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more of this please... what I'd really like to see is former cabinet level members but I doubt that would happen.  

On 5/3/2024 at 6:29 PM, Motor City Sonics said:

I get this weird feeling that Britney Spears is really dumb.      I don't know why.   Just a hunch.      But still, it's her money, if she wants to blow through it all, it's her right.   Just don't want to hear sob stories when she does. 

 

I'm just not sure she's naturally dumb, or if she was kind of raised to be this way.   You have that and then putting a teenager in a fishbowl - chased by photographers everywhere she goes and you get what we see now.   

How can anyone in that situation expected to have any kind of normal life. 

It's sad, but not surprising. 

I offer up that it's a combination of her upbringing and some kind of mental instability.  When you can't be normal in your formative years it has an effect. She's symbolic in a lot of ways and maybe represents the end point of adults being able to abuse child stars in that way. Abuse comes in many forms and even the center of it all surrounded by adults can be affected.

The thing with Tork is sure a puzzle but I'm not sure what can be done.  Anything a writer or person twitter or the internet can say or offer is obviously already known to the team and to him. Sometimes the body can't or won't do what it needs to do.  Hitting is hard. 

People will think Lou Whitaker died 

They are going to ****ing wear them every Friday?  Damn.  I have the Friday ticket package.

That said.... I probably like them better than the current home unis.

I wonder if they rip when sliding?

I do not get the hype over these... maybe because I'm old but I really don't give a ****.  What is the big deal?  Soccer's always been "the sport of the future" for all of my 50 years of living.  

THe Tigers had a tweet with some players walking into a room seeing them and they reacted as if they saw Sidney Sweeney starting at them nude with a bowl of strawberries.

11 minutes ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Can't disagree with most of this. DirecTV always offered me a substantial discount to stay, but it just got to the point where I wasn't seeing the value, especially since I was already paying for Hulu (the "regular" version). Combine that with the fact that what we actually watch on TV is very little, it was just time to make the switch. Navigating Hulu Live TV is a little wonky, but we will adjust quickly enough. It helps that each of us can have our own Favorites channel guide. I also like that I can click on Sports, and it shows me all of the live and upcoming games to choose from, and I can further narrow that by sport. We also can now truly just have one remote we use for everything, which has long been an annoyance to Mrs Shades of Deivi Cruz.

Regardling Hulu Live... I remember a case this year when the Wings game was only on Hulu... and I couldn't find it.  On my phone it came right up on the main screen and I could put it on.  On my TV's app... it wasn't the same options when the app opened up.  I searched all kinds of keywoards and couldn't find it.

6 o clock start times?  WTF?

10 hours ago, Edman85 said:

Swept on the road by one of thee best teams in baseball and the sky is falling. Jeez.

and a decent chance to win all 3.

Why can't fans be happy that this org and team is no longer an embarassment?  We are watching a toddler learn to walk and run and instead of marvelling at the progress we're yelling at it for falling down and crying. 

16 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

Interestingly, the Tigers have a crapload of these guys in the system.

Basically, "failed starters"... or guys who are good once through a lineup but get figured out their second time through a lineup and tend to get blasted that 2nd time through:

In Detroit: Holton (2), Wentz (2-3) and Faedo (2-3) have shown the ability to pitch 2 or 3 innings at a time. Holton is 50/50 whether he goes 1 or 2 (without checking the actual numbers) and pitched a lot of 2 inning appearances last year IIRC. Wentz is doing OK this year (not so well last year) at a 1.24 WHIP and 0.79 ERA, 11 inn's in 7 appearances. Faedo has the 6th highest innings (after the 5 starters) at 21 in 12 appearances with a 1.14 WHIP and 2.57 ERA.

Toledo: Guessing Montero, Flores, Hurter, Brieske (already a middle innings guy, last year with Detroit 1.37 WHIP, 3.60 ERA... so not terrible) head towards multi-innings middle relief guys instead of sticking as starters. Right now they're all struggling a bit in Toledo though... The Org is still high on all these guys though as far as I know... Also: who is good out of these guys versus can't cut it in MLB? Answer: "I don't know." 3rd base.

