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This is weird. I'm working from home and have it on both TV's. In the TV in my office, I use a roku streaming stick and the Xfinity app, no cable box, but I can hear the TV in the main room. There's different commercials between the ABC on the box and the ABC on the streaming stick, both being Xfinity broadcasts. Maybe the box is market specific and the stick is generic.

There’s hardly anybody there it looks like. I heard cheers for AJ and the other Tigers.

agree. All of my bashing on Pete is centered around his gambling on baseball and the reds and his lack of contrition and remorse and repeated denials. I don't think about the other stuff. Not dismissing it but I don't have the energy or desire to litigate every famous athlete or entertainer's behavior.

So... is ABC going to air the game or the Israel/Iran coverge?

and in further context... a young man from Georgia... he might have even been considered... progressive?

The thing with Rose and the rape.... where do we draw the line between the people in our chosen hobbies and their personal life? Should I quit listening to Led Zeppelin and Elvis and perhaps Don Henly and pretty much every rock star into the 00's....? Should I never watch Chinatown or The Usual Suspects or the X Men movies? Rape of this nature (meaning "consensual" underage sex, I put it in quotes because legally you can't consent if underage) in entertainment was massive and touches a lot of people who's work we love. This is not meant to be a rhetorical question and I don't pretend to know the answer. Just throwing it out there that if someone wants to praise Pete Rose the baseball player and doesn't feel the need to ignore his athletic feats I won't hold it against them because I still listen to Led Zeppelin and all of that other stuff.

Wonder if the fans will give AJ more boos than they would normally give the opposition? That way they can project that the stain of 2017 is his fault, and not the players they continue to cheer on.

I'm not sure where I first heard it but the hope is one day we'll look back on gambling and sports like we do when we see old photos, even from the 90's, with a big Marlboro ad in the background on the scoreboard.

Guys like that are like minor league filler. You need people on the ML roster and I like they are trying to give fans as presentable of a product as they can while figuring out if the kids can perform, rather than just let a bunch of kids go out there and flail about. And like you say, maybe you can get a player back out of it to help you later on. Having a "lean" 70 win season is ok every once in a while while you retool the roster but this org at this time and place can't do that.

In a meeting yesterday when we were done with the topic, my boss asked "Anything else to discuss...." then it led to some personal stuff and I threw out "Well the Tigers play the next two days at 2:30...." and he got the hint and said "So your availability will be limited?" I'm so grateful to have a job like this where they just trust us to do our jobs. It's only about an hour early for me anyway so I can "make it up" at the front end.

This is interfering with my half marathon training ,being at 2:30.

There’s really no easy mechanism to put him in the HOF. These things have to happen: baseball has to take him off their list if that happens then he’s technical eligible. But that still leaves it up to two HOF committees. One to put him on the ballot and another to vote him in. If baseball leaves him on the list then the HOF would have to change their rule they had in place since 1991. Then the votes again by the committees. There’s even less of a chance the voters would vote for him if he’s still on baseballs list. MLB doesn’t run the HOF. There’s no magic wand that can be waved to just say “put him in” The HOF is a non profit with rules and bylaws that have to be followed. the media can whine all they want but it will never happen.

I think they got rid of that. Goes back to the team with the best record

a lot. Same with wives and husbands.

I don't know if it's true, Kris said he didn't remember it but he forgets things (He was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's and Dementia and it was Lyme Disease) but his wife remembrs things and she relayed it. I'd like to think it's true. He also "rescued" Sinead O'Conner when she was getting booed at a Dylan tribute not long after her infamous SNL appearance.

I never saw his verison of Star is Born but I did see the Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga incarnation. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Lukas Nelson helped with the music and he and his band are Cooper's band in the movie.

Michael Kay

McCosky Voice: "Touhg break Shel.... this game's tough man. Catch on with someone else and give 'em hell bro. See you around"

Two ways to look at this: Astros have played in 7 straight, at least, ALCS. They are seasoned vets who know how to win and will take charge. Astros have played in 7 straight, at least CLS. They are old and worn out and arrogant and the Tigers will sneak up on them. Of course, that's talk radio analysis. Astros won 88 games, Tigers won 86. It's baseball and anything can happen in a 3 game playoff series. Any team can beat any other team this week. There's no grand conclusions to draw. Our team made it. Enjoy it. Whatever happens.

On the Ken Burns Country Music doc they spend a lot of time on Kris and Bobby McGee in particular. He was hanging around the studio doing janitorial work and the bosses didn't want him hanging around the studio. Johnny liked him for some reason and told him to stay. After he started writing songs Fred Foster, the owner of Monument Records suggested a song with a title based on a secretary there, Bobby McKee. Kris mishead it and wrote it as McGee. He gave Foster a writing credit for coming up with the name. Roger Miller recorded it and it didn't do much. When Joplin recorded it, and died before it's release, Kristofferson said "After that I never had to work again". Kris was a Rhoades Scholar and english lit guy. The song is based on a Fellini movie for God's sake.

Worse.

No. Reduces travel days. They thought the one game WC format was too random and they could add another team by making them just a best of 3 at the higher seed. Otherwise schedule goes on too long. I’m ok with it. Want a home game? Win more.

Getting the early game sucks in my opinion.

Is that in jersey?

We are. This is us on Friday. Just wish my older son could have been there with us. He was working then at the Michigan game Saturday