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I really dislike Quick Pitch because it is not a review or recap show. It is a clip show. They don't talk about teams or pennant races or how that night's games might affect any of that. All it is, is a context-free procession of clip after clip showing home runs and strikeouts, the two most marketable plays in the game. And honestly, I find that just boring. The show is so clip-oriented that the Quick Pitch bunnies don't even bother to provide a transition from one game to the next. One game's clips ends with a super-imposed final score, the next game's clips being by showing two logos, and then it goes right into a beauty shot of a homer. If it's an overview of the night's games and pennant races you want, Quick Pitch is not the place to get it. That said, again, if you just put it on for nothing more than background noise of ball-hits-bat and crowd cheers and histrionic announcers, or else to ogle the bunnies, then again, I get that. But I can ogle ladies in literally more than a million other places, and if I want to see homer after homer, there are endless YouTube videos of that, like this or this or this. If I want anchors to provide context to that night's games, I have to go to SportsCenter, because Quick Pitch won't give us that.

It was the 1984 Tigers that put the Wave on the national map—and I agree, for good or bad.

That may be true for some types of coverage, but it is definitely not true when it comes to nightly review of the action. Even part of an ESPN broadcast recapping the day's baseball action beats the hell out of Quick Pitch, ten times out of ten. Unless you have a different priority while watching Quick Pitch, which, I get it, I'm a hetero man, too.

That's good, because MLB Network is awful. I mean, even MLB Now with Brian Kenny, which has long been the only show I thought actually worth watching, has declined since Kenny has apparently gotten notes to dial back the data analysis and lean more into shooting from the gut so he can align better with his rotating band of player-beat media sidekicks.

The difference between Hamas and Israel is that, regardless of its dilettantesque dabbling in government, Hamas is at its core a terrorist organization that answers to no one but themselves, with goals and tactics that run counter to the welfare of nations in general; and Israel is a respected nation-state that putatively answers to the United States and the rest of the world, and so they are held to a higher standard. So when Israel slaughters civilians on an apparently indiscriminate basis, it is considered more horrific than when Hamas does so because Israel is supposed to be better than that, especially since they have greater means than Hamas to achieve mass slaughter by a factor of thousands specifically due to its nation-state status. This is not excusing what Hamas is doing. This is explaining why Israel engaging in the same mass-slaughter strategy is getting them more criticism than Hamas is getting.

Honestly, you're not missing a thing.

Did you notice how nervous Craig Monroe was when he started doing that, and how seriously he doubted Benetti's contention that it would not affect the game in progress?

One other thing I'm noticing: there is exactly zero information anywhere on the Internet about who Angela McArdle is, where she came from, who her parents are, how her career started or anything like that, with a degree from a non-denominational Christian university I doubt any of us have ever heard of.. So, she may have been air-dropped directly from Russia into the US with a scrubbed and unresearchable background with the goal of picking off and radicalizing a few thousand horny disaffected American men against the current body politic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_McArdle#Career McArdle is a noted Russophile, giving an op-ed to Newsweek claiming that Russian forces were not committing a genocide in Ukraine, retorting that Ukrainians are committing war crimes against the Russian population of the Donbas, as well as saying that the United States forced Russia, and Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.[17] McArdle also spoke at the Rage Against the War Machine Rally, co hosted with the People’s Party, where she called on a cut to all aid to Ukraine, and for Ukraine to surrender all Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.[18] After the rally, the Libertarian Party issued a press release denouncing "Any speaker advocating for the contrary does not align with our values" in reference to speakers that did not support their "anti-war platform," specifically targeting Scott Ritter, the most radical pro-Russian speaker at the event.[19] The United States Pirate Party, one of the invited participants, refused to show, and vehemently denounced the rally as a "perversion of the anti-war movement" and that "the anti-war stance in this case is easy. Russia, not Ukraine, should put down its arms."[20]

Yup, she looks like someone who would benefit from hands-off government and letting society reward you based on characteristics like what looks you were blessed with and the likelihood of your using them to better your circumstances.

Speak for yourself!

Yes, but look how low a bar you set!

Talking to some weirdo in a boa coat in the stands during the action. That is the worst of Tigers TV broadcasts, right there.

We better not lost 7-6 now.

Miller has to throw the 11th

They can’t take out Tonkin now even after the HBP because they’ve already used seven pitchers.

Tonkin is toast!

A two-run BLOP!!!

Good point by Monroe: the Mets OF was so shallow on Keith that a normal depth LF would probably have caught his fly.

COLT KEITH!!

He did pretty good in the tenth. I wonder if he can pitch another inning?

Get the **** outta here

I do apply a VPN to the router to hear Tiger announcers when we play Chicago teams. Works well enough. I can’t have a VPN on the router full time, though, because it blocks too many sites for me, including MLB.tv on my laptop.