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Thinking more about it today I was thinking it is an age and experience thing, but I also wonder whether it’s a generational thing. She’s Eastern European, probably Russian because the doctor is, and Russian is widely spoken there, but I don’t necessarily think it’s a cultural thing. 

OK, let’s jack a quick bomb and go home!

Maybe we can trade him to an Asian team for a lottery ticket … 😏

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

So not this far

Look man...I was just pointing out who wrote it...JVL is a D and has his own axe to grind but is clearly on the team with Bill K.  Bill Kristol is Bill Kristol and has his own baggage and both guys are 100% devoted to keeping Trump from winning again.

I didn’t notice with my first post that it wasn’t Kristol who wrote it. I assumed he did because it was his tweet I clicked on to get there.

8 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

I think the umpires hate Canha. He must have the most balls called strikes on the team.

This umpire has got to get raked for his outside strike calls on righthanders tonight, consistently two or three inches off the plate. 

Maybe I’m dreaming, but if the Tigers can score two or more here, Reese might come back out. If they score only one, I think he’s getting the hook. 

2 minutes ago, romad1 said:

JVLast wrote the piece.  He has a pretty decent essay about the situation. 

I read it until I got here:

FWIW, I love 6:40pm starts, and I wish the Cubs would keep them all year instead of switching to 7:05pm between Memorial and Labor days. Weirdly, to me anyway, the White Sox do the same thing except to have 7:10pm starts during the summer. I wonder whether any other team in the majors does this?

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

The Tigers only other SS options are just as bad on offense. And much worse on defense. Is there any teams out there that has a ML ready SS in the minors who's blocked at the ML level that needs pitching? We'll give them a choice or Manning, Mize or Flaherty. Olson and Skubal (and Jobe) should all be untouchable.

Brooks lee in the Twins organization, but they would never trade him here, and we would never trade any of our rotation there.

Luisangel Acuna with the Mets can play short, but with Lindor there he's been getting reps at second. he's super young and cheap, but his bat in AAA is barely any better than Javy's bat up here

Bottom line seems to be, if you're looking for a quick fix that gets us a better bat with similar glove who is cheap and young, good luck.

4 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

Can we fix Javy's swing now? We have the technology.

Javy Baez, shortstop. A man barely alive. We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster ...

Ehhhhh, maybe not so much ...

10 hours ago, Hongbit said:

Every week it’s the same and it’s not just an Angel and CB problem anymore.

 

That first one actually didn't look so bad. The top of the strikeout is pretty low.

19 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

It really wouldn't surprise me if Manning gets dealt soon. Several (more?) teams need pitching. I hope we can find a team with a ML ready shortstop being blocked. Trade Javy and pick up most of his contract, if they must?

Javy is going nowhere as long we have no better option to replace him.

11 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Nope your ignorance and arrogance are on full display.

One thing I am not ignorant of is the United States Constitution and its Bill of Rights, which makes no mention of my freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition, due process of law, trial by jury—as well as freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, excessive bail, and cruel and unusual punishment—as being gifts to me courtesy of the military. In fact, the only place anything military is mentioned in the Bill of Rights is the part that says they can't force me to provide them lodging in my house.

So don't tell me I don't earn my freedoms, because I'm paying big money for them. Not everybody has to pick up a weapon and stand a post to do their part.

4 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I mean, you clearly are always the smartest guy in the room ( I can only imagine what that feels like). Enjoy your free speech! You did not earn it but the working class poor gave it to you.

And this after I offered to stop here. Serves me right, I guess. *sigh*

OK, here goes:

The working class poor did not give me my free speech. And neither did you. And I don't feel guilty for exercising it. But hey, you and your brethren are welcome for the hundreds of thousands of my tax dollars that funded your experience.

Now can we stop? Or do we need to keep going?

1 minute ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I am not talking about Trump. Please do not drag service members through the mud. You have no clue what you are talking about, like ZERO. 

I've been living in this country, especially since 2001, so I think I do have more than a clue. But I'll stop here if you want.

Remember this?

We've moved a big step closer.

5 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I didn't like it either.  To criticize politicians for abusing the military is one thing.  Disrespecting soldiers is another thing entirely.  

Maybe you didn't want an idea of why so many Americans want autocratic military rule after all, then.

9 hours ago, romad1 said:

two big mysteries right now:  The New York Times and Katy Tur both carrying water for the MAGAs.  The article is an interesting take on Trump dissembling lunatic rant not being worthy of coverage by the NYT.

 

So the complaint by Bill Kristol is that the thing he thinks should have been page one news didn't make page one? Maybe he should campaign for editorship of the Times so he can make those decisions going forward, then.

I don't know whether the problem is so much the Times is totally in the bag for Trump, which I guess is Kristol's conclusion, than it is that Trump continuously unleashes such a firehose of nonsense all day every day nonstop that it would look unhinged of the Times to put all of it on page one every day.

