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They have already flat out told us that. https://gop.com/blog/dems-push-woke-agenda-in-schools-az/

The perception by people of inflation is directly related to the media they consume.

We might be better-positioned to get something good for Lorenzen than for Eduardo. Lorenzen is a known quantity: two-month rental, having a decent year, able to slot into the bullpen in October, easy peasy. Eduardo is not just a rental, though, he also has an option, and in a way it’s the worst of all worlds. If a team trades for him and he kills it, he’s opting out. If he collapses, he’ll stick around for the money. If he gets good and hurt, like Tommy John hurt, he’ll just accept the option and get paid to convalesce on the new team’s dime. All this applies to the Tigers keeping him, too. So it might or might not be even a Verlander-level return, although it should be a lot better than a J.D.-level return.

The worst part was that he traded J.D. with two weeks left, so Avila didn’t even allow J.D.’s market to recover—unless he calculated that he would get an even worse bucket of balls from Arizona if he’d waited until the 31st. The turd cheery on the top is Avila could have waited until the waiver trade deadline of August 31st to trade him, too.

It was also the Angels, too, so ...

Our power almost never goes out. Twice in 21 years, each less than d ay. The second time in 2012, the transformer from the 1960s blew out and took down only our block. Hottest day of the year, natch. They had it replaced within a day.

I know, right? Families, amirite?

Ah, OK, there it is. I wondered where you were going with that.

“Mitch who? I don’t know who he is.”

We’re all sick of the losing but this is right. No point in trading your ace-for-now just to get a standard major league regular.

Great play at the plate, JB!

Greeting from beautiful downtown Detroit, Michigan! That last one is Ohtani getting punched out. 😁

Not sure if you'd be worried about something like this—I mention it only because there are people who are—but I would say don't worry about walking back to the hotel in downtown Detroit after dark. It's Saturday night in the summer, there will be people all over the place running around having a good time doing their own thing, and it will be as safe as any other place you can be.

The manager must always have a plan for the extended game.

I don't know much about college football, but is Tuberville interested in protecting Big Football's roster depth? Wondering what would be the personal gain for him here?

Speaking of Ohtani—I am seriously considering driving in from Big Shoulders just to see this.

That’s fine. He’s served his purpose and I salute his service to the cause.

FWIW: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2023/07/25/detroit-tigers-game-recap-los-angeles-angles-eduardo-rodriguez-shohei-ohtani/70466926007/ Haase, rather than Miguel Cabrera, pinch hit for Nick Maton. "With Miggy, it's a two-for-one there," Hinch said. "If I'm going to lose the (designated hitter) by doing a two-for-one, I've got to pick and choose. I don't really want Miggy running the bases. I don't really want him on defense. He's not going to play defense, so it made for that order (of pinch hitters)." With either Haase or Miggy, with Maton taken out of the game, they would have had to move Carpenter out of the DH spot and into the 2B spot, Haase would have to stay in the game on defense, and the remaining pinch-hitter would have to hit if the order came back round to the pitcher, then the pitcher would have to hit after that.

Then SIERA is a better stat for you, because it does contemplate balls in play. Not hits per se, but type of balls in play, i.e., fly balls, ground balls, pop ups. Not perfect though because it doesn't include line drives.

Or else, it is Tuberville's intent to try to get this pet bill of his signed in exchange for the release of DOD appointments. Don't negotiate with terrorists.

Q.E.D.

"Incandescently" goes really well with "idiocracy". 'Incandescently stupid': Ex-DHS official says Trump needed 'highly classified' memos dumbed down Former United States Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor recalled to Meidas Touch podcast host Brett Meiselas on Tuesday that he had to drastically dumb down national security reports to ensure that ex-President Donald Trump could interpret them. "This fifty-page memo that we would normally give to any other president about what his options are is something Trump literally can't read. The man doesn't read. We've gotta boil this down into a one-pager in his voice," Taylor said. "And so I had to write this incandescently stupid memo called something like, 'Afghanistan, How to Put America First and Win.' And then bullet by bullet, I summed up this highly classified memo into Trump's sort of bombastic language because it was the only way he was gonna understand," Taylor continued. "I mean, I literally said in there, 'You know, if we leave Afghanistan too fast, the terrorists will call us losers. But if we wanna be seen as winners, we need to make sure the Afghan forces have the strength to push back against these criminals.' I mean, it was that dumb and that's how you had to talk to him."

I can’t imagine Artie Moreno won’t decide to keep Ohtani and take a run at him in the offseason, especially given that Trout is out right now. That fan base would probably revolt.

They’d probably have to play a straight doubleheader, maybe starting at noon, to get teams out for travel at a reasonable hour.

I like looking at FIP- vs ERA.