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What are the crazy boundaries in the Detroit area? 275 to the West, 94 to the south?

the sad thing is I could totally see this.

There's just a different vibe this year than in years past. Guys seem to care more. They're going harder. We're going to do the little things right.

Ugh

Think about how Joe Kennedy Sr was basically ostracized until he could pay his kids way 20 years later for his Hitler remarks? How is what the GOP and their sympathizers like Tuckkker were saying any different?

So does devout Catholic Mike Pompeo still think Putin is a genius?

Are we supposed to shop at lowes or Home Depot? I can’t keep track. I remember when one of the cable networks did a series called “American Muslim” at some of the crazy fundamentalists boycotted because they advertised. That was pre Trump GOP.

I need to get that. I alternate between entertainment, history, and baseball books on my kindle. I read while I eat at home since I'm by myself during the day. It's a nice way to make sure I take a proper break. Right now I'm reading Cloudbuster Nine, about Ted Williams in the war and the military baseball team he was on during that time. TV history books are interesting. Bill Carter, who wrote The Late Shift, had one recently on the 2000s called Desperate Networks. Also did a follow up on The Late Shift that covered the Conan/Tonight Show fiasco.

Hmmm..... tomorrow is April 2

The dems need to do a better job at exploiting this. This type of thing could be the "defund the polilce", "CRT" rallying cry they need.

The anti smith stuff is really starting to surface now that time has passed. Rock played in Boston last night, walking in to the venue in a Tigers hat by the way, and tickets were going for $1200. It will be interesting how he responds in the future. Will he just take the high road and let it blow over or integrate it into his act?

and to be honest I wasn't even thinking as good as Fryman and Granderson. I'm thinking guys like Brandon Inge, Matt Joyce, Alex Avila...

To me development is different from talent acquisition. I don’t think players are finished products. The skill isn’t finding the diamond in the rough. It’s creating it from what you acquired. It’s being good enough to have 3-4 guys in your lineup that are slightly above league average at any given time. Then you use your free agent guys to build around them rather than building around the free agents. Some orgs are consistently better at that and it’s not because they tank and fall into high draft picks. The tigers didn’t suffer during the recent “golden era” because they sacrificed some high picks for signings. It’s because they didn’t develop average players from the lower rounds.

Aside from the #1 picks are the Tigers deep? Organizations sustain success by development. Being handed can’t miss talent by virtue of losing is not necessarily development.

I would want more confirmation than Eric. He’s an idiot.

Here’s two franchises that do things right and don’t require five years to maybe contend… not all teams have to do what the Tigers put their fans through due to incompetence. It’s not a natural thing.

Why would they do that if they feared Trump?

Kind of refreshing to have a potus who doesn’t get wrapped up in entertainment crap.

I golfed 36 holes a few times a week in 1993 and 1994. Same course. We'd get there at 7 am and do two rounds. Closest I got was an eagle. 2nd shot on a par 4 from about 100 yards out. After that I might have golfed once or twice a year until the mid 2000's. I always wanted my wife to take up the game as I thought it was something we could do together as we got older. The one time I took her to a par 3 she hit everything straight and I figured that's 80% of it, she's a natural. As it happens she took up running and dragged me into it so that's our thing.

This is one of those situations where I can fully understand each side of the argument. While going up and slapping someone like that is technically wrong I can't get worked up about it when he's defending his wife from an insult, even if it was from a comedian and under the guise of a joke. Sort of like a parent with a kid who got suspended from school for fighting but he was being bullied or whatever. Part of you is proud the kid defended himself. At least that how I would have been under the same situation. I can also see the argument that it's hollywood and the hosts and presenters make fun of hollywood people. It's part of the deal. The only difference I see here is her medical condition being the exception to the rule. Nobody got hurt and Smith doing what he did overshadowed his big win. I see it as self inflicted harm and it evens out.

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it's all out there man.....

And I haven’t thought of Ernie Els since probably 2005.

I find covers often enlighten me on how great a song I heard a million times growing up is. Two recent examples are The Chain by the Highwomen, on Howard Sterns show and Simple Man.