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yeah me either. I mean he's for real in the sense he is really selling it but knows full well his customers are idiots.

yeah that's true. I don't know the particular business arrangements to really suggest the Bally situation affects things. It could be a non issue but who knows. I'd think if the Tigers wanted a guy in there then it gets done. They will pay them somehow. I just don't know if they get paid by Bally's or the organization. I remember once reading that Ken Daniels for the Wings wasn't an employee of either FSD or the Wings but an independent contractor. I forgot the context but it was relevant to whatever story was happening, maybe a lockout or something like that. Who cuts his LLC or whatever the check?

The TV broadcast is low on my wish list for this organization. I realize it's not an issue of resources used to fix that vs the players but.... I'm not watching much anyway. I have it on as filler or just check my phone while watching something else.

This times 1000. It's the #1 flaw with sports talk radio as every idiot that calls in things this is how it works. "All they gotta do is...." The classic example, which really happened, was in the 90's when a caller into WDFN (is that still a thing?) suggested the PIstons trade Terry Mills and Linsday Hunter for Chris Webber. It became a legend. Take my 4 pieces of junk and give me 1 piece of non junk. Aggressively sign this FA so that I can complain in 2 years that he's overpaid.

That's why the "Ilitch was a great owner" statements need context. It was a double edged sword. There's a difference between "I'm willing to spend" and "I want you to spend on this guy". It's pretty obvious that Fielder wasn't on DD's radar based on his comments a few days prior to the signing. Ilitch got too attached and sentimental to his players. He did that with the Red Wings too. Young player scores a big playoff goal? They're a Red Wing for life. It's also good counterpoints to the "Just sign someone to be respectable" crowd. Any player that would make you respectable just by signing a FA deal will either cost too much... or has 20 other teams coming after him. Good players aren't just sitting on a shelf waiting to be added to the shopping cart.

Miggy does too....

My family is from rural TN. It’s a college town so not total wacky but you see the conflicts between elements of the university being there and the old yimers. For instance a brewery was threatened with revocation of a license due to drag queen sympathy. The racism is just so ingrained and second nature to them that it seems normal. I saw a video of a legislator during the proceedings last week sayinf things in the most condescending and insulting way and it seemed so natural to him. He wasn’t trying to be that way. That’s just how he talked. You could tell. He’s a guy who doesn’t look over his shoulder before using the N word. He did everything up to calling him “boy”. In 2023 a guy in a suit and tie in a legislative body talking that way to a black peer. They see it as their Christian duty to keep these people in line.

What turns me off the most is the endless marketing hype when the team and players are bad. I know they have to do it but it looks bad. They had a thing last week on the scoreboard where Baez was explaining all of his tattoos. It’s meant as fun but when the dude is playing like total shit then we don’t care. Baez is Juan Gonzalez’s revenge. We got away with one back then but it came back to bite us now.

and Mattis was like "I'm good..."

I'm not sure average fans are in a place to understand what makes professional athletes tick. To reach that level requires so much skill and determination and dedication. They know the situation. What they tell the media is one thing but deep down they are not fooled. They have a job. They've been doing this their whole lives and understand it's day to day. They know if they excel, even individually, it means financial freedom their entire lives. I'm grateful that the cornerstones are still a few years from Free Agency. A shitty few weeks in April is forgotten by a great few weeks in July or August.

I've been waiting for that.

He will never resign and the senate will never convict so at worse is something like G2 said.

but according to Doc Jackson, Bragg is probably, what 230 pounds? Isn't that how he rated Trump when he gave him his physical?

Who does he think he is? Jim Schoenfeld? Sorry, old hockey joke.

that guy probably saw that tweet and said "Hold my beer"

yeah. I usually just revert to my CarPlay and use the MLB app when I want to listen anyway as it's easier to navigate from the on screen controls. My mother in law will not be happy if her next car doesn't have AM. I can already hear the complaining. "Patriot Radio"

Ron Desantis needs to do a better job running his state I guess....

That sketch must have been brutal to perform, having to look at both the cards and remembering the motions. Speaking of Jost, on that same episode Che played a trick on him during update where he told the audience not to laugh. I think this season is starting to find it's groove. It takes a newish cast a while. I like that they seem to be going back to ensemble. The last few years you'd forget someone was even in the cast. too many people. I record them every week and we watch on Sunday or Monday.

When I heard about that I did consider the impact on talk radio. The only time I've used it is to find a game. In fact I was 31 months into a lease before looking for the first time earlier this spring when the Tigers were on. We don't even have an active radio in the house. I have an old "boom box" in the garage sitting on a shelf. I am not sure my 22 year old son has ever even used a radio outside of the car.

We watched that the next day. As people who use ASL, it was tough to watch because we kept thinking of ways to sign what they were trying to convey. But it was fantastic. I love when the daughter was 'using two hands' to express the word 'suck'.

Can’t fire him so why should he care? Seriously. What is the prospect for any ramifications? zero.

I miss COVID Easter a few years ago. It’s half a joke obviously as a lot of people were hurting. But it was nice to not have to worry about going anywhere or do anything.

What they will do is some legislative trick where you can’t vote unless you live X amount of months in a certain area but exclude “public housing” which will mean living on a campus counts as “public housing”. That could mean certain college students won’t have a valid voting location. Then Gorsuch and Barrett will be like “well that’s what the founders intended… our hands are tied”

Yep. And the religious women are like “well the Bible says the man is the head of the household so….”