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How can anyone know? Is contraction just a rebound effect of people cramming 2 years of spending into 1? Water finding it’s level? A guy going 2-19 after a 14-30 hot streak? Is it a bubble popping or just air being slowly let out? Need more analogies?

Onlyfans is the way out for him. But I’m not sure if that demographic uses that platform.

That happened on the sopranos with Danielle, the undercover FBI agent. She was introduced at the end of one of the seasons but a different actress played her the next so they reshot that scene. Unless you recorded the original showings you never see it. SNL has done that a lot with the dress rehearsal sketches. If it’s better at dress then that’s what gets preserved.

I use them for small impulse purchases. Like today I noticed I was down to one bar of soap. I added a 12 pack to my cart. I also wanted som u shaped spikes to help secure an outdoor screen. Added that too. I have a stack of $25 credits from my employers health plan for being active so I paid $3 and they will come tomorrow. I’ve used them to buy teabags. My wife yells at me for it. But she will not get the right kind and I got a box of 500 of the English breakfast kind. She gets the shitty flavored ones. I’m home all day in the cold basement working so I go through 3 a day.

Eventually Amazon will run out of employees to hire. Their model is like insurance and financial planning. Sucker someone in and bleed them for about 6 months then they leave.

Again.... another book reference.... I read a book called The Cloudbuster Nine, which was about the Navy's Pre Flight Training program. It was the type of training that led to the formation of the SEALs. Presidents, Astronauts, and guys like Ted Williams came through this program. It was very tough. When they formed it they reached out to elite coaches around the world, your Bear Bryants, etc. Ted found a home in this program because he found in it the discipline and drive that he required of himself and demanded. His home life growing up was sort of empty, he was a lazy student. But he loved what flying required and became an excellent student which was obviously required to be good at it. And he was very good at it. He wasn't just a pro athlete mugging for the camera for PR purposes. My point is that dedication led to him being a great hitter as a student of the game and I see no reason why he wouldn't have had the same in today's world. Read that book if you love military history and love to read about athletes and training. I thought it was going to be about a bunch of military baseball players, and it was in there, but it was so much more. I think the title is misleading.

I read that book that sort of revisited Ty Cobb and made Al Stump out to be a hack that severely distorted everyone's views on how horrible he was. One thing with Cobb that stood out was he came up with many of the things we take for granted today in terms of gamemanship. At the time it was considered being a poor sport. Even simply taking an extra base if the defense was being lazy. Picking off players who were taking their time going back to the base after a fly ball was caught.

and I think this is happening in a less formal way across the country at the local levels. The deranged lunatics have nothing else to do so they are running for local boards and councils.

That more than anything will bother him the most. His family could die and he’s be more upset at knowing we saw this.

That’s going to leave a mark

I like Presidents who don't get hospitalized for covid

ah, that's right. That was when the Tigers were the visiting team. Forgot all about the lockout!

so remind me why there's a DH today? No game on Friday.

Hillary went to Miller's the weekend before the election. I always bring that up when people say she took the state for granted. I was meeting friends in Hamtramck and got caught up in the freeway closures. I haven't been to Miller's since 2002. It's for sale.

Miggy was already "downgraded" to fifth in the lineup and I suspect they were prepared to go lower but alas, he's been one of our better hitters this year.

Would that be like a fake Detroiter going to Lafayette or American Coney Island? real Detroiters go to Duly's.

Same old same old.... the current generation whines about the ones coming up. My favorite is the complaining about home improvement. Can't find someone? Then quit your job, go to a trade school, and learn to do it yourself. This entitlement philosophy where certain work is for others to do and when you can't find them then it's their problem. You are complaining that others didn't do what you also didn't do.

She's speaking to Fox audiences so....

This seems too good to be true. But I like it. Is there a catch?

I have heard that his food empire, both pizza and distribution, were always cutting edge technology wise. Chris did not just inherit that business. He ran it directly.