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Now I remember why I hated my peers in the early 90s. They were once protesting “globalism” and Starbucks wisely handed out free coffee so there they are on the front page of the student’s right wing paper blasting global corporations while holding a cup with the corporate logo. You can’t make it up. they will get the country they deserve.

I really detest the in game promotion of the bets. Not just a commercial but in the middle of the action one of the on air staff has to tell us how the players are doing relative to a promoted bet. It makes me angry.

I get Jason Grilli vibes when Miller pitches.

I had wondered that about Lucas Raymond for the Red Wings and it was mentioned a few weeks ago.

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I think in situations like this ,where there’s no point in starting only to play for 30 minutes and hope for something clear 2 hours later, it’s wise to postpone. Nobody wants to mess around with late night games in muck. Just play 2.

I’m having doubts now about them getting this game in.

That's why my position on this has evolved somewhat. Meaning I see a lot of the protests now as just the bright new shiny object for young people and they really do not understand all the history of this conflict. They are being used by people with many agendas, including anti semitism. Nate Silver is getting roasted now for a tweet last night, I'm all for him getting roasted, but in this case I agree with him.

In HS, we had a pretty good team when I was a sophmore. We were ranked in the top 10 for a while. Favored to win districts. In a playoff game, I was playing LF. It was a windy day. On 3 occassions in that game that very thing happened. In one situation I had to move to my right. He came running over flailing about and each time the ball dropped. It was the kind of play you don't even think of calling as a LFer because it's right to you. We lost by 2 runs. Of course he was a senior and I was a sophmore so..... and by that point he'd already walked in graduation so what's the point in complaining. And then next year we got put into the same district bracket as a very good school so that ended our playoff hopes for my modest HS baseball career.

Truth. that extends to the corporate world as a whole. Every few years we're "upgrading" to the latest and greatest. Whether it's HR software platforms or hosting websites or simply where we store our shared files, i.e. shared drives, Sharepoint sites, OneDrive.... it's maddening. I have files all over the place now and I can't keep up. I'll spend half a day just cleaning up bookmarks. It's people just making work for themselves.

The easy answer is they just messed up, or someone messed up. It happens. Everybody knows the protocol but the game moves fast, adrenaline is high, and sometimes you just do the wrong thing or don't do what you are supposed to do. I'm sure they reviewed the play and figured out what happened. They're smart people. As a player I hated it when I messed up and then had others telling me precisely what I already know. I even hate that today. Could be something as forgetting to set the timer when cooking something and realizing I screwed up and then inevitably you hear "You should have set the timer...." "Yeah, no **** asshole"

when given the choice I always listened to CBC because of Bob.... and I liked their toned down broadcast. Nothing against Mickey and Dave/Ken but I just preferred that. And obviously I had to be ready for Coach's Corner. Have spent many nights over the years watching youtube clips of his greatest calls.

MLBPA's press release made a point to absolve Fanatics in this and point the finger at Nike. Probably true as what I've read is fanatics just made what Nike told them to make. But worth mentioning the investment MLBPA has in fanatics and that business relationship.

In some cases it's just not worth it for the system to process. My son was arrested in 2020 during the BLM protests. A whole bunch of them were zip tied and kept in the LCA parking garage then moved to a precinct. I was following his movements via find my iphone. They were just grabbing people and holding them because of a curfew, half his group "got away" and word got to us he was arrested. I was more worried about where my car was since he took it down there. He had to do an online arraignment but somewhere along the way all the charges were dropped. This was also during the pandemic so.... priorities.

weather folks think what's coming will be around 6 pm but shouldn't be a soaker. Perhaps a delay. They suspect it will break up as it gets closer. We'll see.

That’s how you build up a winning season. A lot of fans don’t seem to get that. The best teams will lose 2-3 games a week. I’ve always said that football fans can make bad baseball fans because a lot of them , especially sports talk radio listeners, don’t seem to understand that. You can’t over react to a game or two. This team has bounced back.

Nice series win after Friday ended in a stinker.

And what problem does it solve? York’s position as a 1:1 is meaningless now. He’s the 1B for the time being. This year is about finding out which of these guys can play. Not just him but everybody. Of all the slots to fill going forward 1B and DH are not a concern for me. Once they get their definitive answer it will be done.

and clips of it will show up on tiktok and reels and youtube shorts. That's how people under 30 get their information.

That will reach more people. I love that he's doing Stern. He's flipping off the NYT.

I also wonder if people with season tickets stay away due to the increase in parking prices. They let us turn in games ahead of time if we know we aren't going. Some might say "Why bother?" Prices are pretty high this week and they are blocking street parking. I found a lot for $15 but then found out my son's parking pass for school works. He used it yesterday so we're going with that.

I'll be at this one. Going to be nuts down there with the draft stuff going on. I can't wait to see it. I wonder if any of hte out of town folks will decide to use the game to fill a few hours? Tigers should have had a special promotion, like $10 for OF or upper deck seats.