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I’m starting to wonder whether Elon Musk is trying to use the power of the publicity he naturally generates to destroy, or at least seriously hobble, Twitter, without spending a penny to do it.

A tax cut would also make future tax collection amounts uncertain to plan around. I think the idea of continuing at current tax rates and then issuing a rebate/dividend/whatever they call it check is a defensible idea. One positive thing it will do is give taxpayers the feeling of a windfall, same way people feel when they get a refund of their own tax money they paid in.

My god this is effing brilliant.

I understand what the projections say. Meadows has put up 108 OPS+ over his last 900 or so plate trips over the past 2-1/2 years, and he has gotten over 120 OPS+ only once in his five seasons. I also believe the "healthy" part may be the key: he's coming off a bunch of owies on top of equilibrial weirdness, so I would not be necessarily disappointed if he came back for 200 or so plate trips and still ended up ±5 points around 100 OPS+. It's been a rough year for the guy. He's our guy, and we got him for two more years after this, so I would be thrilled to be wrong and see him light it up when he comes back.

Looks potentially like another good one who got away.

120 OPS+ sounds ambitious. We might have to be ready to see 100, maybe 110.

Even if Congress passes a national abortion law, what’s to keep this court from overturning it as an unconstitutional infringement of states’ rights?

I missed the days when this was all considered Alarmist Non-sense.

Agreed. I’ve learned my lesson from Trump 2016. I thought people would be sprinting to the polls to vote against the guy then. We saw some of that in 2020 and probably will in 2024, but now that Trumpist conspiracy story-telling has infected the entire elections integrity process, even if voters in certain precincts do sprint to the polls, they may never get in now. I also feel the same way when I see people crowing about big leads in polls months before elections takes place.

Well, that was a wasted afternoon.

Yeah, these are the old Tigers today.

TORK! sure can go up and get that errant throw.

Maybe they should put him on the restricted list so he can go home and deal with whatever.

Looks like Garrett Hill is turning back into a pumpkin.

It is true that the better the record, the more likely Avila stays, if record factors at all into the decision.

I was just thinking how much more comfortable I would be if the first digit in the win column were at least as high as the first digit in the loss column.

Oh my god, I don’t believe we had to rely on Willi practically snow-coning that ball to win! These are the best games to win. Get the big lead, lure them to within two, then drop the hammer on them.

Gotta admit, this is very exciting …

Strikeout! Turned Robert’s aggressiveness against him.

Jesus how did Robert miss the down the middle fastball?

Winning run at the plate …

How about Fulmer for the save? Come on, Rook!

I know. I was making a funny.

Going down 1-2-3 easy is bad for stanching the other team’s momentum.