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Find Paws for her, and she'll be delighted.

Domestic trauma. Who knows where that one is gonna go.

Best summer city in North America. Literally anywhere else is probably a good choice.

We are failing to score even two runs in 43% of our last 46 games? Christ almighty.

You should do beat work, man ... 👍🏼

Dan reminded us just now that the Tigers have scored eleven runs in the first seven games on this homestand.

They are far, far below replacement level. So let's starting replacing them, goddammit!

Yeah, the impact sure was equal, wasn't it? 🤔

Now here's the flip side to the Soto hate I feel responsible for starting here tonight: Soto got the L in the box score, but final strike call notwithstanding, the Tigers hitters really should be the ones wearing this loss.

Holy fuck, was that a terrible strike three call.

I suppose they are still tantalized by his raw stuff—and lord knows, he's the fastest left-hander in the game—but if you can't control it, you can't be trusted to close it out at the moment of truth.

Walk, hit batter, walk, three runs. Can we try Alex Lange in there, now?

And there it goes ...

Arrrgh bases loaded

See, now this is what I love about Jim Price. He actually said on the strike thee replay, "That wasn't even close to being a strike". And this was our pitcher getting the strikeout. How many other ex-player analysts are going to say something like that?

Yikes! Plunk the winning run, why don'tcha!

I think there is, actually. I believe many or even most rank-and-file evangelicals come by their beliefs honestly and try in some way to live a life that is decent by those standards, even if their kindness, for some, doesn't extend to those not of their ilk. People at the top of like-minded organizations—like these actual churches, or whatever the fuck it is Ginni Thomas does all day—I have trouble believing that they come by any beliefs about God or spirituality honestly. Until it can be proved differently, I assume they're all in it for nothing but the money, power, and glory.

Is Ginni Thomas an actual Jesus-loving evangelical or a cynical mobbed-up political operative? Do we really know? In any event, I don't think evangelicals are hearing boo about any of this, anyway. All they know is that their election was stolen, Jesus is fucking pissed about it, and the Demonrats will fry in Hell for trying to use their satanic ritual hearing to thwart His Will.

Well, this one is easy to swat away: RINOS.

That the Vice President of the United States believes that the President of the United States would have him kidnapped or killed just for carrying out his Constitutional duties tells us everything we need to know about how insiders recognize how mobbed-up Trump is.

Well, buddha can't protest that too strongly because he has the most-liked post in this thread confirming his recognition of the political considerations in picking justices! 😅 But seriously, folks—I hadn't considered the idea that the overturning of Roe could be a political high mark for the radical righties, one which might be the catalyst for a sea change in the organized political power pendulum in America. After all, abortion rights have been considered settled precedent for half a century, and no one alive today who needs the benefit of that choice was alive when it wasn't. Big sea changes frequently happen when a cataclysmic events occur. Could the overturning of Roe be one? If I had to bet, I'd probably be inclined to bet against it—but it's certainly not an impossibility by any stretch.

We haven’t talked about this in a long time, but I am going to go out on a limb here and predict that the Supremes will stop short of overturning Roe completely this summer. I can’t believe they would affirm it, either. My best guess is that they punt Roe to a future year, perhaps 2025. This is an election year, and overturning Roe will create the danger of lighting a fire under Democrat voters, driving them to the polls in great gobs such that it would lead the Dems to victory in both the House and the Senate. That’s a fairly real possibility, and would be a horrible thing for conservatives all by itself. But the other thing overturning Roe does is to douse the fire on the Republican side to campaign and fundraise against federal protections of Roe in the first place. Abortion is the most animating issue in today’s Republican Party because of its hold not only on red hats, but on many moderate conservative voters as well. A lot a lot of money gets raised on Pro-Life; taking that all away will not only cost R candidates a lot of money, but perhaps the election right along with it. I don’t think the radical right wing Supremes will want to risk handing the House and Senate to Democrats, especially with the White House in Dem hands for the next two-and-a-half years. It would be better for the Court to hold off on Roe, which would allow it to maintain its position as a hot button political issue for the their side, and wait until Republicans gain trifecta control in 2025 to finally overturn Roe once and for all. By then the potential for consequences will be less severe, and elected Republicans will then have ample time to rig the elections process in the majority of states to maintain control in 2026 and beyond. To anyone who scoffs at the idea and maintains the Supreme Court could never be so political as to take such crass electoral considerations under advisement, may I remind you that this is the year 2022, as well as Year Five of the Age of Trump.

This is in large part why I’ve been saying for at least a year now that, assuming he can still run in 2024, Trump might well run on “reforming” the judiciary.

If certain red states continue along the path of controlling teaching tactics down to the minute classroom level, with mandates to teach certain ideological precepts and prohibitions on certain other ideological precepts, all while having to arm themselves around their children every day, that may be where they have to end up. By the way, it might please you to know that I myself graduated with a 2.42 GPA, and placed 141st in a class of 183. So you can be certain I won’t be allowed anywhere near the head of even a deep red state classroom—at least not yet!