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I’m pretty sure we signed Miller to do more than throw batting practice. I like the signing as a good bullpen depth move. Miller added a splitter last season and was crushing hitters with it, although the flip side is that his already high-ish walk rate spiked. Maybe the Whisperer mentioned seeing something he could work with and that why they went for him. Miller’s also going to get a chance to close some games early on since his contract has incentives based on that. It may or may not work, but might as well try him there because who else we gonna put there? Lange or bust?

Manafort. https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512613-five-takeaways-from-final-senate-intel-russia-report/ You’re welcome.

I’ll never forget his 2008 meltdown live on Fox Views. 👨‍🍳💋

News flash: your “Democrats could” is not the equivalent of the actual “Trump did”.

The difference being that no Democrat ever incited their followers to storm any capitols to overturn elections that Republicans won.

It just proves that Biden wants illegals to flood the streets with fentanyl.

The Electoral College is why Trump TKO’ed Hillary. More people voted for Hillary to be president than voted for Trump.

I think a lot of it has to do with the black-and-white version of the world people are brought up in. Right and wrong. Good and evil. God and Satan. It's either all one or all the other. They don't learn about shades or gray when they're little, probably because their parents and teachers don't know much about it, and when they're confronted with it as adults, they get confused and annoyed and suspicious and reject it. I think that's why so many people fall prey to charlatans: believing in the absolutism of good and evil yields easy answers, and when charlatans merely cloak themselves in the trappings of what's considered good, simple people accept them without question. I think America, as a society with a high percentage of its people steeped in judgmental religion, is more susceptible to his line of thinking than most countries, or at least most first-world countries. It's almost as though we're a first-world country with a third-world culture, and even people who aren't religious, or who reject religion, people who consider themselves educated and worldly, are affected by it, I think. It's mostly harmless, until the moment it's not.

That's because you're super emotional and can't think your way past that.

Sure, i would expect that, but they don't know any better.

Meaning there are people who truly believe Biden stole the election working in various state houses and whatnot. Horrifying as being a true believer in this is, it's dishonest only if they know for a fact it's all a lie. If they truly believe it, they can be said honestly argue their case. That's what I mean.

They may actually, perhaps even honestly, argue Biden's entire presidency is an insurrection against a free and fair election that Trump won in 2020.

It's not escaping my notice that no actual Muslim leaders are even mentioned in the press release, so its provenance is, at the very least, suspect. This might as well be a missive straight from Trump campaign headquarters, aka the Kremlin. Not for nothing, the guy's X feed is extremely pro-Trump.

That's kind of the part I'm concerned about—that this entire episode is going to convince people who were on the fence, or maybe even some on the margins who had left him, to conclude that the despotic Biden government is abusing its power and they must elect Trump to stop him.

2024 Angels = 2022 Tigers.

Same here. I was in what they called "special ed" at the time so there wasn't much baseball discussed among the kids at school or with me at home, but once they got into the World Series even I had to become aware of them. Then when I discovered how much numbers were a part of the game—basically like crack to an almanac maniac like me—I was hooked. I couldn't wait to play it myself!

I think you underestimate the increase in fear of Trump and the Republicans in general since 2016, and you might be whistling past the graveyard believing that since things have always been calm and under control no matter who's in office, that things will always be calm and under control no matter who's in office. Granted, there are a lot of ignorant people who know no more about Trump than they did eight years ago, and who don't care about him because he doesn't directly impact their own lives. To that, two things: (1) there are a lot fewer of those people now than there were in 2016; (2) If they never knew or cared about him, they're not going to vote anyway. I like Biden and I am not a "Dem loyalist", and I have posted here after not voting D. But I can see that he and his administration are doing a great job of getting this country back on track. Everybody can point to this thing or that where they don't like how Biden is handling it, but on balance, he's one of the best presidents of my lifetime.

Were you a Tiger fan before local boy Fidrych? I'm thinking you were since you were probably 13 or 14 when he came onto the scene?

If they would just deaden the ball they could carry 12 pitchers comfortably. They could carry 11 pitchers. They could even cut the roster to 24 like they did during the 80's. But they need more pitchers now because with the live ball every pitch to literally every player could end up a home run, which is the worst thing that can happen to a pitcher, so they put 110% strain on their arms on every pitch to elicit swing and miss, or at least soft contact.

I don't think polls, especially taken almost a year out, represent how we will behave on Election Day, and I do think the past couple of presidential elections have shown us that. But I also don't see reasonable people simply moving from voting for Biden in 2020 to voting for Trump next year, or Trump scooping up undecideds. He has shown us every toxic behavior possible, and a substantial majority of people hate that. I think Trump already has practically every voter in his pocket that he's going to get, and I think the Republicans are basically going to have to engage in literal physical restraint of Democratic voters to win a free and fair election next November.

I've experienced two price increases in the past year with no change in service.

I get MLB.tv plus MLB At Bat gratis with my DTV Extra Innings package. I think I might be paying $20 or $30 a year extra for that versus just buying MLB.tv and At Bat a la carte.

Well, that's simply not true.

I'm with you. I appreciate not only the wide selection I get on DTV, I also like the centralization of and ease of access to content; not being beholden to the vicissitudes of Internet service outages; and once a year I'm able to negotiate discounts approaching $100 a month for them to keep me aboard. It won't last me the rest of my life (I don't think), but for the foreseeable future, I'm sticking with them.

Well, that's pretty transparent.