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I pulled an oblique muscle (I did it while sleeping because aging sucks). It hurts.......a lot. All I can think of was a quote from Tim McCarver during a playoff game "Baseball is a game of oblique angles and oblique injuries". LOL, Oh, Tim.

No, they need to close all that stuff down. We need more condos. We don't have enough condos.

I like how people complain about privacy and being tracked and all that, yet they post on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter and bitch when they realize it ain't private. Read the agreement before you click I Agree, people - it's all righ there. If you want privacy, delete all your accounts, all your emails and destroy your cellphones, DESTROY, not throw away. You still won't be that private (if you have a television or a car). You pretty much have to go full Ted Kaczynski to be private now. These companies don't care about you, they never have, they just want money. Why can't people understand that?

They are a private company, they can do whatever they want. I got suspended for a silly drug joke, but that's their call, it's their company.

The Cowboys are releasing LB Jaylon Smith. What did he do? Lions should look into this one

Yep, that's why I think. I think he's trying to get bounced now.

Help me with something here. People are making a big deal that Facebook is misleading the public. Isn't that what all large companies do? Who said Facebook has to be honest or fair or balanced? They're in it for a buck. Why is this even a story? If anybody though they were being up front, then I've got an elevator pass to sell you to your one-story high school.

Depends on what he's doing now. I mean at this point he has to be throwing to some degree. How much is he throwing, how hard is he throwing?

I really wonder what is going to happen in San Diego. Sounds like Machado and Tatis can't be in the same county together, but to get Machado you'd have to give up two big pieces of your future and I can't see the Tigers doing that. If Corey Seager re-signs with the Dodgers, what are they going to do with the Seager/Trea Turner/Gavin Lux situation? Maybe LA is letting him walk and sticking with Lux & Turner as the DP combo, but the fans in LA love Seager.

Don't tease for months that you are spending and then come up with another Robbie Grossman/Jose Urena situation which is what Al's comments kind of felt like today. Robbie's a nice player, but we need to aim a lot higher than that. And this idea that Verlander will come back after 2 years and be the old Verlander is nuts.

If there is a long strike, one that cancels a season (and don't rule that out) it is going to seriously damage baseball, especially as we are still struggling to return to normalcy. Both sides have to know this, but I don't think either side gives a damn about it, they want what they want for the right now. A missed season could easily lead to contraction a few years down the road.

I know Angel Hernandez lost his ridiculous lawsuit (he claimed he wasn't getting playoff games because he's Cuban). I think he filed the suit so he couldn't get fired (it would make baseball look vindictive). It worked. He's not going anywhere.

In Tampa, it could be the crappy stadium that's hard to get to, but what a shame that they have a perpetual contender and rank at or near the bottom in attendance and honestly, the games where they draw best are snowbirds rooting for the road teams, especially the Yankees, Red Sox and Tigers. Miami? There just doesn't seem to be a real connection there. Just a few years in the league they won the World Series and then immediately dismantled the team and that probably soured a lot of people. The second time they won it they did the same thing but a little bit slower. So no wonder they haven't gotten a grasp, the fans get a favorite player and then they get rid of the player. Plus with that stadium, I think there were some legal issues with Loria and how the stadium was paid for that pissed people off. Ozzie Guillen complimented Fidel Castro and that will turn some of that fanbase against you forever in that town. Plus Miami is kind of strange place compared to most American cities and things that work in other towns don't always work there. And the Marlins ain't working and probably wont. Time to move on.

I was thinking if the Rays moved to Nashville before they had a stadium and they played in the Sounds stadium (until a new one is built), they probably wouldn't lose any attendance overall. I can't see the Rays and Marlins continuing much longer where they are at. The issue with the Marlins is their stadium is still kind of new and it would be a total embarrassment to leave it vacant after just 10 years. I don't know where they A's might end up, but man that would suck for Oakland to lose a 3rd team. At least the Warriors are still close.

One of our news stations was pretty desperate during ratings sweeps month and did a story about people not putting their carts back. An actual news story. I liked it better when they use to just warn me about bug parts being in Coney chili. If that's the case, bug parts are delicious.

If you think that Mize, Manning or Skubal aren't going to miss starts next year, you are very optimistic. I hope it doesn't happen, but if I am the Tigers I plan for it to happen. With Alexander, I like the role of being a reliable arm in the pen that can start when he's needed to start, I don't see him as being a starter from the beginning of the seasons unless you have some injuries. I hope they can re-sign Peralta and he's got a reasonable asking price. But honestly, you should really go into the season with 7 viable starters available. Some will start the season in the rotation, the others will be in the pen or at Toledo. In my opinion they need to sign a couple more starters and if they have too many, maybe consider a 6-man rotation, as I am sure they will continue to limit the young guys innings. Good starters, not journeymen. They don't have to be top of the rotation guys.

Okay, this one is really, really, really nitpicky and stupid. Cart corrals in parking lots. They are typically positioned 8-10 spaces apart, meaning you are really never more than 5 spots away, yet people are so damned lazy they can't put them away. It's becoming a problem with employee shortages and fewer cart cowboys. Okay......fine, but this is what REALLY annoys me. At Meijer they have two rows for theirs, one for large carts and one for small carts, yet they are ALWAYS mixed up. Basically this means that people are just too lazy to put them in the right row or they can't f'ing read. I feel for the cart cowboys having to separate them. It's just really one of those stupid little things that annoys me even though it doesn't really cause me any real problems. I just hate it. Plus - to the grocery stores - more small carts please. I know why they don't have them - because it's a psychological thing for shoppers and a larger basket entices them to buy more, but I love the small carts.

Gilbert Gottfried.

Either Motown Web Guy or God. Wait, that's a trick question, Motown Web Guy IS God.

I don't think this lineup is going to undergo a whole lot of change this coming offseason. They might add another catcher for a year and they could add a SS, but I expect most of those guys to be back. I don't expect them to make those moves because they've got Tork, Greene and Kreidler in their back pocket, so that might prevent them from throwing a lot of money at the lineup. I do think we'll see some significant changes with the pitching staff.

One of my friends said that if they made Many Saints into a limited series of 5 or 6 episodes it would have been better since they seem to rush a lot into the film. One of the things that made The Sopranos great was the character development which is tough to do in 2 hours. Also, they shoot in New Jersey. Doing a period piece outside of a sound stage is very very expensive because you have to make sure nothing from after that time period is visisble, it would be very difficult to do it as a series financially. It's one of the reasons that Mad Men had very few outdoor scenes or even outdoor shots and the ones that did were not really in cities or suburbs, but out in the middle of nowhere like the desert flats in Utah or the coast in California. They'd show the occasional house, but never would really pan around to show the neighborhood. Did you know that Mad Men showrunner Matt Weiner (who worked on the Sopranos) would not allow a single item on the set that would not have existed in the year it was set. Every item, including things like eyeglasses, watches, product packaging, had to have existed in that time period So, no plastic water bottles visible like Game of Thrones.

Well the Urban Meyer experience sure is going well.

Funny, the Facebook whistleblower is on 60 Minutes last night..............news spreads, stock starts going down and suddenly today facebook is gone, down, zero, zilch, nada. Quite a coincidence, eh?

Or maybe this is Cory's theme song

Did Guster write this about Cory ? They are all from the Boston area..............