Erie: guessing Troy Melton ends up in the BP as a 2-3-inning guy when he gets higher up.

Jaden Hamm at WM is an unknown to me. I don't know what his "stuff" is. He looks good as a starter at WM... what kind of carrying power is that though...?

 

The guys in the Org with the highest chances of remaining a starter (just on a WAG) I am guessing would be Manning, Jobe, and Lockhart. Maybe Hamm?

 

 

I think that's how most relievers end up being relievers....

Why do protesters go after non federal policy makers?  Because their point isn’t to introduce change but to just be an asshole. 

Game 1 is scheduled to be in Boston is Friday.  Tim McGraw has a concert Friday night at TD garden.  See how that plays out. 

5 hours ago, chasfh said:

Not just self-perpetuating social isolation, but relatedly, also physical isolation. Ever notice how the people who are most agitated about the "border crisis" are those who live the farthest away from Mexico? They are also those most likely to loc up and go vigilante down there. Some travel over a thousand miles to do it!

We see the same dynamic about exurban and rural people when it comes to just about any decent-sized city. I have heard someone say they didn't want to go into Green Bay because they don't want to get attacked by gangs of ******s there. Predictably, they live over half an hour outside Green Bay.

I still can’t believe I hear people say that about Detroit.  They freaking live at 23 mile and Gratiot and act like working downtown is being in south central LA in 1989.   I made a comment to a family member a while back about a locally well known place in West Village. “You go into Detroit?  For coffee and pastries?”  They couldn’t believe it. I said “yeah.  And believe it or not there’s often a line out the door and it’s only white people.  And the houses in that neighborhood probably cost more than yours”. 

28 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

How are you watching Bally, on a PC? The FF doesn't work very well on my Roku...it jumps all the way to live when trying to FF thru commercials. I watch on my PC now and it works pretty good.

I just put the app on my smart TV and logged in. I have a Samsung. 

I ended up getting the Ballys app.  They have a 7 day trial and with any credit from xfinity that will offset. Hopefully they resolve their problem.  I’m having a tree taken down today so a good opportunity to chill and watch afternoon baseball. 

6 hours ago, 1776 said:

I actually called about this trip not long after it was posted on the site. I inquired as to where the seats were located for the games. The lady I had a conversation with about the trip details did not know the location of the seats. Do you have any idea about the seat location(s) for the games? 
 

They have good seats. Just past 3B down the line. Tomorrow will be in upper deck above their spot tonight. 

57 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

This has been a common theme of Republicans to blame things that happened in 2020 on Biden. 

Their voters are too dumb to know any better so there’s no risk. 

50 minutes ago, 1776 said:

I actually called about this trip not long after it was posted on the site. I inquired as to where the seats were located for the games. The lady I had a conversation with about the trip details did not know the location of the seats. Do you have any idea about the seat location(s) for the games? 
 

I'll ask her during the game

I took a screen shot of this in case she deletes it.  She's the attorney general of Florida

29 minutes ago, 1776 said:

The Tigers Fans Vacation tour will attend this series. Recently the Tigers, in cooperation with a travel agency(s) do two road trips per year. This one was two days in Cooperstown in addition to all three games versus the Yankees. It also included one full day in NY City to do whatever you preferred.

I’m sure it would be a lot of fun. All travel, tickets, and lodging are covered to and from New York.

The second trip this year is in August to when the Tigers visit San Francisco. That itinerary looks like a good one as well. 

My sister is part of this group.  She sent a pic of Jason and Craig.

Spoiler Alert

It doesn't happen a lot

Remember how the Braves "fixed" Robbie Grossman?

Midjourney.  Then I used Discord to generate the images using their commands.  Don't ask me how, I forgot it already, but you were at a prompt and had write the command, followed by the text.  Then they would be uploaded to the midjourney app.

listen to the bro yell at the end ...