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3 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

If this goes on much longer they do have to consider a change at Manager.    They just do.     He had a hot streak from August 2024 to July 2025, but other than that A.J. Hinch really hasn't been all that good, has he?     This team is just lifeless, listless and lethargic.       I'm so grateful they are in the AL Central because almost any other division and their season is pretty much over already.    That's how bad it's getting.     Last place in the weakest division, but thankfully only 3 games out.   But sinking fast.  

I don't think Hinch can do anything about having poor players. Hinch is about as good managing a pitching staff as I've seen and that is 90% of a manager's job. Yeah - I think his motivational talent is maybe marginal but I don't think that is all it's cracked up to be in baseball and we don't seem to have clubhouse issues. I haven't seen figures for this year but I still feel like the Tigers take too many strike ones, but I'll live with the two latter nits for the sake of the former.

30 minutes ago, chasfh said:

The distinction that actually matters is the one between policy-driven anti-Israel sentiment (even when it's overwrought, and even when it edges into troubling territory) and the kind of ethno-nationalist, eliminationist antisemitism that has historically seized control of parties and governments, and is doing so again on the right in real time. The former is a problem that bears close watching. The latter is the thing that has historically gotten people killed. Conflating them because they share some surface rhetoric muddles, not sharpens, the analysis, and lets the genuinely dangerous version off the hook by treating it as merely one data point along a bipartisan spectrum.

I agree with this. The problem is that mainstream Dem policy disagreement with the current Israeli government draws an Arab emigree population (among others) to the party who actually are revuanchist wrt the existence of Israel and eventually they become a constituency for harder anti-semitism - IOW the situation brewing in Dearborn MI or Omar's district in MN.

This is a hard problem because I don't want the main stream Democratic party to be in bed with Netanyahu.

Just now, chasfh said:

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doesn't all the "sports reference" site block ad blockers now unless you pay up? 

Paul Krugman posts to a substack since he's left this gig at the NYT, and he's been writing about the comparison between Europe and the US recently, and that's a big part of his point. The US looks richer but it's really just in the bias of the accounting system. Labor productivity the EU is just as good, but Europe always looks like it's lagging because Euros have just decided to work less per capita - they actually value quality of life so they take time off to live it. Same applies to the fact that public goods are far better in Europe than in the US (healthcare, transportation etc), and finally, social equity is much better in Europe than the US which is a driver of social unhappiness in the US.

And the proof is in recent (well, pre Trump)  immigration figures. People came to the US from Western Europe all through the Post WWII era. Few have recently. Euros are only 10% of the immigrant population today and many of them are H1Bs recruited by US industry.

40 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Melton and Mize are injured.

Valdez is having his usual meltdown games at the wrong time.  

Flaherty can't get the ball over the plate.  I don't know why.  

They didn't win the reliever lottery this year.

Their defense is bad and the the injuries to Baez and Meadows have made it worse.  

 

I have nightmares about the Orioles a couple years ago who everyone thought were the up and coming team and then just crashed back to futility after only one and a half good seasons.

38 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Because August 2024 - July 2025 ...

Mize's last two injuries boggle the mind. How can an athlete trained for doing a couple of hours at maximum full body exertion hurt himself twice doing basically nothing? 

I keep hearing that training for injury prevention is now a sub-field within athletic training - pushed early on by guys like Tom Brady. I wonder if the Tigers are hip to that or not?

23 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Melton and Mize are injured.

Valdez is having his usual meltdown games at the wrong time.  

Flaherty can't get the ball over the plate.  I don't know why.  

They didn't win the reliever lottery this year.

Their defense is bad and the the injuries to Baez and Meadows have made it worse.  

 

 

 

 

Vest hurt and Janson blowing 3 saves in 12 outings.

What the heck are they going to do with Flaherty? You can't put him in the BP - well maybe they could try, he usually does get through one inning before he breaks down.

19 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Here comes the inflation.

 

saw a comment by Fed governor Goolsby(sp?). He said the key to him was the uptick in services costs. He takes that as the marker that what is going on is not just tar or tariffs. If you look at it purely as a matter of system dynamics, if you have a higher order system approaching your desired control point, the fastest way to get there is to push the system to just a little bit of overshoot and then have it settle back to the target. The Fed took their foot off the brake before we ever reached 2%, so now we probably can't get there until they raise rates again or maybe do some more quantitative tightening, which the big banks push back against (though Warsh has said he wants to)

meanwhile, just to add insult to injury, the Mudhens have scored 18 runs tonight.

