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Like the Ilitchs and the Fox Theater, Avila and Chadd and Co are living off Miguel Cabrera and JD Martinez. This team can't even develop slightly below average players. Some people think they can get a pass because they think that was the result of FA signings, a strategic trade off. No. It's not one or the other. They didn't sacrifice development so that they could sign guys like Victor and Fielder and any other guy you mention. Teams are not built on first round picks. I've said this a million times but I believe you can create decent ballplayers. The skill isn't finding good players. It's finding the right players you can make into good players via coaching and other tools. Other orgs can do it. it takes a special effort to be this bad in baseball for this long. I have tickets tonight. it's going to be a Friday night. Beautiful weather. The kind of nights you dream of as a baseball fan. I'm not going. My regular partner has an obligation and I really don't feel like asking anyone else, my family is busy.... and I went Wednesday by myself. If anyone wants them let me know, they're yours.

honest Q... do teams draft 1B? Or do they just develop into one?

He does have a whiny high pitched voice that comes across as very irritating... that could have an effect on his appeal in a primary matched up with someone like a Nikki Haley. I saw the video where he yelled at the HS kids for wearing a mask at a press conference. Just a total bully. If he did that to my kid I would have knocked him on his ass and gladly accepted any consequences.

That surgeon general is a hack. It's malpractice what he's doing and the fact DeSantis has people like that around makes him scarier in some ways than Trump.

The authoritarianism maybe but Nixon also hated rich people who never had to work hard that had their father give them everything.

I remember Luttig being mentioned as a SC justice when Roberts and Alito were nominated. I know Cruz has a connection with him. Wonder what Teddy thinks about him now.

I'm confused. Not trying to be a jerk at all but I don't understand the logic that a party catered to their extreme element because they didn't pass legislation that the extreme element wanted. Isn't that the opposite?

Have those kids shot up anybody in a school yet?

why not. If Reagan were alive today and able to communicate he'd be called a RINO. In fact there's no former Republican President other than Trump who would fit in with today's incarnation of the Republican party. Not even disgraced Nixon.

and it's why Biden forgave all the student debt? oh wait.

Billy Strings is the man! Saw him about 4-5 years ago at the Stand in Pontiac on NYE with about 200 other people. Since then he's moved up to opening acts at places like Royal Oak Theater to last November when he had 2 sellout nights on his own. Glad to see guys like that move up.

Critics to the far left will find some person on a video on the internet with a face full of piercings, one side of their head shaved bald, the other side green, tats all over their face, who claims to be in a relationship with their plants and say "this is the left that's running our schools and wants to turn our kids gay". Critics to the far right will point to members of congress, governors, attorneys general, school board members and can point to actual policy proposals. But they're the same threat.

does that mean "We're going to find out, believe you me. Whatever it takes" or "We know and are going to tell you"

Stepping in to pre empt the “But Pelosi’s husband….” Chatter.

I believe once Brady died that it became some form of murder or manslaughter officially.

Little Caesar’s pizza is now the official pizza of the NFL. Chris is happy. That’s all that matters.

I’ve come to think that DD started poking around for jobs and Ilitch does not tolerate disloyalty. Fedorov signing that offer sheet with Carolina ensured his number will never go to the rafters. Sparky bailed on the lockout refusing replacement players so they waited until he died.

When the family of Bruce Willis came out and said he’s done acting and you look at his last few years and do some research you find the same thing. He was being used as a gravy train by some people.

Why? Because a guy not running for office might have a kid he doesn't acknowledge?

What's the downside for housing/mortgage getting hammered? I'm of the impression that there's so much activity when rates are low because.... there can be. But it's not satisfying a need. It's satisfying a want. "Oh, I can move into a bigger house now because of low rates and equity?" It's people just extending 15 or 30 year mortgages down the line. All the people doing side gigs as agents will get hurt (I think I know 8 people doing this). But I might be full of shit, I know.

It's borderline abuse what they are putting him through. The guy's obviously got issues from concussions and someone needs to step in and put a stop to this.

I was there when it was 104 on the scoreboard.

I think the virus Brutus infiltrated the offices at Comerica Park.

I was thinking about the OF model last night. We watched an episode on TNT of a new series called Rich and Shameless. It was about the guy, Joe Francis, who started Girls Gone Wild. Crazy stories. Drunk 18 year old girls write their name on a release for a 5 second boob flash or trip on "the bus for more explicit action" and their lives changed forever. In one instance an irate father got a lawyer and Joe Francis told his people to make sure she's in the next video and to put her on the cover of it. He's now hiding out in Mexico to avoid charges.

MAGA world thinks Tim Allen has been cancelled by Disney because Chris Evans voices Buzz in the new movie. Even Patricia Heaton was complaining. Nevermind that Tim has an upcoming series on Disney+ and that the Buzz played by Capt. America is the real person that Buzz the toy was based on.