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Boy, wouldn’t that be a testament to the power of a full organizational commitment to modernization.

Hey G-man, here's one sport that got the memo about deadening the ball:

They were both very verbose working together, which I actually like, but I could see how it would rattle some listeners. I thought maybe I'd accidentally stumbled onto a radio version of His Girl Friday ...

I hardly know how batters can hold onto the bat!

I did the exact same thing on my survey! It's the only thing I wanted to do! I was wary that it was going to be the kind of bullshit survey that was mostly centered around "would you recommend MLB to your friends" ...

I thought he meant Alex, because Alex does talk a lot the same way Dan does.

Hopefully Maybin will be as good as Alex Avila was. I can't remember: did Alex do any games after his dad was booted? Seems like he wouldn't have but I can't remember.

I think there's a good chance the pitch clock will revive interest enough to bring some young 'uns to the game, or back to the game. After all, the issue with them has long been how slow and boring it's gotten, and the pitch clock will knock a half an hour of pure dead time off the game, which will help. It will never beat the NBA or NFL but I can see it adding a few points in additional viewers and bringing down the average age a tick or two.

If he must stay with the organization, remaining at Toledo as an organizational soldier for the rest of his career would be fine with me. I would prefer we fob him off on a less savvy organization like the Angels or Rockies or Rangers or, maybe for old time's sake, Pirates, in exchange for something we can work with.

While we're on or not on the subject, as the case may be, I simply don't see what anyone sees in Beau Brieske. The guy has, hands down, the worst stuff of any pitcher who appeared in the big leagues last season. The guy is getting crushed this spring. Shit, man, he's getting crushed by Cardinal AAAA players right now. The guy shouldn't be allowed anywhere in Comerica Park without buying a ticket. I get it—the team needs to run him out there this spring and hope he can be at least passably decent in order to package him in a trade and get something anything out of the guy. But that's a defensible business imperative. I don't get why anyone would put any actual faith in this guy to be part of the next contending Tigers team. If anyone on the team is going to get written off, as we've been discussing, it should be this guy.

"Other things being equal" is the operative phrase.

Other things being equal, a 1/3 pick should be a lot higher than merely making some top 100 lists two years in.

I'm exhausted and simply don't give a shit about origins anymore.

Not for nothing, the kids are the only people in that picture not smiling.

Now do Reagan.

Another thing about this, which I’ve voiced before, is that Trump would be even more dangerous as a martyred leader-in-exile, outside of US control, and living in a country friendly to fascist ideals who will give him all the resources he needs to make as much trouble as possible for America from abroad. The best outcome out of all this would be to make him live under house arrest where they can force him to live out his days living the upper middle class lifestyle of a schnook, surrounded by Secret Service loyal to the US and not to him, and completely cut off from the ability to conspire with his former top lieutenants, many of whom would also be detained for the long haul. For that to happen, though, I think the charges would have to be more related to the treason than to the payoff. Because if it’s only about Stormy Daniels and nothing else, he’ll get a fine and suspended sentence as a best case scenario, or will completely skate as a worst. Either way, though, he will walk as a free man into the Fiserv Forum on July 18 to accept the nomination. And then it will truly be game on.

Trump’s not going in cuffs. I’m still not convinced he’s going at all. Just because he’s daring them to come get him doesn’t mean they’re coming to get him. But, just to hedge his bets on the off chance the rumblings are real, he’s preempting their move with his announcement in order to mobilize the flying monkeys so that it’s go time the moment the federales get hold of him.

At least you knew what I meant.

Incredibly, because we live in a particularly incredible world right now, this will make Putin even more popular and even a martyr, to the red hat right and their enabler media.

You asked for it. 😁

Putin will get hauled in when Trump gets hauled in.

I never did read the book, but I saw the series right away because I love the concept of going back into history as your present self, or in your present state of mind. As a young adult, I once had a dream that I woke up in my 11-year-old body on the first day of sixth grade and went to school knowing what I knew as an adult then. I've become, if not exactly obsessed, then at least very intrigued with that idea ever since. I replay that dream in my head a lot. I've even noodled the idea of writing a book or screenplay based on that concept. I've never even written a treatment for it, so I'm thinking that will go nowhere. Anyway, 11.22.63 is a similar type of thing and I was super interested in it for that reason. There are things I would definitely change in the story, specifically in the way James Franco interacts with people and things during the period. I didn't love the cautionary ending, but I suppose that was the point of it, and of the book as well. But for the most part, I liked the journey a lot.

And so it goes.

Some shows that range from pretty good to really really good, and that have good period-type costuming and music in it, would include Peaky Blinders, The Crown, Call the Midwife, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Mad Men, 11.22.63, Mrs America, and Godless.

I'd recently said I'm not writing off Jackson Jobe just yet because I wanted to see what this regime could do with him. But, honestly, I'm starting to trend toward that opinion as well.