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Translation: they were looking only for lefty leakers and couldn’t find any, so … 🤷‍♂️

I think George Santos has become a huge distraction from this Congress, and based on what I know about the current iteration of The Party, I can’t say for sure that it’s not on purpose.

I with you on the anger, but I would bet that most of the people who voted him in thinks he’s just dandy because they love slurping the lib tears being shed over it.

Yeah I saw this on Fox News. loljk

First of all, as for Chapman having gas in the tank—ha ha ha ha no. That’s why he fell all the way to the Royals. If any contender thought Chapman still had gas in the tank, they would have signed him. Secondly, Evan Woodbery is part of the old guard beat writer crew steeped in the ways of the old administration, and has still-active relationships with them that he built over the prior six years. He’s used to the loose lips and the sinking ships. Different animal now. Job’s gonna be harder. Best of luck to him.

Just played Almost Cut My Hair on YouTube Music for my wife who wasn’t sure she’d ever heard it. Next song suggested was Cortez the Killer by Neil Young. Talk about transcendent … https://youtu.be/5acy9vtdh00

What leaps out at me reading Crosby’s tweet again is how he talks about Manzarek’s bass. Sure, Crosby trashed it, and that’s entertaining, but beyond that, as a layman who’s autodidacted a bit of music, I’m not sure I have ever heard any keyboardist’s “left-handed bass work” discussed in quite those terms. I assume it’s quite common in musical circles, though.

It is definitely, as the kids in marketing used to say, their USP.

Oh, Jesus, for the first time, I can envision a path for those loonspuds.

I respect his opinion as an elite musician.

He sure knew his music.

See above. Is anyone else getting their embedded tweets blocked in Firefox? This started just a couple days ago. Seems like a browser update on their side. I fiddled with all my add-on settings and I still can't get them to show up. They still show when I open MTF threads in Chrome (which I do not want to use as my main browser), so I know it's not a PC issue. Anyone got any advice about a fix?

Even this guy gets it: So strap in ... here we go-o-o-o-o--o ... !

Exactly. I didn't mean to imply that any of what I said they would need to do is easy or they definitely will do it—although they would if they could. I just meant to say only that these would be the only ways I can think of that they would win. As long as there's a free and fair democracy, they can't win nationally. They are too well-known an entity at this point.

Well, then, paint tarps it is!

Yes, this, and also, the public visibility into the success or failure of a sports franchise is taken more personally by the public than the success or failure of a pizza business.

These are my pet nicknames for them. It's a Duvalier-Haiti reference, the passing down of rule from the daddy directly to the son.

I can see where this makes sense. Papa Doc was famously trying to win a ring before he shed his mortal coil—not certain we can say Baby Doc is as motivated. But I can see that kind of set-it-and-forget-it approach in both.

To be fair, Paredes did end the season with 2.2 WAR with plus-D at third base, a 114 OPS+, and he had a pretty good August. Even so, it's asking a lot for a 23-year-old to be consistently good month after month through an entire season, especially a guy coming directly out of the frying pan of a system that has routinely failed the development of their minor leaguers and directly into the fire of a team expected to contend for a ring. I'll be interested to see how Paredes does after spending an entire winter working under their direction.

I wouldn’t have minded letting Jeimer go if we’d already had the cornerstone of the next playoff team in place when we did. But if we were just planning to cycle through stopgaps for the next couple seasons anyway, the only reason it makes sense to kick Jeimer out of the door is that he is completely done and never going to be any good ever again. If that’s the case, I’m OK with it.

Although anything is possible and he may be actually done done at 29, I think there’s a good chance the mob with their pitchforks prevailed on this one.

I kind of think that Baby Doc was fine not only with Shep, but also with Al Avila, as long as the money kept quietly rolling in. But once Avila embarrassed him publicly with his relentless buffoonery, that helped drop the scales from Ilitch’s eyes and has led him to more closely examine just how this Tigers property of his reflects on his reputation and family’s legacy. Every little thing, every losing season or PR issue, that goes wrong with the team reflects directly on him, which probably isn’t true of any of his non-sports properties. Who knows, maybe that’s the circumstance that leads the Ilitch’s to finally sell the Tigers, and maybe even the Wings—they are each far too visible a property for a guy who might prefer to quietly scrimp along on the cheap and clear billions through the secret chicanery that buying property and paying off governments entails, or through the natural obfuscation the buy-a-product company like Little Caesars provides. Everyone knows the Ilitch name is attached to the Tigers and Red Wings, but who outside Detroit knows they own Little Caesars? And unless people die from eating the pizza, nothing like pizza quality or poor sales is going to make Ilitch a public pariah. But as long as the Tigers lose or behave in embarrassing fashion …