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Yes, on looking at the thread you are correct. I didn't mean to imply that - the opposite really - more that the Tigers aren't doing anything just because they have little reason to. MLB is running that show and whatever is happening there is probably out the hands of the Tigers, and the Tigers concern level about any error there isn't going to rise that high because it's not that big a piece of the total audience. If the glitch is unique to the Tigers, and esp if it's at home games, it's probably a matter of something like a data kludge they had to build in a hurry between HW they had in place and the MLB system. Something that might not be there if they had had more lead time on the transition. The Tigers were very late to the party, the last team that MLB got into place IIRC

My only point being we always said Andre was a player who couldn't get out his own way to get better when it still mattered, and this is just another sign of that.

at the ripe old age of 32, Andre has - for the 1st time in his career, learned to shot a little. He has made 32 of 90 attempted threes this season. Imagine if he had had the discipline to make himself learn that 13 years ago.

well, they had one triple and the Tigers had one three base error of a type that scorers don't count.

very polite of the Tigers to let the Royals bullpen take off pitching 9th innings.

Not a great AB for Colt. He's got to figure on something away and take it to left.

redemption for Wenceel (which autocorrect REALLY wants to make Wendell)

Perez could have caught it which means he should have called for it, but he hadn't, because he probably didn't know he could, because he's not a great fielder

hitters started out looking like they might do something against Lugo, then poof.

exactly - there is a hierarchy of imperatives. Policy debate is fundamentally secondary when preservation of the system that supports policy debate and policy choice is what is being decided. When the election is really about "one man, one vote, one time" best not to be too concerned about the tax rates.

That's funny because Arsenio was a gentleman's gentleman with his guests. Bush couldn't have topped the saxophone though. OTOH, what he could have done was offered to take Arsenio sailing and put him to work on the sheets while he manned the wheel - that could been a great interview for him. No imagination. I'm sure his handlers would have shot it down as too upper class, but that's stupid, everyone knew he was upper class. These guys never learn that you come across the best being who you are. Certainly one fault Trump never suffers with.

Read Douthat's column today, basically a radical conservative RC, he tries to make the argument that since there is all kinds of high church doctrine (thanks medieval angel on pinhead watchers!) on 'just war' that it's Leo's theology that's deficient. You can read the comments and catalog the number of ways his arg fails, but the fact that he considered its validity sufficient to put in the NYT just shows you where some people are. Another 'Christian' who prefers the convenience of the 'wisdom' of the human institution to the inconvenience of the actual Gospel.

the mere wind of it knocked Garcia off his feet. 🌪️

True story - I got a job replacing a guy who had quit to day trade. It was small field and everyone in the biz knew of everyone else at maybe a max of 3 degrees of separation. Anyway, it was maybe 3 years later we heard he was back working for a living in a similar gig for one of our competitors.

Sadly - University of Michigan President designate Kent Syverud is undergoing cancer treatment. Will not be taking the post. https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2026/04/kent-syverud-no-longer-becoming-next-university-of-michigan-president.html

Don't understand what you mean by 'different technology.' So I do imagine there is a difference for people who connect to MLB directly, because that is one less step, but from a marketing importance standpoint to the Tigers, the largest part of the market is people in the Metro area who are getting it through their TV distributor (mostly DirectTV & Comcast, Youtube, etc) so the situation I experience applies.

I'll give you an example why I don't think the Tigers could control this even if they wanted to. (and whether they want to is questionable - they want you listening to the broadcast as they are selling audio reads in it) I have fiber from ATT and DirectTV. If I start watching my cloud 'DVR' of a game say 1/2 hr after the game starts, and slice out dead time to catch up, when I get to 'live' from the DVR link, I'm 10-20 seconds ahead - that is closer to real time, than if I drop off the DVR link and go pick the game from the linear broadcast guide. This behavior makes no obvious sense, but it is completely reproducible, has been true for multiple seasons, and even more significantly, did NOT change with the Tigers move to MLB production. The 20 seconds or lack thereof - is purely a function of DirectTV's handling of the feed. There is no way the Tigers have anything to do with it. The last leg of network link to you is going to be subject to buffering that is out of control of the originator and the Tigers are sending the game to multiple distributors with different HW systems. I suppose if you buy directly from MLB that's one less step, but you still don't know what your ISP may be doing with MLB feeds.

That's the kind of play Ras should have made a 100 times in his career by now but hasn't. But Ras is still a Wing and Soderblom isn't. Go figure.

so on the topic of KM and in a nod to the discussion up thread about gloves - I've noted that KM does use a very small SS and an open pocket 3b glove that looks somewhat but maybe not max length. And I would just note that he did have trouble with the transfer from the 3b mitt in the 1st inning yesterday. The runner was erased on a DP so no harm, no foul, but just a point that there is no free-lunch, each glove is a trade off for what you want to do most at that position.

Aryan Jesus - of course. And Trump with every hair he's lost in 40 yrs restored. A miracle.

They are working Workman all across the IF now. He could be a decent utility guy if he's finally controlling his K's. IDK what the odds of that happening at his age are, but he's still got a chance to show this year.

I think is is accurate. The problem for the Times is that they are no-doubt a militantly secular culture (other than Op-Ed writers Douthat and French) and so I doubt most Times journalists take the Papacy and the RCC very seriously.

the difference is that the stakes were higher for Canada. You know the old saw about 'academic politics are the worst because there is so little at stake" - the same paradigm exists in real politics. Only when the perceived stakes are low do people spend a lot time arguing about symbolic votes and windmill tilts at policies that have no chance of adoption and stabbing their own needed allies in the back. It's the perception of real danger that finally straightens out people's thinking and ultimately results in an empowered broad based opposition. The US is so fat and happy, the various people who don't like Trump still have not internalized the level of risk enough to be willing to bury their micro-political cultural biases and work together strategically. Now you would think it's pretty hard to be alive with a brain in the US and not understand the risk of the direction we are going, but the objective evidence tells us it hasn't sunk in everywhere - yet.

we lost a wall off the local indoor ice rink (about a mile from here), the UM Hockey Arena lost part of its roof. The high winds were very localized - we had incredible sheeting rain but very little wind at our house.

n word was still in very wide currency in '50s America.