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And my apologies for missing Teddy Roosevelt.

We were traveling and picked up BBC, their reporter carrying on about how he can't believe this happened in American. Man, where have you been? Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, JFK, RFK, Wallace, Ford, Reagan. It's almost more unusual when someone doesn't take a shot at a US president or Candidate.

One spectator was killed.

Lord - you can only wonder what the profile will turn out to be on this guy.

If that was gun fire some one was a pretty bad shot if nobody else was hit with multiple rounds fired into a solid wall of people. 🤷‍♀️

take aways: - expected Montero to fold - he didn't. He wasn't great but he kept battling - what a difference an umpire with a tight K zone makes for both teams. Expect scoring to skyrocket with challenge or ABS. - Wentz: nothing to say.

IDK, maybe as a pot sweetener but he I would guess he doesn't have much value right now - unless maybe some org has someone on staff who is ex-Detroit and thinks he knows some key for Manning no-one else has figured out.

Freud is amused.

yes - good one.

So when Biden remains completely unmoved by the Media handwringing (and he demonstrated tonight that is the case), what do we suppose the MSM's next stance will be? -Biden overcomes concerns.... (don't hold your breath) - Senile old man continues to refuse best advice. Did we mention that dementia often produces stubbornness. (I don't count this one out) -Oh, never mind...(certainly in the running...)

Still need to find that high K reliever.

just sloppy enough on the bases to cost them. Wenceel with the pop-up slide that didn't stay on the base and Riley getting caught leaning. Losing 2 outs in close game is gonna be trouble.

thought he had the first pitch nailed.

Chris Hayes with a good summary of the campaign layout. Three simple legs: This is what we did. This is what we will do. The other guy is a menace.

well, they were all licking their lips because he supposedly "left the door open" at the NATO press conference, but the one commentator that had it right noted that because of the setting he didn't want to get too much into campaign mode, but it's pretty clear he is slamming the door on his detractors. He's got the delegates and he's not going anywhere, so if you are a Dem you can either get on the bus or start on your plans for surviving Trump II.

energy level sky high tonight. If he can marshal this persona he'll be fine.

I agree, it's not a matter of Manning 'progressing' anymore - he is currently plateaued short of the mark. He has to do something to get on a different path - or maybe to get back to where he was before the injury last season, when he was performing fairly well. Maybe he lost some aspect of his old mechanics after being out, or whether he needs some new repertoire or new mechanics is the brain trust's task to solve if possible.

Jays will owe Bichette 27M, but that's chump change compared to what we owe Javy, He is sucking this year - but it's injury related - reported as 'calf fascia strain' and given that he took a couple weeks off and it didn't improve, sounds to me like compartment syndrome is a possibility (see Cunningham, Cade) in which case the sooner the better for surgery.

maybe the best of he Malloy and Vilade, but Canha is probably DHing because he is borderline hurting. Vilade started out life as a SS and has been working his way down the defensive value scale ever since, to pretty much rock bottom at LF. An ex-SS should at least have an above average arm for a LF.

RH hitting against LHP has been a struggle for the Tigers this season. And just to make it worse, our two RHH catchers both have reverse platoon splits.

Good question. A team appears to have the option of putting anyone on the restricted list (up to 2 yrs) who isn't there for reasons other than injury. The Tigers had put Eduardo on the restricted list went he went AWOL. I suppose there is probably some avenue for a player to appeal that decision. This Wki has a the list of possible statuses for players. I would read it that 'restricted' would be converted to 'suspended' in the case of a player with legal trouble once the legal system makes some kind of determination that would become the basis for the suspension. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_lists_of_players_in_professional_sports

Almost Heaven - John Denver would have written "Country Roads" about Michigan if he hadn't gotten stuck in Toledo and not made it here.

The first thing the GOP will do is blow up the budget - again. Trump's "Tariffs not Taxes" plan has a 4 Trillion $ hole in it.

This is the best hope - that a lot of people hearing the 'Biden is too old' drumbeat but haven't actually looked for themselves, begin to pay attention and see what we all can see - and old guy with a perfectly functional mind, and decide that's still a damn site better than anything they get with Trump. It also means that if Biden has the stamina to stay his course, then by voting time the issue will have been fully litigated, old news, off the table.

Of course we'd like better odds than that! I sort of go back and forth. One one hand, I think in this cycle, the campaign itself might be the least consequential in history as you would have to be living in a fallout shelter in Nepal not to have already made up your mind about Trump and Biden at this point. OTOH, the way we have seen turnout bounce up and down by 30 million votes in last few cycles, turn out will be again supper critical. So to go back to something Tater said - maybe it's not 'carrying the message about Trump' that's nearly as important as figuring out how to keep Dems from staying home - the two things may not be the same task.