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I would think “can Tork prove once and for all he can hit” and “can Kenley make a real difference in the back of the pen” might be up there as well.

In light of this, what’s your approach to following sports?

I don’t know if Trump will declare any kind of emergency prior to the election in order to broke it. I think it’s more likely they run the election, putting their thumbs on the scales as much as possible with lawfare, and if it turns out the returns show the Democrats winning, the Trump people will simply tie up all the contestable elections in court in an effort to prevent Democrats taking office. They’ll be doing this on the state level in several states where Republicans get smoked off the ballot, too. Twenty twenty-seven is going to be a complete mess in Washington and statehouses cross the country.

It’s the Christian right thing to do, at any rate.

I’m pretty sure he has other plans to make sure his people get sworn into the House on January 3rd by Mike Johnson.

Me, I’m glad I never turned it on in the first place. I feel sorry for people who have to cover this guy for a living. It must be mentally, emotionally, and psychically exhausting.

Well, if anyone wants to abandon the Red Wings because of the fruit of Dylan Larkin’s tree, then go ahead. That’s what I’m saying. If he offends them, they should stop following him. But they shouldn’t be surprised if the team they end up following instead has a bunch of Dylan Larkins there, too, and they’d have to make the choice all over again. American professional sports are lousy with red hats.

I don’t know, I’m having a little trouble taking seriously an ex-NBA writer who would bat Parker at the top of the order and Colt #9.

Wo. Bacon.

If I had to pick a spot where the biggest offensive weakness is probably baked in, it’s CF. Every other position, there’s a fairly wide range of potential outcomes depending on how much progress certain guys at certain positions can make, and of course, whether McGonigle breaks camp at short. But Tork, Torres, Keith, Riley, Carpenter, and Dingler all have the potential to rake. Or to flop.

I would guess that the sticking point with the front office to locking down Skubal will be the years, not the dollars.

His goal is not to court independents, never mind liberals. His goal is to mobilize red hats.

Yes, not getting daily briefs on security involving the Olympics is not the kind of impeachable offense Kash Patel likes to engage in.

He'll award you the presidential medal of freedom if you publicly praise him.

Why bother? He'd just be replaced by another red hat athlete. Most professional athletes, especially the white American ones, are ardent red hats. If you want to be a fan of big-time sports, you can't allow yourself to set a bar of no MAGA ever for your teams because you can't ever have that. Either disassociate the player from his ideology, or give up following big-time sports. Simple as that. You're rooting for the player, not the person. Difference.

Probably couldn't fact-check live because during the process of debunking one lie, he's told four more.

They are taking the stereotype to new heights previously unimaginable.

or they have a plan and it is optimal and they know how to execute it. i know it's hard to fathom we could actually ever have that, but that's a possibility, too. 😏

As long as we’re making that kind of prediction at the moment, I predict that no matter what the team’s record is on August 1, whether we are 75-35, 35-75, or anything in between, nobody here will be happy.

They had a lot of fun writing that one.

I could see a team without a plan doing that.

For as much as fans wanted Harris’s priority to be supercharging the offense by acquiring proven major leaguers, it’s worth remembering that last season, with essentially this same team, the Tigers’ offense finished 12th in wOBA, above the midpoint, but also, 7th in wOBAcon, 9th in xwOBA, and 5th in xwOBAcon. Not for nothing, they also finished 11th in runs, and were 8th before they slid. And they did this with one of the youngest offenses in baseball. This means they are doing the right things to score, and there’s still room for growth. Harris will get raked if the offense goes splat this year, and he’ll have earned that as the guy responsible for it. But the way things looked after their performance last year, standing pat on the core position players, if that’s what we end up doing, will have been a reasonable decision to make. Of course, there’s a lot of time between now and March 26—one month from tomorrow!—to make a move and finalize the roster. But I won’t be disappointed on that day if we don’t.

THE DOW IS AT 50,000 DOLLARS!!

I see, OK. Also, I would think they would ignore the grooming part and just jump right into the trafficking.

Definitely looking into Stoxx 600.