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I'm into a world cup right now. India had a thrilling last ball victory over Pakistan just today.

Is that so? OK.

Oxymoronic post. 😉

Did Tony Romo just say that the Lions, after having gotten some of their injured players back, will be “formidable” on TG? That’s some desperate promotion for the short-straw broadcast, there.

What difference will that make? We have had top eight draft picks each of the last four years, and this team, right here, is the team we’ve ended up with. What makes you think it will be any different next year, the year after that, and beyond? Especially since Campbell is practically guaranteed to be here at least halfway into the 2025 season.

Nobody within ten feet of Hendershot on that TD. Campbell’s not the only one giving up on the team.

Detroit ain’t America’s Team™.

No chance Campbell goes anywhere before Week 9 in Year 5. Fords aren’t gonna eat four-plus years of a six-year contract.

I still think there’s a not half-bad chance we go to arb with Jeimer. He was considered a good-hitting four-win player all the way up to the end of 2021; I find it unlikely that he has permanently fallen off the cliff in a career-ending way within a single year, at age 28, while playing in an historically-bad offensive coaching environment. I could see us taking the $7 million gamble to see whether he can be restored, because who else we got? Ryan Kreidler? Are we really ready to hand him 502+ plate appearances next year? Or do we simply add 3B to the long list of black-hole positions to fill from the outside? Even if we don’t go to arb with him, I find it even less likely that we can DFA him and then simply sign him to a minor-league contract in an unimpeded way. There are lots of teams that would consider Jeimer an upgrade, or at least someone who can be fixed enough to repair their own 3B woes. A’s, Nationals, Diamondbacks, Royals, Reds, Giants—they all have uncertain situations at 3B right now. Even the Cubs might be willing to take a flyer on a Devil They Know. I really doubt no one else would even take a look at Jeimer if we cut him loose on the market.

What, we didn’t go for it on 4th and 7 on their 23? Talk about off-brand …

I thought you were suggesting they normally do a five man!

Does any team do a five-man rotation in the playoffs? I thought all the off days allowed teams to do four.

Not at all. I was building on what you were saying, not arguing against it.

Reads to me as though Baseball has designed it specifically to be that way, to allow teams to plead the small cage theory while they are demanding the money from municipalities, counties, and states. Given that MLB is essentially the sum of its owner parts, it strikes me as a pretty ingenious way to exploit the Sherman clause, essentially colluding to rake taxpayers for our dollars to pay for their vanity stadium projects which, not for nothing, socialize the cost while privatizing the profits.

Double that if he wins a Cy Young and a ring for them.

I may have missed this earlier, but does the debt service sidebar have any implication for the Tigers?

Rep. Stopped Clock, R-CO

I agree with this except for one part: the downtrodden red hats don’t want other people to feel equally miserable as they do. They want other people to feel more miserable than they do. Practically everyone wants to be in the better half of the privilege spectrum. That’s human nature.

That “sweetly pretty” look obviously took a lot of product to achieve.

Interesting mention of "young Ginger" ... you've apparently seen her lately ...

Close: technically, they won the rights to the land in court, then sold the land back to the US government for 150,000 1883 dollars. In practical terms, though, that’s tantamount to a direct settlement.

Alabama and the states right around it do have the systemic exploitation of various types of labor embedded in their history, the memory of which can’t help but have seeped into their communal psyche. There’s probably been a lot of generational nostalgic reminiscence about it that’s been passed down. So in that sense, if it’s going to happen anywhere in America, it’s probably there.

Except her nation lost.

Well, that's one scale off one eye, anyway ... 😉