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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?  

4 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I think him typing crazy posts in the middle of the night would be even stranger than hiring someone to do it, but either way it's incredibly stupid and he has to own it.   

Yeah - It would be hard to believe he is not in the room real time with whoever is actually typing the keystrokes/constructing the GIFS - I think we can assume it is all originating in what is left of his brain.

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

That's not at all true of the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the party's mainstream leadership have been meaningfully critical of campus antisemitism and pro-Hamas rhetoric. The Democratic Party hasn't been captured by its loudest voices the way the GOP

It doesn't break on a particularly consistent pattern. Just as an example, it's GOP candidates for Michigan Regent seats that have been the most outspoken in opposition to the shout out to the Palestinian activists in the UM commencement speech while it is a board with a majority of pretty mainstream Democrats that has been roundly criticized for allowing the mood on campus to become toxic/dangerous to Jewish students in the first place. 

45 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

More winning 

And what's worse for the GOP is that in surveys, inflation expectations are even higher, over 4%. That means that much like at the end of Biden's term, people aren't going to believe it even if inflation starts down again.

44 minutes ago, oblong said:

agree with your assessment.  This is a case where many things are true all at the same time.  There is a genocide in Gaza and what many in the IDF and others are doing is horrific.  I just read something yesterday about rapes and beatings of women and children.  What happened on Oct 7, 2023 is equally horrific.  Netyenyahu is a bitch and finally got Trump to do his bidding.  He's a horrible individual.  Jews are being targeted with antisemitism and also people conflate criticism of the government in Israel with anti semitism.  It's all true.  But too many are forced to pick "sides" and have to tread lightly without offending someone who they also agree with on nearly everything.  I refuse to pick a side and pretend that's pure and free from atrocities.  

One of the things that has happened in Israel is that public opinion there has hardened - the radicalism of Hamas and Hezbollah has in turn created a reaction in the Israeli general population sufficient to create a majority of support for Netanyahu's terrible policies. It's sort of the same phenomenon we see here with Americans supporting terrible cruel Trump policies. I don't know what the answer is when whole societies lose their moral bearings. In the ME it's been an ever descending spiral for my entire lifetime. Arabs cheer in the street when Israelis die, eventually Israeli's don't care how many Arabs they kill. And we've imported those mentalities onto the DOD with Hegseth cheering at killing people with same kind of glee as a dedicated Hamas radical. Hard to see it all ending on any good note.

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

He's made it trashier...

 

Apparently Real Estate Tycoon Trump has never had to take care of an old building. Old buildings are always falling apart a little bit here and there. You fix this, you fix that, you don't bulldoze a wing because it needs to be spackled.

1 hour ago, Shelton said:

In youth travel baseball “sub” players often wear #99 (it’s the extra uniform without a name that most teams have for such situations), so I could see workman leaning into that in an ironic way. When he was selected in the rule 5 by the cubs I remember him (and his wife) being kind of salty about the whole situation, so I feel like he might be doing a bit. 

yeah - that makes sense, but you wonder about him nibbling the hand that feeds him here - even if it's a pretty little nibble. Maybe at this point he feels like he's good enough he can make a secure career in AAA for some number of years with or without the Tiger's support, and whatever time he gets in the majors is playing with house money.

7 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

Uncommon[ly Stolen] Valor.

I think he's finally gotten so besotted that he's starting to cross lines with real costs. The Jesus pic, and not\w this. There isn't much that GIs hate more than this kind of thing. 

So on the ESPN Tiger site right now, Buster has an interview with Boras. So what Boras says is that the deal here is that they did not use an arthroscope on Skubal, they used a new micro device (come kind of fiber optic micro canula) that isn't much larger than a hypodermic needle. That is why they are looking for less than 'std' return possibility. The story is the new even-less-invasive-than-a-'scope treatment tech provides a possibility for faster recovery.