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Good thing Al is gone or else Long would be out of baseball or buried in high A lol

Do you know whether some guys regularly switch back and forth between gloves to keep them broken in, or is it usually only use one and the other is a backup?

Subsidies for personal rockets? Talk about burying the lede …

People don’t think about elections until they actually happen and they’re required to pull levers. It’s mostly rabid partisans showing up for polls these days, because polling is no longer a reliable indicator.

It’s more than just money.

I don't think it's stupid or silly, given the circumstances. It's meant to disarm Trump. I just hope Biden doesn't overextend somehow.

So I'm cleaning out my inbox and I cane across a Jason beck email newsletter, and here's how it starts out: LAKELAND, Fla. -- The Tigers’ clubhouse always has at least one super utility player who brings a bunch of gloves for all the various positions he could play. Don Kelly had nearly a dozen at one point, almost too many to fit in his cramped locker in the old clubhouse. Niko Goodrum had 10 with him in 2019. By contrast, Ryan Kreidler could be considered a minimalist. He brought five gloves to this year’s Spring Training, where he has worked everywhere from shortstop to third to the outfield. He doesn’t need to hoard shortstop gloves because his current game glove has lasted a few years. Honestly, I'd never heard of anything like this before. I know multi-positional players would bring multiple gloves, but nearly a dozen like Donnie baseball? Or ten for Niko Goodrum? This obviously means some guys bring more than one glove for at least one of the positions they play. What would a guy need with three shortstop gloves, for example? How would they differ and under what circumstances would the player switch between them? Does anybody have a feel for that? Because I'm stumped.

And he also sign an even better number of complete busts that he couldn't do anything with and not even the Harris regime could save. In any event, the funny part, probably only to me, is how the beginning of the article reads as though Al Avila were the architect of some grand and visionary strategy—which the vast majority of clubs were already doing—and that Scott Harris is merely carrying out his vision.

Oh. M'God. https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/detroit-tigers-top-30-prospects-list-2024-preseason The Tigers embarked on an organizational shift seven years ago when then-general manager Al Avila declared that after years of free-agent signings, the club would build from within its farm system. Scott Harris echoed that philosophy when Detroit hired him as president of baseball operations two years ago.

That's right, I forgot all about Carlos Pena coming aboard. I would not doubt that we might see the Jason-and-Carlos show starting with 2025. I still think he was high last night.

That's because people who love violence are typically not smart, and they get frustrated and nervous about people who are smarter than they. People who love violence can't out-think or out-talk you to get their way, so they want to be able to punch your lights out to get their way. They want a might-makes-right society.

That makes even more sense as to why Monroe was perhaps big-timing Benetti in the booth. When it becomes inescapably clear the way just how great Benetti is shines a bright light on just how awful Monroe is, I don't know how Monroe keeps the job. I would bet Benetti would have a lot less problem with Cameron Maybin or Austin Jackson.

Your keyboard to God's monitor, Mike. 1 big thing: Biden wants to go for Trump's jugular President Biden walks off Air Force One at LAX last month. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP President Biden is privately pushing for a much more aggressive approach to 2024: Go for Donald Trump's jugular. Why it matters: Biden is convinced he'll rattle Trump if he taunts him daily, Axios' Hans Nichols and Alex Thompson report. Biden has told friends he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him — "go haywire in public," as one adviser put it. Other sources tell us Biden is looking for a fight. Biden's instincts tell him to let it fly when warning about the consequences of Trump winning the presidency again. Biden told The New Yorker that Trump would refuse to admit losing, again. 👓 Between the lines: The "trigger Trump" approach would be a departure from a traditional Rose Garden re-election campaign. Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy — areas in which polls suggest Americans aren't giving Biden much credit — Biden would be making the contest as much about Trump as his own accomplishments. One potential upside: It would help assuage concerns about Biden's age by showing that at 81, he can still throw a Scranton punch. State of play: It's unclear whether Biden will flash his new fighting spirit at the State of the Union address on Thursday. But his feistiness has been apparent in recent weeks. "Loser" has become a favorite Biden taunt of Trump lately. In a rare, lengthy interview with The New Yorker published yesterday, Biden said: "I'm the only one who has ever beat him. And I'll beat him again." "Trump lost 60 court cases — 60," Biden said recently, referring to the legal challenges on Trump's behalf that alleged fraud in the 2020 election. (It was 63, actually.) "The legal path just took him back to the truth — that I won the election, and he was a loser." 🔭 Zoom out: In a speech at Valley Forge, Pa., before the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Biden attacked Trump in terms that were clearly personal — and nearly profane. He suggested Trump was a "sick [blank]" before catching himself. Former President Trump arrives to speak with reporters at Mar-a-Lago yesterday. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP Biden advisers have some evidence that Biden already is getting under Trump's skin. After Biden's appearance last week on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," Trump posted a video complaining about the show, calling the president a "basket case." Share this story.

