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I think he is certainly leveraging his critics' believe that putting him in jail will only help him to keep pushing boundaries to prove his power. But like everything else with Trump - it's a con. Throwing his ass behind bars it won't gain him one more supporter he doesn't already have and blowing up the facade of his invincibility will only depress the supporters he does have.

What's striking is how this kind of projection derives so directly from Russian paradigms. It may not prove direct Russian penetration of the GOP, but it does at minimum show how aspirational a Russian system of politics is for them.

we have one guy back - and that's Riley. After his 1 for 12 start in March, with today's 2/4 BB, his April OPS has climbed over 900.

It would be beautiful if the detonations in Istfahan were cyber induced and Iran's air defense net had just gone bonkers for show. Probably not the case but amusing possibility.

Yeah - when Lange closed out the inning so well you figured that was certainly evidence of enough good Karma that the Tigers couldn't lose this one.

He may well have, but even if he did, it was after Gio had already missed making the tag and over run the play.

and the worst take away is having to consider what to do with what is looking like like a $24M bad signing. Dirks noted that Kenta always starts poorly, but that's no comfort when your division is winnable and you are losing games in which you score 7.

Bad series. The Rangers are good, but a split was there for the taking and the Tigers played it into 1 of 4.

not supposed to be high leverage when you score 7. 🤷‍♀️

IDK if Parker makes that throw any better than Vierling did. Even with a strong throw that one is going to be close but it was an out that was there to make.

Riley picked a great time to decide to stop diving...../...sigh.../

Rangers almost as bad as the Tigers.

That was another pretty decent AB by Javy. He did not swing out of the zone, got the ball in play on a tough pitch.

Keith and Greene both going to LF with intent today. Very good.

Could we try throwing a bucket of water on him just to check? I mean nothing ventured nothing gained....

OK - Today Hinch has his genius hat on.

Lange with the bases loaded? Hinch determined to shake it all out early.

Have you been to Australia? They run what they call 'road trains' because there isn't much rail as you get to the interior. It's a over size semi tractor with three drive axles pulling three trailers - each around maybe ~80ft. Mostly on two lane roads. When one passes you in the oncoming you just hope you spent enough on your rental upgrade to have sufficient rubber on the road to keep you in your lane.

Colt living dangerously - going to replay. make that E4

Faedo up

Dirks says right now Maeda's FB is trash and the slider is trash. Doesn't leave much.

AJ? AJ? Let not let this get out of hand again...please....

hope Hinch doesn't get greedy and try to get too much out of him. Too demoralizing to waste a comeback.

it's 1:30 pm down 4-0. Do you know where your Matt Manning is?