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I mentioned last nights crowd being larger than usual this year. It was the fifth highest attended game this year and 3 of those in front were “Miggy at 499 HR” games. Very impressive for a Friday in September game.

24,000 people at the game last night. For a September that’s very good. I think people are into the team.

Scanning through the maps it looks like the US is trending down on cases in most states. Even in the northeast and midwest. MI may have flattened out on the recent wave, we'll see. 7 day average been 2600-2700 now for almost 10 days. Hopefully the increase in vax and immunity has done it's job.

along with the broken noses and facial scars..

As I heard on bourbon street the week of super bowl XXVI as the police led a guy away, "You have to be pretty ****** up to get arrested on Bourbon Street"

hockey players from that era, when off ice, can't be distinguished between Italian mobsters.

he's shitty

Saw a tweet said he was first elected to state office during Eisenhower's presidency.

The baffling thing is Cheney is as republican as you can get. The only metric they are using now to judge is adherence to Trump. You know what they call that?

I could see a rule where nothing is allowed on the field except equipment. I've seen outfielders pull out cards from their pocket. I don't care either way. This is inside baseball. No rules were broken. If they don't like it then hit him and deal with the consequences of that. No different than the battles of "stealing signs". No need for regulation. Let them sort it out internally. We don't need a geneva convention. Treat our soldiers like you'd want yours treated.

Geraldo asked a good question, rhetorical... Why do we rush to accept Cuban refugees but not Haitian?

because then I'd have to eat a salad. I usually get my flu shot in late August when I go for my physical. They didn't have them yet. But it is a good idea to probably wait a little bit. I'm not terribly worried about myself though, I'm working from home and am only around my family and people I work out/run with.

if there's anything the Ilitch family has shown over their years as business owners is a love for tradition and respecting the past.... they're not the kind of people to raze an old building just to put up a parking lot to make money. I

just talked about this an hour ago.... one of my suppliers started bringing people back into the office 2 weeks ago. Things in Poland are much better than here. One guy is now out for a few days. My wife talked with the infectious disease doctor and his big concern is the flu season. With the flu being almost non existent last year they had nothing to go by in terms of setting up this year's flu shot. Combine that with increased hesitancy towards vaccines now he fears we'll have a bad flu season combined with covid.

I think he came up as a SS. Yes during that period he could have. At least prior to Guillen.

MI hit 1M cases today. Been flat for a week around 2600 per day average.

and I think term limits, at least in MI, plays a part in that. State legislators don't make that much money, relatively speaking. It's a short stint due to the limits anyway. Our rep is already trying to bail on his 2nd term one year into it by running for mayor of our city. There's no future for politicians if they want to work in Lansing. You need qualified people who understand a lot of things but will they interrupt their other career?

I thought I had read too that the fan gave the bat away to some Dodger fans nearby.

Bush is the last GOP President still alive, other than you know who. That wing of the party is obsolete. It's up to the Christies, Rubios, Cruzs of the party and well.... outside of Christie wavering some, we know how that will go. The GOP is the party of Jim Jordan,MTG,Boehbert, Cawthorne.... they've rebuilt the party image from the ground up. The delegates at teh state level are revamping the state parties into the crazies. There's no room for decent people,by that I mean just normal right wingers. The country has room for people like Liz Cheney but the republicans today don't want her. We keep repeating ourselves but it's a cult.

Hope she is ok, and the rest of you as well.

Figured we could use this to just talk about general Tiger stuff outside of a game thread... and anything else baseball related. Some movement in the development staff as the team let go a bunch of guys, Willie Blair/AJ Sager, and their Latin PD guy. Looking for a new PD director. Also, did you all see the Houston play the other day with the appeal? Sacrifice fly to right, runner scores, another runner advances to third. The scoring runner left early. As they appeal, the Houston runner breaks for home. The pitcher gets him in a rundown and tags him out. But then they lost their appeal opportunity. Houston traded a run for two outs. Genius.

Can't decide whether to go to this game.... My tickets this year were paid for back in November of 2019.... it's like "Well I could go, but then there's $8 for parking, $20 for a few beers, maybe $10 on food.... dno't really need all those extra calories" Usually when I go it's as much to see my friends there that I sit next to but they all live in Canada as it happens.

More than .500 I would like them to catch Cleveland and finish in second place.

I am the same way. I don't want to concentrate or focus. I've started The Crown and it's interesting. I know some of it's bullshit but still neat to see the history and know that it's kind of like how it went down. If a series has hour long episodes that's about my limit. I don't understand these people who can binge shows all day long. Don't they have jobs or repsonsibilities? As for Wandavision I really liked the overall story arc. After I went back and watched Age of Ultron and Infinity War so I could focus on her and Vision.