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They are being good fans and placing bets. I mean the Tigers literally promote a prop bet midway thru the game on the scoreboard

That’s not a problem exclusive to the Tigers. Part of the appeal of the seats is their location. I saw empty seats behind the plate in the same seats in the Yankee/Sox series this weekend. It does absolutely nothing for me as a fan if there’s people there or not. The stadium is sold out. It doesn’t make the team play better. We can’t teleport our energy and joy thru the TV to them. The players couldn’t care if people are there or not.

It’s why I hate talk radio and podcasters. these morons need something to talk about.

I’m so tired of seeing people complaint about that. Ryan Ermani had been a leader of that. Every stadium with those premium seats has this “problem”. I watch the players. Not the audience. It’s such a non issue. The seats are sold. People are getting what they paid for. It hurts no one if they aren’t sitting there. Get off social media Karen.

I did this mix up my two favorite Paul Newman movies.

I think the digital versions of both papers is $10 a month. A bit too much for me. Sorry. I want to support local journalism.

I am going to defend the ump in tossing Nick Hoerner in Sundays game. Sure what he said wasn’t bad but he did kind of start to get in his face. He squared up to him and that’s issuing a challenge. I wasn’t watching it live, just listening to it. But I saw the video after. Mumble that as you walk away but the minute you make a show of it then no matter the words you risk getting ejected. There’s no other way it will end once he turned toward him like that. He didn’t intend to leave quietly so the ump just got it out of the way. A player or manager will not win that battle.

2 of 3 against the best team that came in with the best NL record but will leave without it.

Andor was prophetic.

ChatGPT was free. I paid for one over a year ago. Mindjourney. Mets has one too.

And… I kid you not, this was some kind of “butt dial” generator. Somehow when I opened ChatGPT it had this image waiting for me.

A friend used it for suggestions to avoid having to pay an ER bill. It came up with great suggestions. Nothing unethical but just what things to ask for before paying, that you are entitled to, and at some point they will just give up.

Yep. We had it. Still might. I am going to ask my mom tomorrow. This was what that generation did instead of doom scrolling on their phones.

You are right in learning how is the key. I also use it instead of Google quite a bit but mostly for general knowledge things. With Google I had the benefit of seeing a lot results that I could cross check against each other.

My hope is eventually we learn that the real benefit and use for AI will be in making very difficult things easier. Like complex analysis where humans might be X% accurate but with AI help they can be X + Y accurate. Naturally top management will overreact at first and misuse it before things adjust. I can remember 10 years ago when we all would be owning electric cars and also being shuttled around In autonomous vehicles.

I didn't like them at first but they've grown on me. They wear them every Friday. It's part of the deal. They appear to be popualr as I see the hats and jerseys all over. I, as a 51 year old ,may not be the demographic. My 24 year old son likes them. That's why they do it. And it's a league wide thing so I'm not going to single out the Tigers for a "money grab". They have to compete.

the draft is a crapshoot when it comes to individual players. It's like analyzing blackjack strategy on one particular hand. It's not about the individual in any one year. It's the overall body of work. I'm not saying this to defend anyone in particular. Just that you can't draw a conclusion on someone's success because of one player.

and following up on this more.... the US government also needs Musk b/c he and his companies are contractors... but does Trump care?

What does Trump need from Elon? Nothing. He needed his money and whatever else to win the election. He can't run again. He doesn't care if Repbulicans win so he doesn't care of Musk supports them. Elon needs the US Government because he's a major contractor in defense and space and all of that. There's also Tesla to consider. But to what degree does Trump help with that? I don't know the answer.

Too many dems think it's 1993.

I traced Obama's rise to the actress Jeri Ryan. She was married to a guy who was going to run against him in Illinois for Senate. But there was some kind of scandal where they got divorced because she said he wanted her to go to some sex club in Paris, so he dropped out. Bush's rise could be traced to Bud Selig. After Fay Vincent was fired some wanted him to become commissioner. He was also being wooed to run for Governor. It was Bud who was pushing him for Commish but when George asked Vincent (who was a Bush family friend b/c he was a roommate of their uncle) he was told that if Bud was leading it, it was some kind of trap, he wanted the job for himself. So he ran for Governor instead.

yeah they were bad here two years ago. To the point where you shouldn't even be outside. You could smell it. Yesterday it was evident beyond the overcast. It wasn't cloud cover but smoke. They said the air alert would expire at noon but still in the high yellow/orange metric... meaning sensitive people may have issues.

People use "literally" instead of "figuratively" all the time. It bugs me. And they often misuse "Virtually" too.