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Social media noticed I either wrote this or watched because I was just fed content when John Larroquette was White House Counsel. He and Oliver Platt were great in that role but I’m not sure if that would count for what I meant. “I was supposed to be having drinks with little umbrellas in them”

Well ok then. on the surface I saw the internets ability to connect as a good thing. “Hey, you like 1970’s era pro wrestling and would scour magazines and trade shows for content? Guess what. There’s thousands like you and you can go into a chat room. You are not alone”. But then there’s “oh you hate Jews and like little boys…?”

That guy is fantastic. “If it was a language its origin was unknown to me”. “Retribution for euro Disney “

Just finished my annual rewatch of the West Wing episode Noel. As soon as I put it on and my wife heard the recap and “I need a doctor” by wife said “I know what this is…”. If you have never watched the show I highly recommend this as it’s a great standalone. The “previously on….” Tells hit what you need. trying to think of other examples where a guest star steals the show like Adam Arkin did. plus you get Yo Yo Ma. It’s back on Netflix again.

Wife and I knocked out 10 dozen pierogi this week by ourselves. Usually we have a group but nobody wanted to bother. This recipe comes from turn of the 20th century Poland. An aunts grandmother. The aunts parents were in a concentration camp in WWII before making it over so do the math I guess.

The LJS on telegraph was recently remodeled too.

Yep. They’ve already proven that they will detain anybody regardless of status. Even people born here. Guilty until innocent. But some people look the other way as long as they make an extra 1% on their portfolio and can continue to bet on sporting events.

Alito and Thomas, of course. They are robots. And Gorsuch probably based on some obscure footnote he read one night in some libertarian journal that forbids his Klingon brain from deviating.

Bill Clinton calling Bondi and Trump’s bluff.

Good point. There could be provisions where the siblings and other names peoole are guaranteed a certain amount of income or whatever.

But to the extent that this story will move the needle in any way…. I see no difference between airing it and shutting it down and letting the uproar be the story. That obviously wasn’t her strategy. But we don’t need any more stories to understand how awful these people are. The symbolism stinks for sure.

By cancelling it did they draw more attention to it?

I feel like these are conversations we had exactly 6 years ago

It is a compliment. What possible thing could I learn from a beat writer or columnist that I couldn’t learn from this group? I don’t post often in the wings or pistons threads but I read every day. I don’t watch the pistons that often but I do see nearly every wings game. I don’t post because I have nothing to offer that hasn’t been said.

I feel that’s a strawman. The Democratic Party doesn’t exalt Clinton. He’s not their Reagan. That person is arguing against a point that isn’t being made.

That’s the conundrum of sports journalism. So many people are doing the analysis for fun, like what we see here. I personally don’t feel the need to pay for anything unless I was in some kind of fantasy league or gambled. If paying gave me access to data that I used, then sure. But that is what I have all of you for.

Tom Leykis? Wow. There’s a name I haven’t heard of in a long time.

There's a great video of him playing that at the Opry. I saw him at the Strand Theater in Pontiac in 2016 with about 200 other people. Then I saw him at St. Andrews, then the Fillmore with Greensky, then by himself at the Fillmore and Pine Knob. He sold out Bridgestone in Nashville. Good for him. He's a legitimate good guy and I'm glad he's a local MI boy.

I grew up in a flight path for Metro and still live in the area. Seeing planes take off and land is very common and I know where they are supposed to be. When I see one elsewhere, it scares me. I was in Phoenix, coming back the next day, when 255 happened here. Everybody around saw the smoke and could smell the fumes. I have recurring dreams of seeing a plane crash.

I put very little stock in what reporters do now because the marketing and structure of the game has changed so much. The leagues have their own media now. The players are well paid and are walking corporations. They do not need the media to promote their business like they did before. We don't need to pick up a copy of the News to find out when the Tigers are going to be on TV next or to check the box score from last night. It's not just the manager, a few coaches, and the GM running things. There's a dozen coaches, dozens of front office staff, a POBO, a GM, Assistant GM's, etc. etc. Nobody's going to risk their career to help Chris McCosky with a scoop. We don't need them to tell us what happened or what's going to happen and the players and orgs don't need them to promote themselves or do their jobs. Their job now is to tell us who got married. We might get some interesting, but yet boring and uncontroversial, info if anyone shows up on Benetti and Dan's podcast. But they're all Tiger employees so they don't want to hurt the brand. Gone are the days of whispers at the Lindell AC and knowing about Rozema and Gibby's shenanigans with the trapeze sisters.

She's not a good writer. She uses too many words just to make a word count. Redundancy. And will throw in random stats that don't really have meaning or sense. "Second consecutive day of drawing a 3 ball count twice before the 6th inning" "Had 3 Runs Batted In for the third time in the last 9 games" She plays the influencer game where she over tags people and topics to draw clicks. I applaud her for following her dream and passion but being critical of her work is fair game. We've ripped tons of the Tigers twitter folks here over the years. We don't have to be extra nice to her just because she's a girl. She gets paid for some of her work and has asked for donations to support it.

Does that include our whore of a first lady?

if you ever saw the movie The Right Stuff, you will remember the nurse to the astronauts. She told Gordo Cooper (Dennis Quaid) she needed a sperm sample so he went into the stall next to John Glenn (Ed Harris) and they both started whacking off to their respective service's fight songs. (Marines vs Air Force). She later went on to become a traffic reporter in DC and her chopper crashed live on the air. 6 months before that she survived a crash into the river.