he’d stay in shape on the road. 

Why you happy?  They’re basically your party today.  just a different religion.  But same back ass ideals. 
 

The leaders here deserve, and hopefully will get, the same fate.  

With Miggy I always think back to a random game I was at with Oakland. He kept fouling the same pitch back. 4-5 times. It was like he was rejecting it rather than  just missing. “I don’t want that one…”.  Then he got the one he wanted and put it into the seats. I like to think the pitcher was just conceding. “I don’t want to pitch to him anymore”. 

Skubal having Boras as an agent tells me he means business and understands the Tigers mean business too.  Skubal isn’t fragile. He knows what the Tigers are doing.  It’s fine. These numbers and this process will have no impact on his future with the team. It relates to 2026 only. Peoole watch too many movies. 

of course he is. That's what "church" people believe now.  Protesters are terrorists.  They love to shove their morality and holier than thou crap in their face but as we see here it's all bull****.  Terrible witnesses for Christ.

Magasexuals have no choice to but to jump off the cliff with their idiocy and demented logic.

40 minutes ago, buddha said:

how do we know he doesnt?

again, these guys are human.  youre right, they know its a business, but we all work in business.  and not everyone is mature enough to let things go.  i imagine boras has told him everything that you've said, and everything you've said about it being a "business" and he's not a middle schooler is correct, but that doesnt mean he wont take offense, wont hold a grudge, and wont think about it the next time he has leverage....which should be in about 10 months.

because I believe that whatever is inside of him that made him the pitcher he is prevents him from being emotional and petty about such things.

He's made a lot of money.  He's going to make a lot of money in 2026 $19-32M, maybe more if he were to sign a bigger deal.  He's going to make a boat load more.  I'm guessing he's feeling good about life and knows this is a process that he has to go through and at no point so far has anything unexpected happened.

30 minutes ago, buddha said:

as someone who manages a lot of people, if i went into an open process like arbitration and said all sorts of things about how they didnt deserve the same salary as x, y, or z, there would be hurt feelings.  no matter how much money they made.

i know "its a business", but its still hard to hear that your employer doesnt think youre worth what you think youre worth.  baseball players arent robots.

They're also not prepubuscent middle schoolers. But I was referring strictly to the numbers, not what would be said in a hearing.  Skubal didn't see that number and think "WTF?  **** THESE GUYS"

Is it standard law enforcement practice to be playing on your phone when you in a perceived danger that requires you to instinctively discharge your weapon into the face of a person driving away?  I mean whenever I'm in fear for my life and safety the first thing I do is whip out my phone.

There are no hurt feelings and it will have zero impact on whether he signs here. It's a business. They all know and understand it.   Boras is smart he probably already knew what their number would be.

I turned 11 during the break between the '84 ALCS and WS.  I literally grew up with the '84 team.  I remember going out to the airport to some parking lot to meet them after the '81 season when they had a chance to make the playoffs.  Got a bunch of autographs.  It seemed so easy to be a baseball fan.  You watch them get better then they'll win.  For '87 I had my first girlfriend and was kind of distracted so I didn't get into that team's run like I should have.  It's a big regret.  I was at game 5 but it was on a field trip with church (My school let us go since I went to a churchy school)  It was a day game.

So yeah.... piece of cake.  I'm 52 and still waiting. 

One of the few things my wife and I bicker about is I do this thing where as soon as you turn a light on inside, I close the curtains/drapes/blinds/etc.  I have this hangup about people being able see inside my house, particularly from the front. The back I don't care so much about as we have a lot of coverage/privacy.  She thinks I'm weird.  Am i?  At least in this context?  It's especially bad now with the early nights.  By 4:30 I'm shutting down.  But I'm also the kind of person who doesn't really care if it's dark inside.  We still have christmas stuff up and those lights throughout our rooms satisfies me.  But if a lamp or overhead light is turned on.... close it up.

But remember, he is the way he is because he didn't agree with the way Kamala Harris got the nomination.  That was the tipping point.   Fascism because of a process disagreement.  Makes total sense.

And to think some still think it’s kind of wrong to refer to conservatives as Nazis. Nope. It’s more accurate than it is ever was. 

I don’t understand the freak out on the Tigers number.   This isn’t a negotiation. It’s for a hearing.  They pick one value. Why would the tigers pay more than they have to? 

Remember the freak out when Mize went thru this?

51 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Three years ago when sports gambling was first legal, I used to bet OVER on NHL games that were 5.5 on goal totals.     I did very well doing that actually, but only bet $10 at a time and would always cash out when it went over $50 and start over again.  I probably won about $400 during that season, but I must have not been the only one doing that because 5.5 was a pretty rare number after that.     I bet $50 on an NFL playoff 5-leg parlay and won and I think I won about $200 or so on that one, but that's the end of it for me.    It takes enjoyment out of the game.  I am trying to unwind while I watch, not get MORE stressed out. 

My friend did the very same thing.  I believe it was the 2022 playoffs. He was puzzled that they were not catching on. He bets $100 a day, usually over 2-3 bets. 

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I will be seriously surprised if both the DetNews and DetFreePress are both still in business in 5yrs.

I wish the general public were smart enough to recognize that a well funded local media would be great at keeping our politicians in check and spotting fraud and abuse.  But too many expect if they are paying for it then it needs to be on “their side”.