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Lilacs are the best. Favorite smell on earth.

A third of the way into the season and the Tigers are now a sub-.400 team. I don’t think even tiger2022 saw that one coming. 😉

They’re an organization that built a division favorite but that still has to field a team when a lot of their good guys get injured.

And all they got was two months of Jack Flaherty so I think we got the better end of that little deal.

Maybe it's because the A students who majored in political science or public policy at top schools have been replaced in Congress by the C students who majored in communications or hospitality management at Division III state schools.

Man, starting a Middle East war just to avoid going to your son's wedding is some first-class bad parenting right there.

It's probably pretty close to that right now, anyway.

Just like twenty-six teams CHOSE not to do so in 1987, too.

Don't pay attention to some stupid unregulated taxpayer-funded $1.8 billion slush fund meant to motivate J6ers to keep fighting for Trump, pay attention to THIS!

Once they start getting the death threats from “constituents”, they’ll come around.

But that's not how it works in MLB The Show!

From the story: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made clear Wednesday that the conduct of January 6, 2021, rioters who attacked law enforcement will be factored when the soon-to-be-set-up commission reviews applications to the anti-weaponization fund. “One of the factors the commissioners have to consider is what the claimant did — the claimant’s conduct,” Blanche told CNN’s Paula Reid in an interview Wednesday. “The claimant would have to say, ‘I assaulted a cop and I want money.’” “Whether the commissioners will give that person money – that claimant – it’s up to them. But that’s one of the factors they have to consider,” he continued, adding that Trump “does not stand for assaulting law enforcement.” Blanche said he couldn’t fully rule out the possibility that someone who was violent toward officers [would not receive payments], saying it was up to the commissioners. “So, whether the commissioners will give that person money, that claimant, it’s up to them,” he said. Translation: If you assaulted a Capitol cop to overturn the election and reinstall Donald Trump as president, then congratulations and look for a check in the mail.

Not a map, but pretty informative.

Probably because they treat the Constitution like MAGA Christians treat the bible: they embrace the parts that make them feel good, and they ignore the rest.

False choice. There can be both. 😏

So what if Senate votes to pass the resolution to curb war powers? What do they expect Trump to do in response? Comply? As if.

Especially likely since under the terms of the settlement, the government has no responsibility for “the protection or safeguarding” of the funds once they have been placed into the account, including any issues related to bank errors or crimes, like fraud, that may be committed with the money. The fund will also be managed by a six-person commission, five of whom will be appointed by the Trump-appointed attorney general, and any of whom can be unilaterally removed by Trump at any time for any or no reason. What could possibly go wrong?

Sometimes the pitch you think is right isn't actually right because the pitcher masks it effectively enough to make it look like one type of pitch when it's really another, and then it's too late. Hitting is hard. Hitting at the major league level is major league hard.

I do think the RWM is the linchpin of this whole thing, and if that ecosystem could be somehow decimated, that would go a long way toward breaking the spell.

At least in its current form, and we can no longer simply vote our way back to whatever we nostalgically regard as normal. At this point it’s probably going to take something very dramatic (or drastic, take your pick) to change things for the better on a permanent basis, and it’s well within the range of outcomes that a frightening number of us—both old and young—may not be alive to see it.

They’re counting on people being too distracted by endless entertainment options to notice.

Another thing I wonder about is how the introduction of grizzled veterans like Kenley and Framber and even Justin into the clubhouse mix may have affected the bonhomie the team has enjoyed the past couple years. Justin especially has been known to have clubhouse tangles here and there. There’s also looming free agency for key players and the dark cloud of doom that kind of thing might cast as a pall over a clubhouse. Players are people, and off-field drama can definitely affect focus, concentration, and ultimately performance of people’s jobs, and left insufficiently checked, can snowball into a crisis situation. I have seen that kind of thing in my own workplaces during my time running the hamster wheel. This is mere speculation, not a diagnosis.

Yeah, a couple ticks down, spin was way down, and his misses were all over the place, specially up. Wouldn’t be surprised to hear he’s hurt again and has to go back on the list.