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GQP will claim that Biden is starting to manipulate gas prices downward to help Democrats win in November. You know, because he can.

Yup, that checks out.

This societal jungle has its roots in the violent founding and genocidal expansion of this country, liberally seasoned with post-expansion apartheid.

See? The media showing the actual person being shot works. When was the last time you heard of a shooting at a ballgame?

Rookie good, yeah.

Don’t look now, but the Tigers are 26-24 since May 11.

Soto comes up big for the win, and so does TORK! on that Baez throw into the dirt. Tigers win!

STRIKEOUT!

Note that they can’t play the infield in with runners on second and third and one out, with a one-run lead in the ninth. They have to risk ceding one run on an infield grounder to avoid giving up two on the outfield single.

Wow, tough break on that grounder for Soto. I would think most of the time a decent first baseman probably has that for the out at first.

Anyone care to do a rollercoaster graphic for Soto?

Concurrent sentences. Judge must like him.

Man, what a career Leury Garcia, a man of very slight talents, has been able to fashion with the White Sox. There since 2013. And they got him for two more years after this!

TORK!

For a guy who rarely draws a walk, how about Reyes taking “ball four” within the top of the zone?

I seriously have never seen what Barnhart did just now, picking off a pitch in the dirt and then running out to tag the runner between first and second. What kind of brain fog was Abreu in there?

So much for the efficacy of tanking for years on end to draft starting pitchers 1/1.

What resolution has this video been down-converted to? 160x100? I can’t tell from this that he put it on backwards.

I always thought the idea was to keep the pitcher from hearing his teammates talking about the no-hitter in progress. I didn’t think it extended to everybody all over the world talking about it to each other or to themselves. But hey, I’ll wear it, I guess. 😁

Man, are umpires just worse now? I mean, that one wasn’t even close.

Is he mentioning the fact that the White Sox have no hits or that Brieske has a no-hitter going?

I remember channel 7 having an Opening Day party for that game. Tigers won something like 16-0. Going back to work semi-drunk at 4pm was kind of a legit treat.

Yup. The boiled-down role of an agent is to represent his client to the team. If the agent were truly going dark on the team in the same way the player appears to be, that would be borderline breach of contract. And if the agent can't get the client to respond to his own inquires, that would be incompetence, and not even borderline. Given the ongoing relationship across the years between Al Avila and Gene Mato, if for no other reason than for all the deals they have done with Mato's clients, I'd be really surprised to learn that Mato is also ghosting Avila. After all, his own commission is in danger here, should the Tigers pursue legal action against the contract, so I don't see how he benefits by teaming up with his client against a team he has such a deep relationship with—especially since if the contract is voided or negotiated out, who's going to sign his client to anything more than a cheap one-year deal if that? I can't say that Rodriguez is not ghosting Mato, too, but unless Rodriguez is having some kind of truly psychotic episode, which would be awful but also exculpatory, I'd be surprised to learn that Mato cannot get a hold of Rodriguez somehow. So, I think there's a decent chance that everybody in this triangle knows where the other two are and what's going on with them, and that we're the ones who have no idea, because we the fans are being managed. I have no evidence of this so I am not making a declaration here. Just a decent chance, as I view it.

I can work on contract or retainer. Call me.

That may be true, although that doesn't mean that he isn't, or that Mato is incommunicado with Avila. They might well be in touch with each other. We do know Mato is incommunicado with Cody Stavenhagen, based on his tweeted testimony.