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Unfortunately childish simplicity is what American Voters vote for. In America, serious people need not apply, or at least have to hide themselves behind a faux persona. I joke about it, but I guarantee you Newsom will gain or lose more votes over his hair than he will over his positions on how zoning rules and building codes affect housing affordability.

self selected sample. How many non-trumpers watched it? Or even worse, how do you trust any telephone or I-Net pol in an age of AI bots? Serious question that goes beyond Trump. The old line about believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see needs to be update to "none of none"

one would guess the population is also higher than it's ever been.

are WBC guys prepping somewhere else? Seems it would be important that players going to WBC get some work in prior because you know there is a high probability guys will overdo it there.

or they have a plan and it just isn't optimal.

I don't care they they are losing with players that aren't going to make the team, as longs as they don't get so obsessed with seeing every joe blow prospect in the system in a Spring game that the regulars don't get in enough competitive work and we end up behind the 8-ball before the team hits stride around Mid May. It's still plenty early though....

this is generally why so many of these back and forths are silly. And a big piece is that the internet reports factoids without context instead of complete stories; and with a factoid the listeners add whatever context fits their bias. A half-way decent political press should tell you what Patel or Whitmer are doing there overall. I certainly don't care if either of them show up at the games if they manage to do something useful overall on the trip, we don't need to be Puritanical. But we don't get that - or at least never until well after all the hot air and venom has been spewed around. Like the right's big MN story. There is fraud and abuse in every program. It's just the way it is - in the end it always costs more to get rid of last few percentage points of loss than to just let them go. That's just being practical - the most money in NOT saved by the most buttoned down program because the buttons cost a lot of money too. So the real question is the context - is it worse in one place than another, what is the actual scale compared to the overall spending? Numbers with lots of zeros always sound newsworthy, but the dollar aint what it used to be. 'Billions' in fraud may be less than rounding errors when Trillions are being spent. But we don't get those contexts reported either, because the media machines aren't interested in truth, only in scoring points for their side.

I assume it's a windy day? Apparently it's windier in Lakeland in Feb/Mar than most guys are used to playing in. If it's the Sun I have less sympathy. You've got to deal with that.

you can ignore people, that doesn't make them go away. And I will continue to make any available joke about Newsom's hair. 😎

I told you, guys with perfect hair are always suspect!

I think you combine the deader ball with moving the mound back a foot or foot and a half and you would take the game back to where it was a couple of generations ago. Moving the mound back negates in the increase in velo that stronger pitchers has produced, so many more balls will go into play. The deader ball negates the increase in HR's that stronger batters and maple bats would otherwise produce given more balls in play. But to your last point, the question remains whether any majority of the game's stakeholders actually want to go back there

I'm out on the Mags as well. Have some individuals I still like and picked up some Euro stock indexes to diversify some more and a lot of short term Treas for the time being.

Piston centers who shoot threes are about the rarest thing in Det sports. On this team Stew averages less than one make a game. You can go back a long way and not find much in the way of long gunning Piston big men. One year of Kelly Olynyk? Rasheed if you want to call him a center, then all the way back to Laimbeer?

so far doing a great job of cutting down on the K's. .....🤢

the funny thing is that the most effective way to have the price of oil fall is to support the purchase of EV's, and the build out of wind and solar, but Trump hasn't figured that out. (Sell a million EVs, take the output of a large refinery out of total demand). But of course if 'energy' prices actually fell, that means oil, and the oil fat cats that donated that $500M to him would not get what he promised them for that $$$ - which just shows you that he knew he was lying from the get go. But with Trump it's ever telling the truth that would be news.

imported beer

Brian Wilson had that figured out years ago.

If like me, you couldn't figure out that map on 1st take, it's the Tx/Mex border at the Gulf Coast.

We've seen McDavid spectating up ice when the Wings scored on his team in 3 on 3. He's not the most dedicated defender.

The harder these guys try to be remembered the faster they are forgotten. When was the last time anyone missed Rush Limbaugh?

At the end of the 2nd when it was still tiedand the Canadians were outshooting the US so badly I said to a buddy that if the US got it to overtime they would win it because Hughes and Larkin are probably the best 3 on 3 players in the game. Shoulda made a prop bet! 😟

He has yet to strike out!

Thompson 8 assists for the 2nd time this season.

I'm stuck in the middle right now because I only bought DirectTV because they had the Tigers and Wings, but the Tigers are now gone (unless they come up with a quck deal) but the Wings season isn't over yet so I don't want to cancel yet -- assuming I do have to go somewhere else for the Tigers. PITA, and wallet.

was out in his 2nd AB but still put the ball in play on a line.