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Payola seems like such small potatoes now....

My sister died the first week of September, 2017. The last thing we talked about was Verlander being traded. She didn't like it obviously. She was going into hospice and communication was tough at that point. I thought about that just now after seeing a photo of him in camp in a Tiger uniform.

but only for an hour

Imagine a scenario of Verlander walking out of the bullpen at Comerica Park before the top of the 9th in a WS clinching game with the Tigers ahead 6-3.

Logic has no place in sports. I mean…. If you told me in 1998 about Chris Chelios?

They couldn’t figure out what song he would be playing in the “ scene”. Then Crowe heard In Your Eyes on something his wife had and he couldn’t believe how well it matched up. Peter Gabriel wasn’t one to give up his music. Somehow they got a tape of the movie to him and they were told he would call after watching He did call and said no. Crowe was able to quickly ask “why” before he hung up and he said it didn’t fit in with the shooting up and then he OD’s. Turns out Gabriel had been sent the movie about Belushi called Wired and thought that was the movie Crowe was asking about. .He agreed after seeing Say Anything but the cost was $600K.

I remember hearing it said that he's what Mickey Mantle would have been with 2 good knees. He's one of those guys, like Griffey for me, where his numbers will actually be better than we remember. Our perception is thrown off, at least mine is. But I remember a long time ago looking at Griffey's numbers and thinking "Man, he was really really good..."

ANd now it's safe again to root for him guilt free 🙂

Tigers signed Verlander?

My uncle did time The first time my dad was aware I was hungover, I lived in the basement, he came down to mess around in his work room like he always did. He called me over, reached up into the ceiling where he stored the mason jars and offered me some moonshine. I reacted accordingly and he just laughed and said "You think you are a big boy now?" I think he used it on his lawnmower at times. He hadn't had a drink since 1974 but kept it around for others.

The attraction to certain sports is simply cultural and in our nation football became our culture... but if you go into MN or northern MI, or downriver and certain western wayne county areas, hockey is a cultural thing, just like it is in Canada. And soccer is obviously so huge everywhere but here. You won't convince me that it has more action than baseball so it's not that. People like what they like and you learn to look for things that the average person wouldn't.... I get reminded of this when I watch curling. It's not about "better" or "worse". It's just what you know and grew up watching.

I've been impressed by him in this situation as well. In normal times we need 2 parties but this is not normal times and the GOP has a long way to go before they prove to be normal again.

I'm waiting for RFK Jr to come out and say it's the filters that make cigarettes dangerous, we need to go back to the straight tobacco only. "Clean tobacco". Gimme my camels unfiltered baby. Smoke like men are supposed to.

That's where the gambling comes in. Young people won't watch baseball to watch baseball. They'll watch baseball to check on the gambling performance.

ha. I didn't open the link or read the URL. Just the quoted portion.

Chappell Roan dropped his company as her agents over this.

My family is from the holler in TN. By the time I came along most moved out into regular houses. As a kid we had one uncle still down there with no electricity or indoor plumbing. Obviously I hated going there. Just like you saw in Coal Miner's Daughter. Now when I go down there I think "that sounds pretty sweet. Nobody's around". Later on in the 90's this uncle finally got all of that but he also had a huge satellite dish. Found out he was a pot grower. Big time. Once my dad showed me a pot plant he had grown just to see if he could do it. The FBI got involved with my uncle and I made fun of my folks telling them they probably have a file now given all the trips they made down there.

yeah I don't do ladders anymore. I have a ranch style house so the roof isn't that high other than one peak area that's about 25 feet. I'm not afraid of heights. I'd go up there with a cherry picker no problem. But putting up christmas lights? Big bone of contention. She makes me do the peak. She has to hold the ladder. I look down, she's got one hand on it. Maybe the only time I ever yelled at her. Not sure when it happened, as a kid we used to go up all the time. But the transfer on and off the ladder is where I get weary. I think it's the extension ladders that mentally get me. There's always just a bit of give in it. The straight ones like my dad hung outside the garage were fine. They don't move.

I’ll eat fish and salmon but it doesn’t bring me joy and is never a top choice. It’s usually for a “light night” when we have to be good. I do like shellfish though. I would eat that every day.

I’m surprised it took Trump this long to jump on that. It has all the elements to portray it negatively to the willfully ignorant and uninformed. “They keep all the money”. Back then it could be sold as “didn’t cost us a thing. Ain’t it beautiful “. Now you reverse it. “We get nothing”. A perfect situation for his ignorant supporters who are repulsed by knowledge and facts. The entire movement tries on misinformation and lies.

I don’t read it but i do follow on twitter but if someone gets joy and satisfaction from doing it that’s fine with me. I don’t know her circumstances. As far as I know she hasn’t asked for money.

When Ballys or whatever had their dispute with Xfinity it was $20 a month for the access via their app. My bill went down $10 since it wasn’t there so my real cost was $10. That lasted a few months I believe.

I’m having Craigslist impact to the newspaper industry vibes. Non sports fans were helping to pay for our sports coverage because they “needed”cable. Now they don’t need cable. Peoole advertising for cars or jobs were paying for investigative journalism. Once you ask people if they explicitly want to pay for something many say no. So those making the money see an easy cash stream dry up and those who want it end up paying more.

I was going to say something similar. We have to admit and come to terms that we are not the demographic for this. I'm fine with that. I'm pop cultural illiterate. My wife isn't. When she heard he was doing the show she didn't know who he was. Then we remembered he was on the Pedro Pascal episode of SNL and in that very funny sketch he did. And this came up 6 years ago when JLo was the entertainment. She lip synched. Who cares? Who gets to decide the rules and when did we agree to that? A live musical act in a setting like a super bowl stadium takes hours to properly sound out. Sound checks before concerts are not just going through the motions. Geddy Lee in his book gave tremendous credit to KISS when they opened for them for giving them adequate time to do sound checks. He said most bands treat the openers like crap and that's why their performance suffers. I verified that with a friend in music production and he said absolutely it matters. As a musician you have to know how what you are playing will sound like. As a 53 year old white man I accept that going forward the musical acts for the super bowl will not be my thing. I'm ok with that. This program has to have someone out there that a lot of people know. It's not about "who is good" because that's not an objective criteria.