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Political correctness causes our big murder rate, folks!

I’m not sure the Tigers should do anything at this deadline. There is zero playoff urgency—in fact they’d do well at this point to avoid triple-digit losses—so we can’t really justify selling youngsters for veterans; and “the rebuild is 100% over”, so it’ll be hard to convince fans about the wisdom of selling veterans for prospects. We remember what the organization said. But also, if we sell veterans for prospects they’ll be selling low because they’re all doing so awful—you remember what we got for All-Stars at the top of their game; and if we sell prospects for veterans—well, you saw Paredes for Meadows. No guarantees. They’ll still probably do something anything, but to me it’ll probably feel doing stuff to look busy.

Maybe the how is that the guys we got for our bunch of all stars weren’t prospects after all.

Maybe the Rays picked Isaac so they can trade him to the Tigers for Jace Jung in 2026.

You can’t be greedy if you’re starving. And Tiger fans are starving.

You just can't quit me, can you, baby? 😘

You got your last wish, anyway.

Is it because 2022 was supposed to be the year the window was to be wide open; all the kids that had been drafted the last few years were to be on the team, healthy and productive; and the front office was to have patched the remaining holes with impact trades and free agents, resulting in a team that was to be solid and competing for a ring? Because I had fingers crossed for that plan, too.

Yes, and in the 92nd game of the season. They are already one of 725 teams, out of almost 3,000 teams in the modern era, to be shut out that many times in an entire season. They are on track to be shut out 23 times, which would make them one of just 38 teams in history to be shut out that much in a season, and the first since 69-93 1978 Braves. The 57-105 2019 Marlins were shut out 22 times.

“Gene” called the vacuum cleaner guy from Omaha after he’d got made by the cab driver in the mall, so he has to go back to the same spot in Albuquerque for his new identity. What are the chances he picks up Kim, who’s still in town trying to live down her recent past somehow, while he’s there? I don’t believe he mentioned her to the vacuum cleaner guy, though …

These people have probably read the Constitution about as much as they’ve read the Bible.

This will all attain its platonic Handmaid ideal when a pregnant woman goes to a state where abortion is legal, comes back still pregnant, and gets arrested for attempted out-of-state abortion.

I just turned on the game and turned it right back off.

Who ya hurting? It can't be yourself because that would make you maso ...

Funkhouser gone until at least 2023. Faedo denied he was even in pain, which makes sense given that he is an on-the-bubble big leaguer.

If you don’t see anything wrong with a terrorist fist bump, you’re not looking at it the right way. 😏

Not for nothing, appointed by Trump.

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The more the lack of communication continues, the more it puts the whole marital issues story in doubt. And even if the issue turns out to be marital problems, going dark on the team and ignoring attempts to check in with him for a month or more has to be considered inexcusable. Regardless that the Tigers are not paying him during this time, Rodriguez still has a professional, contractual obligation to the Tigers that he can’t just unilaterally cast aside at his choosing. Imagine having marital issues that you temporarily had to leave your job to handle, your employer checks in with you after two, three, four weeks, whatever it is, and you complete ignore them. Would you expect your employer to respectfully back off and still hold your job for you, no matter how long it took? Regardless of the situation Rodriguez is in, In the end, the Tigers have a business to run that affects thousands of other employees, as well as answers to a constituency encompassing an entire state. The team can’t simply put their plans in a holding pattern, held hostage to the whim of a single man who abandoned them suddenly and has gone into radio silence. I respect the idea that family is the most important consideration in the world, and that here in the 21st Century employers are expected to give employees some room to manage major family problems. There’s a reasonable limit to that room, though.

I'm not surprised by this. At their core, the Secret Service are police, Trump wants a police state, and in a police state, the police are royalty who can do anything they want anytime they want to anyone they want. Why wouldn't they support that?

Here it is, in black and white and read all over. There's no other way. Note the careful phrase they applied to Trump. He's not the mastermind behind the steal. He didn't design the strategy to pursue it. But he is, without no doubt, the driving force behind it, and that matters at least as much.

It was the joke I liked.