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Of course.

You call a business's 800 number to discuss a specific issue you have with their product. Their AI bot asks you to go through a number of voice prompts that verify your information, account numbers, etc. You assume you tell them once and whomever you talk to will be given that info. Then you get to a live person and you have to tell them all this information all over again because they don't have it on their screen. This **** happens to me all the time, so it barely registers a rise out of me anymore. Today was a new one. Instead of voice prompts verifying me and my account info, I went to a live person (with an Asian accent, which I always assume is someone offshore). They ask me all the verifying information, then ask me specifically what do I want to discuss. I tell them, checking account. They ask what the specific problem is. I tell them, assuming that matters in terms of whom they transfer me to. Then, after spending all that time explaining myself and my situation to them, they transfer me to someone who has no idea I'd even talked to anyone before them, and so I have to start all over explaining myself and my situation to them. I sometimes wonder if they make it all this infuriating on purpose in order to frustrate people and limit the amount of calls they receive.

Good for them. Hit 'em in the wallet, man. Red hats will whine that they shouldn't be allowed to do this. Maybe the Musk government will sue them.

I will be in FLA March 8 and 9. Tigers at Blue Jays in Dunedin on Saturday (first time in a while I'll be paying attention to the national anthems), then Pirates in Lakeland on Sunday. Hoping to see everyone at the top of the prospects list for at least a couple reps.

I feel as though Sweeney will be given a fair chance to win the starting job outright, or at least be the strong side of a platoon situation. As for the service clock thing, I don't believe there's a long-term concern about that since we have Bryce Rainer and/or Kevin McGonigle in our long-term plans for shortstop, unless Sweeney blossoms into an All-Star shortstop, which I suppose is a possibility given his first-round selection cred.

News flash, Don: they know exactly what they are doing. The person who doesn't know what these Trumpers and Muskovites are doing is you.

They think what we refer to as "real conservatives" are hopeless, spineless leftist running dogs.

It's almost as though they have a meeting the first thing every morning to figure out the most outrageous, disgusting, corrupt thing they can do that day so they can shock people and laugh about it.

I get that and agree with that, but the post was asking them to basically explain why diversity is bad, why equity is bad, and why inclusion is bad.

She doesn't say in the video that she has to get a job. She says that she can't work. Are you assuming she's lying?

Man, you'll see some real deep cut kids playing. Do they have three-digit uniform numbers yet?

What are they saying about him? Injury issues? or performance drop-off?

Seeing that the full squad reports this morning, the offseason is now officially over for everybody and spring training begins in earnest! Let's start the thread with an injury update from this morning.

I was in high school at the time, and I don’t remember this to be the case, although I don’t think I got into SNL until I started delivering pizzas when I was a junior in high school, Because the guys would put it on the small TV in the back room while they were making dough and folding boxes. That would’ve been during the 1977-78 school year, which would’ve been season three, so it was definitely running on channel 4 at that time.

NHLPA might differ with you on that.

Javy is not blocking anyone long term, although a renaissance could have him here for three more years. If that’s going to be the case, I hope we can get a couple wins a year out of the guy.

I rather like what the NHL is doing with the four nations tournament. It gives you something to root for assuming you have a stake in one of the countries playing, and the players are playing hard to win. The NBA, though, with the Team Chuck and the Team Shaq thing—never mind the zero defense part, but who am I supposed to root for here? What do I have a stake in? Why do I care? NFL’s flag football thing is even worse. That’s theater, not competition. Although I don’t know if I’d want a real football game, either. Bunch of guys loping around trying to not touch anyone else because they don’t want to get hurt playing a game worth literally nothing.

Wait—Joe Louis Arena? I thought they were in Pontiac.

Thread title scared me. I thought I was gonna hear he passed away or something.

I think that’s kind of a double-edged sword. Javy would finally be back on the field and not a complete sub-replacement sinkhole, but on the other hand, if he does limp along at about a 0.5 WAR pace—a big improvement for him, sure—I’m afraid we’d be inclined to keep running him out there at the expense of playing time for a potentially on-the-rise shortstop whose projection runs about a win above that. Of course, Sweeney might collapse this year, too. That could happen. But point being, if we do play Javy on the regular, I hope he has an Indian Summer season of 2+ WAR, to remove all doubt of what else might have been.

Oh, so you’re the guy! 😂 That can be mostly solved by swinging out wide in the parking lot row before going into a parking space.

Points for style in parking lots. This is when you drive down a crowded parking lot row and you see a car pulling out and you think, cool, there’s a spot opening up. But just as they pull almost all the way out, they drive right back in, apparently so their car can be as straight as they can. They’re trying to rack up points for style.

Speaking of the opening credits, it was shot at a very specific moment in time when gasoline, which had been well into the dollar-something-a-gallon range for several years, suddenly experienced a drop in price and for a very short time, maybe a few weeks, gas across the country was sub-a-dollar a gallon before going back up and eventually into the stratosphere, never to return. In the sequence, as Tony is driving back home to Jersey, he passes a Sunoco or a Texaco or something, and the price on the sign is ninety-something cents, so that specific point in time is captured for posterity.