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Maybe it’s because he plays like you imagine Jackie Robinson played!

Without Javy’s slide being overturned—without his heady swim move around Salvy’s tag attempt—he’s called out and we’re still watching baseball right now.

Maybe he got a note. Thankfully Dan didn’t get the same note. BTW, here to say Javy’s slide was arguably the difference between winning and losing. For sure, it’s the reason we’re celebrating a win at this very moment instead of watching yet another inning.

And it is all pitching, because defense has been kind of ass.

Los four straight, win five straight. Easy peasy. Tigers are now 9-9.

Almost a walkoff pickoff. Don’t think I have ever seen that. And I still haven’t.

First and third, two outs on the Torres single. How about one or two more runs here? My cuticles could use the break.

Remember when Harris was too cheap or too scared or too stupid or too much of a toadie to spend money on players? Ah, good times … 😁

Perez swung mad and homered!

I'll go a step further: that slide represents the kind of baseball I have never seen a pro play.

El Mago definitely avoided the tag! It should be another overturned call, this time in our favor!

I can't believe Benetti and Dirks pretended as though touching the runner with the end of the glove wasn't enough to overturn the safe call. That smacks of broadcast homerism, and I have no respect for that.

Stinky was out by a lot. No question about overturning is necessary.

It won't.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking: now he can afford a decent suit and tie.

I am fascinated by the $5 million if he gets traded clause. Doesn't that serve as a sort of de facto no trade clause?

I'm not saying the criticism was valid. I'm just saying it's there and all those examples I offered up were considered flubs, and perhaps even cost her the election. In the end, though, the bottom line is that a black woman was never going to be elected president in 2024. This country is just not past that way of thinking.

This particular quote, in context with what went before it, refers to people who have previously occupied the offices of the president and the pope in general, not these two specific people. In any event, the conflict is not one-directional as you imply, since Leo is specifically responding to Trump's words and his actions in Iran. It's true that Trump is breathing fire at Leo who is deftly using verbal jiu-jitsu to respond, so in that sense the hostility attribute is definitely one-sided. But since Leo is engaging instead of ignoring, he does have a role, however softly pedaled, in the conflict. You may disagree, but that's how it looks to me.

When Kamala went on The View and said that she wouldn't have done anything different from President Joe Biden. She got caught flat-footed and didn't have a answer to it. To many people, it made her look unprepared. Kamala was criticized when she was asked about the U.S. relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when she gave a lengthy, somewhat circuitous answer that critics labeled "word salad". This was also the interview Trump sued over, and although that's not her fault, it did get hung on her. When she cracked a beer with Colbert on his show, it was criticized as "forced" and "unpresidential". During a rally with Oprah Winfrey, Kamala was asked a direct question about her plan to lower the cost of living. Her response was a two-minute monologue about "what is possible" and "commonality" which was widely ridiculed online for failing to provide a concrete policy answer. Taken separately, maybe not all of these would draw so much attention, but they start compounding on one another and may have hurt her vote totals. You may think none of these are flubs, which is your prerogative, but she did get criticized for all these. Not to put too fine a point on it, most would agree that these are the kinds of things a white male candidate can get away with more than a female candidate of color. And, of course, the Charli XCX Brat thing didn't help, either.

Yeah, "Polack" jokes were a thing around the country during the 70s for sure, and probably into the 80s.

Well put, agree with almost all of it. As for Kamala, she might be a brilliant political tactician, but during conversation she got caught flat-footed too often for my liking. I rooted for her to win still, but I can see why people peeled off after a couple of high-profile flubs. The whole Charli XCX Brat thing sure didn't help, either.

That wasn't the only time he did the hop only to fly out. Sammy was a goldfish when it came to that kind of thing.

Who knows, maybe Gage can become the LHB utility guy when McStinky stinks his way out of town. 😉

If you can provide evidence that the ATT/DirecTV you cite is the exact same technology the Tigers use for audio overlay leading to the problems you both experience, and that other teams don't experience this problem because they use different technology than you and the Tigers do, then OK, you have my attention. Until then, agree to disagree.

Do you remember what else was commonplace during that era? Don't bother guessing, I'll just tell you: Polish jokes. I heard them constantly, several of them every day during my childhood, in and outside the home. And this in Warren, a city which is in the conversation for most Polish city in the United States. And that's another thing that brought home the insidiousness of racist words and ideas to me: it took me until well into my 20s before I completely eradicated the notion that Polish people are naturally intellectually inferior because they are Polish. I know, sounds dumb, right? And of course it is. But when you're a child growing up in a certain time and place, and you're constantly inundated with rhetoric disparaging the intellectual capacities of Polish people, even in mostly joke form, and nobody around you is even bothering to dispute it, that's how a child becomes acculturated to thinking about it. It took me a long time to get past that idea to the point where it doesn't even occur to me in that way anymore, not even as an historical artifact of my upbringing. I'm not proud of it, but I don't consider it my fault, either. Words matter.