1 hour ago, buddha said:

you say that, and yet the left is veering much more toward anti-israeli rhetoric as evidenced by the last election and the demonization of any candidate who dared take money from aipac or any other israeli supporting group. 

and part of this one of those strange ironies where because one side is totally out of reach of Western influence and communication, the intransigence of the side you think you should have some influence on, or that at least you believe could do better, ends up becomes the primary focus of frustration sort of by default. In the US a lot of anti-Israel energy on the left is young people, who know little or no history, but have the finely tuned sense of injustice of the young. In the main they are not culturally, racially, religiously anti-semitic in any traditional sense of the word (those parts are more likely on the right) but they have bought into the narrative that Israel's national conduct is no longer the lesser of the two evils in the region. I don't think that many people yet believe that, but if Israel doesn't start helping it's own cause, more will.

Also the 'demonization' of Aipac on the left also ties into their  support to Trump and/or Trump aligned candidates.

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

KZoo catching strays.

 

IDK - he can play all the hard ball he wants,  I'm not sure any American city is in the mood to be extorted by an Oligarch in the current environment.

Well, at least they are proving to be a balanced team: Failing in all three phases of the game.

this can't be real can it? Am I going to wake up and Tigers still have a pitching staff?

or maybe the Tigers still have a infield....

I guess that was why Workman was the last call-up

If you saw the CF shot of Colt hitting the single, you could clearly see that in that swing, his hips were already done - they had stopped rotating, by the time his swing got to the ball. That's part of the power vacuum.

13 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

got a little greedy there

yeah -  give it up once you run into the ump- but adrenaline had taken over.

30 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Jesus

Bolton with an asinine Editorial in WaPo complaining that Trump 'just needs to open the Strait.' I'm sure he would have by now if he could have, but he can't, and that's the fact on the ground.  I don't know where these neo-cons get their fantasy ideas about the ease with which the US Military can just conjure their international management wet dreams into existence. 

9 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I know it’s been said many times, but these people are ****ing weird

Well, I certainly don't get it. These people seem desperately to want to get back to the 1950's. By that standard we are still about 100million people over target. 🤷‍♂️

20 minutes ago, buddha said:

that's not "colonizing" anything.

facts not in evidence on this one.

but yes,  I absolutely will grant you that the kind of atrocities committed by Hamas are beyond the pale (btw they are all the exact same ones committed in at the turn of the century in the Turkish nationalist frenzy against the Armenians that I heard about from 1st hand eye-witnesses even as a child.. so you have no surprises for me on that front.).There are some uniquely grotesque and evil ideologies/mindsets that come out the ME that are absolutely hard to fathom.

I will even grant you the old saw about "two wrongs don't make a right" goes pretty much out the window in war. But what I will stand on  is that States with more power have more responsibility and Israel is trying hard to fail on that score. The attitude that populations are grass that needs to be periodically 'mowed' with high explosive in perpetuity is a pretty terrible mindset also.

4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Israel responding to being attacked is not a genocide. It’s been 2.5 years now and Gaza still exists. Israel isn’t that good at doing a genocide. This is a right wing op. Why did the protests largely stop when Trump took over? Trump has been worse for Gaza but they still follow Harris around protesting her instead. 

I agree is not genocide, there is a reasonable case to made it has crossed the line into war crimes though - a situation Trump seems intent on having America follow them into in Iran.

6 minutes ago, buddha said:

israel is not a "colonizer" state.

Not even talking about Gaza -  they are and have been regularly dispossessing people and property on the West Bank without recourse.

12 hours ago, buddha said:

duren: 27 mins.  8 pts.  4 turnovers, 2 rebounds.

TWO REBOUNDS IN 27 MINUTES.

If they go out, we will probably find out something is wrong with Duren - but that's still no excuse for leaving him out there if he is compromised when Reid seems better able to hold his own.

45 minutes ago, oblong said:

If a democrat running for office in Michigan spoke out against anti-semitism their poll numbers in the primary would go down.  It's the left politicians that have to tap dance.  The right wing, not so much.  They can be pro israel all they want.

My grandfather, who came to this country in flight from genocide, would always get impatient at his fellow emigres when they would talk old homeland grievances, he would say "You are an American now. You came here to leave all that behind!" 

When the old world grievances of emigres become issues in US politics it never helps America, whether it's Cuba, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, whatever.

17 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't know if he's even there.  It wouldn't be hard for someone to type that stuff on their own.  Even then, he has to own it. .  

I suppose anything is possible in that asylum, but he is so mercurial and fit to rages at people that I have to doubt anyone would risk posting anything in his name without on the spot approval. Plus the contradictions post to post? An aide would be playing with fire doing that.

4 minutes ago, buddha said:

israel as a colonizer state is a good example

Except that that is exactly what Israel is doing today in the West Bank. The State of Israel has bought and paid for the critique they are getting. 

Having sympathy with anyone is dubious when there are no good guys. 🫤

1 minute ago, CMRivdogs said:

I'm thinking most of the posting is voice to text. 

can you pre program VTT for all caps or does he just have to shout at it?