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This is a huge break for this Boelter guy, because now it puts him in line for a pardon.

Yup. Sucks to be a Red Sox fan knowing they keep shooting themselves in the foot so much. How do those four rings taste now, guys?

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As will be the surveillance on these tattletale devices.

If by "half-assed" you mean poorly thought out, then I would argue that Trump's deportation strategy is actually whole-assed, i.e., well thought out, because the entire point of the strategy is the overt performative cruelty, lack of which apparently made Obama and Biden look weak. To Trump and the red hats, it's not about the numbers—it's about the anecdotes.

Are we sure that means they had their day in court? Because we have seen innumerable examples of people shipped off to El Salvador without any day in court.

I guess context must be it, because as I read through the tweet: Planes roared over D.C.: check Tanks rolled along the national mall: check Brass bands resounded: check Thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds: check and check Largest show of military might in the capital in more than three decades: check Seems as though the story hit all the points truthfully, so I didn't see the problem, especially since a substantial part of the story itself was devoted to the protests, starting with paragraph #2. If the problem is that they reported on it with taking a clear and firm position against it, or that they reported on it at all, then that's a discussion of a different stripe. Speaking only for myself, I don't hold mainstream media to that standard.

One of the key aspects of the return was getting out from under every single remaining dollar of Devers' contract. That's definitely not nothing.

I suspect ex-player GMs are way more likely to bet on their hunch about players in deals than GMs with academic pedigrees would be.

The world already understands. The difficult part has been getting Americans to understand.

So, 80% of the people booked into ICE jails committed no actual crimes? Yeah, that tracks.

What part of what they say is inaccurate?

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I don’t disagree but it’s pretty prevalent in baseball. Besides, baseball men know that failure can get them fired faster than inaction, so why walk into one if they can avoid it?

That’s why the Sox took a “bucket of prospects”.

I like the idea of AUSL, highlighting the best women’s softball players in a league and all that. It’s just the idea of making the league, which has a regular schedule and playoffs and everything, basically a traveling softball show with single nickname teams like Bandits, Blaze, Talons, and Volts, and no home city for any of them. So what am I rooting for? There’s no civic connection for any team, so I have no stake in any of them. Am I rooting for individual players? I suppose I would if I knew who they already were. But if I’m just coming into watching the league with players I don’t know playing on teams I don’t follow because they’re not based here, then why do I care? Ice Cube’s Big3 basketball league had the exact same problem before they got a clue and started naming teams after a city, so people who don’t know anybody in the league have a reason to care about it.

Despite the horrific way by which the Tigers have lost some recent ballgames, a glance through their games to date reveals that they do not have a losing record in any ten-game stretch so far this season. But, also, they’ve been as good as 8-2 in any ten-game stretch only a couple of times. So the whole season so far has been a steady diet of 5-5, 6-4, and 7-3 records in any given ten-game stretch. That’s a very good kind of consistency.

I think it has to do with fear of failure. It’s fine if the trade you make works well if you and even works well for them at the same time, but if it ever boomerangs back on you—if the guy you trade to Cleveland beats you in a late September game and affects your playoff positioning as a result—everyone is going to focus on that and hammer you ten times as hard for it.

I’m guessing Brebbia will slip through and head down I-75 to try to fix whatever’s ailing him.

I think that’s a lot easier when you have a team of really young guys playing on minimum or small contracts and still in the process of establishing themselves as major league regulars. The one guy on the team getting really good and paid for years, Javy Baez, I think has been humbled by his last three seasons so his ego has been checked so far. I’ll actually be interested to see whether his attitude will change with his renewed success—some guys seem humble when they’re scuffling, but then when things start going well again they start really feeling themselves again. The two other vets getting big paychecks, Jack and Gleyber, are on prove-it deals so it seems unlikely they would let their egos run wild in that situation, even around a bunch of impressionable kids.

I know that Dan has paired with Carlos before but I honestly can’t remember whether I saw them. I’d love to see that one of these Saturdays.

We can afford Skubal in money. The real question is whether we can afford Skubal in years.

I remember both this from being interested in TV ratings when in school and also when I started worked in ad agency media: the Tigers frequently had the highest TV ratings for any local team in baseball.

This paper gets me to wondering, I wonder how many World Series winners who got rings wear them everyday out in the world? I always thought more like it was something they would put in a case at home like a trophy, and maybe break it out for special occasions, rather than just wear it everyday day like a wedding band or something. I saw Scott Harris’s ring he received with the 2016 Cubs when I played at Cubs Camp. His dad was on my team and he’d brought it to camp to give nobodies like me a thrill. That thing was super heavy. I guess you’d have to be a really big guy to wear that around regularly.