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LOL - yeah - quite the fall to the above from the below. Usually not the best sign when people stop caring about their personal appearance.....

One one hand, at this point Charlie Morton and Justin Verlander are the same guy so it probably doesn't impact what happens on the mound every 5th day much if you traded one out for the other. OTOH, Morton is not a distraction from the team focus on winning today's game each day; it's hard to see how Verlander could fail to be, even if he was trying his best not to be, and there is no guarantee that he would be. So- not a move I would make.

I guess I don't pay any kind of attention to things at ESPN, I basically just use the site for real time scores - but I assume they must now also be bedded down with some big gambling interest also as I see now that betting info is front and center in front of and above any actual game data.

With Bannon I agree it's that, but also that Bannon is an independent thinker (never mind whether that thinking has any merit) and Trump hates that as well. Bannon wants people to listen to him, Trump doesn't like people who try to tell him anything. I don't think it's that hard to sway Trump, but it has to be indirect - basically the approach has to be to appeal to his narcissism, make him believe everything you are pushing is his idea. Bannon won't/wouldn't do that. He has too much of his own intellectual ego. Plus maybe even Trump could tell that Bannon is crazy.

There has been some smoke over the years regarding Rudi supposedly having an alcohol problem. He's has always denied it. Of course a public figure with enemies will have a lot of random stuff dished about them. Whether the drinking is fact or fiction, he seems to have become a rather erratic figure in recent decades, whatever the cause.

they may need to go back to pitching chaos before the playoffs!

sounds like he had his head rest down and got a case of whiplash as a consequence.

his last two outings at Toledo were 1 IP as an opener and 3 IP in middle relief. Make of that what you will.

Speaking of QB's, I'm surprised that statue of Bo in front of the football bldg didn't melt itself right into a puddle watching a Michigan coach let a freshman QB in his very first game throw the ball all over the field from all kinds of rolls and sprints. 😂

None-the-less, I would note the deep numerological significance of the sum of the digits of '42' being '6'

we had the answer when it was at 42, but couldn't let it be.

NFL should be starting today.

Poseurs is a good word for it.

LOL - and we thought the Neo-cons of the Bush admin were over their head with 'nation building' in Iraq.

RE: Johnny Kane Story in today's Freep by Siedel - mostly about Benetti but in the course of it he says that the reason that Kane is basically out with the Tigers except for the occasional drop in is that the Tigers wanted someone for that slot to do both Tigers and Wings, but Kane is committed to the Pistons during the Hockey season and wouldn't give it up (because he is probably angling for Blaha's gig - so why would he?). So maybe not some kind of performance issue as much as just a career choice conflict. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2025/08/31/detroit-tigers-turn-broadcast-chaos-into-mlb-gold-with-jason-benetti/85872012007/

CBS has game stats. Underwood is 20/29 243 1 TD , 0 INT

there is helmet to helmet contact. At minimum he gets a PF for the body slam.

Tigers had some bad BaBIP luck on shots down both lines that were fielded so I don't feel that bad about hitting, and Flaherty was fine. But jeesh, Holton is just bad news recently. 18 base runners with 4 bombs in August (12.2 IP) and only 6K Lange has had three outings in Toledo, one clean, on he gave up a run on a solo HR and then walked two, tonight he struck out the side.

If you have base runners that can really stretch their lead down the 3b line - without getting picked off a la Wenceel, then they have so little distance to go it's a tough out to make, but the Tigers don't really have that many base runners like that. It's also much better with a LH batter when the 3b is playing well off the line so the runner at 3rd can take that big lead. If you have Gleyber on 3rd and Tork at the plate? Fuggedabadit.

yup. If he got you this far, book your profits and sell.

This is sort of what make football interesting (to me). It's how many different levels of things all have to work. All sports are about talent, but football is highly dependent on team precision as well. You can waste the value of a lot of talent if guys don't stick to their assignments and/or those assignments are not well designed. OTOH, sometimes coaches need to bend the system they want to play to allow for a player with a unique skill set to give them the most value. And sometimes good players and good coaches just don't work together (e.g. Goff/McVay). All adds to keep things unpredictable.

Pitchers are never good investments, but they are sometimes necessary investments!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Will Vest (the good one).

Origen, an early church father often credited with a major role in establishing the 'Canon' of the current Bible, and maybe the pre-eminent scripture authority of his day, came very close to an explicit belief in re-incarnation. One the reasons he is no longer on any currrent Church's 'must read' list. 😱 Another example that when we look back through the fog of 2000 years we many not being seeing what we think we do. Also the number from Russia is interesting. For two reasons: 1st that a lot of non-European Russia is notationally Muslim, but apparently not very! And second - that Putin's projection of himself as the great defender of Orthodox tradition doesn't seem to be doing much for belief in the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy 🙄. Yeah - who would have guessed that?

If we don't blow civilization up or fry it into a post apocalyptic stone age, and the history of this America eventually gets written for posterity, it will go down as the 1st post industrial society to succumb to mass cultural insanity. There is no euphemism for where we are - as a whole this society has lost any semblance of sanity - if you define sanity as the ability to recognize and stop a self-destructive downward social spiral. We glorify death instead over life, ignorance over of knowledge, conflict over of comity, the noxious over the wise, the trivial over the valuable. I wish I knew where it came from, I certainly didn't see it coming 30 yrs ago but it must have been there coming down the tracks.