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Set a course for victory, boatswain or bo's'n or bos'n or bosun or whatever it is you're going by these days!

If we can stay sharp and focused and A.J. can continue pushing the right buttons, we can mos def win this series.

Who, li'l ol' me? 😇

Black man in the 1960s with a mind of his own and a penchant to tell us all about it? Check.

At least his name isn't **** Bastard.

Fascinating ... I see this and I think back to what Oblong has posted in these forums about how white people in the south view black people as "you can get close, but don't you get too high up", and the white northerners view black people as "you can get high up, just don't get too close."

Has your Country Been Sanctioned by the United States (Since 1962) and How Many Times Oh, Canada!

I'd love to see a map by county of people who make it to age 80 in the first place. It must look a whole lot like this one.

As "hot" as the 11-8 Tigers are and cold as the 3-13 Cardinals are, don't be surprised if we lose the series or even get swept, because that's how baseball works. At least I won't abandon the ship if it happens.

Anyway, yes it was Al Oliver.

What a minute—are they really filtering that word? **** McAuliffe. EDIT: Goddammit!

Deaden the ball, and pitchers will have less bad things happen to them.

Right, and the best way to sell propaganda is to deny it's propaganda.

And let's not forget that the mass media is one of those institutions, and sadly, the fascists have made a lot of progress eroding faith in that one. Not to suggest mass media news-gathering operations are flawless, because (a) nobody is flawless and (b) that's too high a bar to gauge them on. But MMNGO have journalistic standards and ethics, and they hew far, far closer to what's really happening than parties with clearly apparent interest do.

What the **** is summit-dot-news and why the **** should I care about anything they post?

You misspelled "cheef".

Economy is cratering, thanks Brandon.

There was zero incentive for Trump to not hide the documents, or to turn them over.

Marcus Stroman, Adam Ottavino, Billy Hamilton, Andres Gimenez, Sam Haggerty, Brice Turang, and Domingo German. So, nope. Of those seven, only Turang has never worn another number in the bigs. So, number 0 is a fad, if not a trend. Looks for a number 0 on the Tigers before long. Maybe J-Hen. How do I know it's a fad? There have been 36 players in big league history who have worn number 0. Ten years ago today, there were only 11 in big league history. Fourteen of the players in history who wore zero did not do so before the pandemic. So, yeah, it's definitely a fad. Don't look it up now, but: can you name the first player in history ever to wear number 0 in the big leagues?

He sounds nice ... To Mark Robinson, gay and transgender people are “filth”, homosexuality is an abominable sin, and the transgender movement is “demonic” and “full of the spirit of the antichrist”. Muslim Americans, meanwhile, are invaders, and Robinson is not afraid to dabble in antisemitism: in his mind an international cabal of Jewish financiers make up a modern-day “four horsemen of the apocalypse”, who rule the banks in “every single country”. Lots of people have offensive and conspiracy-minded beliefs. But not all of them are running, as Robinson is, to be governor of North Carolina. And to people who don’t share Robinson’s views, the problem is that it looks like he could win – furthering the Republican party’s years-long lunge to what was previously rightwing fringe politics. “Mark Robinson would be the most extreme gubernatorial candidate but also governor that we’ve ever seen in our history,” said Anderson Clayton, the chair of the North Carolina Democratic party.

Oh, I don't know, looks to me like a lot of people are finding it easy to get angry about vanilla.

Gotta optimize that school-to prison pipeline by getting kids used to having authority figures with guns around them all the time.

The thing that leaps out immediately to me is that seven teams have a player who wears number 0.

So after getting our cosmic justice against Scherzer and Verlander, the Tigers are now 13-17. My over-under for the tough 40*-game stretch to start the season was 12-28, so … yeah, they should have that beat pretty good. Here’s the funny thing: we now have three against the Cards, three against the Guards, and three against the M’s, all of whom were playoff teams last year, but now, all of whom are well under .500 as of this morning. And then the easy stretch was supposed to start in game 41 against the … you guessed it … PIRATES! But then we have ten more against legitimately terrible teams (WSN, KCR, CHW). Add it all up, and what the hell, I’m gonna say it: we have a puncher’s chance of being .500 on Memorial Day! * - The Giants game that got rained out makes it 39 now.