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21 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:
Some of the political coverage coming out of CA is predictably silly. Porter pilloried because she yelled at a staffer, Steve Hilton's biggest coverage seems to be about the definition of a 'street Taco'.
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11 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:
not really a choice - gotta fight fire with fire.
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Beck confirms that Mize will probably make a start next week - no trip to rehab.
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/jack-flaherty-struggles-to-give-tigers-long-start-in-loss-to-mets
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1 hour ago, chasfh said:
That pretty much sums up how I view Max Clark, which is very different from how I view Reese Olsen or Jackson Jobe.
Reese is why Avila took so many 6' 4" pitchers. My biggest worry when they took Jobe what that with a guy who spun his breaking ball that hard you might as well block out the lost year for the TJ surgery in advance. If he comes back from TJ spinning the ball just as hard, I'd guess he can be effective but the arm will always be a time bomb.
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4 hours ago, buddha said:
the thought leaders for the democrats have all turned against israel. israel's cozying up to trump is a big driver in that.
People who have visited Israel recently also. For good reasons or not, not one of my rather normie non-evangelical liberal friends who has been to Israel over the last decade or more didn't come back deeply disturbed by how Israel forces West Bankers to live. The trip tends to puncture their long held default idea of Israel as a liberal democracy. I'm sure the Evangelical side probably run through different tour programs, but it is what it is.
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We come
3 hours ago, oblong said:I parked there in the beginning of Comerica but once got stuck via a stalled vehicle so never again.
The free and low cost parking around the stadium are pretty much gone with new construction going on. I now use the ParkWhiz app to get parking ahead of time as many of the lots are part of their system. You pay ahead of time and get a barcode to get in. If you want to try street parking over off of Cass north of 75 that's an option if you don't mind walking.
It's usually in the $20-30 range.
If you come in from the West, I like to take 94 to Livernois, South down to Mich Ave, East to Cass turn north, cross Grand River and all the lots on the West side of Woodward are right there. Also an easy exit going back the same way as you stay out of the ramp traffic near the stadium. Haven't been down this year yet but I think those also were $20-30 as of last season.
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18 minutes ago, buddha said:
they'll turn to russia at that point. or china.
LOL - China would be odd-bedfellows. The Russians may value Iran too much to go there.
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4 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:
It sounds like some help is on the way;
FWIW I saw somewhere that Mize might not go to rehab because it was a short DL, but I still kinda doubt it.
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4 hours ago, romad1 said:
Gonna be a nail biter today. If Trump decides he needs a friend and Xi plays his cards right we could all be speaking Mandarin by Monday.
Of course - you know he's still obsessed with a Nobel right? He'd throw almost anything under the bus if XI gives him a way to settle Iran that makes him look good.
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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.
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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.
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Just now, chasfh said:
doesn't all the "sports reference" site block ad blockers now unless you pay up?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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)
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meanwhile, just to add insult to injury, the Mudhens have scored 18 runs tonight.
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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.
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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.
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Well, at least they are proving to be a balanced team: Failing in all three phases of the game.
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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
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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.
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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.
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