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The Sam Menzin story is now out there. There was something after all. What a turd. But also not a good look on what the woman quoted saying as far as the org not being a place women felt comfortable reporting these things.

I'm getting similar vibes as with the Fletch remake. Not bad..... but not the same. Arguments over which was better is a matter of taste and expectations. The movie was closer to the book in my opinion.

It's very similar to Little Caesar's Arena. They put the best seats with the best perks (access to a club with all you can eat/drink) in the prime viewing angle. Those seats are not cheap. I have a friend with a suite at LCA and he was telling me the whole schmoozing thing is, while not outdated, is limited now. Many corporations have rules on who you can go to these things with and how often and what you can accept. Booze is forbidden in many cases. Especially in the auto industry which is Michigan. He had no use for these things and they had to move their 4 seats (down from 16 ten years ago to give you an idea) to make room for these. When I'm fortunate enough to get to use his suite at LCA it's limited to pizza and soft drinks. Obviously you'd like the Tigers did their homework on demand to make such an investment but I know they are not sold out. And when I look at other stadiums that have done this those seats are not always full either. I'm not sure we can make a judgement yet considering we've had 3 games to judge and it's been cold.

I won’t claim to be an expert but I don’t see what more time in the minors does for him. **** or get off the pot. I’m not criticizing him. Baseball is hard. The other teams, even the bad ones, are best than what he would see down there.

Jobe isn’t fooling anybody.

Yes thanks for doing this. It is appreciated

Hopefully Riley didn’t do something having to stop so suddenly.

I’m confused. Is the insinuation that any political angle about what’s happening is inappropriate? Or a “both sides” thing? Because this hasn’t happened before where trillions are immediately wiped out due to a specific and unprovoked action by a president. This isn’t a reaction to some long brewing situation that popped. It isn’t a water leak. It was the opening of a fire hose.

I never paid that song much attention until I heard an acoustic version. Sometimes you need to hear it different to register. Especially classic rock that I have heard my whole life tnat it becomes background noise, like airplanes because I grew up near the airport.

That linked article is just one persons speculation though. I didn’t see any quotes or sourcing to suggest any inside info.

On the surface it seems weird. But depending on what he could have been responsible for then the start of the season could make sense. He’s been with them for a long time. Maybe he was fulfilled and wants to move on.

154 games won’t net much in terms of better weather. And they are not going to force teams to play a lot of home games in April because they are in a dome or warmer climate

They used to do more day games in April midweek. And I'm surprised the Wed Yankee game isn't a day game given it's getaway day. There must be a business reason behind that. The following homestand has a Wed Padres day game.

It bugs the **** out of me because you all know I love all things space and SpaceX is doing great things. I wish he wasn't involved with it. I was ambivalent about him until he started doing nazi ****.

Companies exist to make money. Not to make products. If they can't make money making a product then they stop making the product. They aren't going to spend billions moving production domestically to then have to pay american workers more money. The investors and owners will just move on to another thing and we'll end up having just one shoe company in the world.

weather is about as good as you can reasonably expect this time of year. Can't be greedy. It isn't going to rain or snow or be terribly cold. Just layer up.

Sorry about the news MB.

Seeing him in Maverick was so cool. I was always ambivalent on Top Gun, I'd seen it a million times but it had been a long time since I saw it beginning to end. Just random scenes here and there. When Maverick was released we were coming off the pandemic and it's what we needed at the time. His scenes with Cruise were great and seeing them now they mean more. You could tell those tears and emotions were not just acting. I didn't think Cruise had it in him anymore.

I will say the Tigers give out surveys to ticket holders and they seem to be responsive. At least to things I've pointed out. (being able to buy into special ticket promotions, for example on Polish Day you buy tickets and get a hat. I already have tickets. Let me just pay extra to get a hat). I bitched about the 6:40 start times. They are partially doing away with that this year. This year my complaint is they gave me too many Monday games. I have the Friday package which means you get every Friday game, plus random games during the week. (1/3 of the season). 7 times I will have a Friday/Monday set. Maybe some people like the consistency? I do not.

She gave an awesome speech a few years ago and from then on I knew she was going places.

Paramaount is a great app, especially for the price, but it is annoying that they list items available on Showtime. But overall their content is pretty good. Not unlike Prime. "Here's what you can't watch unless you give us more money".

Was this a filibuster by Booker or just a speech? I thought the latter.

Stackhouse Filibuster... great episode. Grandfathers

'most vote' metrics don't matter because in terms of a trend line the voting goes up. roughly 20-30M more people voted in 2016-2024 than voted in 2008-2012 so naturally the individual candidates will get more votes than their predecessor.