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33 minutes ago, buddha said:

he could "shoot" back in detroit.  the difference is that when he was in detroit after he signed the big deal, he thought he SHOULD be shooting.  now he is just a bit player who shoots in garbage time for the laughs.

My only point being we always said Andre was a player who couldn't get out his own way to get better when it still mattered, and this is just another sign of that. 

16 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Andre Drummod makes a 3 pointer? Hell has frozen over...

at the ripe old age of 32, Andre has  - for the 1st time in his career, learned to shot a little. He has made 32 of 90 attempted threes this season. Imagine if he had had the discipline to make himself learn that 13 years ago.

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

Royals had 2 triples and neither one scored.  

well, they had one triple and the Tigers had one three base error of a type that scorers don't count.

very polite of the Tigers to let the Royals bullpen take off pitching 9th innings.

Not a great AB for Colt. He's got to figure on something away and take it to left.

redemption for Wenceel (which autocorrect REALLY wants to make Wendell)

Just now, IdahoBert said:

I don’t know if I should blame Carpenter or Perez for that triple. Fortunately, no harm was done.

Perez could have caught it which means he should have called for it, but he hadn't, because he probably didn't know he could, because he's not a great fielder

hitters started out looking like they might do something against Lugo, then poof.

52 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

Hungary just took a hard turn to avoid jumping off the cliff into illiberalism.  The left played a huge part by endorsing a conservative, a conservative that they don't agree with much on, except that illiberalism was not the direction they should be going.  

The left in Hungary in no way endorsed hard right policies, they simply didn't want Orban who was a much bigger threat.  They know can regroup and focus on improving Hungary now that it was saved.  

exactly - there is a hierarchy of imperatives. Policy debate is fundamentally secondary when preservation of the system that supports policy debate and policy choice is what is being decided. When the election is really about "one man, one vote, one time" best not to be too concerned about the  tax rates.

58 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

One you missed was Rogan.  And not the decision not to go on, but whoever thought it would be good to lie about the reasons.  The campaign could have simply stated that scheduling didn't work. Texas wasn't a swing state hence Kamala didn't need to spend money visiting it.  Instead they wanted it entirely on their terms and when they couldn't get that, they blamed Rogan.  So they not only didn't court the base that Rogan's show has, they alienated it.

Kind of related, Arsenio Hall was just on Rogan and I listened to them talk about Clinton being on and how they offered an interview with Bush as well, but Bush declined as it was 'unbecoming of the presidency'.   You could argue Clinton won in large part to what his appearance on that show meant to his campaign.  In seeing Hillary in interviews now, I think she could have came across very well on Howard Stern, who knows what that could have done.  Just not sure if Kamala has the charisma to make it happen, but wish she would have tried.

 

That's funny because Arsenio was a gentleman's gentleman with his guests. Bush couldn't have topped the saxophone though. OTOH, what  he could have done was offered to take Arsenio sailing and put him to work on the sheets while he manned the wheel - that could been a great interview for him. No imagination. I'm sure his handlers would have shot it down as too upper class, but that's stupid, everyone knew he was upper class. These guys never learn that you come across the best being who you are. Certainly one fault Trump never suffers with.

2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Maybe it's that, but I think political media at large (not just the Times) has a very difficult time covering politics right now in a way that doesn't center literally everything on Trump.

What's remarkable to me is that nothing that Leo has said is all that different than what any previous Pope would have said had this same conflict began, at least of the ones in my lifetime.... but because Trump is involved (and started the conflict, frankly), anodyne but important statements from the Pope about this war are now seen as a some sort of personal fight between the two when it's simply the Catholic Church taking the position the Catholic Church would have always taken in this situation.

Read Douthat's column today, basically a radical conservative RC, he tries to make the argument that since there is all kinds of high church doctrine (thanks medieval  angel on pinhead watchers!) on 'just war' that it's Leo's theology that's deficient. You can read the comments and catalog the number of ways his arg fails, but the fact that he considered its validity sufficient to put in the NYT just shows you where some people are. Another 'Christian' who prefers the convenience of the 'wisdom' of the human institution to the inconvenience of the actual Gospel.

55 minutes ago, romad1 said:

No glove would have helped the Royals 3B with Dingler's hit in the 8th.  

the mere wind of it knocked Garcia off his feet.  

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18 hours ago, Screwball said:

Back in the late 2000s era, the Najarian brothers sold stuff teaching you how to play the option trades. Pete was on CNBC at 5 each night for the show "Fast Money" I think it was. They were both good football players too. Wild ****. And of course CNBC, also known as Bubblevison, still has - Jim Cramer.

I won't say you can't make money being a day trader, but you are probably more lucky than good if you do. I played golf with a guy who worked for a cable company and told me how they ran a T1 line to some guys house just so he could day trade. That's nuts. Might have worked, who knows. I'm sure the T1 line did, not sure about the trades. 🙂

 

True story - I got a job replacing a guy who had quit to day trade. It was small field and everyone in the biz knew of everyone else at maybe a max of 3 degrees of separation. Anyway, it was maybe 3 years later we heard he was back working for a living in a similar gig for one of our competitors.

