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Lemonade out of lemons: we'll have dual champions.

That’s what a fireman does. Or did, anyway.

Yaz’s series from hell continues apace.

And he flipped the bird at someone, I assume in the stands. I definitely want to know what happened.

He is just not having a good series all around. I loved when he flipped the bat out of frustration after striking out yesterday. We’re totally getting into his head.

They look fully rounded now!

So many fans wanted to fire the hitting coaches all last season. I thought it was more a lack of talent thing. Turns out it was a little of that, plus talent needed to develop and/or get unlocked. A lucky month here and there doesn’t hurt. I wonder how much influence Gleyber Torres, a hoary old 28-year-old veteran professional hitter, had on the other guys, in terms of professional approach to the job and whatnot.

From the MLB app this morning: These April surprises have held up in May The Tigers’ offense is legit Much like last year, when the Tigers made a shocking late-season turnaround to reach the playoffs, their pitching staff appeared to be the clear strength of the team heading into 2025. After Detroit fell short in its pursuit of free-agent third baseman Alex Bregmanover the winter, the club entered the season with much of the same lineup that scored the 11th-fewest runs in MLB a year ago. But while the Tigers have again been effective at run prevention, it’s not the pitching that’s driving their rise to the top of the AL standings -- it’s the offense. (OK, Tarik Skubalhas been pretty awesome, too.) Getting unexpected contributions from Spencer Torkelson, Javier Báez and Zach McKinstry, Detroit’s offense ranks fourth in the Majors in runs per game (5.07) this season, and only the Cubs and Dodgers have scored more runs in May.

No one who did the pizza “celly” ever looked like they were really into it, not even the guy who purportedly came up with it.

I’m sure he’s on Scott Harris’s Xmas card list. 😏

I have “constantly [chosen] to ignore that” because even though you haven’t said that in exactly as many words, you have been constantly implying as much with nearly every post you’ve posted, elevating Jew-hating Free Palestine extremists to a status equivalent to the actual dangerous numerous MAGA far right. Even now you are not saying in so many words that they are not as dangerous or as numerous as the MAGA far right—but you are implying it. And just like your prior implications, that’s good enough for me. You can continue elevating them to that level if you like. It’s a free country. But it’s going to look weird when you do, based on your implication that they are not as dangerous.

Trump does not think these are actual crimes. Crimes is what colored people do on the streets.

Whew!

I’m guessing I you found him far more interesting than Benetti and Dirks. 😉

I’m sorry, I don’t think I was clear on this. I don’t care who he is. Is that clear enough for you? 😉

I don’t know who the joker with the Giants hat on TV is, but I’m glad I get to listen to Dan and Bobby talking about the game instead of having to hear whatever it is he saying.

Not trying to set my own hair on fire or anything, but if he's back on the list after a holiday weekend with the same thing that's kept him out all year, it might be the end for Vierling.

Daddy, don't you walk so fast ...

It might be even worse than this: Holton's also much worse this season than 2023. The main problem is that his cutter isn't really cutting and he's not fooling anyone with it this year, and he has increased his usage of that pitch to even higher than last year. He will probably have to retool his mix to work in more four-seamers and sinkers and throw changes off those. He should probably dump or rework the sweeper as well. As for Brieske, the sinker is killing him. Maybe he needs to show the pitch outside the zone early in the count and then pound them with heat.

Not really, He was never coming here anyway.

Two percent of voters is not going to destroy an entire political party—not even the Democratic Party. Please let's stop pretending that the far left is just as dangerous as the far right, because the numbers just aren't there. And not only is it not similar in scope, it's not even similar in kind. I'll start to consider they are equivalent in kind when far leftists storm the Capitol, threaten lawmakers' lives, kill Capitol cops, and then all get pardoned by a far leftist Democratic president.

I think we can educatedly guess that at least a third of Americans think the idea of the United States becoming a christofascist autocracy of the type the AfD is promulgating is JUST FORKING DANDY. The trick is alarming the remaining two-thirds of people enough to motivate them to show up on Election Day and overwhelm these end-times fantasy devotees with their votes. Assuming we still have free and fair elections, of course.

So, five years ago. At least you're getting a little closer to the present day. But is Bernie really is your idea of the Jew-hating Free Palestine far left you are basically claiming is on the precipice of bringing down the entire Democratic Party? Setting aside whether I agree with your characterizations of some of the six congressional reps you named as being part of the Jew-hating Free Palestine far left, we're talking about 1.5 million votes cast for them in the general election out of almost 71 million votes cast for Democrats. That comes out to 2% of all Democratic votes. Two percent of voters are going to destroy the Democratic party and its traditional brand of center-left liberalism? Seriously? And your highlighting candidates of that ilk who actually lost their primaries—who never even got to the general election in the first place—weakens your case even further. In the meantime, at least a third of all Republican voters cast their ballots for nihilist MAGA christofascists dedicated to literally destroying democracy in this country basically because it does not comport with what their preachers tell them an ancient book of anthology says. That's a third versus two percent, which is roughly a 16:1 ratio. How on earth is that even close to being equivalent? You are way, way, way overblowing the danger of the Jew-hating Free Palestine far left to the Democratic Party. Which basically makes you the Bill Maher of this forum. 😉

It’s practically irrelevant whether Donald Trump is misjudging the motivations of nearly every other world leader. Those are not the leaders he cares even a little about. He might care about what they think of him specifically as it relates to his place in the world, but he sure doesn’t care what they think about how the world should and should not operate. The leaders Trump cares about are motivated by the same lust for power and material wealth as he. That’s why he gravitates toward them and disparages the rest. I do agree he doesn’t understand either side of the conflict to any reasonable level of depth, but I’m pretty sure he does understand what his prime objective is.