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****ing Tork. Trade value dropping with each at bat.

So the Sweeney error on the easy ground ball is a hit now. Huh.

See? I was right. 😁

OK, post-error, those were three quick outs.

Yes, I did say you were going to love watching Baez.

Oh boy, this is not good when the side gets struck out and then we can't get routine grounders.

Those swings are telling us they're not really seeing Boyd.

Keep your beat poetry out of the baseball thread, you hippie freak.

Vierling is kicking himself more after the Riley walk.

Chris did prove he would open his checkbook in the right situation. It's just that the guy he trusted to tell him it was the right situation didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

Vierling was totally anxious his first at bat, maybe trying to make it all happen right now.

Boyd off to a good start for the Tigers!

Yes, and also, major league teams and players have minimum standards for facilities and amenities that most if not all minor league parks simply cannot deliver on.

Yes, it’s stupid, but there’s an actual reason Trump is doing this: he is resetting his supporters’ expectations of what should be considered election interference or fraud. Ten years ago no one would have thought an edited interview could ever be considered so. Now tens of millions of people will think so. Trump is rewiring America’s brain, and he’s getting help from experts who’ve done it to entire nations before us. We are becoming Eastern Europe.

I know many people married anywhere from 20+ to 60+ years who are in dysfunctional marriages. People who love Hitler and Trump are not normal people, and they were not born loving them.They were taught by dysfunctional people while in dysfunctional circumstances and they are passing that on to younger generations in their own dysfunctional circumstances as well. You can’t make them sound normal.

There’s too much money in Tampa for them to leave, even if it can never be a baseball town, but if there were ever an excuse to bail on a town, this is it.

Because of their dysfunctional situations?

The same tired old playbook.

Nobody but the mopes thought that.

Yes, and more to the point, they will use it as evidence in their blizzard of lawsuits to get the election overthrown. I think maybe that’s what the rallies at Coachella and MSG are about: look at all the Trump people in these states and we’re losing them? How is that even possible? Sure, this will fail over and over and Trump will lose almost all of these lawsuits, but all he needs is at least one to break through and make it to SCOTUS. It’s a numbers game, sort of like conception—just need one to get through.

Maybe it just goes to demonstrate how tens of millions of people grew up with and continue to live in dysfunctional circumstances at home and at work, people who routinely develop and maintain toxic relationships, at which point someone like Donald Trump is actually what a strong leader looks like to them. More people may be coming to that point of view in this kind of honest way than we realize.

Especially if the Dissenting Wife Effect is real.

Eastern Europe is a hard place for someone to live and be cool.

Well, we already dinged the big four Guards relievers Smith, Herron, Gaddis and Clase for five hits and two runs in five innings on Thursday. Getting another look at them on Saturday probably won’t hurt as much as help.