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LOL - China would be odd-bedfellows. The Russians may value Iran too much to go there.

FWIW I saw somewhere that Mize might not go to rehab because it was a short DL, but I still kinda doubt it.

Of course - you know he's still obsessed with a Nobel right? He'd throw almost anything under the bus if XI gives him a way to settle Iran that makes him look good.

I don't think Hinch can do anything about having poor players. Hinch is about as good managing a pitching staff as I've seen and that is 90% of a manager's job. Yeah - I think his motivational talent is maybe marginal but I don't think that is all it's cracked up to be in baseball and we don't seem to have clubhouse issues. I haven't seen figures for this year but I still feel like the Tigers take too many strike ones, but I'll live with the two latter nits for the sake of the former.

I agree with this. The problem is that mainstream Dem policy disagreement with the current Israeli government draws an Arab emigree population (among others) to the party who actually are revuanchist wrt the existence of Israel and eventually they become a constituency for harder anti-semitism - IOW the situation brewing in Dearborn MI or Omar's district in MN. This is a hard problem because I don't want the main stream Democratic party to be in bed with Netanyahu.

doesn't all the "sports reference" site block ad blockers now unless you pay up?

Paul Krugman posts to a substack since he's left this gig at the NYT, and he's been writing about the comparison between Europe and the US recently, and that's a big part of his point. The US looks richer but it's really just in the bias of the accounting system. Labor productivity the EU is just as good, but Europe always looks like it's lagging because Euros have just decided to work less per capita - they actually value quality of life so they take time off to live it. Same applies to the fact that public goods are far better in Europe than in the US (healthcare, transportation etc), and finally, social equity is much better in Europe than the US which is a driver of social unhappiness in the US. And the proof is in recent (well, pre Trump) immigration figures. People came to the US from Western Europe all through the Post WWII era. Few have recently. Euros are only 10% of the immigrant population today and many of them are H1Bs recruited by US industry.

I have nightmares about the Orioles a couple years ago who everyone thought were the up and coming team and then just crashed back to futility after only one and a half good seasons.

Mize's last two injuries boggle the mind. How can an athlete trained for doing a couple of hours at maximum full body exertion hurt himself twice doing basically nothing? I keep hearing that training for injury prevention is now a sub-field within athletic training - pushed early on by guys like Tom Brady. I wonder if the Tigers are hip to that or not?

Vest hurt and Janson blowing 3 saves in 12 outings. What the heck are they going to do with Flaherty? You can't put him in the BP - well maybe they could try, he usually does get through one inning before he breaks down.

saw a comment by Fed governor Goolsby(sp?). He said the key to him was the uptick in services costs. He takes that as the marker that what is going on is not just tar or tariffs. If you look at it purely as a matter of system dynamics, if you have a higher order system approaching your desired control point, the fastest way to get there is to push the system to just a little bit of overshoot and then have it settle back to the target. The Fed took their foot off the brake before we ever reached 2%, so now we probably can't get there until they raise rates again or maybe do some more quantitative tightening, which the big banks push back against (though Warsh has said he wants to)

meanwhile, just to add insult to injury, the Mudhens have scored 18 runs tonight.

and part of this one of those strange ironies where because one side is totally out of reach of Western influence and communication, the intransigence of the side you think you should have some influence on, or that at least you believe could do better, ends up becomes the primary focus of frustration sort of by default. In the US a lot of anti-Israel energy on the left is young people, who know little or no history, but have the finely tuned sense of injustice of the young. In the main they are not culturally, racially, religiously anti-semitic in any traditional sense of the word (those parts are more likely on the right) but they have bought into the narrative that Israel's national conduct is no longer the lesser of the two evils in the region. I don't think that many people yet believe that, but if Israel doesn't start helping it's own cause, more will. Also the 'demonization' of Aipac on the left also ties into their support to Trump and/or Trump aligned candidates.

IDK - he can play all the hard ball he wants, I'm not sure any American city is in the mood to be extorted by an Oligarch in the current environment.

Well, at least they are proving to be a balanced team: Failing in all three phases of the game.

this can't be real can it? Am I going to wake up and Tigers still have a pitching staff? or maybe the Tigers still have a infield.... I guess that was why Workman was the last call-up

If you saw the CF shot of Colt hitting the single, you could clearly see that in that swing, his hips were already done - they had stopped rotating, by the time his swing got to the ball. That's part of the power vacuum.

yeah - give it up once you run into the ump- but adrenaline had taken over.

Bolton with an asinine Editorial in WaPo complaining that Trump 'just needs to open the Strait.' I'm sure he would have by now if he could have, but he can't, and that's the fact on the ground. I don't know where these neo-cons get their fantasy ideas about the ease with which the US Military can just conjure their international management wet dreams into existence.

Well, I certainly don't get it. These people seem desperately to want to get back to the 1950's. By that standard we are still about 100million people over target. 🤷‍♂️

facts not in evidence on this one. but yes, I absolutely will grant you that the kind of atrocities committed by Hamas are beyond the pale (btw they are all the exact same ones committed in at the turn of the century in the Turkish nationalist frenzy against the Armenians that I heard about from 1st hand eye-witnesses even as a child.. so you have no surprises for me on that front.).There are some uniquely grotesque and evil ideologies/mindsets that come out the ME that are absolutely hard to fathom. I will even grant you the old saw about "two wrongs don't make a right" goes pretty much out the window in war. But what I will stand on is that States with more power have more responsibility and Israel is trying hard to fail on that score. The attitude that populations are grass that needs to be periodically 'mowed' with high explosive in perpetuity is a pretty terrible mindset also.

I agree is not genocide, there is a reasonable case to made it has crossed the line into war crimes though - a situation Trump seems intent on having America follow them into in Iran.

Not even talking about Gaza - they are and have been regularly dispossessing people and property on the West Bank without recourse.

If they go out, we will probably find out something is wrong with Duren - but that's still no excuse for leaving him out there if he is compromised when Reid seems better able to hold his own.

My grandfather, who came to this country in flight from genocide, would always get impatient at his fellow emigres when they would talk old homeland grievances, he would say "You are an American now. You came here to leave all that behind!" When the old world grievances of emigres become issues in US politics it never helps America, whether it's Cuba, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, whatever.