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Hmmm... How much dead money would it be to release Cabrera out at the end of this season?.... .....(runs out of fingers and toes....) a lot.

was 2005 the first 'one and done' year?

I'll live with 75 in 5 for young FB pitcher. Sure he should try to get guys out quicker, but it can't become more important that getting them out at all. You don't want to ruin a guy who can give you a solid 6 trying too hard to turn him into someone who gives you 7.

3" snow flakes falling in A^2 right now. Crazy.

yeah, I think the bottom line is much simpler: Putin loses this war convincingly, Putin is out in the Kremlin in relatively short order. Maybe not immediately, but the gears will have started to turn in an inexorable fashion. I do believe that is the one dynamic which is probably reliable. Losing wars is pretty universally a death knell for a fascist dictatorship. That is really all that is of primary importance - which is why the West cannot back off on the hard military support until the Ukrainians have insured this is an unambiguous defeat.

didn't miss on a hanging breaking ball. Nice Tork with a great AB on his HR. Fouled off a bunch of pitches then got out ahead of a pitch a high and in out of the K zone. Fulmer's FB still on the low side of 92.....😢 Victor takes a walk on a close pitch and then hits the ball in the air sufficiently to get it over the fence. I hope he's not going to leave this all in ST.

Of course think how much stronger our position on this would be if we had put Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo and Jay Bybee in jail ourselves after Abu Ghraib

unfortunately, if that were true, Yzerman probably would not be the last to see it and Blash would already be gone. Well who knows, maybe he is already dead man walking....

Hope so. Lots of arm talent there.

well, FU politics is as much a symptom of the general coarsening of US culture. Not sure how you separate it. while there is value in that, I still think it's overall a factor that leads to political passivity. "I've had my laugh, now I'v done my politics." It's another thing that comes at you. Of course the same is true more globally in the fact that media has moved so totally into the video/visual realm in the last 70 yrs. I think that whole shift has been a passivating influence. You don't engage with with the talking head - other than maybe emotionally, which is probably worse than not at all. Heck - the kind of mental discipline that hanging out here and thinking through an attempt at an intelligent conversation is more useful intellectual exercise IMV than 100 hr of watching video.

There's a decent chance Manning struggles and then they have an easy decision. Of course, we should also take Alexander's success with a grain of salt. His lack of velocity may start playing a lot worse once he's facing hitters with 50+ ABs. Hopefully not, but I think that is a definite possibility.

It would be nice if Baddoo became half the fielder Curtis was. He was pretty good until he started to lose his wheels, which is all you can ask of a CF.

Couldn't say, haven't seen SNL in probably 20 yrs. But at least as I remember it the difference would be that SNL doesn't (at least in general) turn around 5 min later and ask you take them seriously. To me that is where the subtle intellectual hazard/conditioning lies. >It's the F.U. politics I don't listen to country music but I think I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was caught captive in a public space where it was playing and was sort of blown away because it was like a constant 30 min of "FU if you don't buy my version of Amerika" lyrics. Yeah - it's everywhere.

There was an argument to make before this started that war *could* have been worse than capitulation for the Ukrainian people *IF* the Ukrainian people didn't care that much about their government and were being dragged into it by anti-Russian minority element. That could have been the kind of charge to level against neo-con-ism as it was in Iraq. But at this point, the War in Ukraine has shown itself to have nothing to do with the kind of neo-con motivated nation building project they were pushing in Iraq. Ukraine has manifested absolutely to be a nation. This is a simple repudiation of a raw war of imperial conquest. As different from the neo-con's Iraq II as Kuwait was.

delusional. ..or just captive (yeah, I'll go with B)

Would be a good time for the boys in the starting lineup to start hitting a little bit.

The culture would rather have its success myths and heroes than more people like you pulling back the curtains on questionable wizardry. You are stuck with the camel hair shirt, locusts and wild honey my friend.

I don't like Maher because shows like his are part of what has trivialized politics in the US as entertainment first, civic responsibility maybe later. I don't mind political comedy, I like political comedy, but once you go that route don't expect me to then take anything you do seriously because you have suddenly 'shifted gears' for the moment. The fact that he is there as an entertainer *first* playing for laughs inevitably undercuts any message that I, or anyone would ever need actually act on any information he imparts, for instance any more than I would take some other comic's riff about some faulty kitchen appliance of his as a serious product review.

another question is maybe what can he do when before he can fully return. For instance - if at some point he can't run but can start taking BP (with a hard shoe!) or non-impact cardio etc., that can take substantial time off his return to play

But a misplaced critique of Trump, who is operating in a different realm than his critics. This works perfectly well with his audience. The point is not about the store, it's not about English/Germanic pronunciation, it's about trying to run down Peter Meijer, whose primary opponent he supports, so going to silly name games is always at the top of the playlist. It's Trump personal disrespect 101. It won't matter at all that they all shop there any more than it matters to an 8 yr old that he is perfectly able to pronounce the name of other kid he making fun of, heck it could even be his mother's maiden name - still wouldn't/doesn't matter. Of course, even people who are perfectly familiar with Meijer would still agree that the presence of the 'j' is silly (in English). Full disclosure, I think the spelling of my own name is silly (in English), but it's hardly worth the effort to get it changed since that kind of thing isn't even worth the time to talk about to people with more maturity than Trump and Trumpers - which is a relevant point. Besides - odd names do come with certain advantages - for instance you never get other people's mail....

tell us how you really feel.

yes he would cost the Tigers a pick but as I read it 1st round is protected. Reading back a bit, he apparently turned down an extension offer from the Mets in xs of 100M before they made the qualifying offer so I'd guess the Tigers just aren't going to be interested in another multiyear deal in that range for a 30 yr old.

If Reyes flops at the plate that seems the inevitable outcome, though it's hard to look forward to, Harold is not a good outfielder.

They are daily raising up a stronger army against them. The morale and motivation difference the Russians have created by their actions more than counter balances the 3:1 population ratio theoretically supporting their army's numbers. With continued western support I don't see any possibly way the Russians can prevail in this conflict at this point short of starting WWIII, which they would also lose (which they also well know). The question we all pondered in this forum before this all started was "Would the Ukrainians fight." Well damn if they have not answered the bell beyond anyone in the West's wildest dreams.

it would be second round? He might be worth it IF he is healthy - depending on how many years he demands. The Tigers don't have much close in the way of OF prospects after Greene. The top position players in the minors now will be IF, (Kreidler, Santana, Pachero, Paredes), and C (Dingler). The first OF left in the Tiger prospect list is Campos at about 10, who is not close, and Meadows at about 20, who is probably not going to make the majors. Tigers have shown in the past they don't mind working with Boras, but that said the asking price will very likely be a non-starter...