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And it was with me and I flattened him and I've been in exactly two fights and I got flattened in the other one.

So funny how we have moved beyond the idea that Trump should suffer any recriminations for lying about the existence of negotiations as a tool to both pump up his base and pump up the stock market.

So adorable how the "[the justices would] be shocked at how well organized and secure [elections] are" poster proceeds from the assumption that they are honest and impartial actors.

I'm with you on this. The only thing I can imagine is that fans don't like agents who lip off it the press.

Of course, but if I'm the Dodgers, or the Tigers for that matter, if he's leveraging an offer of 10/500 from the Angels to me, I'm replying OK for you if you don't mind never going to the playoffs ever again.

Ha haaa, you got me! I would never be this detailed and high quality on my own! I uploaded files to Claude and asked it to find the games based on the criteria prompt, but I did check the results on the back end before posting.

Here's the record for the past two years of Skubal going 5+ and leaving with a one-run lead, while giving up two or fewer runs. Tarik Skubal - 2024 & 2025 Analysis 2024 Season: Total starts: 31 Starts with 5+ IP, 1-run lead, ≤2 runs allowed: 7 Bullpen held the lead: 5 wins Bullpen lost the lead: 2 losses Tigers' record when bullpen lost lead: 0-2 2025 Season: Total starts: 31 Starts with 5+ IP, 1-run lead, ≤2 runs allowed: 4 Bullpen held the lead: 3 wins Bullpen lost the lead: 1 loss Tigers' record when bullpen lost lead: 0-1 Summaries of Each Qualifying Game: 2024: March 28, 2024 @ Chicago White Sox: Skubal threw a brilliant 6-inning shutout and left with a 1-0 lead, which the bullpen preserved for a 1-0 Tigers victory. July 7, 2024 @ Cincinnati Reds: Skubal dominated for 7 innings allowing just 1 earned run with a 2-1 lead, and the bullpen protected it as Detroit added insurance runs for a 5-1 win. July 12, 2024 vs Los Angeles Dodgers: Skubal pitched 6 solid innings with 2 earned runs and a 3-2 lead, but the bullpen allowed 2 runs as the Tigers fell 4-3. July 27, 2024 vs Minnesota Twins: Skubal threw 7 innings of 2-run ball with a 3-2 lead, and the bullpen slammed the door while Detroit's offense added 4 more runs for a 7-2 victory. August 7, 2024 @ Seattle Mariners: Skubal was outstanding for 7 innings allowing 2 earned runs with a 3-2 lead, and the relievers held firm as the Tigers tacked on 3 insurance runs for a 6-2 win. August 31, 2024 vs Boston Red Sox: Skubal was nearly untouchable through 8 innings with just 1 earned run and a 2-1 lead, and the bullpen protected the narrow margin for a 2-1 Tigers victory. September 12, 2024 vs Colorado Rockies: Skubal pitched 6 strong innings allowing only 1 earned run with a 2-1 lead, but the bullpen surrendered 3 runs and Detroit lost 4-2. 2025: May 9, 2025 vs Texas Rangers: Skubal threw 7 innings of 1-run ball with a 2-1 lead, and the bullpen preserved the slim advantage for a 2-1 Tigers win. June 6, 2025 vs Chicago Cubs: Skubal was nearly flawless for 7.2 innings allowing just 1 earned run with a 2-1 lead, and the bullpen finished it off with Detroit adding an insurance run for a 3-1 victory. July 20, 2025 @ Texas Rangers: Skubal threw 6.2 shutout innings and departed with a 1-0 lead, which the bullpen protected while the Tigers added a late run for a 2-1 win. August 25, 2025 @ Oakland Athletics: Skubal pitched 6.2 strong innings allowing just 1 earned run with a 3-2 lead, but the bullpen imploded for 6 runs and the Tigers were blown out 8-3.

The lure of the return to a society characterized by government-supported white supremacy is very strong. This generation is jealous that their grandparents had that and they don't.

Or his hair buzzed up to sides to the longer hair on top.

Persecution and the claimed threat of mortal violence really do animate those crackpots, don't they?

I think which organization makes the offer matters more than people think. If Arte Moreno were to offer Skubal 10/500 to come to Anaheim and the best offer he were to get otherwise is 8/400 from the Tigers or some (other) perennial contender, I’d bet he'd take the smaller offer to give himself a better chance to win a ring. In a case like that, the marginal utility of the extra hundred million dollars would simply not be enough to consign himself to the second division for the remainder of his career. He's not Mike Trout, after all. 😏

I have never closed the door on Skubal, either. He may not even want to go to Dodgers. Unless something dramatic happens during the season that changes the calculation, I think the possibility of his return will remain an open question until the decision is actually made. It’s hard for us to get our arms fully around this idea, because of the way we’d been conditioned during the years prior to his arrival, but Scott Harris is not predictable as Al Avila was. We can’t know what Harris is going to decide months in advance, and he won’t blab about it in any event.

Absolutely hate the nickname and refuse to engage with it, other than to say that if I were to choose one thing I would never want to contemplate about a baseball player, it would be his ass.

He could also be a good sixth starter, or a backup for when regular rotation guys get hurt.

I don't believe that Parker by necessity should make the team, but I do believe that the Parker decision should be disassociated from the Kevin decision, and I think it will be.

I think the goal is to normalize the rhetoric over time until at some point people won't be able to recognize its absurdity anymore.

Wasn't that always the ultimate goal? Also, if the "Democrat" Party is so "highly incompetent", won't it simply collapse from its own ineptitude?

Thank god Grok is a distant sixth in market share and going nowhere fast.

Christians don’t have to justify his behavior because their Christianity is rooted in social restructuring and politics, not spirituality or morality.

I think the Tigers are way more concerned about 2026 than 2031/2032, and that the only calculation at this point is whether McGonigle is better than the alternatives.

Supposing this is the case, the question would be, is it better to have McGonigle start every day at third, McKinstry/Javy platoon at short, and Colt float around DH/3B/even 1B; or Colt still at third, McGonigle/Javy at short, Javy also at CF in case of/in place of Parker, and McKinstry super-sub especially since Wenceel is probably gone?

Au contraire, for 70 million people, his tantrum act is the epitome of strength, mainly because they never learned what true strength looks like. Their emotional growth peaked in middle school.

Democrats should totally dare him to do it.

I think we will know when the money really moves on such and such a date, because it’ll be coming from the inside.