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An old HS classmate lives in Monroe county on the water and was going on about what a gift God gave her with some beautiful lights from the north after a rough day. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that pink glow we see due west of us in the Detroit area is lamps from a weed greenhouse in Canada. It’s been there a few years now. On a clear night take a look. It’s a pink cloud. Most visible just after dusk. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/26/far-reaching-greenhouse-lights-color-sky-leave-some-seeing-red/4248414002/

Coming back from Cooperstown we were on the toll roads in NY, they have the plazas. I had about 70 miles left after the last plaza on the turnpike before getting into PA. Passed by the exit we stayed the night in but decided to carry on. Then it's desolate. Finally with under 20 left there's an exit. Only gas station within miles. Erie area was too far away. They charged like it too.

My wife went to Toronto with a friend who was going for a work conference so... hey, free trip to Toronto. I had to drop her off at the friend's house in LaSalle, which is just about 5 miles from the Bridge. I made the trip there and back twice, on Thursday to drop her off and yesterday to pick her up. So yes, my peeve here is the border agents. I know they are doing their job but it's on myself. No matter what I pick the line with the agent who has to ask everything. It's just my luck I guess. yesterday going in I started to time him. 3-4 minutes per car. The lane next to us was getting 2-3 cars in during our 1 car. I idled for 45 minutes while waiting so that probably cut into the gas savings I got from the duty free pump. And the US agents are still assholes.

It’s lost 90 plus million already. Wonder how long it will be there.

I would think the players would look at how the Tigers publicly handled his thing last year in a positive light. They would want the same courtesy. I see that as a different thing from his contract situation and the same with Spencer. That’s just business and they assume all orgs are like that. They can distinguish between how they treat you professionally and personally.

I don’t expect a GM to bad mouth or talk down about any player on the active roster. They will say the nice things until he’s not a member of the ball club. I don’t think the way Eduardo or Turnbull were treated will have any impact on players coming here. Nothing wrong with not giving a player a new contract when they already have one. He opted out Tigers didn’t do anything wrong there. Why negotiate against yourself?

Spoiler alert. They didn’t.

making plea deals does wonders

The cable providers, like Xfinity, have a stake in this as well. It's not just the RSN's or whatever precise network is that will show games. If they try something funny like asking fans to pay $10 a month, even if their cable bill goes down by no longer paying for today's version, that could be just the prompt peole need to ditch cable altogether. There's psychology involved in recurring charges. If all these people paying for cable today are put on notice that they'll need to do something different like get an app or add an item to their cable bill they will get frustrated and even if the math doesn't change much they will interpret it as paying more for something they used to get. Even if the cost to the network was a pass thru from the customer to the network the provider benefits by being the delivery agent because they needed to pay for all that other stuff too. Remove that and many people will just drop it or downgrade to bare minimum service.

I'd like to announce that I'm not going to marry Jennifer Aniston.

That committee is 6 owners, 4 players, and an umpire.

why? It was fine the way it is. Are they trying to introduce drama? Is a few min per game worth it? Ultimately I guess I support whatever the players want. The owners? Don't trust them or their motives. Whatever.

Speaking of space... yesterday was the anniversary of Apollo 12's launch. For space junkies it calls back to two famous phrases that's become legend "Try SCE to AUX", and "Steely eyed missle man" This write up explains it: On this day in history, on November 14, 1969, Apollo 12 successfully launched to the Moon. But it wasn’t without a little drama. The weather that day at Cape Canaveral in Florida was overcast with light rain and winds. However, at 11:22 am EST, the spacecraft, carrying astronauts Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean, blasted off into the clouds, in a seemingly perfect launch. But thirty-seven seconds into launch, all hell broke loose. "What the hell was that?" asked Gordon. Twenty seconds of confusion ensued, and then another disturbance occurred. "Okay, we just lost the platform gang," reported Conrad, "I don't know what happened here. We had everything in the world drop out." The crew and Mission Control didn't know what had happed, and only later determined the Saturn V rocket had been struck by lighting - twice. Were it not for flight controller John Aaron, the mission might have been aborted. Aaron may be remembered more for being instrumental in helping to save Apollo 13, but the part he played in Apollo 12 was just as crucial. When he saw the unusual telemetry readings from Apollo 12. he remembered a flight simulation that took place about a year earlier. He recalled this simulated anomaly concerned an obscure system called Signal Conditioning Equipment (SCE), and remembered normal reading were restored by putting the SCE on its auxiliary setting, which meant that it would run even under low-voltage conditions. So when he quickly called out the recommendation, "Flight, try SCE to "AUX'", most of his mission control colleagues had no idea what he was talking about. Both the flight director and the CapCom asked him to repeat the recommendation. Conrad was unfamiliar with the control but fortunately Alan Bean was familiar with the location of the SCE switch inside the capsule, and flipped it to auxiliary. Telemetry was immediately restored, allowing the mission to continue. This was just one instance that earned Aaron the compliment of being called a "steely-eyed missile man." the absolute highest of NASA compliments. And even today the phrase "SCE to AUX" used to describe a situation where one narrowly averts a catastrophe by coming up with an ingenious plan. (credit - Universe Today, Nancy Atkinson)

I'd like to know who the voters are because.... that seems like a lot of people and I bet we have some here who have watched more Tigers baseball this year than those voters.

The last multiperson crew still alive is Gemini XII, Lovell and Aldrin. The longevity on these guys is amazing. I'm a space nerd and from the Gemini/Apollo era here is who is left: Tom Stafford (92) Jim Lovell (95) Dave Scott (90) Buzz Aldrin (92) Bill Anders (89) Rusty Schweikart (87) Fred Haise (90 - yesterday was his birthday) Charlie Duke (92) Harrison Schmitt (87) 2 weeks ago we lost Ken Mattingly who was 87. The only ones left who have walked on the moon are Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke, and Harrison Schmitt. I hope they can still be here when we do it again, but I'm not sure. I can see it getting delayed.

Option C... It's worse. They report another org says it but they get what wrong that other org said. This image is from the first tweet in response to what I posted, at least on my machine it is. I didn't post the link because sometimes the formatting hides it.

Funny because I haven't thought of that awarrd in decades but remember it being kind of a big deal as a kid. We would join the pepsi/tiger fan club, all of us in the neighborhood, and go to Tiger Stadium, sometimes by ourselves, (We were ages 8-13). The previous Tiger of the Year would be on one of the first programs. We'd buy one for all of us to share. We would argue over who won.

it's about pulling the ladder up behind you.

this one led to a lot of bull**** I saw on social media from people I know. It's horrifying because I hate to say it, the culture is naive and already sheltered in a bubble based on patriarchal forces and the BBC should be above this.

Blaha is one of those guys who was very old to me in 1989. I am afraid to look up how old he was then because I’m sure it’s a lot younger than I am now.

Some video.

wow... I never really thought about it but on B-R's Tigers page where they show 12 pictures of the leaders by WAR.... Tork is not listed. His .8 didn't make the cut. Reese Olsen, Matt Manning, and Alex Lange beat him out.