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I also think so many of them are compromised.

I posted this in congressional elections thread a few weeks ago. I went back to review it, and I still think it all holds water. The only thing I might add is that, in the month or two preceding the actual election, the Trump regime might dramatically soften their ground game when it comes to immigration, and also, do something dramatic to address consumer prices, maybe even send (or promise to send) a $1,000 check from the federal government in the names of their Republican congresspeople, or their Democratic congresspeople's Republican opponents, to sow doubt among independents and suppress their urgency to want to vote.

I don't know that Trump wants the Post to shut down, necessarily. I think he just wants to make sure that the local paper is on board with him. He can't have a major journalistic institution taking potshots at him from his own backyard. As for serious reform of media ownership, the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine was the "Big Bang" of media deregulation ("television is just another appliance—it’s a toaster with pictures"), which led to The Telecommunications Act of 1996, the most significant ownership loosening in history. We had those rules for a reason. Now we can clearly see what those reasons were.

Tigers beat their 2022 projection by seven games? Well, maybe Baby Doc was a little too hasty giving Al Avila the gate after all ... 🦆🦆🦆

I'm not sure I get it. Is this a way of saying he has zero chance?

And that's another reason I don't root for ex-Tigers on other teams. Big league baseball players are not my friends or family members. They are merely employees of an organization for whom I root to win games on the field. I know zero about most players personally. As such, I don't know what true colors they are going to reveal once they go to another team, but even if they do, that's not going to change what I feel about them personally, because I feel nothing about them personally, if that makes any sense. When I root for a player on my team, I am rooting only for his effect on the team, not for the player personally. So if he does something objectionable as a Tiger, for example, keeping a second family, it doesn't affect how I root for him, because I'd been rooting only for his output, anyway. Would I rather have a good guy playing for my team than a bad guy? To the degree that it matters, which is minute, sure, why not. But that's only a nice-to-have, not a must-have. Beyond that, I have no personal stake in what kind of people these guys are off the field. This is why I don't root for ex-Tigers on other teams. Because he's not a friend or family member, when he engages in something on another team like "bang a gong", I feel no betrayal or disappointment. He's someone else's problem now. Flip side, if he wins a Cy Young and a ring, I feel no joy, because he had to beat my team in order to get there.

Only if he's given up on all the third base options we have in-house.

I have come around to the idea that the perfect way to die is during surgery under anesthesia. You go out, then you go out, and you don't feel a thing. And if you're a religious person, pray and repent before you go under. I wouldn't want it to happen at age 34, though.

Oh yeah, ha ha, I suck, I didn't look it up, I went by my failing memory. March 26.

Wow, always a shock to lose someone so young. It was his wife who informed the world in a social media post. She said he died "following complications during a routine surgery". Routine surgery. Yikes. Just a reminder that even those can be dangerous.

Let's both put down our weapons on the count of "three". One ... two ...

If you're talking about the Nazi thing, which I will respond to, I think a big part of why we unlearned that lesson is that all the people for whom that was living memory are gone, no longer in a position to remind us.

It's even "better" than that—the Republicans are trying to make the red hats lose their damn minds over a 15 minute halftime show to make them forget 6 million pages of child abuse, rape, and murder.

Hao-Yu Lee is my dark horse candidate to be the starting third baseman on March 25.

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This sucks because I'm going to Puerto Rico to see a Puerto Rico game that Saturday night, and I wanted to pimp my Tigers cap for the crowd when he came to the plate!

THANK you. I've been saying for years that I don't understand rooting for ex-Tigers playing for other teams. I promise you they feel nothing for us once they leave. Plus, now they're trying to make us lose!

I believe him. As far as he’s concerned.

That’s the story and they’re sticking to it, until it’s inconvenient to.

This, too.

I am out of reactions, but Thanks.

This looks silly and almost impossible, but it's actually true. We are not unlike the cat chasing the laser pointer.

I don't know whether I saw it posted here or elsewhere, but I recently saw something to the effect of Nazi Germany worked for a while because they were able to get 1/3 of the population mobilized to subdue the remaining 2/3 of the population.

You have enough of a track record here that I don't think anyone here would conclude that you're in the same category as Bunker et al, but in your desperate quest to always be 50-50 even-handed at all times, the suggestion that the Obama ape post might or might not have been racist, but that the real crime was that it simply was not funny, just landed wrong. The raw, uncut racism renders the comedy question irrelevant.