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Nice tidbit about the Vander Meer anniversary, but it was the first night game at Ebbets Field, not Crosley (where the first ever ML night game had been played three years earlier). Talking about esoteric nerdy factoids…

https://www.metafilter.com/209194/Democratic-Minnesota-Lawmakers-Shot-in-Their-Homes#8734226

https://www.threads.com/@mediumboi/post/DK2N7dcx9SM?xmt=AQF0sSbvKz9Wcq3k8GC_Qiu9ZrH0ve521KO_Z-_-lWteJg

Congressman Backpfeifengesicht wades in.

Please don’t let this turn into one of those “come in threes” deals.

Next year’s World Cup is looking pretty rocky too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/world-cup-trump-1.7549793

Looks like the Pig-King has officially declared war on his subjects. https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/marines-high-alert-deploy-los-angeles-ice-protests/

https://www.metafilter.com/209097/rebellion-or-danger-of-a-rebellion#8731449

And hypocrisy a display of power.

*Snuffy voice* Ooooooh, dearrrrrr

When you’re a star they let you do it, I’ve been given to understand. Well, “star”.

https://www.metafilter.com/209045/130-Days-of-Elon-Musk#8730385

Joni doubles down: https://bsky.app/profile/keithedwards.bsky.social/post/3lqimvunyb22n

Sometimes you’ve just gotta laugh, if only to keep from screaming profanities and finding yourself unable to stop.

I did National Socialist this coming. https://www.wired.com/story/trump-office-remigration-state-department-europe-far-right/

It’s Festivus again.

Any national broadcast is going to have flaws. Either you try to match up local guys like Roku and end up with this kind of stuff or you use dedicated crews like Fox/TBS/ESPN and have booths where the chemistry is okay but they never really know about any team in depth. Maybe they should just have each team’s regular TV crew call half of each national broadcast. But of course then you’d have fans pissed off at having to listen to “enemy” announcers for half the game.

I’m petty sure Jason has been primarily if not exclusively a TV guy for most of his career. It’s a different skillset and some never make the adjustment. I remember when ESPN Radio would let Chris Berman do “play-by-play” for at least one postseason series every year and be completely useless at it.

That’s one of three big reasons I’m cool with just doing radio for most games. The others are Dan Dickerson and lack of money for cable/streaming.

This is the first Tigers TV game I’ve seen in a while. Does CoPa often have so many fans disguised as empty seats behind home?