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Part of it is seeing eye hits for the Twins this inning, and the other part is we were just due to be flat in a game. Of course, we do still have three innings to make up the deficit.

You might hate Big Gretch now, but this passes the smell test for me. 6. 📷 1,000 words Photo: Eric Lee/The New York Times Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) blocks her face as President Trump answers questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday during an executive-order signing session. Why it matters: "The Michigan governor's awkward Oval Office appearance reflected how several Democratic state leaders are cultivating cordial but politically risky relationships with the president," the N.Y. Times reports. 🔎 The backstory: Whitmer, one of the top potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, hadn't expected to be in front of cameras, The Times' Reid Epstein and Tyler Pager write. She "had come to the White House to discuss funding for an Air National Guard base near Detroit and aid for thousands of Michiganders who had just been hit by an ice storm": "Trump's aides surprised her ... by ushering her into the Oval Office not for her scheduled one-on-one meeting with the president, but for a politically loaded appearance before the press corps. She found herself an unwilling participant in his unending reality show, with photos of her rocketing around group chats of Democratic strategists who wondered what on earth she was doing." Keep reading (gift link).

Here to remind people that over three million more people voted for Hillary for president than for Trump.

I'm glad I can engage the radio audio over the video and I don't have to put up with that nonsense.

They just showed on the teevee that the Tigers have the majors' best regular season winning percentage since last August 11 at .690 (40-18). The Dodgers are second at .672 (41-20). All we do is win.

There is no stopping the Tork at this moment.

Why are Benetti and Dirks talking to some guy named Zach Vraa from A to Z Creamery in Hopkins, MN? What's the relevance here?

The Dodgers have scored 72 runs and given up 70. They are 11-5. The White Sox have scored 49 runs and give up 50. They are 4-10.

Yup. https://www.axios.com/2025/04/13/trump-redefines-fraud-corruption 1 big thing: Trump redefines fraud Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Bruised by years of civil suits, criminal charges and a historic felony fraud conviction, President Trump is using his second term to delegitimize the very concept of white-collar crime, Axios' Zachary Basu writes. Why it matters: Trump's belief that he was a victim of "lawfare" has tainted his view of the justice system. Paired with his crusade to crush the "Deep State" regulatory complex, Trump could enable a golden age of financial fraud, ethics watchdogs fear. 🔭 The big picture: At an institutional level, Trump's administration has moved swiftly in its first 80 days to narrow the government's mandate for enforcing fraud. In early February, Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE team effectively shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the post-recession agency created to protect Americans from predatory financial practices. Trump then paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, claiming the 1977 anti-bribery statute had been "stretched beyond proper bounds" and was hurting U.S. companies' ability to compete overseas. In March, Trump fired two Democrats from the Federal Trade Commission, taking aim at one of the government's top watchdogs for corporate fraud, consumer deception and antitrust violations. 🧮 By the numbers: The administration has paused, dropped or withdrawn enforcement actions against at least 100 corporations accused of misconduct, according to the progressive watchdog group Public Citizen. Zoom in: On an individual level, Trump has used his clemency powers and influence to rehabilitate disgraced businessmen and politicians — turning fraud convictions and indictments into badges of loyalty. Eric Adams: The Justice Department dropped its corruption charges against the New York City mayor, claiming the case would interfere with his ability to cooperate with Trump's deportation agenda. Trevor Milton: Trump issued a full pardon to the Nikola electric vehicle founder, who was convicted of defrauding investors and later donated $1.8 million to help Trump's campaign. Carlos Watson: Trump commuted the Ozy Media founder's nearly 10-year prison sentence, which he was set to begin after his conviction for deceiving investors about his company's financials. Bitmex: The three co-founders and a former employee of the crypto exchange were granted pardons after pleading guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Devon Archer and Jason Galanis: The two former Hunter Biden associates — who were convicted of defrauding a Native American tribe — received clemency after cooperating in GOP investigations into the former president's son. Rod Blagojevich: After commuting his sentence in 2020, Trump granted a full pardon to the former Illinois governor, who was convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama's former Senate seat. What they're saying: "President Trump will always stand for law and order, ending the weaponization of the legal system, and rooting out fraud in the federal government," White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields said. "Every action he has taken in his second term reflects these priorities and is authorized by the Constitution," Fields added. "Ethics watchdogs that ignored the previous administration's egregious legal abuses against President Trump have no credibility today." 👀 The bottom line: For Trump, the concept of "fraud" has become less a legal violation than a political label — one he applies freely to his enemies and erases for his allies. This past week, Trump ordered an investigation into former U.S. cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs for stating the 2020 election was secure. "He's the fraud," Trump declared. "He's a disgrace." Keep reading.

Yes, but on two separate devices, though: phone for the audio, some other device for the video.

Early returns indicate that position player coaching is starting to work, especially the baserunning.

I think it might be 35 in the last 50 now, since we are 2-1 since the tweet posted.

Especially considering three key position pieces are still out.

Sorry to hear. Radio feed can be paused on the MLB app.

That's exactly why they wouldn't fire him. The appearance of instability when a franchise fires people all over the place reduces the sale price. Plus, if they were to fire Baldelli, hire someone else, then sell the team, the new manager would probably get fired, too, and no decent replacement manager worth anything would take a job he knew would put him on the chopping block right out of the gate.

One way around it, kind of, is this: turn on the Twins feed on an mlb.tv app connected or cast to your TV, like a Samsung app or Apple TV box; then bring up Dan and Dan on Tigers radio on the MLB app on another device, like your phone. It's a two step process after that: (1) sync them up; (2) enjoy. I did that yesterday when Dan and Dan kept dropping out on the audio feed of the Apple TV+ app—I pulled up the guys on the MLB app on my phone and just listened to that.

We could well be 11-3 right now if only we'd won game 3 of the Yankees series that Colt booted with errors, obviating our comeback; and game 2 of the Dodgers series that Beau blew in the 10th.

When you watch your local team on mlb.tv, the opponent's TV crew are blacked out.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but cellies suck. There, I said it. But you all were thinking it.

Doesn't break my heart. 😁

Man, we just carved them up like nobody’s business today, didn’t we?

Right, well, never mind that Bregman was never coming here anyway. The thing does make a handy cudgel to hammer the front office with.

Yes, but also, a mental whiff by the runner Miranda, which pulled Colt’s ass out of the jackpot.

Makes sense—if a country willingly limits its ability to source products from outside its borders, that creates scarcity, which is great in the short term when it manifests in the higher prices and greater wealth transfer from plebes to oligarchs they seek. But at some point, when things evolve beyond that to widespread shortages and the resulting civil unrest, the problem of too many people for too few resources may well be addressed.