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This story just hurts my heart. A guy in Wisconsin robbed and beat a migrant. The guy gets arrested and the migrant was ready to testify against the guy. The guy then frames the migrant by writing a letter in the migrant’s name making a death threat against Trump, a totally made-up thing, and mails it to the local ICE office so the migrant can be deported before he testifies. The guy’s whole point was to be set free. The administration, of course, loves to believe stuff like that and arrests the migrant. They even issued a press release trumpeting the migrant’s arrest. Dogshooter Noem puts her ugly Botox face on the whole story. Then the guy gets busted for lying and is now facing additional charges for the frame-up. But here’s the kicker: the administration is still holding the migrant for making death threats against Trump, they are still going forward with his deportation hearing, and they still have the press release on the DHS website. We all pretty much know what’s going to happen next. Man admits to attempting to frame migrant accused of threatening Trump, prosecutors say

As if Rashida Tlaib matters even a little.

The dirty little secret is, they don’t care if they drive it out of business at best, and they want to drive it out of business at worst. After all, it’s rotten with dirty slimy libs and it’s named for an anti-states right taxachusetts lech.

I don’t believe defense is like hitting, where it’s typical to come in and struggle mightily before getting your sea legs and then performing at your optimum level. Defensive skills are far less fine than hitting, and I would expect someone who’s good at defense in the minors to be already at something like 90% or 95% of their optimum level from their very first inning in the majors, with only super fine tuning needed; as opposed to a good minor league hitter coming up at something like 50% of their optimum major league level, where some significant changes would need to be made to get them fully up to max. Am I making sense?

Do you give up one of Liranzo or Briceño for four months of him?

I mean seen live, not on TV. But yes. Yes you do.

Just for that I’m going tomorrow AND Thursday. How do ya like the mapples? 😃

I have seen the Tigers in three games this year, in three different stadiums. They are 0-3, gave up 16 runs, and scored a grand total of three.

Man, what the hell else can go wrong here? All four runs have scored after there should have been a third out.

That the run is unearned is certainly cold comfort.

In case you didn’t know, Wenceel Perez was born on Devils Night. How Detroit.

Greetings from beautiful Chicago, Illinois!

I think we'll be fine without four months of Bo Bichette.

Or the first part of 2021.

I have no more reactions left to give, so ...

If you're thinking of what I'm thinking of, then close: That was a P23. I don't believe this came up during the game, but Dingler earned himself an assist on the play.

I like my chances!

I am leaning toward going. Wife won't go with me. May have to go solo.

You got a good point—although even Cy Young winners could use a day off on the mound!

My loss is Oblong's gain: I got tickets some time ago for Thursday's getaway game. Skubal was in line for the start. But today's bullpen game pushes him back to Friday in Detroit vs the Cubs. As of now, Casey Mize is penciled in for Thursday, but even that might not happen, because there's a good chance Wednesday gets rained out, and if so, with Olson and Jobe out and Montero still gassed, that probably means the return of Sawyer Gipson-Long, which, that would be a pretty good storyline to follow.

If you'd've told many fans last season it was going to be like that this season, they'd've assumed the entire hitting coaching staff would have been replaced to make that happen.

I was eight when Apollo 8 went up, which is too young to realize what a humongous fricking deal it was. I had no context for processing that. It was just another thing happening on the way to my growing up. In fact, by the time the later Appolo missions were going up, I was bored with it. Oh, what, this again? Try that on your imagination.

I don’t know if there’s anything we can do, at least in the short term. This is the dictatorship playbook, and Americans have long been so sheltered from that, they are not even aware it exists, let alone recognize it when it’s in front of their face. But you’re right: you and I and the rest of us have no power as individuals to effect change. Our power lies in our acting as a collective. But that’s uniquely difficult to achieve in this country because American ideology elevates individualism above all else and discourages—and even occasionally criminalizes—collectives. Remember how big an insult it was meant to be by dismissing Obama as a “community organizer”? Because community is only a few letters from communism, amirite? As far as Trump being on the hook, I don’t mean prosecuting him or anything like that. I’m talking about the simple act of disavowing that he has any responsibility for words coming out under his name, if we were to learn it’s not really him doing the actual writing. But of course it is if they come out under his name, even if he never saw the words before they went out. They’re still his words, and he’s responsible for them. We can’t let him off the hook by saying he’s too stupid to think up words. That’s basically infantilizing him. By excusing him for things done in his name that people believe he’s not capable of concocting himself, we’re letting him off the hook. I’m just saying, don’t let him off the hook. He’s not just “following orders”.

This is exactly what people voted for.