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It feels weird being in here. Like I walked into a bar and realized all my friends have been going there for years without me. I just don’t want to be that guy at opening day of the Tigers getting in everybody’s way that’s there all year.

Yep. They've built up a lot of goodwill this year, enough to even make me pay attention. And honestly.... they do not need the money. I wouldn't be surprised if they walk this back some. I don't like to disrespect you guys by calling myself a Lions fan because I know real fans take the bad with the good. I'm fair weather. It's been a lot of fun to watch this year. I've watched more football this year than any time since the 90's. A home playoff game will be the biggest sporting event in the city of Detroit... ever. Just a single home game. Bigger than a WS game..... bigger than a Stanley Cup and bigger than the Super Bowl when it was here. You guys earned this and for this to happen is lousy, especially right down the stretch since you should be feelilng great as the season winds down.

That's ****ty. I haven't talked to my friend yet but he had tickets from the Silverdome days until about 5 or 6 years ago. He finally had enough and felt like a sap writing that check. A few years ago they reached out to him and he went back. Now this? Of course they see the resale market and I know many who get the tickets, sell off Thanksgiving, plus a GB game and a few others at double the price and end up covering their whole lot so I guess supply/demand is at play here. But I also know many who go to every single game.

Totally. I've come to accept that the GOP has a very good shot at winning and of those running I think she's the most "normal", with Christie, but I don't think he has a prayer of getting the nomination. We have such low standards now that as long as the person is not totally bat**** crazy then I guess he or she will have to do.

I'm not sure yet they are decent. Half the ones I hear about havne't cracked MLB yet. You don't fill in talent with FA signings until you are certain they are servicable MLB players. At a high level I see a few good pitchers with injury issues and a bunch of utilility guys and Greene and Tork. I'm not bashing them. Just not yet sold on most of them.

The annual joke swap on SNL was this weekend. Very good as usual.

How strong is the lure to be the boss of baseball operations vs. the intellection satisfaction of doing things the right way as you see it? What I'm getting at is would Harris have taken the job unless he felt Chris Ilitch will do the right at the right time? Of coruse he could have lied to him. My sense is this feeling that he's meek I see from the usual Twitter folks is simply because Harris won't do something just to do it for marketing and big bang appeal you get in the off season. It will have to be the right move. With the money coming off the books this year and the young talent coming up this is the time to see what they are made of. Don't waste 2-3 years that the big FA signing gives you the performance if we find out these players aren't that good. Then we are stuck with him in the later years of the deal while they once again regroup. 2024 is when we evaluate the fruits of the losing of 2018-2022. Maybe Avila left us something.

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"