Sadly - University of Michigan President designate Kent Syverud is undergoing cancer treatment. Will not be taking the post. 

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2026/04/kent-syverud-no-longer-becoming-next-university-of-michigan-president.html

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

And you believe that based on your experience with a substantially different technology, and despite that almost no other teams experience this same problem, the Tigers, and by extension anyone else, are unable to fix this problem?

I don't have anywhere near your technical expertise, but absent any actual evidence, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Don't understand what you mean by 'different technology.'

So I do imagine there is a difference for people who connect to MLB directly, because that is one less step, but from a marketing importance standpoint to the Tigers, the largest part of the market is  people in the Metro area who are getting it through their TV distributor (mostly DirectTV & Comcast, Youtube, etc) so the situation I experience applies. 

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Blame the technology instead of the AV crew if you like, but it hasn't escaped my notice that almost no other team's broadcast has the same problem.

I'll give you an example why I don't think the Tigers could control this even if they wanted to. (and whether they want to is questionable - they want you listening to the broadcast as they are selling audio reads in it)

I have fiber from ATT and DirectTV. If I start watching my cloud 'DVR' of a game say 1/2 hr after the game starts, and slice out dead time to catch up, when I get to 'live' from the DVR link, I'm 10-20 seconds ahead - that  is closer to real time, than if I drop off the DVR link and go pick the game from the linear broadcast guide. This behavior makes no obvious sense, but it is completely reproducible, has been true for multiple seasons, and even more significantly, did NOT change with the Tigers move to MLB production. The 20 seconds or lack thereof - is purely a function of DirectTV's handling of the feed. There is no way the Tigers have anything to do with it. The last leg of network link to you is going to be subject to buffering that is out of control of the originator and the Tigers are sending the game to multiple distributors with different HW systems. I suppose if you buy directly from MLB that's one less step, but you still don't know what your ISP may be doing with MLB feeds.

40 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

You’re downright cruel, NHL, downright cruel. 

 

That's the kind of play Ras should have made a 100 times in his career by now but hasn't. But Ras is still a Wing and Soderblom isn't. Go figure.

so on the topic of KM and in a nod to the discussion up thread about gloves  - I've noted that KM does use a very small SS and an open pocket 3b glove that looks somewhat but maybe not max length. And I would just note that he did have trouble with the transfer from the 3b mitt in the 1st inning yesterday. The runner was erased on a DP so no harm, no foul, but just a point that there is no free-lunch, each glove is a trade off for what you want to do most at that position.

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Aryan Jesus - of course. And Trump with every hair he's lost in 40 yrs restored. A miracle.

They are working Workman all across the IF now. He could be a decent utility guy if he's finally controlling his K's.  IDK what the odds of that happening at his age are, but he's still got a chance to show this year.

3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

It's not unique to the Times, but the tendency of American outlets to frame Trump attacking the Pope as a "feud" is a way to "both sides" a conflict that really has only one side to it. Which comes across as bringing Leo down to Trump's level (he's not) and making the conflict seem like it's mutual (it isn't)

I think is is accurate. The problem for the Times is that they are no-doubt a militantly secular culture (other than Op-Ed writers Douthat and French) and so I doubt most Times journalists take the Papacy and the RCC very seriously.

18 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

LOL Dems did that in 2024. Harris campaigned with Liz Cheney. Kinzinger and Olivia Troye spoke at the convention. The far left said Dems and Republicans were the same. 

the difference is that the stakes were higher for Canada. You know the old saw about 'academic politics are the worst because there is so little at stake" - the same paradigm exists in real politics. Only when the perceived stakes are low do people spend a lot time arguing about symbolic votes and windmill tilts at policies that have no chance of adoption and stabbing their own needed allies in the back.  It's the perception of real danger that finally straightens out people's thinking and ultimately results in an empowered broad based opposition. The US is so fat and happy, the various people who don't like Trump still have not internalized the level of risk enough to be willing to bury their micro-political cultural biases and work together strategically.

Now you would think it's pretty hard to be alive with a brain in the US and not understand the risk of the direction we are going, but the objective evidence tells us it hasn't sunk in everywhere - yet.

25 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Getting back to the weather… so, have there been any tornadoes or massive flooding yet?

we lost a wall off the local indoor ice rink (about a mile from here), the UM Hockey Arena lost part of its roof. The high winds were very localized - we had incredible sheeting rain but very little wind at our house.

28 minutes ago, chasfh said:

And he said it in public! And it was considered OK!

n word was still in very wide currency in '50s America.

12 minutes ago, chasfh said:

And, again, the radio audio overlay was way, way ahead of the video, at least in the first inning, something like ten seconds ahead.

Nothing is real time anymore. Over the air radio is probably closest but even that probably goes through an IP link to the transmitter so you have an opportunity for buffering. Hi-res video is always going to be buffered, possibly multiple times before it gets to you, so synchronization on any two sources is going to be mostly luck.