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Part of me feels a civic duty to support local journalism. They can expose corruption and other problems and prove useful to society. I was paying $9.99 each for the news and freep. I cancelled during a purge on expenses. I’m torn. We do need a strong media for accountability reasons.

He wants them to like him. They don’t need him or any other reporters or columnists. In the past they did serve a function.

They have been asked and openly admit they have nothing. But that’s the game they play. They bark and bark then claim “well the people have questions”. Even the Doocy kid on Fox News has said they’ve been bitching for 2 years without any result.

The one in melvindale. Oakwood and Allen. the corporations say it’s because of shoplifting but that’s just the cover they need. It’s because they do whatever makes the stock price go up.

CVS announced more store closures and one in our area is closing, according to neighborhood Facebook pages, “because of shoplifting”. It’s in a city that borders Detroit. Bonus.

The seats are starting to show age too. There's one behind me that doesn't even open properly. Nobody sits in it during my games because it's a single. Used to belong to a group of 3, they didn't renew. I don't walk around enough in the lower level to notice if they've updated them but the historical displayers and banners could use some TLC. It's been 23 years since the park opened. Perhaps it's time for some Marcus Thames or Carlos Guillen or Jeremy Bonderman displays.

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Tigers getting a new videoboard along with upgraded sound system and TV's. The board doesn't matter to me, they claim it will be "bigger" but I think that just means the previous ad space will have video now but still used for ads.... the sound was getting bad. Sometimes I couldn't even hear the PA guy. And many TV's were not working. But I hope the sound is not too loud to where you can't talk.

It was coming up on the main screen when I logged into my Hulu on my phone. But on my TV all I got on the main page was some documentary about 1989. I spent a good 10 minutes looking for it then gave up and watched Terminator 2.

Is this game on Hulu? The app says yes. I literally clicked thru everything on Hulu. Even searched. Nothing. Nice promotion. I’m relatively tech savvy. I watched the Buffalo game on Hulu so their algorithm should have noticed.

The unnamed person could be one of his handlers or translators or whatever. Might be that the person is the only one he trusts for certain things and wants them around.

I thought of that. I should rewatch that series. What's the name of the song at the end? Best series ending ever.

One year at a condo on the beach I watched the maintenance guy every morning and thought “I want that as a retirement gig”. Came by every day and picked up things around the pool, changed garbage out, sprayed off the pool area, straightened the chairs…. Maybe he does some light work with regard to plumbing or electrical. I just love early morning prep work for some reason. One summer when I was delivering pizzas I also made the dough in the morning. Getting up wifh the sun, working alone for a few hours, then face the day knowing you accomplished something. It’s the same feeling I get when I run in the morning.

That's the weather in July too. I tell you, Pacific Beach where we went was probably the perfect place for me. I loved it.

Which just speaks to the structural diffrences, of which MLB has no control over except to move to a 17 game season. I get that on any given Sunday, or Monday or Thursday, team A could win and team B could lose, turning one of those contenders into a playoff participant. That's more likely than team A winning 9 games and team B losing 9 games in a row to keep it proportional. Baseball cannot, and is not trying to, emulate that. That's why comparions between the two leagues are apples and oranges. In baseball teams play almost everybody. If you have several great teams then mathematically you are likely to have several teams comparitively worse. Now to more more to the spirit of what MB is inferring, would baseball be better if on Aug 19, 2023 you had a few teams with 75+ wins (BAL/TB/ATL/LAD) and then more teams with 60-74 wins? (15 teams were over, 9 teams were under 60 at that point). I'm not sure the math would support that unless the bad teams were that much worse. Worth noting, on that date the Arizona Diamondbacks were at 64-61.

The other Arab countries are afraid of bringing the fight to them. It's such a tribal culture as well. They don't hate Hamas as much as we do because in their heart they feel some sympathy to them. Yeah I said it.

man that interview was great. Guys like that are amazing. So talented and hustling to make a living. I listened to WDFN probably 18 hours a day for years. That Stoney and Wojo song is so ingrained in my memory as it started every day when I'd leave for work.

I knew of him from WDFN. I still think of his song "Moronic" anytime I hear "Ironic"

The Tigers were still eligible in the playoffs on Sep 20.

Hamas has probably already murdered the hostages so they know they have nothing else to offer to keep a "cease fire". Or they just want to keep raping them.

I think it is pretty clear that popularity doesn't make something "better". Especially when it comes to entertainment. That's not an argument you want to start. You keep mentioning the Tigers under Dombrowski. One franchise doesn't prove anything. It's simply a data point among many. Drafting and development are just one of several ways to build a team. Also I think the NBA's financial success and popularity sort of refutes your argument. Just accept that the NFL is unique among american sports and you can't use it to make a judgement against any other league.

I didn't pay for them. They were a "reward" for being at miggy's 3000th hit game, and to celebrate his 500th HR. I'd rather they just send me another tumbler or some coasters.

These cease fire protesters are simply idiots. They act like Joe Biden is running the show. They never mention the Hamas hostages. They never mention Hamas. To many of them Hamas are freedom fighters. To many of them Oct 7 didn't even happen. You can't reason with that kind of stupidity

How can that be? You said MLB doesn't "reward" teams like that, whatever that means. I'm not even sure what your point is. MLB and the NFL are structurally different, they have to be. One league plays 10 times the number of games, teams have local broadcast rights, there's no hard salary cap, they have guaranteed contracts, players take longer to develop, there's more of an international presence, they play every day... If you like one over the other, fine, that's a personal choice. But you can't objectively say one is better than the other because it's a matter of opinion.

I don't disagree with any of that. I said before the fighting started that Israel needs to be careful not to lose their "goodwill'', cant think of a better word. I thought of the movie Patriot Games when Ryan is talking to the CIA folks about the murder of some IRA guys at a farmhouse, "It's British soldiers Jack getting out of hand, they're not above it, not after a hit on the Royal Family".