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this is great post Chasfh, nailed it right on the head. Evil is always invoked as an excuse for abdicating responsibility. People act out what they believe, and what they believe is what their environment has mirrored of back to them. That may be faulty either because their environment was faulty or because mental illness prevented reality from being mirrored back to them accurately. Either way it's an excuse to pass things off to the metaphysical realm while passing on our own responsibility to create a society that will reflect a better environment in people's minds or care for those whose minds are not capable of it. Don't these believers in Satan's agency ever wonder why he seems so content to sleep on all those secularists everywhere else in the world? You'd think they would figure out they must be praying to the wrong God by now. But yeah - I know, being attacked by Satan must surely be a sign of one's piety. So many lost/misled people in this country....

you can score runs without the long ball, but it's a lot harder, and you have to have a balanced line-up with no holes, which the Tigers most definitely do not have ...at least so far. 🥲

Credit where due for the the alliteration, but ironically enough, the pitching has been superb and the the hitting atrocious, so our mediocrity exists purely as a matter of averaging...

it's tragic, but not really surprising. Everyone got their panties in a bunch over 'defund the police' and it may have been the most asinine choice of political slogan of the century, but it grew out of a recognition that there is a lot wrong with policing in America. Too many departments with poor training, esp depts that are over militarized *and* under trained, too much bad culture.... lot's of problems. That said, if this tragedy only ends up focusing on the performance of the police in this situation and not the need to prevent police from having to be in this situation in the first place, it will just be another wasted opportunity.

somehow I don't think you really mean that....

that league had a rep for being a hard league to hit in, but I don't know why or if it is still true. Some one here probably does.

one was enough

Brant Hurter: 6 IP 3H 1ER 0BB 11K for Lakeland. FTs win 8-4 Erie goes nuts tonight - scores 17 runs on 22 hits: Olson 5 IP 2H 1R 0 ER 2 BB 8 K; Dingler 1/2 2BB

maybe the best thing that happened tonight is that we may have our leadoff hitter back......maybe.

How 'bout that old dude, three for 4.

I'm sure the guys at Quantico would be disappointed in your lack of confidence in them.

LOL/🥲 that aged well. How do you get bicep tendinitis when you aren't throwing? Rehab workouts too hard?

I count Bruce Rondon as a probable failed TJ. He got his velo back well enough but never recovered any command at all after the surgery. I don't think that was ever given as the reason he was not successful post surgery just because he could throw just as hard again, but joint stability is required for command and that is part of the outcome.

TJ is something like >90% successful for pitchers, the question first for Mize is whether he will heal without it, and second if he doesn't is he going to lose this year and all of next yr because it took too long to determine the 1st question. Manning's physical condition seems much less serious, but the jury is still out on how good a pitcher he can be. Has certainly shown flashes to be hopeful about but that's about it so far. Faedo looks reasonably competitive against MLB hitters, esp given how little rehab time he's had from his surgery. I'm pretty optimistic about him right now.

Madrigal was looking like a pretty good pro but has suffered a very serious injury for a ball player. That's one I would chalk up to bad luck. People have argued the Tigers could/should have foreseen Mize's arm trouble, that is at least an arguable proposition, but nobody foresees a guy completely blowing up his hammy.

This a fine start Romad, but I still say the weapon has no useful purpose. Single action long guns for public sale only.

Could be some general discontent, who would blame him? Also puts into play whether Dylan helped push Blashill out the door. I don't claim to know how Dylan felt about it but for my money the Wings were always a better team playing their best top line instead of splitting up Larking Burtuzzi and Seider into any other combinations to try and get more scoring. I think all that ever got them was a marginally better 2nd line but a much less effective top line, so if it's me, I'm not real happy about that. Of course it's also hard to believe Bertuzzi hadn't ticked off some of his teammates with his vaccine 'eccentricity,' which could have included Larkin. Larkin only said nice things in public, but that was expected. So who knows?

Really. Very unprofessional. In any kind of agency business you work at your clients pleasure. If you don't accept that you are in the wrong business.

I bet Torkelson is going to have a few words for his manager for calling him a 'plodder' -

Let the Heavenly Chorus say "AMEN"!

There is a larger point though, regardless of whether these cops turn out to have acted well or badly, the basic expectation is wrong. You can put the best SWAT team in the world on the site and it doesn't change that the perp has all the initiative, the good guys have no visibility into what is happening inside. Every tactical choice is fraught with danger in a hostage situation. There is simply no way you can expect a good resolution out of a situation like this - by the time it happens you are already too little and too late no matter what resources you think you have. There is ONE way to stop these - eliminate the potential perps by taking better care of people in the society, and eliminate the weapons they can get their hands on if you do miss one. One and only ONE answer. The rest is pure bullshit.

People don't understand much about how emergency response training works. They don't train people to be heroes, they train them to secure situations and then use resources and tactics to end situations as safely as possible. When responders are in situations where they cannot act with *relative* safety to themselves, they wait for reinforcements. That is the nature of the training. Even a swat team is no collection of John Rambos. Again - too fricking many movies banging around inside people's head instead of reality. Again, that is why the idea that the answer to people with guns is more people with guns, whether civilians or SWAT teams, is so absolutely ignorant. The 82nd Airborne is never going to be on 30 seconds call in your neighborhood. NEVER.

I think you still have a better than even money chance of getting three solid starters out of Skubal, Turnbull, Faedo, Mize, and Manning. The more frightening thing with regard to baseball in general is that Faedo, Skubal and Turnbull have all had TJ and Mize already has UCL issues. That's an 80% rate on a single injury class. If OSHA regulated baseball, pitching would be banned.

this may be a little unfair. It is a basic tenet of 1st responder training not to allow more people to go into a dangerous area. If the police were not responding the situation in the building adequately that is completely open to any fair criticism, but not keeping more people from entering it.

Was actually a game at the old ballpark in the Tiger bad old days (late 70's?) and witnessed one of those. Against Toronto. Jay on 1st. Bunt laid down. Pitcher threw it away to 1st. RF picked it up and threw it away past 3rd. Run in and man on third on a bunt. 🤣😭