15 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Pretty much the most disrepectful thing I have ever seen you post.

Well, the Trump police state will come and get me for this when it's time, I guess.

When people who are supposed to be acting in a professional capacity personalize what are supposed to be strictly professional interactions.

At the doctor today, the last thing to happen for the visit was the phlebotomy. Young woman, a nurse I guess, looks to be in her mid to late 20s, comes in to do that.

This is a secondary specialist I go to, not my main physician, so the process is a little different and more cumbersome, and maybe she's newer to the whole thing, so she takes a long time to set up, more than a minute, maybe two. It takes more like fifteen seconds at my main doctor. So I'm in the chair just waiting, looking, and waiting for her to be ready.

She gives me a pillow for my lap, so I can lay my arm across it while she draws the blood. I'm staring out the window because I don't like looking at my blood being drawn.

And she asks, unbidden, "Are you nervous?"

I answer, no, I just don't like looking at this, that's why I'm staring out the window.

What I didn't answer was, even if I am nervous, what could we do about it? Nothing, right? It's not as though we're going to change up the approach to address that, right?

Perhaps unadvisedly, I also add, I also don't want to see the needle break off and travel up into my arm, ha ha ha. I made sure to chuckle to signal the joke. She did not respond. She might still have thought I was being serious.

Anyhow, so she's working on the arm and she asks, did you have water today? I say no, I had only coffee. She says, that's why your blood is so thick. I go, oh, OK. I didn't think much of it.

She pulls everything out and goes to the table to work on things, muttering out loud about how thick my blood is. And I'm like ... OK? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Then I toss the pillow onto the exam table and she barks, what are you doing, we're not done yet. I say, Oh! Sorry! I ask is there something else we need to do? She says yes, I need to draw the blood again, I didn't get any, your blood is too thick, look at this, nothing here, you see!

I paused for a second because it was kind of a shocking response, but I said, oh, OK, I didn't know, you didn't say that before, that's fine, we can do that. And I get the pillow so she can draw it again.

And then she asks the magic question:

"Are you mad?"

God, I ****ing hate that.

I say, no, I'm not mad, I'm fine, I just thought we were done and I could go. She says, well you seem mad. I take a deep breath. I said no, I'm fine, no need to be sensitive. She says, I'm not being sensitive.

And I'm asking myself: why the everloving hell are we even having this conversation right now?

So I say, please, I'll be good, just, please, here's my other arm, OK? Then we complete the process in tense silence, she announces she's done, and finally I go.

Now, if I had any stake in her development, I would have told her right then and there that it's unprofessional for her to put patients on the spot and on the defensive by basically asking them to assuage their personal feelings in such a manner. Even if she thinks the patient is mad, you just don't say that kind of thing to them. You suck it up, get the job done, then move on to the next patient, and keep your personal sensitivities to yourself and away from the job. And that goes double for when you are speaking to patients, or any other client.

Or maybe I'm bad guy here, and clients are supposed to assuage the vendors feelings, I don't know. Maybe that's the new expectation as we move into the second quarter of the 21st Century. And I could probably adapt to that if that's the new appropriateness. But if so, that sure is a lot different from what I learned when I was at her stage of professional development during the last quarter of the 20th Century.

9 hours ago, ewsieg said:

Do you actually believe Ukraine is in a better spot right now then Russia?  And when I say a better spot, I'm referring to Russia and Ukraine's ultimate goal of controlling land. 

Short term (next several years, regardless if Trump or Biden is the next president), Ukraine is ****ed.  Putin doesn't care about his losses as long as he holds and increases land.  

Sometimes Americans will fantasize about Russian mothers by the hundreds of thousands protesting their boys dying and forcing Putin to end the war to save their lives. That would be a cultural 180 for those people, and I promise you, we will never see that.

The Russian people—I wouldn’t say they don’t care about the losses, but—they have been conditioned as a people to accept millions and millions of dead in their wars across the centuries, so losing a few million here would be basically a blip in their history. It will be sad in the moment, and then they will write long Russian poems and songs about their heroism, and they will be celebrated, not mourned. It’s just not the same there as it is here. Russia has the numbers, and they have a national resignation to this kind of thing happening, and in the end, they accept it as the condition of being Russian.

7 hours ago, ewsieg said:

No way I could do it justice.  From someone that I think is a bit of a PBS'er type of guy, I'd think you'd love a 10-20 minute spoken word story.  🙂

TL/DR, He finally met John Prine after years of mutual friends, scares him, and it ends with front row seats.

It probably wouldn’t land with me since I know approximately as much about John Prine as I do about Benjamin Crump! 😂

4 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

The wealthy don't want that and they always get what they want.   We live in a world designed by the weathy for the benefit of the wealthy.  

That’s why I led with “if”.

If you see D-Meat, you will know.