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I’m bummed a little but I also don’t mind missing a 2-0 loss where Skubal gives up 0 runs over 6.

For temps you just “double it and add 30” to convert.

Of course I got Red Wing Tickets tonight 🙂 I think we're allowed to change the channel in the suites.

which the Tigers had nothing to do with. "The Tigers were the last team to do it..." Ony 2 teams did since the advent of color TV. It's not a big deal.

Remember Nick's mom? I do.

Do I have to guess who the 2 are?

When I did a tour of the Tigers clubhouse, maybe it was during a Tigerfest, on the bulletin board was a flyer for a prayer group or sunday chapel, along those lines, and it had Frank's name and his phone number. For hundreds of people to see that day. Andy Dirks hit on a friend of mine, back in his playing days, outside of a bar in Royal Oak. I know he's pretty religious now so I assume he wouldn't do such a thing now.

on the fringes of the conservative movement are people who think euthanasia will be an acceptable outcome for those who take too much from socieyt.

Like during confirmation hearings they will say some good things but eventually cave.

Jason Foley to Toledo

it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't know about it. He only ran again to stay out of jail. I truly wonder if they never charged him in the election and document cases if he'd have run.

Tony Paul's article said the team wanted a more uniform playing conditions, based on feedback from players and coaches. If that's true then fine. Why have something different than everybody else? If we are being honest it was kind of gimmicky. They put it in Tiger Stadium during the final few weeks and carried it over to Comerica. It's not like it's this grand tradition. This isn't the Green Monster.

yes but it's paywalled

It would expose their previous tributes as nothing more than marketing. I have some problems with what they've been doing regading Jackie Robinson. They haven't done enough to own up to the reason the entire country knows who he is in the first place. By presenting it as HIS accomplishment they are able to frame it in a way that doesn't tell the real story. This wasn't a guy who was just so damn good he worked his way into the leagues and finally a black player could play. MLB kept him and them out. They were all just as good. It was blatant racism. "Jackie broke barriers". No, Jackie had a door opened up for him that a bunch of assholes kept closed. His greatness beyond his play is in how he dealt with the continued racism and blowback. I've always felt MLB took themselves off the hook in how this was presented. and if MLB truly felt sorry about it and had sincere intentions they'd not be reconsidering this, if they are doing that.

I was thinking of that too.... would I have noticed? Yet once I am aware it stands out. I don't want to reflexively bash Chris Ilitch over this. There's plenty of other reasons to as to how this franchise is presented to the fans. Maybe Heather Nabozney told him he wasn't worth the hassle? Maybe the league wanted uniformity? Maybe the players didn't like it? I'm open to a benefit of the doubt here....

Wait, was Massie going along with it?

According to a photo posted by Ben Verlander the Tigers got rid of the pathway from the plate to the mound. It bothers me and I can’t give you a good reason why.

Our company gave it as a holiday when it was enacted but then immediately incorporated floating holidays. Part of the reasoning is good, why have Good Friday off but not Yom Kippur or an Eid or some of the Hindu holidays? And we can move them to a Friday or Monday.

The last one is definitely something they are itching for. “They already have MLK day”

A friends dad wasn’t even a US citizen. He was born in Canada, never became a citizen, joined the army, got out and slipped through the cracks somehow. The UAW guy either did some paperwork shuffling or nobody cared. Worked 45 years and is still going strong in his 90s.

I don't think Bill and Don were "good friends". They are NY people. That world has a lot of cross pollination. And Trump was always creepy, same as Bill, and we all know his history with real estate. But it wasn't until Obama's term and after the Apprentice that he went further into his conspiracy stuff. I don't know much about Tulsi but we have all seen how these people have switched to Pro Russia at a certain point in their career once they saw the opportunity. I don't know what the point of all this is. Am I supposed to hold it against Bernie b/c Tulsi went off the deep end? Should I quit watching Curb Your Enthusiasm b/c of RFK Jr's wife?

Yes. And those jerseys appear to be popular with the youngins.

In my job we deal with secrecy, both in terms of a proprietary nature and things that are not yet public knowledge and some things go beyond the standard internal understanding that you don't blab. We are a publicly traded company. SEC, etc. Meaning.... if we talk about subject A, we have to make sure the people in our audience are either NDA'd or asked to leave. When we have meetings we validate who is on the call. The meeting organizer is responsible ultimately but we all also do it. Nobody wants to talk to our lawyers. I've been involved in things I couldn't even discuss with my direct reports two levels up. I'm not saying that to brag or that I'm special... I'm not. I'm a non mangement grunt. But I go through these exercises and it's unbelievable that people at that level in our government are not doing, at minimum, the same thing. The invite was careless. I don't know anything about Signal but I assume you can see who else is on the chat. Everybody on that should have wondered who "JG" was.

I agree with you. I have tickets to every Friday game and that's when they wear them. So for me it makes me think of a nice evening in late May or June with a friend, thinking about the weekend, and where we'll go after.