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Maybe McCarthy was told he was going to be on Fox Business.

My only broken bone was my left tibia. I was fifteen and on a skateboard being pulled along by a bike with butterfly handlebars and a banana seat through a grade school parking lot. I’d had almost no experience on a skateboard, and it showed when it jerked up from under me and I landed ankle bone first on the asphalt. They put me in a cast on my brother’s birthday. After a week on crutches they put me in a walking cast. I was walking normally on it within three weeks. I even hit a softball home run with someone running for me in ninth grade gym class. The cast came off on my birthday. That was almost exactly eight weeks. Good as new. Never a problem since. I am not a major league athlete.

He is completely off my radar. I will be honestly surprised if he comes back to baseball and produces positive results for the Tigers.

Jake Marisnick is the third of the four “think” players named in this post as being the level of player we can pick up and try that we have actually picked up and tried. Keep your eyes peeled for Johan Camargo.

Are you really criticizing voters for not turning out in the past midterms in the same numbers that they did in the biggest-turnout election in sixty years? Come on.

Counterpoint: surprising Democratic turnout in 2022, an off-election year. I’ll say one thing for MAGA: they can sure turn out the other side.

I don’t see him winning over people who voted against him before; and I don’t see people scared shirtless of him being elected again, of which there are a lot, staying home; and I don’t think there are a lot of previously unengaged people coming out to vote for the first time for him.

I agree that Trump cannot win a free and fair election.

Somebody who doesn't get hurt all the time would be a nice start.

That's six to eight weeks. This season has fallen apart quite rapidly, hasn't it? Less than forty-eight hours by my estimation.

As if this girl's iniquities are at the same level as Trump's or MTG's or Ted Cruz's, people with their hands on actual levers of power.

And I should give a **** why?

Agree—I'm also sure Hinch's public presentation is designed to elicit certain responses and engender confidence in him. I'm not so sure it's all a ruse to mask underhanded intentions that would be detrimental to the franchise. Just because he's careful about his public statements in his role as manager of the team doesn't per se mean he's a slimeball. I acknowledge you're not at all saying that, although I would also guess that some fans might wonder about that.

That's what "maybeing" is all about!

I'm also laughing at the speculation that Hinch is short-sightedly focused only on winning today's game at all costs and is disregarding every developmental consideration, contradictory to Scott Harris's goals. I believe, rather strongly actually, that it is very unlikely that Harris and Hinch are at loggerheads and working at cross-purposes, and that is it very likely they are very much on the same page regarding the direction and development of this entire franchise. I have no evidence to support that conclusion beyond almost eight months of public statements.

"Maybe statements" are not conclusions, and I don't have to provide evidence for this "maybe" statement any more than you have to provide evidence that they never have done so.

Maybe because they have already rigorously attempted to get Baddoo to hit lefties better and have determined that he simply can't do so. This is possible. Just because they're not playing him against lefties against our will doesn't mean they are simply being ignorantly obstinate. It is also possible they are giving the entire issue short shrift and have prematurely concluded Baddoo can't lefites because they are indeed being ignorantly obstinate. I would regard that as being less likely.

Who the **** is "Amanda the Red" and why the **** should I care about what the **** she has to say?

Pritzker in Illinois is pretty good, though

What do these kids know? They're only children. They are not old enough to form their own opinions. Their still-forming minds are being manipulated against their will by the woke gay agenda. They need to be taught godly moral values and what freedom really means while they are at school, first and foremost, if it takes every single minute they are in the building. The future of our republic is at stake. It's my tax dollars and I vote.

It doesn't matter whether he does it. It matters only that he says he's going to do it. His only interest is in getting elected, not in governing.

OK, just asking.

And that's fine, I could be on board with that. I'm asking only to gauge the level of pain you'd be willing to withstand to get to a point where Baddoo is only 20% worse against lefties than overall. Just let's all not whine a few weeks in when he's 1-for-18 with 11 strikeouts against LHP. If we're in to achieve that result, stay in all the way. That said—the Tigers may already have come to the conclusion that hitting lefties is a lost cause for him, based on repeated attempts and analytics/Rapsodo-based evidence, and if that's the case, they might be more right about it than we are.

Deaden the ball, stick with it, and we might eventually get back to 15 position players naturally.

If you don’t mind Baddoo’s .217/.276/.245 line against LHP every day. They may already have figured out over the past three years that he can’t, which may be why Baddoo almost never goes out there against LHP today. (This is not my own conclusion or value judgment about him or the Tigers. I don’t know anything more about it than anyone else. This is merely a speculative statement.) It’s possible they could force him out there time after time against lefties, take the short-term loss on production for some number of months or maybe even seasons, and he could eventually get to within, I don’t know, maybe 80 tOPS+ against LHP. He’s at 49 tOPS+ lifetime against LHP right now. Would you be willing to take that short-term loss for such a long-term outcome?