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They are oddly fixated on everybody else's genitals and sex lives. It keeps them from having to think about how badly their guy is crashing the country.

Here's hoping this matters when it counts.

Yes, that's fair.

T-Mobile has to get their money's worth.

Could be worse ... you could be seeing those execrable Cure insurance ads with Tarik and Tork.

Man, we could use a revived Matt Vierling at the plate these days.

I thought it was another "I Love The Military" weekend? Man, so hard to keep up ...

At the risk of jinxing—as if that were a real thing—five innings in, I would say, yeah.

During the Year of the Pitcher, it was good to have the King Pitcher.

I just used GPT to help me get my arms around the process of replacing my house’s electrical panel, not only helping me estimate costs, which it did, but setting expectations as to what kind of equipment I should be getting, understanding specific Chicago code issues, sifting through proposals from three different vendors, developing the follow-up questions to ask, and ultimately deciding on which vendor to choose. I should be clear that at no time did I just “set it and forget it” and then just did what AI told me to do. I used AI as a tool to help me make my decision, not a crutch to relieve me of the responsibly of thinking about it.

You can’t?

This sure gets us talking about the asinine things he says such as “Xi thinks I’m so smart” at which we can laugh and roll our eyes dismissively, instead of the horrifying things he says such as praising Xi for being a “a brilliant guy” because he rules the Chinese people with an “iron fist” which should give us all pause about his ultimate intentions.

You might be right. He’s not too terribly accurate although I think a lot of where he gets dinged on fielding runs is due both to poor positioning (a lot hits to left field that are normally singles become doubles because he’s loping after the ball to get it), or he gives up on the runner taking the extra base.

Especially since Tork was a 104 sOPS+ against righties versus 94 against lefties coming into the game, so it wasn’t a platoon advantage thing. And Tork had never faced Jeff Hoffman before, so it wasn’t a matchup thing. It must have been a Tork was 4-for-41 with 21 strikeouts in his last 12 games thing.

Why no 3-6-3? Tork’s turned some 3-6-3s, and Riley throws 11 ticks faster than Tork does.

Darn, for a second I was hoping maybe we’d traded Flaherty and hopefully Tork for Vlad Jr.

And then there’s Riley Greene still ripping the cover off the ball and batting something like .330. So we talk about what a defensive liability Riley is in left field, and how Tork is basically playing his way out of town this year. We wonder about moving Colt Keith to first, or having Josue Briceño come up and play first—but what about training Riley Greene to play there? He certainly has the bat to overcome a slightly below average glove, if that’s what he could’ve there. He certainly is trending toward the mobility of a first baseman anyway.

I see where Colt Keith is hitting .306, and with all the strikeouts in the game today, it feels weird to see anybody hitting .300 anymore

Only with a three run or less lead.

So what’s with the khaki green hats? Is today some military celebration holiday I don’t know about?

I blame Roone Arledge.

One of the things that actually enrages me about the whole Apple TV Friday night thing is that this is not even the only game that’s playing on it. The other game is Yankees-Mets. Which game do you think 95% or more of all viewers in the country are watching? The only viewers that care about Tigers-Blue Jays are in Michigan. So why is Baseball stealing this game from the fan base and putting it on a platform no one outside of Michigan is interested in watching it on? Thanks for nothing, Manfred man. 🤬

This is just horrifying.