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And he is sitting down for the whole season at age 34 while the “juggernaut” Yankees scuffle along at 19-16. He also missed the whole first half of last year. He made about $50 million for the pleasure of doing so.

It definitely could have been a terrible movie in the wrong hands. Any great movie could have been much worse for the same reason, just as any number of movies that were supposed to be terrible got saved by producers and directors who took them seriously and made them sneaky great—like Major League, which could have been more like Major League 3 in the wrong hands. My Cousin Vinny is another movie like that which, nine times out of ten, would have sucked eggs with the wrong director or producers, because the premise was so ripe for phoning it in.

They will wait out the rain as long as it takes the get three games in by end of day Thursday, because the logistics of making up a rainout in Denver later in the season is so difficult. If they still can’t manage to do so, they might make up the game on July 17, the last day of the All-Star break, when the Tigers are on their way to Texas for a series starting the next day, and the Rockies are preparing to start a home series. They’d have to coordinate with the All-Star managers to not play them, at least much, during that game. It would probably be a late afternoon game, like a 4pm start, to maximize TV exposure for Tigers fans.

I can’t believe this is the first post in this thread to mention A League of Their Own. One of the greatest (yes, not just best) baseball movies of all time. The premise is absolutely riveting, and the actual baseball playing is top notch in Hollywood terms. I don’t know who the technical advisor was who managed to make even Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell look passable as baseball players, but that person should get an Oscar for their work on it.

It was the signature role Caesar had honed through his hundreds of performances on stage in the role. Something I did not know before looking it up just now: Denzel was original Peterson on stage as well.

One of the all-time great meta lines in any movie ever.

Point of order: Lary Riley's CJ Memphis was not the murder victim. That was Adolph Caesar's Sergeant Waters. CJ was the guy who Waters goaded into hitting him, then CJ was sent to the brig where he committed suicide, to Waters' delight. Waters got murdered by private "Pete" Peterson (a movie breakout role for Denzel) in part because Pete hated Waters for what he did to CJ. "A Soldier's Story" is one of my all-time favorite movies. I could watch it over and over. I have, in fact, had "A Soldier's Story" sitting on my DirecTV DVR fro something like five years just so I can flip over and watch it anytime I want.

Holy "chat", I can't stop laughing at this.

I have long thought that the Ken Burns enterprise should do a thing on Interstate highways. It's got so many aspects to it that are in his wheelhouse: pictorial and video history; Americana; racial inequality, and an overall sesne of "it's different than you even thought it was". They could get at least four hours out of it, and maybe even six. I have a buddy who's a muckety-muck in the PBS world who has met Burns on several occasions, and I have mentioned to my buddy countless times over the years that he should pitch the idea to Burns. My suggestion doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

It wasn’t just them. I was only in grade school, but I was scared ****ing ****less I would be drafted to go to Vietnam when I turned 18 and killed there. I remember I would spend entire days ruminating on it and I would even cry while contemplating it. The other kids had no idea what I was on about (but then, I was a special ed kid, so they already didn’t know what I was on about). I cannot adequately express the wave of relief I felt when I learned the draft was going to end and Vietnam was winding down. I could see the sun shining and the birds singling and the fly balls flying again. I felt like I myself had won some cosmic lottery.

Never mind asking about whether the Capitol Police officers’ families will get compensated for their deaths in the service of protecting the people there—we already know the answer to that one—but what about the officer who had to shoot into the crowd where Babbitt was in order to stop them from breaking in and possibly killing multiple congressional reps? Is he going to be executed and his family billed for the bullet? Or maybe the next three generations of his family will get sent off to “reeducation” camp?

An obvious national security threat. 🫤

Aw man, you got halfway through the post strong and then you dropped the ball. 😉😁

OK, now here's another question: have the Tigers ever scored in six of the nine innings, and all six innings they scored in were multiple (i.e., 2+) runs? I'm gonna bet the answer is no. EDIT: D'oh! It's only five innings they scored in, not six. That one is more possible.

And here's the answer: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET200905150.shtml Brandon Inge and Ryan Raburn with five RBI each in a 14-1 annihilation of the A's on may 15, 2009.

When was the last time the Tigers has two hitters with five or more RBI in a game, as Sweeney (six) and Carpenter (five) do?

Slow motion blowout, indeed!

This has the potential to turn into a slow motion blowout.

Colt Bomb! Maybe he's starting to come around ... ?

The commercial break on MLB.tv when viewed through a browser is the least obnoxious of all platforms.

There's also a big difference between 230 plate appearances Tork got before they pulled the plug last season and the 35 plate appearances Jung has gotten so far. You may be right that Jung goes down when Vierling comes back.

His brain is continuously leaking out of his ears so he can't control what he says from moment to moment.

Well, good thing that's settled. 🙄 https://www.axios.com/2025/05/04/trump-third-term-tariffs-nbc President Trump threw cold water on the notion of seeking a third term in 2028 — an idea that has gained currency in some MAGA circles despite being unconstitutional, Axios' Alex Isenstadt writes. "This is not something I'm looking to do. I'm looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward," Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker in a "Meet the Press" interview airing this morning. Why it matters: Trump has teased the possibility of running again. He said in March that he wasn't "joking" about the possibility, and that "there are methods" by which he could seek another term, despite the 22nd Amendment prohibiting it. ... He won't fire Fed Chair Jay Powell: Trump backed away from his threat last month to remove Powell before his term ends in 2026, saying: "No, no, no. That was a total – why would I do that? I get to replace the person in another short period of time."

It actually did read to me like something Seth Meyers would have come up with.

At least we are still within range of being than Bert’s worst case scenario.