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Because the whole GOP immigration shtick has always been a joke - red meat to the proles with no intent to ever actually change the status quo and upset the system of cheap labor US business depends on. But now they find themselves with an idiot true believer like Miller having wormed his way into leverage and the real powers that be are starting to let Trump know that he can have all the rhetoric and show deportations he wants, but the actual removal numbers better never get serious.

RE:200 RBI. It would be had to pick two guys that got to the same milestone by more different routes. You can ignore Travis' rookie 1/3 season and he still totalled 284 in his first three full time seasons - partly because he was an iron man - he got into 461 games in those three seasons, and partly because the Tigers were scoring runs as team at a level today's team can only dream of : 800-900 per season. Riley has been a walking med-evac case - halfway though his 4th season and is still short of 400 games played; Riley's teams have been scoring in the 550-650 runs/season range. Another way to break it down is that Travis got his 200th RBI at about career AB 1360. Riley got there at about career AB 1530. If you consider the difference in team scoring levels Riley looks better than Travis on that basis.

different choices are always possible but but cutting his face off works for me. It's like an additional slight. He's being minimized, which of course he hates.

not sure what the angle for private equity is though - the 20-30 top programs are not capital limited at this point - they've already found the money to enlarge their stadiums and upgrade their facilities. The 2nd tier could probably use the capital, but is there enough potential for those schools to generate income to be interesting investments? So much keeps coming back to how the league structure finally shakes out. How many teams will top tier college football end up with?

So Vierling was back in uniform tonight with the Hens. 0/2 as DH. Olson is supposed to pitch tomorrow (today!)

LOL - I"m geting dyslexic in old age. I looked at that and didn't see any that lined up. What was funny is the article never mentions Jake at all before the mis-reference. Taylor Rogers's name appears, but that's as close as it comes. The writer (not credited) had to have done an edit in the sentence about the pitcher and left "Rogers" on his clipboard, then pulled it back in place of Greene's name lower down without noticing, but still bush league to miss that proofread. Or may the first idea was the pitcher Rogers' name was originally going to figure in the Key Stat choice. I though they might have fixed it by now, but nope....

Well if the plane has electric fuel pumps and all the power went down.... That would have to be some strange combination of events to do that though. The videos didn't show any obvious evidence of engine mechanical failure such as an oil or fuel plume, smoke, fire, or any other disturbance like turbine blade failure. It did just look like they throttled down. If they had had enough lift to get to 650 feet, hard to figure how it was anything in the control surface configuration. That's probably above any remaining ground effect level so if the plane could lift that high it should have been able to at least keep flying level. 255 hardly got into the air at all.

indeed they did. But they went 0 for 6 getting the letters of his name right.

National media can't get it right even when they do cover the Tigers. From the ESPN game summary tonight: I'm sure Jake would love to have 5 more years of career before him than he does.

There is some stuff going on out there. I've been a member (basically passive) of the ACLU for years, this is the first year I've ever gotten an invitation to go get trained as an activist.

Depends what part of 'style' you mean. To me the thing that always stood out with Hawk was how you could tell if the Sox were winning or losing in 10 seconds just listening to his voice. He was totally up or down with the team performance (Mark Champion was always like that with the Lions as well). Kell may have had the same regional vocal style, but he was much more from the Ernie Harwell school of "you are happy to be at a baseball game whether your team is winning or losing."

Pause agricultural, and hospitality. OK, you just took maybe 7 of the supposedly 11 million undocumenteds off the table. Now Miller will have to deport every roofer and carpenter in America to make his target.

Manning should study the bio of another tall thin Tiger high draft pick. Andrew Miller was the No 6 pick in 2006, it was 9 years later he finally emerged as a top reliever for the Yankees.

Manning is getting regular relief work now and he's seems to be doing better than he was as a starter, but he hasn't proven enough/been good enough, to get a call-up. They have nothing to lose leaving him where he is for a while.

yeah - that was pretty much the one mistake they made as a team tonight. Montero is interesting. He doesn't seem to have particularly great stuff but he sure hangs in there.

these people are just so dumb. "No reason to keep all these pinko language specialists around, probably all closet Democrats, after all nothing ever happens in the world."

be interesting to see if how far they let Hurter go. He threw 44 pitches in 3 IP 3 days ago. I would think only one inning today.

To improve the effect you could always just drink more when you watch the game at home.

C'mon Lee. Fabric pizzas on a spear was not enough?!

LOL -But Hawk had Stone. I used to hear them sometimes and I always thought that Hawk was a good analyst - as long as the Sox were losing and he was in 'down' mode. Once they they were ahead the was such a fan boy that analysis sort of went out the window. 😂

Sewell and Giamatti had just worked together in "the Illusionist" with Ed Norton before this series was made.

And this is exactly what Shepherd still refuses to believe. He made a conscious choice not to be 'in' his broadcast because he thought his was the way it should be done. But the opposing view has prevailed for now.

Funny you should say this. During the last broadcast Benetti was talking about being a young broadcaster and working with Steve Grilli when Grilli was doing color instead of being busy being a pitching coach, and I it think he said Grilli, or maybe someone else on the that broadcast team, gave him the advice that the best baseball broadcast should sound like you are sitting with two guys watching the game at the bar - so if that's what you hear in the broadcast, it's no accident.

this. As I think about it, the biggest threat to the status quo as we know it is not probably not the NFL, it comes if the super conference schools get greedy and want to maximize their revenue by cutting out the rest of the schools, or whether they decide they will live with less revenue for the sake of keeping more schools in the system.

I saw that, certainly possible but 255 hardly even got off the ground, this plane looked like it did have decent lift in the seconds before it went down. There is some loss of ground effect lift on take-off though.