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Because of course why wouldn't a congressional rep retire to do this instead?

I'm not anything like Team Lange, so you don't have to tell me so. 😁

I should stop talking now. 😛

I was using "UCL" as an inexact synonym for a tear requiring TJ. I have no doubt that is the tendon in question.

Looking at that list, I can see why some people here are pining for that for us. We grew up with a bunch of those teams!

That would make them just the 44th team in history (out of some 2,500 teams total) to ever achieve that, and the first since 2012.

You're right not to accept it. That's our prerogative as fans. And maybe Hinch will act to immediately reduce Lange's role with the team after last night. I also would not be surprised if he doesn't change Lange's role with the team at all, to try to boost Lange's confidence. It make not make any sense to us that Hinch would care anything about Lange's confidence after blowing the save last night, but I would guess he has valid reasons beyond he simply doesn't care whether his team wins or loses. Maybe he wants to give Lange a chance to have a strong finish so he's motivated to work harder over the winter, or to come into spring with more confidence, or maybe even to make him more attractive in trade over the winter. Who knows. I'm pretty sure when it comes to Lange, Hinch has reasons and a plan for him and the team.

All of a sudden, Spencer Strider has an outside chance to win 20 games and get 300 strikeouts, and if he does, he’s winning the National League Cy Young out from under Justin Steele and Blake Snell, even if he’s not the actual best pitcher in the league.

I don’t know who the hell he is, but I can take a hack at what the hell he is: a low-level risk to throw out there because we are contractually obligated to throw somebody in the system out there. If he does well, nice, we’ll give him a look next spring. If he trips up, no problem, he’s gone, next.

Good move. That way you probably won’t be disappointed with the outcome!

I’m pretty sure Hinch knows a lot better than we do what the state of Lange’s repertoire is, so I doubt we have a better idea of what Hinch knows about it than he himself does. I would bet Hinch measures his public comments carefully to elicit the optimum response from his own players. I wouldn’t doubt that unlike Avila, who told everyone exactly what was going on in his head, Hinch has a somewhat different, or at least more shaded, view of Lange’s repertoire and his future prospects with the team then he is telling us through the media.

I doubt it’s UCL because they typically know so before surgery, and I’d read they won’t know the extent of Riley’s damage until they dive in.

Not sure what else he would say publicly.

I was never a Twitter addict. I don’t check up on it every day. The majority of the times i interact with Twitter, actually, is through posts here. Sometime I will want to share a story I read on a website and I will look for a tweet about it to share here instead of the link. I really liked how MTS would convert a raw link we posted to the article title automatically.

I am definitely spacing out my flu shot and COVID booster at least a week apart. I went into the shingles vaccine ignorant of the possible effects, and I got no warning from the tech at the pharmacy. First shot was uneventful. Second shot I assumed would be as well. I went for a long bike ride almost right after. About ten miles into it I thought i was gonna collapse. I still don’t know how I managed to make it home without doing so.

If the Tigers were to tell Javy he's not considered part of the future of this team and said they were relegating him to a backup role exclusively if he stayed, I'd bet he'd opt out. That's not going to happen, though.

We definitely won't have a full-time DH next year.

The Tigers are giving Carson Kelly every chance to convince them to pick up his option for next year. It's not going well.

he could start for contending teams if they have established All-Stars at other positions. I don't think he could be one of the three best everyday starters of a pennant-winner, but he could be seventh- or eighth-best.

lol seriously mother**** this guy 4. 🐦 Musk says X will charge everyone Elon Musk, holding one of his sons, talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in New York on Sunday. Photo: Turkish Presidency/AP Elon Musk said he's moving to require all users to pay a monthly fee to use his social media site X, formerly Twitter, Axios' Sara Fischer reports. Why it matters: The comments, which Musk made during a live-streamed event on X with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, come as the company struggles to regain trust with advertisers. Netanyahu brought up the large armies of bots that amplify hate speech. Musk replied: "The single most important reason we're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system is it's the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots." Musk said adding a subscription would make it much more difficult for bots to create accounts, because each bot would need to register a new credit card. He added that the company plans to come out with "a lower tier pricing" than it currently charges X Premium subscribers — around $8 monthly. 🥊 Reality check: Musk has often teased new products or innovations, only to change course. Share this story.

What's the context? Do they invite dozens of countries to march troops in their parade as part of the celebration? Or was Russia a special guest?

I think the bar for success here is very low. Trump's going to have a bunch of guys in a union hall hooting and hollering for him. Union guys are historically known for voting Democrat, so it's going to look like a bunch of Democrats are moving over to Trump, and that video with that strain of commentary will air over and over for days on every network that has a news division. I think there are two audiences being targeted here: independents, and on-the-fence voters of both parties. For each, the effect will be the same: when they see video of a bunch of Democrats whooping it up for Trump, I can totally see them saying to themselves, well, if even Democrats are going for Trump instead of Biden, maybe it's time to get (back) on the Trump train for the big win. I can even see a new group being announced: Democrats for Trump. That's low-hanging fruit and they'd be nuts not to go there. Sure, Trump is nuts, and the Trump campaign people are nuts, but I don't think they are that kind of nuts. And it doesn't matter that the new group would be synthesized out of astroturf. All that matters is that it happens and is seen. I think the only thing that will "go wrong" is that he will say something that rises to a new level of objectionable, which will then be rinsed through the news cycle, liberals will be outraged, red hats (and union hardhats) will be delighted and energized, mainstream media will both-sides whatever the comment is to death, and then everyone will leave it in the dust and move on to the next outrage. In the meantime, Democrats for Trump would be the one idea that will survive. I think this is a genius move and I pray to god they find a way to inexplicably blow it.

Maybe that’s Jake’s ceiling on a good team? In that way, he may not be unlike David Ross? A guy with a glove and a bit of pop who gets exposed with too much playing time? I’m doubtful about Jake’s All-Star potential. Maybe if he were 24 I’d be more on board with that idea.

And they’re the better of the two houses, by a lot.