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I was at that game too.

You are not. And I feel the same way at Tiger games for other things.

I like these uniforms. Especially the AL. I never felt a need to buy one but that are cool.

But in this situation we are talking about multi jurisdictions of responsibility between the feds and state and locals. I refuse to believe this happened because someone in the secret service “forgot” or “didn’t think about it”. Did some locals drop the ball? Wouldn’t surprise me especially given the aforementioned reference to the non DEI folks in Ulvade TX. Someone thought someone else was taking care of it. I will wait for the investigation before playing the “what they should have done” game.

We have gone 43 years without a shooting at a protected and suddenly they don’t know what they are doing?

Those don’t tell me anything. We don’t know their policies and procedures. Lots of armchair QB going on with the replies in that post. We don’t know what the lady crouching downs job was in that situation.

The only way they trade Skubal is if it’s the kind of deal where the pundits say “what were they thinking?” And ”they” refers to the other team.

Has it ever happened before where the WS winning team hosted the ASG the next year?

The normalization of this man and his family by our national media has been the most disappointing thing in a long time. They ****ing attempted a coup and are horrible people and they just go about pretending like nothing happened. They got their corporate orders handed down.

It’s on my mind because today is the anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.

The right wings consoiracy on this is that it was because of DEI. They also think maybe deep state. the world is full of idiots. People think the moon landings were fake.

Bragging about the size of the gun.

The HR derby was neat at first. Then I became suspicious of the bats and balls used. But when the 2005 ASG was in Detroit the Derby was the most exciting thing about the festivities all week. Detroit loved Bobby Abreu that night and until that point in history it was the most exciting thing to ever happen in Comerica Park.

And right on cue this comes across my feed. https://www.avclub.com/true-lies-remains-james-camerons-lightest-silliest-mo-1851592528?

Say there’s a borderline pitch on the outside that the C pulls back. That’s framing the pitch. without the frame maybe the ump calls it a ball but we later learn it’s actually a strike. Pitch framing isn’t just turning balls into strikes but making sure strikes get called as strikes.

Has nothing to do with the topic but this reminded me of something I know you’d appreciate. “I didn’t tell him I was looking for a woman Marty”

He’s Peter Thiel’s bitch.

How come whenever they say God did something on purpose it’s for bad things? A hurricane punished the gays, etc.

Vance gives off a lot of creep vibes.

What about situations where a frame helps the ump make the correct call? I’m not against robo umps or even instant replay on pitches. But trying to outlaw pitch framing crosses a line.

To me it’s gamesmanship. I don’t see the logic in making it illegal to not try to get a call. The umpire is responsible to get it right. Not the catcher. If the pitch was a strike and they “frame” it and it’s called a strike do you then call it a ball? Don’t punish the beneficiary of a blown call. Do we expect a runner to say “no I was out” when the ump makes a bad call on the bases?

How would that rule be written and implemented? As a catcher sometimes you do have to move the glove if you want to catch it in the webbing instead or the heel. If the ump is expected to know a frame then they wouldn’t have called the pitch a strike to begin with.

It is windy here today.