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I think there are a lot of people as you describe, but I also think there are a lot of people who vote for him because everything they've seen about him makes him look tough and cool, and there are also a lot of people who vote for him because he's entertaining and makes them laugh, and there are still other swho vote for him because everyone they know are voting for him, and yet others vote for him because they are afraid of the outside world he is describing to them. I think people vote for him for all kinds of different reasons.

lol: "Turns out, Vance didn't want to have one-on-one call with Rue — the senator sought a group call with constituents. "'We didn't trust what that would look like because we were concerned those being brought on may not even be our constituents.' said the mayor ..."

Honest question: is "not endorsing" exactly the same as "not voting for"? Or can she mentally parse a difference between the two?

Serious question: I wonder how many people will vote for Trump because their preacher told them in church that voting for Trump is a godly act, and that voting for Harris is whatever the evangelical equivalent of a mortal sin is? It's got to be in the thousands in each of the key battleground states.

Maybe he's addressing the girl about Santa Claus. Did she live in Maine?

They all know who rump is and they already like him, or at least the idea of him, so an interview is not necessary. Trump is like God in a very basic way: everybody who believes in him has a very personal idea of what he is, or what he'll do, and that he will do all the things they like and none of the things they don't like. You hear this if you've ever listened to interviews with red hats: the red hats who want the deportations are salivating at the prospect of them, and the red hats who don't care for the deportations will say, oh he's just blustering, he won't actually do it. Abortion is another issue like that: the people who want to ban abortion insists that he will sign the bill when it comes to him, and the people who don't want it insists he will veto the bill. And all of this despite what he actually says. Everyone believes in the personal Trump they have in their head, and while they all might want different things from him, the one thing that connects all of them is that they will vote for him.

Most of the people voting for Trump are doing it primarily because he entertains them, which is why they don't recognize or care about his mental lapses: they think it's all part of the act. They also don't care about the fascism—the part where the machinery of state crushes individuals—because they think it's going to crush the people they hate, and not themselves.

I think we all knew they would go back to largher letters next year, but going back to regular uniforms for the ASG is a nice surprise. Not that it will make the game actually meaningful, but it might make the game feel marginally more meaningful.

Would love to get an actual rivalry with those guys because Cleveland has always been the closest team to us, and yet we have never been rivals because we have never fought for pennants against each other.

Or maybe there’s a more strategic reason. 🤔

I know some will disagree, because at the risk of pounding a usually useful phrase to death, we are playing with house money, and anything we do in the playoffs is gravy when considering the long arc of the franchise trajectory, for which the ultimate goal is becoming a contender on a perennial basis, versus leaving it all on the field in the service of a single playoff run. That said, I wish the Tigers didn't basically lay down these past two games. I think it’s a bad look, I hope A.J. realizes that, and I hope he addresses that with these kids. After all, all we had to do was win one of these games and we’d be off to playing an easier team next week instead of a better team. I mean, Iook, I will enjoy this coming week no matter what happens, there’s no doubt about that. Even losing a two-game sweep is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, and i will celebrate this season and especially the way they charged into the playoffs in the end. But I will tell you what: if the Royals end up beating a slumping Orioles team at the same time we get smoked out of Houston, I will be a least a little peeved about what could have been.

God damn it, Tork, what the **** did you want on that 3-and-1 cookie?! You should have smoked that 500 feet right out of the ballpark. Christ Almighty, I will not miss you when we deal you this winter. At least we got a run out of the deal on the bases loaded walk, but Jesus, man, I thought you were aspiring to be a professional hitter.

Steve Stone is patronizingly blowing kisses to John Schiffren for the difficult year he has had following one of the most popular play-by-play guys in baseball.

Looks like Keider Montero is turning back into a pumpkin.

I’m pretty sure Olson was always getting the Game Two start. I think we might be talking Game Three now.

Now Keider Montero is getting trigger time this game? Does that mean he’s not starting in Houston/Baltimore? Are we doing the bulk reliever in Game Three where Montero comes in for five innings in the second? Or might this mean that Jackson Jobe might get a start?

Man, Mize got discombobulated on that grounder which should have been an inning-ending double play.

Man, what a heady play by Sweeney at second, recovering the Colt Keith bobble on the grounder. Almost got two out of it!

Hope I jinxed my prediction!

Right. Well, that and the fact that he’s an established major league pitcher who is not at the stage of his career where it’s one bad year and it’s curtains for him. Even if he were making a million next year, i think he’d still get the same shot.

Looks like the Tigers are definitely playing with house money and phoning it in. Our approach to this game is not unlike taking a half-hearted stab at the slots at 3:30am with money you won in blackjack before going back up to the room for the night. Might as well get used to the idea that we’re going to Houston on Tuesday. Hopefully Yordan Alvarez will be out for the series with his injury.

Maeda is not going to get cut this winter, I’m as close to 100% sure of that as I can be. Same with Javy. They will both get a chance in Lakeland to show what they can do, but if Javy is batting a buck-ten on March 15, or Maeda has a 10 ERA by then, either or both might be simply cut.

And now here comes Casey Mize. Looks like he might not be on the Wild Card roster, either.

I feel bad for him because he was signed to come here and help make us respectable, and now the team is making the playoffs in spite of him, and that has to weigh on his psyche some. I would wish something like that only on bad people.