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I’ve gotten better kisses from women at church.

That tweet thread brought out something I wanted to bring up in today’s game thread but it’s more fitting here. How perception of when a team wins and loses colors the view of many fans on how good that team is. A team that goes on a big run in May-July is seen as legit. That’s their bar. A deviation from that is seen as choking. A team like the Tigers are surging and get questioned on whether they can sustain it. It’s baseball. After 162 games you measure. A win in Sept is as legit as one in May. A 3-9 slump in September is not choking or collapsing. Maybe they just aren’t as good, the thing you’d say about a team that starts 16-12 but then goes 3-9. Tigers deserve all the credit for this. It’s not KC or MN giving it away. No more than them winning the WC was given to them by the Tigers because of their few weeks of bad baseball earlier this year.

I remember Michael Kinsley making the argument 30 years ago. If you really thought abortion was murder then you have to support and encourage the killing of the doctors and mothers. I mean…. They are allegedly murdering what you consider babies that deserve full rights.

MN/BOS postponed. Split DH tomorrow.

They were not going to win every game and MN wasn’t going to lose every game.

Chris trying to sound like one of the boys commiserating with the struggles of the game.

That’s great. I saw tweets about it. My WW claim to fame is seeing Richard Schiff when we were all walking out. I said Hi and he nodded and he gave me the Toby look. Loved it.

They got another one responsible for that a few weeks ago didn't they?

I like that thinking.

I was thinking about this, but I think it's a case of its answering a different question. It's not about making the playoffs, it's about which team is better.

I'll leave it to the states to decide for themselves how to do this.... that's their right. But it seems to go against their interests doesn't it? I assume they did this to make sure they get some attention by the candidates. Imagine if TN allocated a vote out of Memphis?

I did the free trial back in June or whenever it was, the first time the Tigers were on it, then I forgot to cancel before a rebill... just checked, I'm good until Sept 30. I've heard great things about their shows.... but there's just too much TV to watch. I can't keep up.

You guys are talking over my head about things I don't concern myself with.... but how does the Tigers use of the opener situation cloud the ability to do these projections? They don't know who's going to be pitching those games as opposed to having an idea that the starter in a normal rotation probably goes 5+. Does that fit in?

meanwhile Trump/Vance rallies are held in storage units to give off a certain percpetion. "Look, they're crammed in, there's so many people. So many people. The mostest."

Here the flags and banners for gaza and palestine are about equal to election signs. Cars are decorated. My impression is Sterling Heights is mostly Chaldean so they probably don't care about it to the same degree, if at all.

ESPN only exists as league PR mouthpieces and gambling.

it's such a weird mixture.... and I think part of their conflict is the fact that Harris a woman. To many outsiders, arab/muslim votesrs are "arab/muslim". It goes beyond that. You have Lebanese, Syrian, Yemeni, Iraqi, Iranian.... how long have their families been here? Are they sunni/shia, or some other branch? It gets very tribal and I've seen neighbors argue over it. Recently there was some festival for a son of Muhammad and they were going at it like Irish Catholics and Protestants. So you combine that with the election: The Vote Uncommitted Group will not endorse Harris but will actively work to make sure Trump isn't elected... ok? What does that mean? And a lot of the Arab/Muslim voters do like Trump because they're rich (You should see the houses being built here) and don't care about Palestine or Gaza... yeah they might pay lip service to it, but at the end of the day its all about money. This is a culture that thinks taxes and interest are nearly sins. Everything is cash only and they operate outside of the system whenever they can. You see an abundance of "Dealer" and "In Transit - Repair" plates in Dearborn.... that way you get out of certain regristraton and insurance requirements. A dentist was shot and killed for working out of his basement and in a money dispute with a patient. Why go the real dentist and deal with insurance and all that? Just go see "a guy" that a cousin told him about.

She’s 31. He’s 69 So gross. On his part as much as hers. She should be exiled from the industry. That’s why women face such crap. Everywhere.

Mario was fine. Jason is unique and I think it's a love it or leave it guy. They're different types of workers. Mario was a professional who could step into any other team's booth or sport's booth and not skip a beat.

Let's use this thread for the Cleveland/MN game... Manzardo HR gives the guardians a 1-0 lead.

The problem with chasing Baltimore is that they play Minnesota for the final 3 games. So you need to build up a decent enough lead over MN, in just the next 6 games, to soften the cushion to balance out their wins against Baltimore. You'd need to not only win and have them lose but the right combination of those wins/losses... or else MN gets that spot and not us.

don't be silly. That idea only exists so that white christian evangelicals don't have to see any weird Hindu stuff in their lives. They don't want any L Ron Hubbard crazy talk interfering with their stories about Arks and 7 day creations and Dinosaurs lived with man talk.

and too many people in that world are sympathetic to their suffering. There's a fundraiser in Dearborn at the giant Mosque for the victims. I get that innocent people died in this. That's tragic. But those people aren't the only ones this fundraiser is for. They see the members of hezbollah as victims too. They'll always have cheerleaders because.... Israel.

And it’s fun not having big guys clogging up the bases. I keep bringing up the Giants as a model and this team reminds me of them. guys who can run the bases and play defense.