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I threw on Pine Barrens while I'm working and although i've seen it over a dozen times, have done full series rewatches at least 6 times... it still blows me away what a great episode it is.  In some ways it might be underrated because of the scenes in the woods.... take those out and it's still one of the best.  So much happened.

If you like the show..... watch it again.  I bet you'll be surprised like I was.

29 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

That doesn't change anything.  It's still deliberately racist.  Not all MAGA are racist, but there are a significant number of them and the GOP need them in order to stay in power.  That is why most of the MAGA platform is based on racism.     

and there comes a point where the "I'm not racist" defense is no longer valid if they continue supporting this guy.

I'm probably there already.  if you like and support this guy then yeah, I'm calling you a racist.

Tim will come around... or go around I should say.  They always do.

Unless he decides to resign, then they suddenly find Jesus.

Nobody with a brain is surprised.  Racists aren't surprised.

Anybody that acts surprised is playing dumb.

In a country run by normal people with morals and backbones, this would end their administration.  But neither of those things describe JD Vance so he'll just laugh at it.

He parlayed that year where he "hit .300, 30 HR's, and drove in 100" into a big deal.  If he hit .299, 29 HR, and had 99 RBI, would Randy have given it out?  Press likes nice round numbers.  Learned that in The Right Stuff when Scott Crossfield hit Mach 2.

14 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

If there are any maga out there that hapen to have a neighbor they refer to as “my black neighbor”, now would be a great time to reach out and make sure he knows that not all maga laugh and call him a monkey behind his back.  

And you know they follow up that reference with "but he's cool though...."

For them losing that series was probably a similar feeling the Wings and their fans had in losing in 2009.  You win the year before, had won a few years before that, want to confirm something of a Dynasty legacy.  Then you lose game 7 at home. And there's a hook to it.  In '68 it was Mickey's performance.  In the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals it was Sidney Crosby getting his first Cup.  Crosby is a national treasure in Canada, right below the likes of Gordie, Wayne, and Mario, but not below anybody else in Canadian hockey lore.

Jesus Christ that’s awesome 

Typical reaction by cowards. They start a fight and cry like a bitch when you hit back.  Just like the “tread on me” crowd.  

The key difference is what would have happened if he said he didn’t have it 

This isn’t complicated for those willing to pay attention

Fox 2 has aired Tiger games before. And they run Wings games sometimes. 

10 minutes ago, buddha said:

honestly, none of us know what skubal feels.

I think it's fair to assume that having Boras as an agent and being a player rep that we do have some inisght.  He's talked about the business side and having a responsibility.  This arbitration hearing doesn't affect what he'll get as a free agent.  The Tigers offer to him and to Valdez have nothing to do with each other, other than general budgetary reasons.  But they aren't making a statement about what they value or think they are "worth".

33 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

I wonder how long they have been sitting on this deal.  It wasn’t coincidence that it was announced shortly after the arbitration hearing ended.   I’m sure it would’ve come up in Skubal’s argument had the Tigers done this prior. 

I don't think so. Skubal is not a free agent.  Arbitration doesn't answer the question that Valdez's situation as a free agent asks.

1 hour ago, buddha said:

$38.5 for valdez and you wont give your home grown, cy young x2 starter more than $19?

The story is that Boras insisted on taking this to arbitration.  Why should they give an arb number $1 higher than they think they can win the case with?

The can't force him to sign a contract.

51 minutes ago, Longgone said:

They didn't "low ball" him, Arbitration isn't intended to reflect what a players value would be in free agency.

Thank you.

Arbitration is a process.  Skubal knows this.  Boras knows this.  Nobody is going to be "pissed" when the result is known.  Skubal might be "bummed" for the lost money but he knows the game.

The issues everybody brings up in a way points to the reason why we are in this mess.  There's so many ways to consume our media that there isn't the constant payment a network like Ballys or FanDuel would get from every single cable provider out there.  Our choices are removing the cash cow they were used to.  Any solution is going to leave some people out.  And it could be the best choice financially leaves the most people out of luck.

Why won't Repubs do that?

They're not going to trade Skubal unless they tank it this year and are way out of it by the deadline.

8 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

If the Tigers main broadcast is MLB, will the games be live for people living in the Detroit market? Several other teams main broadcast last season was on MLB, I wonder if they could watch live games?

Yes.  There's no way the team would not do that.  There's a lot to consider.... you have the entity that produces the games.  The camera people, the truck people, the announcers (except Benetti who works for the Tigers), etc.  That's what MLB would be doing.  Then the question is what "channel".   It could be an over the air like Channel 20 or it could be an existing slot on local providers.  They could even put them on whatever your current FanDuel channel is by renting the space instead of them showing some gambling program.  Back in the day the Pistons would produce their own games through Palace Sports and Entertainment, then lease/rent the space on the Fox Sports Detroit Network or Channel 50 or whatever.  So in essence it was an infomercial.  The Tigers get very high local ratings and they'd be fools to ignore that.    It was to be on something that fans can 'flip' to.  If they go with an app based system like Apple or Peacock then they lose a lot.  That's still too much of a hurdle for a lot of people. 

I'm sure they've been gaming this out for 2 or 3 years now.  

Waiting for Mike Duggan to chime in that republicans and democrats are 'the same'.

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Bezos is making the same mistake at the Post that he is making at Blue Origin, which is trying to run them like Amazon. At Amazon - the bulk of the workforce are commodity. Amazon doesn't need them for who they are, it really does only need their bodies. While that management system - as bad as it is, may work there,  isn't going to work for journalism or high tech manufacturing, because those are places where you do need people exactly for who they are - which means that while you can can get away with pitting workers against each other in a warehouse, you cannot in a fundamentally collegial place like a newsroom or a necessarily deeply cooperative one like cutting edge engineering (he has a forced attrition program in place at Blue Origin). Your develop process is going to grind to a halt when every engineer is trying to steal every other guys glory and no-one trusts or will share anything with anyone. Jacques Nasser pretty well proved this at FoMoCo years ago, but the guys like Bezos just don't want to believe it because their ego doesn't let them admit they don't have the only brain that matters.

Rocket Mortgage is the same concept as Amazon. Just milk the employees.

the trump bible just has pictures of naked girls in it.  Young ones.

generic ID mailboxes by suppliers so that "everyone can see it and it gets channeled to a central location for support".

Which just means everybody ignores because they thought someone else was going to do it.

Get to have that conversation today with someone.  Last year they were gung ho about introducing it to "streamline" for a particular process.

It’s the old adage, updated for inflation…. Billionaires have convinced people making $75-$100K that the problems are caused by people making $35-$75K.  And that group is convinced the problems are immigrants. Everyone below you is a mooch. 

That’s a conspiracy I can get behind.  He’s a snake and at some point people might see Trump is of no use to them anymore.  The high powered tech folks will move on to JD as their puppet and hope for the best.