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Baseball is different. I'm not sure what it means to be marketed. They play every day. When the season is over they all go home to warmer climates. They come back in January for some media tours where they are led around to controlled environments, then go to Florida for a month and a half. They were lucky enough to have an off day for a Pistons home playoff game so they were marketed during that. But for the most part they are too busy to be seen around town doing stuff. You'll find handful of cases where someone's reading to kids in school or visiting a hospital. NFL players have all week after their practices to show up at events if need be. JV had Kate Upton to market though.

My wife wanted his jersey for mother's day so he's got that going for him.

When the guy was arrested he shouted Free Palestine. This will do wonders for the Gaza people. They will benefit greatly from the murder of these two people in the US.

The space nerd in me was geeking out big time during the last episode of Last of Us. Minor nitpick, the Apollo 15 capsule is in Dayton at the Wright Patterson museum. And it's kind of gutted as they reused some hardware. But the audio they used of the Apollo 11 launch was correct. That's the guy. Jack King is his name. Two ways to spot a legitimate countdown is if they say "Guidance is internal" at 15 seconds and "Ignition Sequence Start" right after he gets to 9 seconds.

This weather is going to suck this weekend. We're going tomorrow and we might a hat and need gloves! Screw that.

Damn it feels good to be a gangster

It wasn't that straight forward as Jackson for Scherzer. The Tigers also traded Granderson and Arizona ended up with Ian Kennedy as they also sent Scherzer to Detroit. We beat this topic to death back in the day as far as who was traded for who.... But regardless, Joyce was a fine player and any team would be happy with a draft that produced a player like that. Unless you have a top 3 pick, that's all you can reasonably hope for.

This is the series of text messages I got, in order, for our new kitchen cabinets. This began 15 minutes AFTER my wife sends me photos of them stored in our garage and dining room.

surprised at the 12:15 local start time in St. Louis.

All I will say is I heard the words “Matt Vier-line-g”.

Yes I do think so.

It's also the 32nd anniversary of the final episode. 84 million people watched. "Women, can't live with 'em...... pass the beer nuts" was one I use often

In a new hope Vader declares "There will be no one to stop us this time...." That's a reference to Cassian Andor now.

That I believe, especially since DD just a few days prior said Prince can't help them. Regarding Cabrera I think DD was just blowing smoke for the boss. The only question for Mike was whether he'd give him a new contract.

I get what you are saying. He's a populist. There was always an element among people on the right and the left who are populists. I remember when NAFTA was done. Trump is Pat Buchanan. And I asked the question before.... what happens if things don't go to **** with these tariffs?

I picked a good night to go hang out with a buddy. By the way... if you are like me, 51 years old, you probably have old friends that you are starting to only see at events like funerals. That's how it was with the guy who I've known since I was 10 years old, he was the best man at my wedding. Both still live locally and would see each other once every few years and give it the old "Yeah, let's hang out sometime...." In October of 2023 he reached out and we met up on a Monday night. Since then we've done that once a month. Before we leave for the night we pick our next date and put it on our calendars. We mark it down for Monday and Tuesday in case the Monday doesn't work. You just have to make the effort. Nothing crazy. We both get up early. Have a drink or two and a sandwich in a sports bar and relive the "good old days".

I love the story, which I think is fake, that it was Ilitch who suggested they get Cabrera. Like the whole crew is just sitting around and in comes Mike "Hey, I was reading that Florida wants to trade Miguel Cabrera... we should get him." Mike Ilitch probably didn't know who Cabrera was.

you can't outrun a bad diet

I just drove through Somerset a few weeks ago which was hit hard. It's a lovely part of the country.

There's so much content out there analyzing this. Even A New Hope. When you see the ceremony where Luke and Han get their medals..... what of all the others in the rebellion that made it happen? Is Luke the happy face of the movement because he's safe and didn't get into the dirty details that led up to it? The series maximizes Cassian Andor beyond a sidekick in Rogue One for sure. We watched Rogue One through the eyes of Jyn Erso. Now that's changed. They've done in live action what Clone Wars and Rebels did in animation. Fleshed out the movies that gave us so much more detail and back story and character development. I now view most of the movies as just a cliffs notes version of what happened in the Star Wars universe during that time. And I love the lack of fan service in Andor. Not everything has to be connected. We don't need cameos.

This will be another tough series. I'd be content to win one.

I was thinking about that yesterday... imagine if in early August of last year that you were told in mid May of 2025 Zach and Tork would be in the heart of our lineup because we had no better options, what would your thoughts be?

In that industry you have to stay on it or else you fade so the pressure to keep on churning out content is massive for these folks with side hustles. In fact it’s like that with most side hustles. God help you if you have family members in real estate. It’s all they talk about.

Showtime. I was bummed when I visited chicago a few years ago and realized that cool building was his. Need to go back.

Can’t wait for the snarky message from the shallow White House. When he passes will they do the normal things? I’d be surprised. does bring up the thought of if he had run again and won what does a POTUS with a terminal illness do? How long do they ride it out? Resign then do treatment? Go thru treatment and invoke the 25th from time to time as you are dealing with it?