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Yes, I meant Pete Davidson. I wasn’t thinking of Pete Franklin. I was thinking of Pete Davidson and said Pete Franklin by mistake. I have basically been doing for Pete Davidson’s entire career. I blame Pete Franklin for that.

That was a hell of a tag by Javy even if it didn’t work this time.

And the thing is they don’t have to show them all the time! Viewers can already hear them talking! Isn’t that all that matters? Not with BSD, apparently …

I’m getting to the point where instead of running the supplied audio feed under the Tigers video, I might just run the other team’s video feed and pair Dan and Jim from another MLB audio source to that. I am sick of seeing the video on the booth or some interview in the stands, instead of on the field where it belongs. Tigers video is, unsurprisingly, along the worst in the game.

Looks like Robbie Grossman might be born again hard!

I would never underestimate the desire of corporations and states to starve the residents by gutting the tax base for private gain. That’s always going to happen and it would be ignorant of me to argue that it doesn’t. What I am fairly certain of is that, by and large, well-educated young people of considerable talents would not want to be forced to relocate to these retrograde states, especially from liberal bastions in California, Chicago, or the northeast. Affluence born of a career rooted in a college degree has a well-accepted liberal bias. To your assumption, though, to the degree that companies don’t care about having their top management team or young talent in the office, they can have best of both worlds of red state tax breaks and young talent retention. That would be the hope of these states. I’m not sure I agree with you that single-person remote work for inner-circle management and top technical talent will be the norm, but if it is, you will probably be right.

If that’s true, then this country will really be separated economically like nothing any of us have ever seen. Not only will well-educated young professionals avoid moving to states with such restrictions on their freedoms, but corporations also won’t locate their headquarters to those states either, because a lot of their top officers and talent won’t want to relocate to socially-fascist red states. Take a look at the current top five states that are listed as corporate relocation magnets: 5 States That Are Corporate Relocation Magnets All five of the states listed here are moving forward right now on rigging their elections process, politicizing education with precepts based explicitly on a single religion, casting aspersions on the efficacies of their own health systems and professionals, and promoting among all their white residents the proliferation of weapons capable of perpetrating quick mass murder. The overturning of Roe will also lead every one of these states to outlaw abortion outright and possibly put the doctors who perform them and the women who get them directly into prison. That may well be the last straw for anyone considering which states to take their considerable professional talents and tax-paying potential. I wouldn’t be surprised if all five of these states started bleeding corporate headquarters, at least once their talent starts quitting and taking jobs in other states that have more freedom. It won’t happen the very day after Roe gets overturned, of course, but in the space of a few short years, we would start seeing the effects, and it will take a couple or three decades to really be obvious to anyone with their heads still outside their own asses. To attract corporate headquarters in the future, such states will really have to dumpster-dive on tax breaks, which will further bankrupt them and make them even more dependent on federal bailouts to keep their heads above water. And even that might not be enough, because companies would still have to get their talented top people to move to these states, and good smart talented people won’t want to go. The economic disparity between the free states and the fascist states will be as stark as that between the north and the south in the late 19th century. I may not live to see the full effect of that, but you young people here, you watch. That’s what‘s gonna happen.

Well, he can’t risk not getting their votes in the next election. I can’t believe Pete Franklin had to apologize to that crypto-fascist dick.

Sure, it won’t matter in this case. I’m really speaking in generalities.

That’s because Democratic centrists have long had the broad general support of the establishment and to some degree the people at large, and extreme leftists have practically never had that. This is a conservative country with a warped sense of its own frontier history and present, and as such will tolerate as normative the extreme on only one side of the spectrum, because that side is friendlier to lone wolves, and people like to see themselves as rugged individualists responsible for and to only themselves. That’s what right-wing extremism promotes, which is the opposite of the collectivism left-wing extremism promotes. The more any policy requires or promotes any kind of social cooperation among people in order to work, the more likely it will fail in America.

What if they gave a different, less-insulting reason for requiring skirts? Would that make a difference? After all, what is the court ruling on here? The act itself, or the overtly-stated reason for the act? Does the school need only rewrite the dress code requirements and try again?

I don’t know if it’s an old-man problem, or a generational difference, or what it is. I suppose if they’d come out with these when I was in school, I would have liked them better. I did like the Swingin’ A’s uniforms at the time, when they were the only team wearing colors, but then, I was 11 at the time, and I also like any color and gold as a combination. I don’t remember being so smitten with the Indians’ blood clot unis a few years later. I just like the clean, crisp look of a white home jersey with the right kind of logo and font, especially cursive names along the front. I don’t mind the NBA city connects at all, but then, I don’t really care about the history of the NBA, either. I don’t view the NBA itself as being too concerned with celebrating its own history, anyway.

Here is the complete list of every player who had at least two hits and two walks in his debut game, as of this morning. Not a Hall of Famer among them, but who cares. So cool to see him sprint out of the gate like this.

These city connect uniforms are on balance pretty dreadful, and I hope the Tigers are the last team to get one.

Who are you guys and what have you done with the Detroit Tigers?

Highlighted the part below in bold red: Might those not be three underlying reasons why young white men shoot up public places? Also, the part about appealing to young men. Feels like the industry is spurring mass shootings with knowledge aforethought. 5. Gun sellers' new pitch: Man up! The Martinez family views rifles in the exhibit hall during the NRA convention in Houston last month. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images An emboldened gun industry is luring buyers with rhetoric of fear, machismo and defiance, the N.Y. Times reports (subscription): "Gun companies have spent the last two decades ... refocusing their message away from hunting toward selling handguns for personal safety, as well as military-style weapons attractive to mostly young men." Pressure points the industry has found useful in selling more guns: "self-esteem, lack of trust in others, fear of losing control." Why it matters: The tactics have been remarkably successful. "Firearm sales have skyrocketed, with background checks rising from 8.5 million in 2000 to 38.9 million last year," The Times notes. "Women, spurred by appeals that play on fears of crime and being caught unprepared, are the fastest-growing segment of buyers."

RIP, IE.

We are now ten full weeks into the season, so courtesy of Fangraphs, here is the Tigers' hitting performance by week-of-season. Highlighted are our MLB rank in runs scored and well as our wRC+ each week. "High"lights: The Tigers have not yet ranked higher than 20th in runs scored in any given week. Amazingly, the Tigers have never finished 30th, either—although we have finished 28th or 29th six of the ten weeks. We haven't had even one week with a wRC+ higher than 93 (average major league team for whole season = 100) Nine of ten weeks, we had a team batting average of .228 or less. Nine of ten weeks, our OBP was lower than the current MLB season OBP of .311. Our best SLG for any week is still 24 points lower than the current MLB season SLG of .392. Conclusion: we have not had even one good hitting week yet.

How do you mean this?

He does.

That is a complete mess of a batting order.

Can you imagine how bad it would be if he’s still been playing first? By the way … option Tork?

Maybe. Never know what goes on behind golden doors!

Here come the Kremlin twitterbots!