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Wow, TORK! really winged that one over to Lange. A little frustration at him, maybe?

Sun got in Willi’s eyes on that one … 😏

Even worse: the Tigers are the only team with a DH to “achieve” this dubious distinction.

I do think the 2022 Tigers seriously challenges the maxim “you can never have too much pitching”.

Generous call to give TORK! the single there. He would have been out with an on-target throw. Schoop getting into that rundown made a difference for Jeimer scoring on that play since he’d gotten to second. Willi with the run-scoring single to score TORK! And now Bert’s got his six runs!

Big fan of this term here.

What a fortuitously great view of that Schoop triple from behind the plate.

I know this is super uncool to say, but Republicans really do benefit politically from mass shootings. It highlights political divisions which energizes the 2A absolutists who vote for them and empowers the NRA, the source of many of their political donations. I really do believe that the tremendous increase in NRA power over the past couple of decades has its roots in the way they politicized Columbine.

Here's another list: all the teams in big league history who have scored 125 runs or less in their first 46 games of the season: The run-scoring futility is almost impressive.

We should definitely DFA Javy Baez and sign Dallas Keuchel to play shortstop.

If the states continue to ossify politically, basically split right down the middle between red states and blue states, I don’t see how we could ever got another constitutional amendment passed.

Imagine how bad it would be had they not beat the Rockies 13-0!

Check out how this current Tigers team compares against all the teams in big league history that averaged fewer than three runs per game for an entire season. What jumps out at me is how much ground we have to make up to get even to 3.

Wrong. You simply can’t grasp his complex concept, and that’s on you.

Sure, that’s true of anyone who has a background of religious education. But I would bet a lot of people who are at their essence simply reflexively opposed to liberals as people and who signed up for the Christian team in the last few years as a result, having had nary a shred of serious religious education, might very well believe that “God’s plan” means he controls every little movement on earth, down to where a fly buzzing around in a house on the northwest side of Schenectady, New York, will fly next. Sure he might have a plan, which brings me back to the point that if God does have a plan, and he allows a creation of his with puny power to thwart that plan at will, he really can’t be omnipotent.

I wonder whether the prosecutor will have the grandfather testify against the grandson so we can teach kids about taking personal responsibility …

My favorite part of this thread is the conceit of the one guy coming in here and crowing, "See, I told you Javy Baez sucks! I was right and all you stupid sabers were WRONG!!" When nothing that's happening with him is inconsistent with anything any of us who have experience watching Javy over the years has said.

I'm not debating what I think the essence of God is, basically because I'm not particularly interested in the topic. If God does exist, I don't think it's possible for us to know his nature since, unless you believe certain people are specially-appointed agents of his, he never reveals himself to us. So I gotta swing the discussion back around to its beginning and reiterate the simple essence of my point: if God doesn't know what's going to happen in the future, he's not omniscient. If God has a plan but Man can put it asunder, he's not omnipotent. And if God is omniscient and omnipotent but gives Man free will, he has no plan. But if God is omniscient and omnipotent, and he has a plan in which he knows everything that's going to happen before it happens from now until the end of time, then prayer is pointless, because nothing we ask for is going to change his plan.

You may not have read my original post in which I said, in so many words, that I don't believe at all that TV shows and movies are inspiring these shooters in the first place. You appear to be arguing against a point I did not make.

If God allows Man to set His plan back, then he’s not omnipotent.

Also many a critical thinker freeing themselves from the restrictions of superstitious assumptions.

Also correct. Both-and.

He absolutely knows that the delay cost lives. He’s backtracking because politically, saying what he did was unfavorable to the all-rights-belong-to-gun-owners crowd, because going in sooner would have removed the benefit of the doubt from the shooter, and there will be a next time cops will have to give the benefit of the doubt to another armed mania… er, patriot.

You’re right, Hollywood didn’t make the culture, but Hollywood does reflects the culture. Hollywood also validates the culture, and they contribute to ossifying the culture when they reflect it in their stories by culminating it with such positive outcomes. When it comes to Hollywood and our history to explain how we’ve arrived where we are politically with guns, it’s not a case of either-or. It’s a case of both-and.