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Daz is one of the unfortunate class of Tigers prospect acquired under the previous development regime and who suffered from their incompetence. Derek Hill, our first round pick from eight years ago (!), is Exhibit #1. Alex Faedo, Beau Burrows, Cristin Stewart, all behind what their development should have been. Even Matt Manning took five years to finally make the team. Remember Jonathan Crawford? I barely do, but he got $2 million in the draft and is now out of organized baseball. And these were all first rounders! I have a reasonable expectation that we won't be seeing this massive level from the Hinch-led regime.

I think the only way those two kids flop is if they are chronically injured. As long as they can stay on the field, they are going to improve and produce for the next few years. I also believe the organization is getting themselves into a position where they don’t have to put all their eggs in a basket of two players and cross their fingers so they can win every decade or two. It looks to me they are building a sustainable system of player identification and development that will outlast Tork’s and Riley’s tenure with the team. As down as I have been on this owner and organization over the past five years, I am right chuffed to be able to say this and mean it!

That's OK, Cawthorn is only passing through Congress on the way to a permanent gig at some wackadoodle fringe right wing media thing, quite possibly based in Москва.

My wife and I are mulling over when to get it. Should we go soon as possible, or wait until flu shot season? We ask because if we get it now, will its effectiveness fade by the time late fall/winter comes? On the same hand, we're going into summer and it's not likely we'll have a big deadly COVID wave, so I wouldn't want to waste max protection on a time period during which the danger is diminished. On the other hand, getting it sooner makes us more confident to travel as we plan to go on long driving trips in both May and August. What to do ... what ... to ... do ... 🤔

Now wait a minute ... how is lifting border controls even possible? I was told we already had completely open borders to the south of us ...

My favorite nickname has long been Agent Orange.

And then ... Epic.

Correct. I am also saying that these MAGAs are too weak-minded to develop opinions based on analyzing whatever the subject at hand is. They are already reactionary, which they've committed to instinct, so they know they need to oppose everything—that's the easy part. The hard part is coming up with the why, which is what they need to be told by their media. Get back to them on any of this in a couple of months and ask them why then. They'll have moved on and long forgotten the reasons by then.

Just a friendly reminder that Republicans actually have no interest in legislating, because they profess to despise government. They're business people, or at least business-people-adjacent, and businesses are anti-government because good government holds them to standards, and businesses want no standards. That's why these Republicans ran for government, and frankly, that's why their districts voted them in. Their twin goals are to destroy the effectiveness of government from within, and then plunder the Treasury for themselves and their benefactors on the way out.

Except "tremendous". That's the MAGA code word.

Exactly what we would expect either a Russian agent or a useful idiot say.

Bunker, as usual, has got it all backwards. The treaty with Iran wasn't intended to allow them to develop a nuclear weapon. The Treaty was intended to prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon, because inspections. It's not having a treaty with Iran, which eliminates inspections, that will allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. Fact is, right wing hacks, Putin fanboys, and other Republicans need the specter of nuclear Iran as a cudgel to clobber Democrats with during election cycles. Without that—that is, with a treaty in place—they have nothing of substance on Iran and can't effectively attack Democrats on this issue.

Funny you say, I was wondering what if Will Smith had done that to a white comedian like Ricky Gervais.

Have you heard the latest unhinged “plan” percolating in wackadoodle land? Republicans crush Democrats in elections this November. Republicans name Donald Trump as Speaker of the House, since nothing in the Constitution stipulates the Speaker even be a member of Congress. Republicans engineer the impeachment, conviction and removal of Biden and Harris. Trump ascends to presidency as next in line to the throne. From the noggin of Matt Gaetz … natch.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, this guy is legit insane!

Not looking good for Daz Cameron as a Detroit Tiger. Some fairly damning-with-faint-praise words from AJ after Daz was sent down: Daz “needs to see general improvement across all of his game. If you grade out where he’s at defensively, there’s a lot of attention-to-detail things that he can improve on to be an impactful player. His skills and tools are as good as anybody that we have in the outfield. Applying it consistently is a big challenge for him.” Ouch, babe.

This got me wondering when the last time we saw a Detroit Tigers position player age 21 or under log a full season in which they had enough plate appearances to qualify for a batting title. Answer: Alan Trammell, 1979, age 21. The year before that it was Trammell (age 20) and Lou Whitaker (age 21). Last time before that: Al Kaline, 1956 (age 21). Hall of Fame-level careers from all of them. It also got me wondering how teams across baseball have deployed 21-and-under position players enough to have them qualify for a full season of plate trips since Trammell's 1979 season. Answer: 24 teams have had at least one qualifying season from an 21-or-under player. Here's the full list of all teams since 1980 and how many such qualifying seasons by youngsters they allowed: PIT 21 CHC 20 STL 17 BOS 11 CHW 11 MON-WSN 11 HOU 8 NYY 8 TEX 7 ATL 6 BAL 6 MIL 6 MIN 6 SEA 5 FLA-MIA 4 OAK 4 SDP 4 TOR 4 LAA 3 LAD 3 NYM 3 TB 3 ARI 1 KCR 1 DET 0 CLE 0 PHI 0 CIN 0 SFG 0 COL 0 The Tigers are unusual among teams in being either too skittish about having young players play for them, or else have been unable to scout and develop young players good enough that young to play full seasons for them. Take your pick on reason.

I don’t buy that Chris Rock didn't know about Jada Pickett Smith’s condition. It was big entertainment news just a couple months ago, and even if it weren’t so big, Hollywood is a really small community.

You should consider expanding your circles of friends. 😉

Man, don’t you ever get tired of being wrong? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-defends-trips-to-golf-courses-says-it-his-exercise According to this article, not only did Trump have three times as many trips to the golf course as Obama during the same point of their presidencies, the article also reminds us that Trump promised the voters that once he became president, he would be working so hard he would not have any time to golf at all! For someone who professes not to like Trump, you sure work overtime here defending him at every turn.

Kim Jong-Il was still a better golfer.

Nixon is looking up from Hell, nodding and smiling.