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No matter how many times you say no one died, everyone knows people died. That history revisionism **** don’t play here.

"What a coincidence, gentlemen, we just had five jobs open up in ICE that you'd be perfect for."

I approve. Might as well see what he's got sooner than later.

I guess "best shape of his life" is not just a Tigers thing ... 😏

“I know a guy who knows a guy who knows THE guy.”

We have to ask?

Caring for people without expecting a king's ransom in return is for suckers and losers.

I have to make the decision whether to drive to Texas for the SABR convention versus fly. The decision is coming more into focus ...

Both dirt and threats work well only if they're accompanied by payment and perks. If it were only the dirt or only the threats, they'd have people backed into a corner where they'd have nothing to lose, and people with nothing to lose are loose cannons who are hard to control (outside a bullet to the head, which is usually the last resort). Threaten them, yes, of course, that's a given ... but pay them well, too. Make them complicit. Keep them inside the tent pissing out instead of exiling them outside pissing in. That's how the mob gets their soldiers' hearts and souls as well, instead of just their fear.

Air travel is going to crater. I have flights scheduled for March 7 and 9 to Florida. The flight in is into West Palm, which I'm pretty sure will be the last airport to lose air traffic controllers. The flight back into Chicago, though, is anyone's guess. That might be where MuskTrump goes first.

Only we remember that, because only we care.

I'm pretty sure they want to kill off all the medical research because all the money is in treating the symptoms of the disease versus curing it.

Can you blame them? Who wouldn't want to be referred to as a saint? 😉

Precisely. Trump’s sweet spot among voters is ignorant people who started reading “politics” on Facebook, Insta, and X because they too hate immigrants and the idea of immigration, so now that they’ve read a little bit, they have a little knowledge.

Many still struggle to accept that Musk and Trump are not ignorant and know exactly what they’re doing.

Meaning the Fangraphs rankings are garbage? Fangraphs hates Detroit? Not sure of the direction of the joke.

The trick will be getting any of the top right-handed sluggers to want to spend time in Detroit. I wonder whether there is serious, perhaps spirited, discussion about reconfiguring Comerica to make it friendly to RHH?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGJmNlVSbim

I can’t believe any reasonable person is hip-hip-hooraying this.

Yeah I’ve been wondering that—how would a sovereign country with 10 different state-like provinces and three territories be subsumed as a single state into the United States? That seems like that might be the only way the red hat party would, as electoral politics are currently constructed, get a political benefit in the long term—maybe. A country of 41 million would become the second most populous state in the union, and dividing up the presumably 540 electoral votes (that’s an extra two senators for the 51st state, everything else stays the same), that would be something on the order of 40-ish electoral votes for the state of Canada—all of them likely to go to Democrats for the foreseeable future, especially true after a forcible takeover of their country. It would be even worse for the red hats electorally if each province came in as its own state, at least the ten current provinces. The red hats would be certain to win only Alberta and probably Saskatchewan. They probably wouldn’t even win Quebec, because all the fire-breathing political right wingers they have up there are also social liberals who hate religion, and that doesn’t comport with red hat ideology. The other seven new states would be locks for the Democrats—again, as electoral politics are currently constructed. Which means the only way this could be a political win for red hats is to overturn the Constitution and create a new political order in which free and fair democratic elections no longer figure into the political calculus. And even though I firmly believe Canada becoming the 51st state is merely a canard to keep us all arguing amongst ourselves and stop paying attention to how they are destroying our democracy right now, I think they’re already planning for that eventuality regardless, don’t you?

If the Red Sox want to win, they'll put the Gold Glove winner at third base, bring the kid up to play second, and move the stone glove to DH. If the Red Sox want to mollify their high-priced players, they'll keep Stoneglove at third, play the new guy out of position at second, and keep both the kid in the minors and their fingers crossed. My Red Sox fan buddy is none too happy about all this.

Fangraphs is out with its Top 100 prospects list which predictably differ substantially from Pipeline's. All of a sudden, here comes Troy Melton onto the national prospect scene. FG is projecting a 2025 debut for the kid. he was a fourth round draft pick and the Harris brain trust engineered some changes to his delivery that has raised his stock some. Doesn't look like FG has room for Rainer on their list but he's early yet and there's time.

Giving the diminishing of the twilight, I'm grading Sir Paul on a curve.