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Another leadoff man gets on. Maybe we can get this one to score.

Nice crisply-played game by the Tigers. All three runs came in the first, one on an error (the throw by McKinstry), but after that inning, nothing doing by Holton and Maeda. Top of the order in the seventh here, so let's light up the sticks!

Seems like a choice on your part ... 😁

Chipping away! The so-called McStinky avoids the double play and gets the rib.

How about the effort by Maeda today? So far, three innings, no runs, one hit, no walk, five strikeouts. It's a good first step to working his way back into the rotation. Or maybe he has found his new home?

First and second, no out, bottom of the fifth. It's pretty well-known the Dodgers' pitching is their Achilles' heel, and they will make a move to address it, which might put Flaherty in play for them.

But what does the anemometer on your driveway say?

People can talk about why can't we all just get along all they want, but nothing is going to change until government steps in and passes laws and regulations and/or establishes incentives for people to get off social media and get together face to face. Because as things currently stand, we the people are not going to just change our behavior en masse as if by zeitgeist, and the corporations behind the social media apps have no incentive to restrain usership in any meaningful sense.

It's a problem that one side has the vast majority of the guns, and I don't believe they obtained those just to hang them up in the den so they can gaze at them and admire them.

Source?

Brieske's BABIP is soaring ...

Is it super windy in Detroit today? Because the Perez drop did not seem like a five-star catch opportunity.

Oh, man, Dan Dickerson is off from today's game. Neither on radio or TV—maybe he has the vapors after the excitement of yesterday's comeback ... 😉

Holy ****, I had no idea! Now I hate MLB Network even more—although they did protect the fee-fees of Dodger fans, so maybe they are doing God's work after all ... https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/07/14/riley-greene-tarik-skubal-taking-detroit-swag-to-all-star-festivities/74401134007/

Sire ... if it was actually courage and not scripted ... 😉

That's because Republicans don't want to actually address and solve the mental health crisis, any more than they want to address and solve immigration issues, economic issues, street crime, the unhoused, or any of it. They need those issues to stay live and ever-present so they can campaign on them as well as use them as cudgels to smite Democrats.

So, how about that Project 2025? What? Too soon?

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-man-threatened-to-kill-hillary-clinton-and-secret-service-agents-doj/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/kansas-woman-indicted-threats-presidents-biden-clinton https://apnews.com/article/utah-biden-fbi-assassination-threat-ba3cc1d3b2f6cca8bd429febdcf04219 https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/wichita-man-who-threatened-to-kill-president-biden-sentenced-to-21-months-in-jail/ https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article289373132.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-mt/pr/billings-man-charged-making-threats-kill-us-sen-jon-tester-threats-against-president-joe https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/politics/pennsylvania-man-biden-threat/index.html https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2024/01/26/phoenix-man-accused-of-making-death-threats-against-biden-harris/72371779007/ https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4436525-michigan-man-charged-with-threatening-to-kill-biden-harris-officials-in-x-posts/ https://www.marca.com/en/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/2024/06/17/666f67b046163f89928b4599.html https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/08/14/utah-man-threats-trump-biden-fbi-resisting-arrest https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/50070/20240627/essex-county-man-arrested-for-threats-against-president-biden https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/luzerne-county-man-charged-for-threatening-to-murder-president-biden-campaign-visit-scranton-internet-videos/523-e44cadfe-484f-4d9d-8ab8-f592ac3d9894 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dukes-hazzard-actor-makes-death-184412162.html And these are all separate cases all within the last year. Get a load of the headline in that last one here.

I think that might have more to do with advances in Secret Service protection than it does about society's ability to compartmentalize and control gun violence.

The difference is that George Wallace never got 46% of any nationwide vote.

Give it today, tomorrow tops, and it will be the first two.

The so-called McStinky had a pretty cool moment in the clubhouse yesterday. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/07/13/tigers-upstage-shohei-ohtani-and-los-angeles-with-five-run-rally-in-ninth-giurshela-walk-off-in-10th/74394826007/ Zach McKinstry was still pumping his fists triumphantly in the clubhouse following the Tigers most incredible, most improbable 11-9, 10-inning walk-off win over the N.L. West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers Saturday at Comerica Park. How improbable? The Dodgers were 47-0 this season when leading after eight innings and they went into the ninth with a 9-4 lead. "Huh," McKinstry said. "That's cool. Now they're 47-1."

Yesterday’s was one of the greatest Tigers games I have ever seen in my life. I mean, come on, they were done.

How’re you gonna get ‘em to class when they’re spending their time at the bank?