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You sure about this? Because I have been able to pause Gameday audio (on my phone) to synch up with TV broadcasts pretty well. Or are you talking about something else here?

I was very disappointed by 1987, in part because the Tigers were the far better team (the Twins were outscored that season!), and in part because I had never seen a Tigers playoff team not win the World Series before. I was disappointed by the 2006 World Series for the same better-team reason, and disappointed by 2013 because that was the best team of that whole run, and in general we outplayed the Red Sox in that ALCS.

Here are the slowest career starts for Hall of Famers during the post-WWII era, based strictly on OPS (OPS+ is not available to this query). Vast majority of these guys went into the Hall specifically for their hitting. I had to blur out a few guys who went into the Hall for their managing. The benchmark I used was first 81 career games, minimum 250 plate appearances. Look who's at the "top" of this list.

Wow, I did not realize Trout had so many minor league ABs by age 19!

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At age 19. At age 20 he slashed .326/.399/.564 with 30 bombs, 49 steals (only 5 CS!), a 168 OPS+, and 10.5 WAR.

Yemen is second to the US in terms of private gun ownership? They must really love Jesus there.

Contract on America, baby.

Whatever his "personal matters" may be, it's important enough for him to forgo his paycheck for it. This is a very 2022 Tigers thing to happen to us.

Yup. That kind of checks out ...

Can you provide any examples of vitriol, which my dictionary defines as “cruel or bitter criticism”?

Probably because they do not want the way they live to have to change even a little. They’re conservatives.

Last night, one of my softball teammates, who occupies some mythical “well-informed middle” on the whole thing (as though anyone well-informed would form no opinion on any of this), said he was unimpressed by the first hearing because he said we didn’t learn anything new. I mentioned how we learned that the violence was all pre-planned, and how Trump pushed the fraud claim even after he knew he had lost, and my teammate said well, we already knew this, didn’t we? What’s new about that? He had me for a minute because, yes, this had all been talked about for the last year and a half, ever since the Capitol attack happened, and it really does seem like old news—until I came to realize that the big difference now is that all this was just Twitter speculation before, whereas now, we have actual sworn testimony to all of this, which carries the imprimatur of legal truth. That’s the big difference. Once I shared this thought with him, he had an “aha” moment about it.

I think if they lay out all this evidence and then fail to indict Trump, basically making this whole thing a political stunt, he will become more popular with the red hats than ever, since it will show that he is indeed the most powerful person in the world, bulletproof and unable to be taken down by the woke radical left mob, and that he is the true North Star of the future of the world. It might even radicalize a few current moderate right-of-center conservatives who might look at all this pomp and circumstance, see how nothing actually happened, and conclude that we really do live in a Deep State Democrat tyranny that uses its power to punish their opponents politically. If Trump comes out of this unscathed, it’s not just that democracy would die. It’s also that the very idea of democracy will be completely discredited.

It looks for all the world that Ginsburg is hedging his bets that Trump might come out of this a winner, and he wants to reduce his sentence for treason when Trump does win.

This is not unlike the same psychology that leads to poor people playing the numbers, or scratch-offs, or convenience store slot machines, or those machines that look like they’re gonna slide a whole bunch of quarters to you if you put in just one more. Just risk a little money and you could hit it big.

Ginsburg just basically said on CNN that we have to hold Trump and his campaign accountable, not for the fraud, apparently, but basically for not accepting the decision of the courts and for trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. But Ginsburg also believes that the consequence should be, not an indictment and a conviction in any court of law, but some realization about “their role in history” and how they’re absolutely “torched” about it, and then Congress should “take a look” at legislation to “ensure nothing like this happens again”. So, basically, according to Ginsburg, any penalty for Trump should not happen now, but in some undefined future, and not anything in real terms, but something in ethereal terms, and presumably only after he’s dead and won’t be around to give a shit about any of this anymore. For the good of the country, I presume?

Trump raised almost $250 million, $150 million in the first week after the election, on claims of election fraud that they knew to be false. That sounds like fraud itself to me!

Now we’re getting to the money fraud part …

Benjamin Ginsburg, Republican Elections Attorney. Very direct, confident, and adamant that all Trump claims were baseless. Clearly he must be a globalist agent of the deep state. 😏

Richard Donoghue’s testimony includes a whole lot of conspiracy stories that I had never even heard of.

Because he was the key to any power or influence they might have. Without Trump, they are all fringe nobodies. All of them to a one.

Good thing we’re not doing a Bill Barr Bullshit drinking game. We’d all be three sheets to Giuliani by now.

This looks like something that might come up again and again over the next three or so years.