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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.

eh, Tim already had 2 WS championships and they won the year before in '67 so he could get over it. 🙂

2 weeks. No joke. Two weeks.  He’s just ****ing with us. 

The 25th and impeachment/removal will never happen.  Never. You need Republicans for that. The only good Republican is a retired Republican. Gut it out or death. That’s our option. Nobody is going to rescue us. Not podcasts and not the media.  The only hope is some wipeout in the elections that presents supermajorities that could lead to proper impeachments. Remove Trump. Remove Vance. Remove Hegsetth. Install the new speaker.  

Random memories. Pudge Rodriguez hitting the homer off Fausto Carmona to win it. “Into the night!”  was the call by DD.  
 

Bonderman giving up a lead in MN. 

34 minutes ago, TJ Rollercoaster said:

Except that 25th amendment is the removal by his cabinet - this bunch of lackeys has no spine.

Congress will need to pass an impeachment resolution, and Senate vote on it - not going to happen in the next 8.5 hours

and especially since half that cabinet might believe they'd be fired from a Vance presidency.

I lean now towards him knowing... no, it doesn't matter.  But these missions are planned very carefully and crew emotion and stability is so important on a trip this long, they wouldn't throw that at him unexpected.  They are on their way back now.  The moon has moved out of the zone they occupied in their loop around.

Brooks was the nicest guy, hands down, that I ever saw at an autograph show.  After that experience I heard the same from so many others.  I was at the HOF right after he died and his plaque was decorated with flowers, like they always do when someone passes.

I've read they did know but it wasn't an official source.

But watching I got the impression he didn't.

Ace Frehley was supposed to be at the Token Lounge like a week after he died.

3 minutes ago, DTroppens said:

I'm in Fenton, not far. I'll have to do some research and find out who you are talking about. 🙂

The Machine Shop

CDR Wiseman didn't know they were going to do that, based on his reaction.

For those not watching, his wife died in 2000, so he is raising his 2 girls.  They made some crater/spot naming requests and Jeremy Hansen requested "Carroll" in honor of her.

43 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

I don’t think Benetti forces his humor. I think he’s just got the kind of mind that makes associations very quickly and is glib in a playful way. I hear him make a pun that no one picks up on and he lets it go. If he didn’t let it go, that would seem forced to me.

I got the opinion that he and Dirks can be too much, and too tangential. It just doesn’t bug me much.

 

yeah I think his mind is just so quick.  It reminds me of morning radio when they would do drops.  He probably grew up on that stuff so it's second nature.  I do the same thing, not as funny, but I could be in a work meeting and someone will say something that reminds me of a movie I love.  That's where my mind goes.

I don't think he has a list of funny things to say.