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Kenny’s problem as a GM in Det was drafting bad players for too many years.

LOL - beautiful Of course, another example of how useless MLB scoring now is, neither Segura at 2B nor Realmuto at C have been charged with an error as per the live box score but the CF has been. Has to be an error on Segura - perfectly catchable ball that even hit his glove. Not a good throw to get the runner, but no reason not to catch it.

Beck reports they are considering bringing Manning back to Detroit without another rehab start despite the shaky outing yesterday - quothe Hinch, "It’s not ideal, but nothing’s ideal right now." no kidding.... https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-injuries-and-roster-moves

Wilmer Flores with a rough outing, 4.1 IP 7H 4ER 2BB 7K Really tough day for Lakeland though: One-hit and no-hit in the two ends of a 7 inning double header

His so damn FOS it isn't even funny. His premise is asinine. To stop a perp with body armor and an assault rifle you don't need a guard, you need a pillbox and a team on a Browning. And I'm sure we'll see Ted sending his kids to a school with a front door like that.

If Harold Castro starts showing occasional power he might be worth something - but still not at SS. Anywhere else I'm OK with.....

Harold for LF for a few games?

yeah - he got the hard one, don't let the bum beat you....

just a wee bit.... and he's in trouble now - he didn't take his rosin bag with him....

I guess we only use Fulmer in low leverage. Pitches great behind.

Tigers win probability --

are you kidding me? The Castros giveth, the Castros taketh away.

I know it's a lot to ask, but can a Tiger reliever not walk the lead off man? As good as the pen has been - still one more hump to get over.

Fulmer. Is he still hot from yesterday?

yeah - the problem is all the options are crap. we are left to mull over which crappy options might be less crappy.

I will agree the court is not really the problem and trying to 'fix' things there is just just as likely to lead to more mischief down the road, the Senate and the EC (i.e Constitution) are the problem.

So the baseline for the performance of public safety by the government in Tx is for parents to expect *more* than nineteen of their children to be gunned down on their average day at school? And surveys say voters prefer the GOP on crime issues?

the SO figured this out years ago.

I can't believe Abbot really said "It could be have been worse"? I'm sure grieving parents and community will love to hear that. What a horse's asz.

exactamundo. Or maybe we check in with Matthew Hale for more historical 'intent'

I'm going to disagree in Brieske's case and my logic is this: What he has to do is throw more breaking balls in competition but he can't go that in a major league game because he immediately gets behind and has to come in with the FB and get hammered, so he won't throw it. So he either stays in the game as best he can without getting enough work on the breaking balls, or he throws it and ends up quickly out of the game. I don't think this is the same thing as learning to sequence or learning ML hitters or even getting on top of his fastball more (Skubal last season). He doesn't really seem to have the pitches down at all yet, so Brieske needs reps doing exactly something he can't stay in games doing at this level. Maybe Fetter is a miracle worker but I don't see how he makes much progress, or at least as quickly as he could against better matched competition. Sure, I hope he throws a shutout next time out, I just don't see how he gets there yet.

and that leaves us with an ill-functioning anachronism of a government when the rest of the democratically governed world was whizzed right past us with far more functional parliamentary systems. The world the founders were writing for is gone - dead and buried; every bit as dead as the Senate of Rome. We can respect the philosophy of government by the people they championed without being bound by same limits imposed by the practicalities in 1787 when those imposed by 2022 are much different. We either rebuild a government for the country we are now or we perish clinging to fantasies of an idealized past. LOL - If the founders were as misty eyed about the past as today's American 'Originalists' are, they never would have overthrown their divinely providenced King.

I should clarify - I think term limits can help, but we over reacted and made them too short in MI. The two terms for Gov is OK but we should have allowed more like 4-5 terms for the House and Senate. There is too much churn and too little expertise in the MI Legislature. I think it's enough to insure the dinosaurs get moved out before they start seeing themselves as the institution - maybe 15 to 18 yrs.

we have term limits in MI, they have been pretty much a disaster. Be careful what you wish for.

I don't know what you mean by 'same.' Democracy is not giving pieces of land equal rights - it's giving people equal rights. Your vote in WY on national policy has no right to count 10 times as much a mine in MI. There is no justification in a democratic country for Wy and Ca to have the same number of reps at ANY government level. As Rob says, it's primarily an anachronism which has come down to us as the result of a lot of troubled history without any purpose in good government. In a proper 'Federal' system states exist to divide government function into more responsive units where optimum, not to disenfranchise voters in one state at the expense of those in another. If you are a US citizen, your vote toward US policies should count the same everywhere, or you really don't have a nation, you have something on the way to being broken.