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I lack confidence in the American people to do the right thing when it really counts. They failed us in ‘16, ‘18, ‘22, and ‘24 despite all the handwringing from th Lincoln project and bulwark and podcasters.  Remember when Graham and Cruz and Collins were going to lose?
 

Dobbs was supposed to end the GOP.  That’s ancient history. Yes it’s cute when an R district goes from +47 to + 18 or a Democrat wins dog catcher in Montana.  Until the House and Senate flips and then the White House goes D I’m not getting excited. This country elected Trump again after ‘16 and Jan 6.  It’s who we are.  It wasn’t an outlier. We are at the mercy of idiots. 

When you are a bulldog against sexual predators and all of that you have to be clean. If he was doing this stuff or even other things questionable then he’s an idiot. Of course those in power think they are invincible. 

Smith and Garner were fired the same day.  They started 0-6 and the Monday after the first home series  they made the move. DD assumed GM duties. Pujols was the manager but Alou was also there. He probably was the real manager. 

28 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I thought AJ‘s remarks regarding Phil Garner in the post game show were really good. 

Is there audio?

I should clarify that I have two life goals. One to be able to go in long walks, or maybe still runs, to them take a nap. Then since I will probably still be living here to then go to the game in my robe and hype up the latest prospect and nobody bother me. Just me and my White Russian and rug. 

Has Melania ever spoken during the 5 plus years the idiot was president?

13 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

I followed this game on my phone today walking 3.2 miles at the Idaho Botanical Garden and was so tired when I got home I had to crash for an hour and a half, and while I was lights totally out asleep, I dreamed that Jeff Bridges as The Dude from The Big Lebowski was walking around in his bathrobe at Comerica Park talking about “how ****ing great Kevin McGonigal is!“

Life goals. 

I spent half the game watching the Artemis Ii crew splashdown. 

56 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

That does not surprise.  He performed well for the first three years, but I never got the impression that he really liked playing for the Tigers.  He seemed to be disrespectful of Trammell which definitely turned me off.  I don't like to say this about players, but he appeared to quit on the team at times.

Right.  Me too.  As it was, we had to offer 4 years, plus an optional 5th, when he wasn't getting 2 from anybody else.  He supposedly wanted to leave the team to see his GF, Tram said no, so he tried to fight him.  Sorry dude.... 

it's obviously Fernando Vina

My friend went to Rodriguez's pizza place in PR a few weeks ago and was mad that there was nothing about the Tiger.  The Rangers and Marlins were represented.

I tried to exchange my tickets for tonight as the weather looks crummy but they changed the window from 24 hours to 48 hours. 
Bastages.

I actually wanted to stay home to watch Artemis II splash down.

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

The Phillips/Tettleton/Fielder era was when I was really starting to get into sabermetrics and I saw how underrated Phillips and Tettleton were compared to Fielder.  Nobody cared about Phillps's on base skills or defensive versatilty.  He should have been playing today. 

And Fielder got the credit for all the runs being scored... he and Tettleton for his HR's, but it was the on base skills that did that.  It was Fryman and Phillips and Tettleton, not for his HR's but his walks.

I'll never forget the winter meetings when the Tiger signed Phillips.  It was right when ESPN got MLB and they covered it a lot more.  They were talking to Peter Gammons and he said the Tigers just signed him and to watch out for that, he's going to be a good player for them.  He was very high on it.  At that time I thought of Phillips as just a utility guy on the A's. Nothing special.

there's some really weird sects within Christianity about that topic.

Glen Campbell was a great guitar player.  Saw an interview Henley gave with Billy Joel where unprompted Henley said Campbell was this country's greatest singer.

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

The impact it has is the whole ballgame. It's the only reason to even have this discussion in the first place.

Who cares what some left-wing loonspud with 116 followers says? Do you regard them as representative of the Democratic Party? I sure don't. Certainly not in the same way right wing social media with massive followings represents the Republican Party, spouting lies and disinformation that not only directly influence actual policy being made by the Trump administration, but they've actually infiltrated our government. That, my friend, is impact worth discussing.

Show me anyone on the left like that, then let's talk about it.

The problem is you have a very narrow, and self defined, definition of “the left”. You’ve done this before where you pretend your sides **** doesn’t stink sometimes.  And that’s objectively not true.  And I say this as an adoptive member of the left. Yet I am sometimes reminded why I previously wasn’t.  The idea of “impact” and “reach” isn’t quite relevant because most of the reach by the right is an ideological bubble so whether it’s 10,000 or 1M, the same number of votes take place.  

There is a contingent of Obama/Trump voters.  I think Bernie played into their thinking.

5 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

He didn't say the misinformation has the same impact as the right. It does exist and I can't believe you have not seen it.  I see it all the time and it's frustrating.  I frequently have to block accounts on social media.     

Yep.  Several of my leftie friends are always sharing stuff that's wrong.  A lot of it comes from Occupy Democrats.  And some of it gets shared here.

I'll throw out an example.  On Good Friday a big fuss was made, and i fell for it too, about the Pentagon "Banning Catholics" from a service.  That's not what happened.  The Pentagon held a Good Friday service and specified there would not be a catholic mass. People took that to mean a snub.  It actually wasn't.  Catholics don't celebrate a mass on Good Friday.  They will go to church and do stations of the cross and all of that but it's specifically not a mass, by design.  I viewed that as kind of an expectation setter that this is not going to be  mass if you were expecting one.  Catholics could still go to the service.

5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

That's a laugh. I'd take any Chicago Priest in a test of wills with Trump.

Yeah I go with Chicago over anyone… except those cops in The Fugitive.  “She was more rich”.  

When does it get fun?  

6 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

I had to unfollow him on Twitter because of some retweets. He probably consulted it before the Karim Garcia trade!

Yikes. I had no idea he was on there. 

He's the same as he's always been the difference this time are the people around him following through with his crazy ****.  That's what is scary.

cool thread title bro

good news, thanks for doing that Bert.