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regarding cities.... I got back from San Diego last week and immediately drove to a wedding in Louisville. MAGA family's first question about our trip was "Did you see a lot of homeless people". It's like they get off on it. Yes we did see some. It's a beach in the best climate in the country, not too hot, not too cold. Why wouldn't a person without a home be there? Did they bother me? No. Not once were we solicited. They were just sitting or laying there like everybody else around who presumably had a place to go when finished.

That could be. I remember when the opposite happened when people on the left said people on the right were upset over Starbucks "getting rid of" Christmas cups. They didn't. And like one 'influencer' made a stink about it, then it blew up.

I think the outrage over that ad is dumb and one reason why dems struggle. Not the democratic party per se and the politicians, but they get lumped in with the people who complain about stuff like that. It's just an ad and a play on words. That's it. There's no conspiracy. When I was in high school I had to listen to the religious people tell me about hidden messages in Bugle Boy Jeans and Proctor and Gamble logos, etc. This is the same thing. Quit making things out to be bigger than they are.

difficult to deal with could mean a lot of things.

You can’t trust entertainment accounting. They can make it come out any way they want for their narrative.

You don’t build a team for the playoffs. They have a huge division lead. Don’t sacrifice to build on that. If you can’t win the division this year with what you have won to this point then that itself is a reason going “all in” would be a mistake. One player doesn’t prevent a massive slump. This org and players have been at the highest performance over the last calendar year. They have earned the benefit of the doubt. I have no beef with today. People get caught upon the adrenaline and breaking news and psychologically feel left out and assume something is wrong. I like that the org isn’t holding to some idea of a “window” like they did 10 years ago because we had a dying Ilitch and Cabrera and Verlanders careers to worry about. We don’t have to win now because of Skubal. Give us a system that contends every year and let the pieces fall where they do.

This is his third deadline day as the guy in charge.

Just because it’s Black Friday or Prime Day doesn’t mean you have to go shopping.

Only if the teams with players you want value those guys to the point they give up what you value. Teams aren’t required to consummate a trade just because the pieces “even out” on paper

Remember last year when the Tigers gave up and Harris blew it at the deadline? They are 98-65 since then. Relax people.

My wife and mother in law were in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox that day. Her parents were divorced and that was the exchange point when she'd visit her dad. He lived in Pontiac and she was in Dearborn.

We will know it when Colbert goes to another entity.

He's not scared. I guarantee he's not scared.

If Trump wasn't on "a list" then it would have been produced by now.

In a weird way he cost us Robbie Ray. I know that sounds funny because that's who we traded Fister for. But the fans really were against the trade and when DD sent Ray away I feel like he was responding to pressure which I've never thought before.

If you saw Blow… “I don’t like problems”

ha ha... I've been there.

I'm not sure Lou's stance with reporters mattered much with regard to the HOF. It was as Lee pointed out, he never had the BIG year. He was just good to very good for a long time. He was a leadoff hitter then later had some power. He was an easy player to take for granted. He won the silver slugger and gold glove in 83-85 which in theory means he was the best 2B in the AL on both sides of the field.

I was there a week ago. A block from the beach. View from our balcony. The ocean is beyond those buildings. A lot of people sleep on the beach at night. Obviously homeless. They leave during the day. I hope they are ok.

It’s possible that the agreements allow MLB to access all the betting data and they discovered it themselves.

Was it due to time or just "he's not on our team anymore, get him out of there before he gets hurt or something and it voids"? I don't know, I was at Michigan Adventure at the time and trying to get updates on a dying cell phone while standing in line for a roller coaster.

During the strike in '94 and '95 he got a lot of national heat for showing up to the meetings in a limo. But that was his only car. He and his wife owned a recording studio and they used that for clients. That was literally their car.

Bongino had some "cryptic" statement the other day about things he's seen that would "blow you away" and I interpreted that to be a way to walk back his hard line stance and fend off the wolves until they forget about it. "Just wait until I tell you about what I see...." Then in 2-3 years nobody remembers.

and I was mad because my cable system didn't have WOR and WOR would show pro wrestling

I read a book on the Busch family, of Budweiser fame. It's fantastic. Very typical of family business dramas you'd see on TV and in movies. Caray was getting too popualr in St. Louis and was running around with either a Busch daughter or the wife of a Busch son. Also Busch beer was created because of the baseball stadium. The league wouldn't let him name the stadium after his beer so he named it after the family, then created the beer.