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Is there a reason for this? I just lightly googled and didn't come up with anything.

This song would work well over the closing credits of an 80s light comedy.

You guys who are in OOTP leagues have probably seen plenty of this: one of the other owners will announce that they need to move one of their big league regulars for prospects, you make an opening offer, they say “nope”, and then they ghost you, even after you ask them whether they want to make a counter. Some guys treat trades as a one-shot best-offer-only deal rather than a negotiation, and some even act indignant with you after indicating your offer doesn’t measure up for them. Then they wonder why nobody wants to trade with them.

That’s the way it looks on January 30, anyway, although if there’s one thing that Harris is teaching us, it’s that the Tigers are now capable of zagging after years of predictably zigging. The third base picture might look very different come March. Or not. BTW, I don’t think JHM in left field is entirely out of the question, regardless of the Akil Baddoo signing.

Bold prediction: I don’t think the Tigers will get off to a terrible start.

I think the fans will start coming back this year, and the Lions good season might even help a little.

Yeah, he's super hot.

I think our media is suppressing that.

No wonder this kid rakes at the plate. There’s nothing wrong with his eyes.

"Hey, man, I gotta live in this town ..." https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2024/01/28/detroit-lions-predictions-san-francisco-49ers-nfc-championship-game/72381380007/ https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2024/01/26/predictions-detroit-lions-at-san-francisco-49ers-nfc-championship/72340156007/ Did Wojnowski move or something?

I do expect us to address that clear need tho

As you said: the ride up is the most special. It's morning in Detroit.

"Born and raised not in Detro-iiiiit ..."

Losing the way we "lost" to Dallas.

Even if they fail to get the two corners they need? I mean, I don't expect them to sit on their hands this spring, but if they go into next season in the bottom quintile in secondary again, would you still expect that?

I agree Ichiro is not an inner-circle Hall of Famer based on his numbers, but he is an inner-circle Hall of Famer based on his level of fame. I'd be surprised to see him get a lower percentage of the vote than Adrian Beltre. He might even get 99%. That's looking just at his MLB numbers, of course. Technically, voters are not allowed to take his NPB numbers into consideration. But they will. Plus, he was so much fun to watch, and he was a great interview.

If Max Clark does what he is expected to do, he will probably have to get one of these eventually, too.

Holy Toledo! We’ve never done a deal like this before.

Given that New York was on the winning side of the War About Slaves, I’d say they have every right to remove a statue on their territory of a slaveholder whose philosophy about the sanctity of states’ rights likely helped foment the war in the first place.

I don’t see how you got that out of what I wrote. All I’m saying bottom line is that I don’t see nearly the same level of 10/7 truther that I see of 1/6 truther. Maybe we just travel in different circles.

Has Elon Dickhead made it literally impossible to log out of Twitter on an iPad? It’s easy to do on an iPhone, you just tap on your profile picture and a menu pops up on the left side. But you can’t do that on an iPad, at least not on the latest updated version of Twitter. I have two active Twitter account and I like to switch back and forth between them. Any ideas, anyone?

I use it in Microsoft Outlook. You have to find the set up for it in there but it’s there and it works. I feed FanGraphs through it plus a couple other things.

Hey, glad to learn there’s nothing wrong with being a lefty here! 😃 Granting that of course there are crazies like that on the left as there are crazies like the other on the right, I don’t know that, de facto, that means there are just as many, meaning as high a composition, on each side, or that the crazy left has anywhere near the influence on the general body politic as the crazy right. I understand that repeated and even deliberate exposure to anecdotes about these events can lead to the conclusion in people’s heads that there are and that it does, but I’d rather see some reliable data on actual numbers before I fully commit to the idea either way. Reputable polls about the issue would be a good start. I can’t help but educatedly guess that there is a well-funded communications effort to portray the entire left as being unhinged, or even as unhinged, in the same numbers as those on the right. But just surveying the general landscape, which I spend a lot a lot more time in than I do in any deep leftosphere, it appears to me that a huge plurality of the right—maybe a third or more—are actively consuming far right conspiracies, several of which I can easily name off the top of my head, whereas a far smaller, even minute, percentage, I’d guess in single digits, is engaged to the same degree in similarly-outrageous far left conspiracies, which, I’m not even sure I can name more than a couple. October 7 didn’t really happen? Is that even a real one? UN was in on the Hamas attack? Is that one? What are even some of the others? tl;dr: I don’t think the level of October 7 denialism on the left is even close to that of January 6 denialism on the right. It looks to me that for every Rashida or AOC on the left, there are maybe a dozen congresscritters similarly-positioned directly across the spectrum from them on the right. I’d like to see some reliable data on that, though.

At least thirty percent of the population in your city is Arab, which is literally the only decent-sized city in the United States with that kind of ethnic profile. I would think they have a vested interest in believing it. Outside of Arab-dominant population centers, I gotta believe the number of waaaay out-there lefties that are highly motivated to perpetrate disruptive political action on the Gaza issue is vanishingly small, like, low low single-digit percent.

Because they fund the Republicans for that exact reason, among other things.