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Now I’m curious as to how “fake violinist” actually works.

If Monroe is trying to take over the broadcast from Benetti then by definition there is an issue between them. Or at least with Monroe himself. And a double for Carson Kelly with one out in the eighth. We are down four, but it’s to the A’s, so it’s not like we are out of this game.

You can tell Gibby likes working with Benetti, and Benetti appreciates Gibby’s reactions to his bon mots better than Craig Monroe's reactions. The Tigers are in kind of a tough position with Craig Monroe. They don’t feel it yet, probably, but they definitely will long before the end of the season comes, and they are gonna have to make a decision, even if it’s doing nothing.

Maeda’s thing is that he can get swing and miss better than most, but when they are on him, he gets clobbered. He came into town with that rep and he is doing nothing to dissmell that miscontusion.

It occurs to me that the first nine games of our season are all against the second-banana teams (White Sox, Mets, A’s) in three of the four two-team markets (CHI, NYC, SFO). That feels unusual to me, as in, that has not happened to any other team since interleague play started.

I didn’t think we’d be 6-1, but I thought we would have a better start than last year certainly years because we’re not playing teams as good.

MTG is speaking to people steeped in superstition and proud of their ignorance.

I don’t know exactly what would happen to NYC or Chicago if a 6+ earthquake were to hit, but I don’t think hastily-constructed buildings like my house are made to withstand that. Just—please, god, let me be out of town for that.

I am—fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view—headed to the Dodgers-Cubs game this afternoon. It will be the first game Ohtani has played on the road since the allegations, so that's going to be interesting. Although I wish I could see how Benetti and Gibson get along, so I will be checking in on this thread to get a sense of that, I hope.

He was never cool enough to jump any sharks. He was a silver-spoon nepo baby.

CERTAINLY NOT!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Yes, being so concerned with controlling the talking points is the Republicans' job, and they are doing a great job of it!

I think it's a difference between understanding that we just didn't know the best way to respond to a once-in-a-century pandemic crisis so we erred on the side of caution, versus believing that everyone was forced to lock themselves up in their houses by the Democrats because they want to destroy America. I will say that I believe that in a universe where the GOP gets their way and no one is quarantined at all or masks are socially outlawed, millions, with an "s", would have died of COVID just in America alone.

I think it might also be a sampling issue. Who are they talking to, or more exactly, who is consenting to be polled about it? I have a hypothesis that the Trumpers are engaged on all things anti-America 24/7, so they are thrilled to death to tell pollsters how ****ty everything about America is. The people who have better things to do than engage on this stuff all the time, people who are probably moderates, I don't think they're answering their landlines and agreeing to be polled.

They'll get amnesia about it by the time Hannity comes on.

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?