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Pam with the Poison Pellet in the Penitentiary may be on tap as the newest Clue solution.

LA media is probably pretty easy compared to NYC. There is very little out there like the NYPost or the tabloids and ball players are just one more relatively small group of celebs within an already huge celeb culture.

Yup. There is hope for Lange. He seems to have his pitching under control, if he can stay healthy. Manning is just....who knows? When he first went to relief he seemed to have a few good outings - good FB velo, but then he just falls back again.

Yellow python? Just a Sunday afternoon for a Sheila. She'll prolly throw it on the barbie with the shrimp.

pro-WHITE-life party.

Right - this is what Sommers was talking about. It's even OK if he was once a member of the Cabal as long as he was willing to expose it and save America.

The 7yr deal the Tigers signed JV to ended up a good deal, though by today's scale $180M is chump change. 222 games started, 102 Wins and 36 WAR. But as good as Skubal is, he's got a way to go be prove he is in JV's class for endurance - of course JV got that deal not knowing he would endure either......

AT least some of the Ivanka stuff came from an appearance on Howard Stern, where Stern was having a pretty good time leading him on to see how far he would go. I don't know if they destroyed the tape or buried it once he got into office, but if you saw that (which oddly enough I happened to - probably the only 20 min of Howard Stern I've ever seen) no-one could have claimed people were lying about it.

Yes - that certainly has to be a factor.

and it's only getting worse:

Every team always has to be planning for the replacement of every player at some point. It's only ever a difference of when, not if. It seems recently the value of rentals or guys with short control seems to have dropped to the point that you get more total value out of just keeping the player through the final year yourself, take the best advantage you can of the high value low cost proposition through that last year and just plan for the loss. Maybe that won't be true with SKubal and the Tigers get a good deal, or maybe he signs, but I won't be surprised or disappointed if they just keep him through to his FA and then let him walk. I used to think that was bad management but I've changed my mind about it.

Ezra Klein did his podcast this week with Will Sommer whose theory is that the whole Esptein, sexual predator, child-sacrificing-satanic-ritual-liberal-cabal running the world MAGA idee fixe is one that at least certain segments of MAGA will not be able to let Trump 'move on' from. I think what he describes is probably accurate for some segment of MAGAland, the important question though is how much of MAGAland - and I don't think anyone has much handle on that until it plays out. NYT is paywalled but they used to allow a freebie or two per month to guests. IDK if that is still true. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-will-sommer.html?searchResultPosition=2

It doesn't help when the anchor of your lineup goes from 362/404/676 in the month before the July 2 DH, to 167, 212, 458 since that second game. A drop that sudden to a level so far below his norm has to make you wonder if he is trying to play through something he maybe shouldn't.

unfortunately, solo home runs in the 9th when you are down four and being shutout do not a winning ballclub make.

Riley late 2025 turning into Tork early 2024, in the sense of a hitter persuaded he is right when he's not.

Can't say I much like Jake over Keith even with the platoon advantage.

Holton and Reese were fine but it doesn't really matter how you pitch when you get shut-out.

will Murdoch fight or cave? How much fun would it be to watch the crack up and handicap whether the MAGA public stayed with Fox or Trump if Fox went hard anti-Trump. Which ever one went to the mat it would be no-lose for America. And this could make for another great mini-series. The battle between the media giant and its Frankenstein political creation re-unites the media magnate's warring children --- so many possible story lines! The entertainment loss will probably be ours though, 10:1 NewCorp rolls over.

When the DH first came into use, it did extend a lot of careers, and you did see a lot of guys move to DH their as their gloves got worse, but that was in an era where everyone who made the bigs made them as a position player somewhere. Since then, the DH has been available for players who from the beginning of their careers were poor defenders but hit well enough to hold down DH, so the profile of the DH has shifted. Sure a few guys still end up there when they lose their fielding (Cabrera) but as many or maybe more start there - JHM for example (assuming he were to return to the Tigers and stick as some point). The availability of younger no-glove players, who are lower cost, means holding on to your old players as DH's is less attractive then in the first generation of the DH.

I expect to see this on TruthSocial by Monday. 🤣

And to give my avatar a plug, the way the RockMan put it was: "You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear"

I'm going to guess RV didn't meant Trump would suicide himself, but that he would "suicide" Maxwell, as in have her murdered in deniable circumstances..

They do make for even more complex standings and playoff tie-breaker possibilities, which I would generally assume only deepens fan interest.

the injury rate in football is so high I can understand wanting to add as few plays from scrimmage to end the game as possible. What I guess I don't understand is how the sport survived 100 yrs perfectly well with ties. Maybe it goes back to the gamblers, but I thought in the old days the bookmakers made out well in ties.

or she may have psychotic breakdown trying to avoid ever closing her eyes....