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It’s also an issue of seats available, both per game and thru the season. I’d say just about 1/4. The wings keep calling me for 10 games plans, which is just shy of the equivalent of my 28 games for the Tigers. But the cost is the same. I’ll probably do it if a current connection I have dries up after a retirement.

Holocaust museum's wrong. Not every element has to be equal for an analogy to work and for them to claim antisemitism is a perverted use of the word. The point is she was targeted by the state. The point is as this group of people was targeted by the state so many others just went about their lives because it "didn't affect them". It was about others so they ignored it or were passive about it as it was about "those people", just like people are doing today since this is, to some, about other people. The "why" isn't relevant. Its the fact there's a target and the lack of interest in the neighbors in caring about it since it doesn't cross their paths.

I think there's been a shift among the season ticket holder market. Big time. And it's a self inflicted. Dynamic pricing and ease of using secondary markets. Why commit, like I have for 30 years, for a 28 game package for a set # of games, including ****ty ones in April and Sept when it's cold, for a set price, when you can just pick and choose your own at the last minute, often for peanuts? 22 year old me may not have made the committment I have over these years. It's just a fixed part of my life and I'm used to it. But younger me may have invested that in other forms of entertainment, like continuing on with golf or whatever. Even with the Wings, I've gone to 2 games this year for $20 by waiting until around 6 pm on seatgeek. No, the seats weren't great, but I was in the building. And with the casual nature of Comerica Park... just get in the stadium and you can mingle on their party decks they built... so that $10 nosebleed seat is irrelevant. Weren't sitting there anyway. And perhaps the Lions from the last 2-3 years killed off many potential purchases as people burned through their entertainment budgets?

Where I used to park for games was near the Leland Hotel, with that and some other tall buildings. Hearing the friday night fireworks was fun because of that reason.

People Mover was fine but it seems like now with JLA gone and the RenCen a shell.... there's no reason to use it unless you don't want to walk, or can't. It's not a grand area it covers and with the development we've had things are generally safe. I also have an aversion to shuttles. Don't mind being dropped off, but I hate waiting to leave somewhere. I'm done. I want to go. When Comerica Park first opened i Used to take a shuttle from a bar across from Tiger Stadium, not Nemo's. Then I watched it drive by a lot near Bagley and Cass and I saw how to get there, I parked there for about 20 years. Then Covid and cashless... so I use their lots. Frankly from Tiger Stadium site to Comerica is only about a mile.

Netflix might change that 🙂

Seriously though, I wouldn't be surprised if official team social media is run by MLB in terms of where they post. Also... I'm not a fan of their development practices. Basically any blight you find in areas bound by Woodward, Grand River, Trumbull, MLK area, is probably due to them. But they want it all channeled through the arena and casino. You have Woodbridge and Cass Corrido, oh, sorry Midtown. But they keep the blight up. HOwever I do like their parking lots. Makes it convenient when going to games and shows. I'd hate to have to navigate structures or whatever... and mass transit and the "Q Line" are not legitimate options if you have to be somewhere.

We had two in Dearborn for a long time. One had 3 legs. Unfortunately I saw a video where one got hit on Michigan Ave, didn't right away, but was helped by people.... then later put down.

I still can't get on board with that. I'm anti conspiracy theory overall. I'm not saying because I don't think these people (Trump's orbit) are above killing innocents but rather the level of coordination needed by other law enforcement and the secret service to enable that guy to be up there. It's why I am not into JFK assassination theories either. Too many external factors had to just line up to make it work in addition to a bunch of others going along.

I read that last year was the first time a sitting POTUS went to a super bowl game?

What’s the context? Like what do you think it means going forward? I’m ignorant to this stuff but I saw it mentioned elsewhere too.

I can’t keep any of them straight. Aren’t there 3 guys name Evan?

You think Stephen Miller will wake up and change his mind because of elections? Who do you think is going to stop them? How does a rescue of our nation play out if it happens thru normal political channels? I don’t see any endgame where these folks are held responsible either politically, electorally, or even criminally.

We are at the point where the politics do not matter. They aren’t doing this because they think they were told to by voters. It’s because they can. That was the goal. Just get in and Johnson and the Senate will let us steamroll. The voters are irrelevant now. We are comparing rugby to US football. They aren’t polling this ****.

But what good does “being underwater” do for the people being hauled away or shot? This isn’t going away. A bad outing on meet the press by a cabinet member isn’t going to turn the tide. Nobody is going to stop this until he’s dead or removed from office and the latter will never happen. This isn’t about political capital. Conventional norms are out the window. Polling and editorials and podcasts will not do anything to resolve this. Traditional political analysis and history are irrelevant now.

Yep. The “back to back” He was **** in 1992 and didn’t pitch in ‘93.

When I saw that I asked myself “why is someone filming the counter at Delta right before the car comes in?”

2nd amendment masturbators sure have been quiet.

OMG. He’s going out to die? Praise Jesus

He came very close to signing with Atlanta one year. When Lajoie was there. Supposedly they had a press conference planned. Then he’d have been given the Terry Pendleton treatment and made to be the reason they won. His calming and veteran presence would have been hailed.

I wonder if that includes his wife and kids. I mean... the current ones. I'm sure he'll dump her in a few years.

I honestly don't think those reasons are valid. He was only on one ballot by the writers and if a lot of the knew ahead of time that would be their only chance to vote for him they would have given him a vote just to keep him on. They have this hangup about not voting for too many people and there were a lot of players on that ballot. The various veterans committees responsible for him since then should know better. That's why they exist. To correct BBWAA mistakes of the kind you list. But I think those committees are too small now. Only 16 members. It should be more like 30 and they should have a serious discussion among themselves. I understand the fallacy of "well if this guy is in, then that guy should be in..." because logically there's always going to be a "worst player" in the HOF. But he wouldn't even be in the lower half of 2B if he were in.