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That’s part of it, yeah.

And not only that it happens elsewhere, but if people living elsewhere get shot, it’s their own damn fault for being whatever it is they are that got them shot. If they would just stop smoking crack and rioting and wearing their pants way too low, they wouldn’t get shot.

They say it is a mental health issue, which is why they voted against studying it. Study the source, not the outcome, I guess.

Too bad we have to put up with Bally for even one more year. I was hoping MLB would take over the production of Tigers games this season. I’m pretty sure they’re not going to go the YES/Marquee route and start their own Tigers network, since those channels are money losers outside of baseball, plus the RSN is crumbling anyway—as we can see, obvs.

There we go. All fixed. 😉

Yeah, they were never gonna not. Leaving all that free money on the table would make no sense.

How does Justin Steele end up fifth?

Yeah, that's not gonna keep Santos out of the joint. He doesn't have enough juice and, in fact, everyone hates him so much that they'll be more than happy to see him take one for the team that's kicking him off the team.

"This is a time and this is a place. Let's go, man! Bernie, hold me back, I'm about to go after him!"

In MTG's defense, millions of ignorant Americans improperly use reflexive pronouns.

Chip Roy may have a fundamental misunderstanding about what people who vote for Republicans even want.

I think they may also be trying to avoid libel suits.

If Tiger of the Year is a subjective vote, then I definitely can see Eduardo not winning, despite his superior half-season performance, since his antics across the last two years don’t really scream “Tiger of the Year!” to voters who are put off by him. This is my take only on the voters’ possible mindset.

Harris has said he will not acquire players who block current prospects, and the two top position player prospects ready for prime time at Keith and Jung, who presumably would split second base and third base between them. So if we get Kim, a player who projects as an All-Star at second base for a few more years, I would guess that means we are either putting one of Keith/Jung on the shelf for good, or sending at least one of them away in trade. And I would think Padres would want a guy back who can play second base in the near future, since they have none of those in their system. I know TR says Cronenworth, but he’s older and worse than Kim, who has only one more year at $8MM on their books right now, anyway. If their concern if that Kim won’t man second base for them beyond 2024 and they need more certainty at the position, I would be surprised if they don’t get a future second baseman back in trade, if they even send Kim away anyway.

I think Stavenhagen said something along the lines of, of the 25 guys who vote for Tiger of th year, maybe five of them cover the team every day? I can’t remember who Stavenhagen said he voted for, but he seems weirdly sore about the whole thing. I’m not real invested in Tiger of the Year, but it’s not really anything like MVP, is it? I always thought of it as steady player who might or might not be the best player on the team, but who writers think embodies being the most important cog on the team, or perhaps in the clubhouse, for either now or the future. I don’t think of it as being a ratification of the WAR champ. In that way, as a linchpin of the future who posted up 159 times, day in and day out, this year, and who actually improved substantially the second half, Tork is as good a choice as anyone else. I think of TOY as a kind of squishy award, anyway.

Remember when Campos was signed at age 16 as a defector out of Cuba after supposedly winning some adult tournament MVP at age 12, getting the most money the Tigers ever threw at a Latin teenager, something like $3 million, how nobody knew anything about him and how secretive it all was, but he was going to be can’t-miss super great, yet he wasn’t even on any of MiLB’s top prospect lists? How fun was that?

Send them Colt Keith or Jace Jung?

Is it BBC reporting this, or is it BBC reporting that another news organization is reporting this? Or is that a distinction without a difference? If BBC reports that Reuters is reporting this, is it BBC who are engaging in blood libel? What does the original Reuters report say about it, or doesn’t that matter?

Then Trump can accuse Biden of selling off the country and American jobs to CHEYE-na and campraise off it.

https://www.threads.net/@rbreich/post/CzmpbigJsj6/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ= Wanted to see whether this would post as a Thread. It does not.

You touch on something here that's been discussed before: TPTB, for lack of a better label, don't want people capable of self-governance for the same reason they don't want people capable of critical thinking: it doesn't serve their interests. George Carlin pointed this very thing out toward the end of his career. The way he put it was, TPTB don’t want a population of well-informed, well-educated citizens capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly ****tier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. The problem with that is, once people get to a point where they have been led to believe they have nothing left to lose, that's when they're gonna start acting out. As good as the media tells us the economy is, it's not going to be good enough for a people who are being told over and over that, despite that they have a decent income, a nice place to live, a nice new Ford F150 gas-guzzler to drive, electronics out the ying-yang, and more than enough food to eat and games to play, that they are actually living through the worst economy in the history of economies, courtesy of Crooked Joe Satan. They don't believe their lying eyes. They believe Lying Donald Trump and all his lying flying monkeys in the media. Donald Trump is the one icon in these people's lives for whom they would gladly, GLADLY, throw Jesus Christ completely out of their lives, if Trump would merely say how unfair Jesus is to him. And if you think it's bad now, just wait until Trump is dead. They might even create a whole new bible just for him.

I think I have my answer. thanks.

I know you didn't say that, directly and in so many words. But I asked you a direct question seeking an answer, you joked your way around and out of it, and so I made a reasonable inference. And FWIW, you still haven't answered it! But that's OK, because you kind of did.