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At a minimum, it all seems kinda secondary to the debate. Which is pretty sad.

I would argue that people with his views would allow moms in some situations to die. Any consideration there at all?

If a mom has to undergo an ectopic pregnancy, where her life may be in danger, should she be forced to do it?

One thing I've been doing this year is trying to compare starting lineups with the ones from the year before on that day. One year ago, the Tigers featured Wilson Ramos and Jacoby Jones. It was 12-9 loss to the Red Sox in Boston. By any objective measures, even considering the results thus far, they are set up much better than a year ago. Whether they show up quickly or not is a fair question, but it will click at some point.

Every candidate in the fall (and earlier) should be asked hard questions about who should be held criminally liable, whether they are in favor of exceptions for rape or incest or life of mother, whether certain forms of contraceptions should be banned, etc. Those in favor of this decision more generally should be asked those questions as well. I genuinely respect the position on moral grouds, I get it, but for as long as I've been debating this issue, the most pro-life side of the debate generally just sidesteps or avoids these sorts of questions. Because they are hard and difficult questions that do not fit neatly into the absolutism of the stance they take. It's just easy to shoot first and ask questions later. It really isn't about politics or anything like that, the people simply deserve to know what these candidates wish to do and how it will impact their lives if Roe is reversed.

It's a different day and age, but stuff like this should give GOP consultants nightmares

Worth noting as well that the ARP provided funding to the police. In theory anyway, should diffuse that talking point, but will not.

Here's the actual video of a portion of the comments from one of the Houston beat writers.... make of it what you will, but it seems pretty innocuous to me.

That dude has been stirring the pot for as long as I've been a fan of this team.... you kinda have to take what he says with a grain of salt. Also doesn't help that, based on his Twitter feed, he seems to watch more MSNBC primetime than baseball these days.

Around this time last year (which is what I'm talking about), Manning had about an 8.00 ERA in Toledo, Mize was struggling until he stabilized in Mid May or so, Baddoo struggled after the first couple of weeks. I'll grant Turnbull was good during the 9-24 stretch, but I remember the mood being as ugly, if not worse, than it is right now. It wasn't until afterward that things turned around. I would add there's more hope with this team than people seem willing to admit.... particularly on the pitching side and with Tork being here and Greene getting back at some point as well. Mize and Manning are both throwing baseballs as well, which I don't think they'd be doing if the team expected them to need surgery. But expectations were set high by the organization and they aren't being met, which leaves people pissed off. It's understandable.

I get what you're saying, but it's too bad the old board is no longer around, because there weren't any glimmers of hope being shared during that stretch.

When Googling, this is the first mention I can find of the opt-out being tied to performance or expectations. Maybe there's an earlier one though. As always, consider the source.

Previously would have said no, now, I don't know about them specifically (all depends on the return), but they appear to have depth in pitching that they do not have in terms of position players coming up through the system where they definitely could look at trading pitchers and returning players that could help them offensively.

So after 24 games, this team has scored the same amount of runs as last year's team while having given up about 10 less runs. Feels so much like last year it's uncanny.... basically only difference is that the pitching is now top third of the AL instead of bottom in terms of runs allowed.. I remember Yoda on the old board scolding everyone (correctly) by saying that the offense was unsustainably bad and if he were still here he'd be saying the same thing.... just hope it happens sooner rather than later.

Not used to this sort of optimism from you lol

The caveat being that DD makes everyone around him sound better, but the game that DD/Shep did during the Spring Training was probably the most I've enjoyed a broadcast involving Shep.

That's fair, but I don't know that other manager's have had a career arc like his though. Most managers who head somewhere else to manage get to that other place through being fired or not having their contract renewed for performance reasons at their last job. Hinch, OTOH, was fired for his place in the scandal and there's zero doubt that had the scandal not happened, he'd still be managing there and, for all we know, would have been there until retirement (similar to Bobby Cox). And that didn't happen. I imagine it's a source of regret and shame for him, so it's not surprising that he may be wistful of different times when he goes back to Houston. Put another way, the guy lost his dream job, and one he'll never be able to get back. It may not happen like that in baseball often, but it's not that uncommon a story in everyday life. But that doesn't mean he isn't fully invested in the job he currently has.... and to date, comments included, he's never indicated that he's not invested here.

Cincinnati? lol

I mean, it may be time to pump the breaks on projecting him to be a glorified Jake Rogers.... the reality is that we don't know what he'll become. And that's OK.

Correa's turn in the barrel

"Can't make it up, folks!"

Of course there isn't. He can wish he hadn't lost his dream job near home while also being fully invested in the job he currently has. There's enough to complain about with the way things have gone this season without inventing new things to complain about.

Appears that this is the quote a lot of Tigers fans seem to be jumping on to assume Hinch is gone any day now...

So she clearly has the patience for the job 🤣

It won't happen, but Mario coming back would be a plus.