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I was at that game. I didn’t really know what was going on but I remember it. I was thinking “who are these old guys? Let’s get the game going”. To think I saw those players up close. We had seats behind the dugout. Dang.

He took his ass back to his lake house.

Right. What made VW work was it’s utility and simplicity. The demographic wasn’t sexy in a corporate sense. At that time they wanted people buying new every year.

Henry Ford II was offered VW by the US government as a reward for getting out of the navy to go home to turn around Ford during the war as his grandfather was becoming loony and things were getting dicey.. They needed the plants running to win. Ford turned them down.

See… I like to be early just in case but I would have just gotten close then texted and said “we are early and are just walking around. But if driving isn’t a consideration then there’s no excuse.

I think they would have suggested we trade them for someone like Sparky Lyle. Or hyping the guys at AAA.

And I wonder if an internet in 1977 would have been talking about Trammell and Whitaker and Morris leading us to a WS one day?

Chris Ilitch will be at the stadium today for Lou. Will see a packed house. Energy. Tigers might win. They he will think “it’s all good”.

An engaged ownership group would have known that. I know DD was the CEO and President too so he's more than just the GM therefore everyone in the office probably had some reservations speaking about him in a negative way because he's everybody's boss. But if you as an owner see failure from a guy like DD who runs everything you don't just chop off the head and give everybody else a bump and think it'll work out. Ilitch's problem wasn't that he saw failure. He just got sick of the idea that someone was getting too much credit and wanted big money. It's his team dammit, not anybody else's. He was jealous of DD.

I was talking to my wife about this and we remembered joking about a Walgreen's being in the bottom floor of our hotel and there was another one right across the street. You could stand in the doorway of one and see the other one. Like 50 yards away.

Jon needs to be on TV again on a regular basis. He can troll these fuckers and they'll take the bait.

When I was in SF in 2015 there was a Walgreens on nearly every corner downtown.

Yeah for sure! I rode up with a friend and his brother and sister in law were already out there. They told us they weren't letting anybody in, this was around 5 so they went to the Union bar and were able to get a table. We finally got there and hung out and decided to go to Pine Knob and at least drink some beers if that's all it was going to be. We got in before the show started, there's a club entrance to the far left that had no line, thanks to the worker who pointed that out. In fact they never even scanned a ticket. We had lawn seats but instead of standing on a sloping wet hill in the rain we parked in front of the railings at the bottom of the hill. Couldn't really see much but we had video boards in front of us so it was cool. It was my first phish show and it exceeded my expectations. Didn't get home until 1:45.

"If you looked in the dictionary for major-league baseball player, the way it should be is David Eckstein. He does all the little things right. He's a student of the game." - Towers, Kevin. San Diego Padres General Manager. San Diego News Network. Sullivan, Mike. Staff Writer. Eckstein defines hustle, other baseball intangibles. 27 April 2009.

Happy 7 year anniversary

Nothing epitomizes the modern conservative more than this. "I want what I want and don't want you to have what you want"

would he put a potty squatty in the bathrooms?

After Kansas do they have the guts to put them on the ballot?

what complicates this all based on what I am reading from twitter lawyers is this being a civil case things are different.

I understand the pros and cons of each system for the parties but I wouldn't use the word "unfair" to describe the MI process. That makes it sound like there's ethical issues and I don't see that at all. The Republican party let me vote in their primary to nominate their candidate and I picked the worst candidate. That's not an issue of unfairness. It's not optimal for them as I am not going to vote for their November candidate no matter who it is but that's not what they asked of me in August. It's their ballgame and I'm playing by their rules. Casting a ballot is not a legal document declaring who you like the most.

I give the parents and everybody else great credit for simply not hauling off and kicking the shit out of him because I want to do it from way over here.

His iconic line for me was.... "Behind the bag!!!"

But what if you are an independent? Do you not get to vote in the primary? To me it's up to the parties to decide how they nominate their candidate. If they want to take the chance for that then that's a risk they willingly take. A closed primary puts you in position to not get a true reflection of the electorate. I don't see anything unfair about it. My job yesterday was to pick who I wanted the nominee to be for a particular party. That was the choice. It wasn't about who I wanted to be governor.