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Hmm.... not familiar with that. On Monroe in Dearborn we have today a Little Ceasar's, Howies, Joe & Reno's (our place). There used to be a Dino's. Further into downtown there was a place on Michign Ave called Angelo's. Wonder where it was.

He does. They love him there. One year about 15 years ago we had the free preview of whatever the precursor to MLB Extra Innings. I had a random game on while cooking and thought to myself "This broadcaster is good...". It was Rizzs. I didn't know it was Seattle or him. Rathbun lived in a gated community in Dearborn where a lot of other young TIgers, and Sparky, lived. I delivered pizza to him. Nice guy.

and to "own" him in a figurative sense. Not that they would get anything from him but just the optics and knowledge he's only speaker because of the democrats. That wouldn't make him feel good.

Man, talk about having to explain tech to young people. "You see... we had 36 chances to take pictures on vacation. You didn't know if it worked. You just pushed the button and hoped for the best. Then when you get home you take this thing out of your camera, very carefully so that you don't ruin it, and give it to the guy at this kiosk in the parking lot. In a few days you go back and finally you can see your vacation pictures. Yeah he can see them too. I guess he could make copies... why?" In a sense there was something cool about being able to 'relive' your vacation or special moments after the fact by finally seeing the pictures. I'd also argue that there's a skill in brevity, meaning you only had the limits of the film to get it right so you tried harder. I just got back from vacation and often have 3 or 4 shots of the same thing, just in case. That leads to laziness. Then there's my pictures and my wife's pictures...

This. Especially with this team. The best we can realistically hope for is stretches of 4-6, followed by 6-4, then a 5-5… pray for an 8-2 at some point and no 1-9 and end up with 84-85 wins, at best. The very best teams will lose 1/3 of the games. Sometimes on twitter I think some people get way too negative. It’s a marathon.

I’ve seen that a lot but never knew it was Wilcox pitching.

on paper it's a good bet... he looks good, governor of an important state, has the military background... but once he starts talking? Forget it. And Trump and his fans hate him. He won't pull moderates. He won't pull Trump supporters. His **** may work in Florida but people everywhere else won't fall for it. I can't imagine people in Iowa or New Hampshire or Wisconsin care about fights with Disney.

I wasn't sure on the pitch clock initially but I've forgotten about it already so I guess it's fine.

That's one thing I miss being in the office. I could just blurt out "Hey Terry, why did you send it to everyone when you thought it was my **** up but then just reply to me when it was yours?"

I was a little worried about Aruba that it would be... too nice, if that makes sense. I wanted to feel "Somewhere else". We looked at other locations but places like the Bahamas didn't appeal to me, it's basically Florida and I expected it to be overrun with families and that's not what we wanted. I also didn't want to go to a place like the Dominican where I'd be afraid to go anywhere off the resort. Already went to Jamaica. Mexico is not interesting to me. But Aruba was perfect. It didn't feel like it was a dirt poor place but also didn't feel like I was in Beverly Hills or even Clearwater or Orange Beach. It does have it's million dollar homes on the north end, which we drove through, but overall in our travels it looked like just normal people in small houses taking care of their property. You definitely felt like you were in a foreign country. We picked an adults only resort. The only negative thing we encountered was they let some people smoke cigars in the pool area and that bothered my wife. Didn't bother me. Everyone was very nice. The restaurants at the resort service just enough food that filled you up but didn't make you full to your stomach. We eat too much in the US. The portions were perfect. We made up for at the buffets though.

Random Thoughts/observations from my 6 days in Aruba: What's the deal with Cologne being such a thing in Duty Free shops? In Aruba there are no traffic signals. Just roundabouts. It worked fine. It's not a big island and traffic wasn't bad anyway. No real big cities there. Customs going down was interesting and easy. You fill out a form online, get emailed a QR code. A lady asks us to scan our passport into a machine, it does its thing, then the gate lets you through, one by one. We picked up our luggage, make our way through some doors, walked past two guys in uniform sitting at and on a desk talking to each other, not really interested in us, we went through some doors expecting more lines.... and we're outside. That was it. Coming back was different. You check your bags with your airline, go through Aruba clearance and customs again, then enter a US thing where they check your boarding pass again, you pick up your luggage that you already gave the airline, then go through US Customs Process (They have a thing there which is great), put your luggage back on the proper conveyor for your airline, go through another TSA check, then you are free to board. I liked being able to clear US customs in Aruba because then landing in the US is like a domestic flight. We had a connection so otherwise we'd have had to get our luggage and clear customs, then check it again. I wonder how many other countries are like that, where the US has a CBP presence at the airport you depart from. Aruba's temps are consistently high 90 and low 75 but there's a constant 15-20 MPH wind which makes it awesome. Didn't feel hot at all. I would go back in a heart beat. We met a couple that's on their 26th consecutive annual trip there, outside of 2020. The resort we were at was their favorite so that was a comfort. We loved our place. Had 5 restaurants of different varieties and buffets for lunch and dinner options.

I really am interested to know more. I know it's none of my business and I'm not expecting to know. Just curious. It could be something that triggers him just enough to not perform at the level required. Distractions. Thoughts going on in his head. What used to be called The Yips. Steve Sax, Knoblauch, Ankiel...

This guy is going to melt.... fast.

They are mad at Target and I just saw something about Chik Fil A as well. I hope more and more companies do this so that eventually they are stuck making their own clothes and growing their own food.

We had a guy who would love to send me notes on a potential problem and copy a bunch of people. Then I point out the error, which was his, and then he'd reply just to me saying he fixed it. I would say "Why didn't you reply all on that note?"

Daisy Duke, Wonder Woman, Victoria Principal on Dallas... we had it good as young lads back in the day.

Just looked it up..... he's a Scientologist. Forget what I said. He was into it. I didn't realize he Bill Cosby'd them. I use that term because I just got back from Aruba. In the swim up pool bar they had tables to put your drink on. A guy left his drink there, came back, and when he asked me if that was his, I confirmed, then he said "You didn't Bill Cosby it, did you?" And it's funnier when a black guy says it.

I don't think people like that go out with the intention of raping women. They just happen to be with one, they want something, and they will get it because they feel entitled to it because they are famous. They don't see what they did as rape. They see it as "She's with a star, she will love it. Nobody tells us no". But I don't know anything about that case or what the alleged circumstances were. I'm just making a general observation that I don't think famous people go into it expecting pushback or a fight. To them if there's no violence or fighting back then it's not rape. We all know that's not true.

The hazy two hearted is good. I loved M43 when it first came out and I think I got burned out on it. Lately I have been going low cal and sticking with All Day or an equivalent. Once or twice a week I will splurge on a higher content. It’s helped me drop some pounds. After Easter I realized I was having too much. Sometimes 3-4 a day just out of habit as the days got warmer. Just got back from Aruba at an all inclusive so I loaded up on the tropical drinks and cocktails. Only had one local beer that was stocked in our fridge just to see if it was good. A Pilsner so nothing heavy.

Public officials should not be making official decisions because of what their Bible or any other religious text tells them.

I subscribed to the athletic longer than I should have. I got so frustrated because their app would frequently forget me and I had to login again. I could have it open and click a Twitter link and it would ask me to login. Little things like that bug me and if I am paying a fee then it should work.

I remember visiting a white sox MB for awhile and when the scientists decided Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore someone posted on their general topic forum “Pluto: he gone”.

Shades is sister Mary Elephant at our lady of 116th street.

Going with my wife to see Pink this summer and my joke is she's going to see Pink and I'm going to see Brandi. But Pink's alright and I'm sure the show will be phenominal but Brandi is my girlfriend even if I'm not her preference.