Thank you for that Alarmist Non-sense! I am not alone! 😜

Well, what do you expect the guy to say? After all, it's probably what his social circle and his media and his church is telling him. Hillary notwithstanding, this may well be a problem to some marginal degree for Democrats, too.

What did you see that I did there?

Benetti definitely has the support of the front office, the fans, and the local sports media, at least here in the early going. And I think you're right: I would bet the returning analysts are all a little nervous about the future of their jobs, including the '84 Tigers.

I think just about everybody accepts by now that the Supreme Court is has been deeply corrupted and delegitimatized, even beyond Clarence Thomas. I think the $64 question is now, how long does the Court try to keep up the pretense before they take off the mask and lean hard into it all.

I interpreted the joke as more of a dig at the whole immunity issue, and the Trump lawyer who fumbled the Seal Team Six hypothetical in court, than it was a MAGA-style ha-ha-I-was-just-kidding-about-killing-you joke.

lol take a look at the list of broadcasters today on the Tigers website. https://www.mlb.com/tigers/team/broadcasters oops.

That looks about right for Maeda. Maybe the Fetter team will figuring out a way to unlock a little more swing-and-miss in the guy, but I do hope they can add a little movement to his offerings which results in less hard contact.

I really had the sense that Monroe made a decision to crowd Benetti off the mike, especially later in the game, and it was very noticeable on the back-and-forth with Johnny Kane in the eighth. It was the Craig-and-Johnny show. It was all Benetti could do to try to keep up with the pre-Benetti references they were making, like Monroe's impersonation of Jim Leyland, which went on for a long time. Something I hadn't considered before the broadcast is that Benetti is actually walking into what might fairly be termed a tough situation. He is the one new guy coming into a booth that has all the same people still in it. They've been around for years and years together, and they all dominated the former guy like he was the beta kid in the classroom. Now here comes this new guy, this out-of-towner, this nerdlinger, obviously never an athlete, and a lifelong White Sox fan no less, being brought in and expected to take over leadership of the Tigers' broadcast. Add to that the fact that he's an already-well-known broadcaster with national experience who is considered one of the best in the game, who was hired with the explicit intention of substantially raising the level of the broadcast, attempting to herd the other four (or more) different rotating analysts like they're cats on the prairie, and accomplishing all that while missing at least 35 games during the season. That's a really tall order. Meanwhile, the guys who have been there were already active contributors to what was widely regarded as the worst TV booth in the game. How much of that was Shep being solely responsible for bringing literally everyone else around him down, and how much of it is that these analysts are really not good at broadcasting ball games in their own right? I guess we're gonna find out in short order once Benetti has worked with each of them a couple times.

In all seriousness, if as you say the Court can do anything it wants, then punting the decision to next year seems the most likely outcome, because I don’t see any way there is not five votes for Trump right now and forever, given three of them are Trump appointees and two others were already pre-cooked for him when he came onto the scene, and I do think Robert’s is concerned enough about his own legacy to not want all that blood all over himself.

Especially around the Great Lakes.

Aww, so adorable … 😉