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Being the Speaker would also make him third in line to the presidency, should the unthinkable happen.

The two leagues have not been separate business entities since, I believe, 2000? They both subsumed their business operation under Major League Baseball, so they could not, as you imply, expand or move teams on their own, or make their own rules. I put together a SABR presentation during which I learned that neither league could move teams without the general consent of their other league anyway until December 1952. They then went to a system that required no no input from the other league. It would be unanimous consent for an NL team to move, and a minimum 6-2 vote for an AL move. The idea of consent from the other league was dropped because they were basically killing off every move the other league wanted to make. That's a key reason there were no franchise moves between 1903 and 1952.

Yes, it did air here. Since I've moved here the local Fox station always prioritized the Lions behind the Packers and Vikings. Now that the Lions are actually on the brink, local Fox might start airing Lions over Vikings. But I can't see them ever airing Lions over Packers no matter how good the Lions get.

I find it interesting how the postseason has evolved from a single World Series to determine the best team in baseball to playoffs that is a tournament separate and distinct from the regular season. I understand that the better team didn't always win the World Series back in the pre-divisions era, but the setup was compelling enough—one series, our league's best team versus your league's best team, mano a mano—that that's what we grew up believing. Now that I'm supposed to understand that all it is now is a postseason tournament that has little to do with anything that went before it in the regular season, I'm not sure how I should feel about it.

Both the Cubs and the White Sox have primary PxP guys who not only take games off so they can do national work, their contracts obligate them to privilege the national work over the local baseball work. I would really hate for the Tigers to hire someone like that.

He won't, but if he does, I'm going to too.

lol Astros fans have the unironic temerity to boo Carlos Correa.

The best part about this win is that it was a blowout. Good and great teams are supposed to blow out bad teams, not play them close. This was a big step in that direction.

Map of the situation in Israel.

Also, not only know when, but know how to cheerlead. It’s one thing to say, in a sort of excited and breathless voice, “Tigers trying to score some runs here and put this game away!”, versus, “Come on boys, let’s score some runs!”

He’s advocating for fascism, which is politics by violence, because he and his cabal know that in a free and fair elections, his side gets smoked. So if they can’t keep their opposition from voting at all, and if they can’t fix the voting machines, and if they can’t overturn elections after the fact, all they have left is to start killing people en masse. Otherwise, they lose their chance to control America and, by extension, the world. Big stakes here.

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So the unreliable combo agrees with your reliable sources? What next, dogs sleeping with cats? 😝

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I would be surprised if we simply non-tender him without comment and let that just be the end of it. Some fans may not care either way but I don’t think the team will take the risk coming off looking heartless by doing that. BTW, what’s a “BP hit”? Is that a bullpen hit, a batting practice hit, something else? I can’t keep up with the changing acronyms anymore … 😉

We’re probably going to have to be careful how we handle Austin Meadows. It would be a really bad look for the organization to unceremoniously dump him after his well-publicized mental health struggles, and I would be frankly shocked if we went that route. On the other hand, we can’t go to arbitration and pay him another $4 million to get better. There’s a reasonable limit to the compassion the Tigers are required to show. The best move would probably be to offer him a minor league contract. If he accepts, maybe he finds some way to work his way back, and if he sadly can’t, it’s a fair effort on both sides. If he turns down the minors contract, if he ends up leaving the organization, then it’s his decision, as it should be.

We won’t play a guy with a hangnail? Are we talking about Hinch? This is new to me.

Hopefully he even wants to job at all. He only did home games on radio so maybe he's not interested in the travel, or in TV for that matter. And if they didn't give Gibby or Monroe or Petry the gate along with Shep, I don't see Dirks supplanting any one of them on the TV broadcast.

My specific memory of this: I was watching it via TIVO at the time and was maybe fifteen or twenty minutes behind. Just as this at bat is starting, I see a call coming in from my buddy, the Mets fan. I knew right away he was calling to either congratulate me for the win or commiserate with me over the loss. I was still watching it on delay, so of course I let the call go to voicemail. Then I saw what should have been the HBP. In a split second I thought, oh my god, that's a run coming home and we have the lead! We're gonna win! We're gonna win! That's what my buddy was calling about! The Tigers are going to the playoffs! All that took about half a second to go through my mind. But then the umpire said no, even after the replay showed the ball grazed the jersey. I was deflated, but there was still only one out with the bases loaded. But when Inge grounded into the force and Gerald Laird (!) struck out, I knew I didn't even have to watch the bottom of the inning to know we'd lost, because my buddy would probably not have called if the game weren't over yet. So bitterly disappointing. Basically a Lions-like outcome. Then I heard the voicemail commiserating with me over the loss.

Good one. Sandy Koufax was a unicorn in his moment: Late 50s/60s, Brooklyn-born, Jewish, arguably the greatest peak period for a pitcher up to that time, out at 31. To your implied point, leaving at that young age probably helped his legacy: he is one of those rare Hall of Famers who was at the top of the game when he left.

I don't know for sure either way so i will defer to your experience. As an outsider using critical thinking skills, I would think that even if a staffer glommed onto a new elected representative, they chameleonize themselves to become simpatico with the new boss, which might change some of the approach they had had to the job, or maybe the nature of the power they'd had changes, or the way they can work with other staffers changes. Otherwise, that would suggest that the new elected official, the new boss, is a cipher who has no influence over the staffer, which makes little sense to me, but again, I'm an outsider.

I can't imagine how good Miggy could have been had he actually worked hard on his game instead of skating by on talent alone.

I don't have $120 to subscribe so I can read it. Can you bottom line what it says?

Isn't Greg Gania a radio guy? 😉

Don't political staff get rotated out when an elected representative leaves office? Unless you mean staff not tied to specific elected officials?