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meh. He paid his debt.

Straight men commit violent crimes all the time. Dog bites man.

It’s true, although I don’t think that happens so often to a team coming off two straight playoffs after a long drought and is universally regarded as a team on the way up with bright prospects even for the coming season.

In a numbers game, you will always have a number of failures. I think this is too low a bar to then declare him de facto incompetent and no longer deserving of the job. My bar is he sits on his hands when we have nothing left in the cupboard, or otherwise moves chairs around the decks, and we lose 80-something or more games. That’s when I will consider calling for his head then.

I am hoping the Tigers go with MLB and we get to have one year of no on-screen prop betting odds before ESPN brings them all back for whenever the next season is.

I wonder what Kendrick Lamar thought of it. 😏

On the local “news talk” radio station just now, the bomb thrower on the mic referred to today as “Ashley Babbitt Day”, the anniversary of “her murder” by a “democrat police officer” named “Michael Peters”. Charming.

From the Department of No S***, Sherlock. Here's a bit of detail: In the 1950s, justices appointed by both parties sided with wealthy interests about 45% of the time. By 2022, Republican appointees voted for the wealthier party 70% of the time. Democratic appointees? 35%. .... The researchers argue this isn't about isolated cases or shifting legal doctrine. They say it's more a systemic matter, meaning a pattern that plays out fairly predictably across disputes that involve workers versus management, consumers versus corporations, and regulators versus industry. The study arrives as public trust in the court hits multidecade lows and scrutiny intensifies over decisions that have weakened unions, expanded the role of money in politics, and narrowed or limited federal regulatory power. Supporters say the research confirms what many have long suspected — that the legal system favors those with greater economic power, or “big guys” over “little guys,” colloquially speaking. Critics, for their part, counter that defining "rich" versus "poor" involves making subjective judgments, and the data may merely reflect a more consistently conservative court rather than an explicit pro-wealth bias. For corporations and large businesses, the benefits are straightforward. In a scenario in which a majority-conservative court can be reliably expected to side with wealthy interests—that is, the current scenario, which will only be changed by justices’ deaths or retirements — legal costs can be modeled more reliably, and outcomes predicted with greater confidence. ....

I'll take +25% over +17% every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

We shall see whether we have enough quality in-house, coupled with developmental acuity, to keep us in the top half of offenses in the league. By way of reminder, here's how our hitters did last season: Name PA wRC+ Riley Greene 655 121 Spencer Torkelson 649 118 Gleyber Torres 628 113 Zach McKinstry 511 114 Dillon Dingler 469 109 Colt Keith 468 109 Kerry Carpenter 464 115 Javier Báez 437 86 Wenceel Pérez 383 103 Trey Sweeney 326 53 Parker Meadows 213 75 Andy Ibáñez 193 84 Jahmai Jones 150 159 Jake Rogers 142 70 Justyn-Henry Malloy 127 92 Matt Vierling 100 76 Jace Jung 55 9 Ryan Kreidler 44 -12 Tomás Nido 37 101 Manuel Margot 20 67 Akil Baddoo 18 -8 Brewer Hicklen 4 307 TEAM TOTALS 6093 103

American dream, baby.

Yes, I do.

There's something to be said for the volume strategy. Theoretically speaking, it feels as though if you spend $10MM on ten guys, you have better odds of getting something good out of one or a few of them than if you take a chance on one single reliever for the same $10MM. Devil's always in the details, of course, but if you have a good development system, the volume strategy could be an effective arrow in the quiver over time.

It’s difficult these days to imagine how any treatment of the song other than a martial rendition was considered borderline treason by some, and beyond borderline by others. Thank you, Jose Feliciano and Jimi Hendrix.

I like seeing the records included in the thread title. I vote for the records.

Official partner NBC has Pistons at the top of the power rankings, although these are always a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately poll. OKC has still been very good during an unlucky stretch. I can’t wait until they meet up in Feb and March. Injuries at the time notwithstanding, that’s when we find out how we really stack up.

Nancy Pelosi is only +25% more wealthy now than a year ago? lol indeed … 😁

Some of us are going to be escorted off the ride sooner than later, whether we want it or not. 😏

Maybe this would be more effective if it were page one in Appleton and La Crosse and Eau Claire and Green Bay.

I think Benetti’s gonna be gone within a couple of years. Maybe we’ll get Shep back … 🦆🦆🦆

I think it's more than just that this time. I think it is about the oil after all.

Green energy companies and executives don't shower Trump with money and praise. Oil companies and executives do.

Either that or Californians are notorious in Indiana for being lawless scofflaws.

Red hats explicitly want theocracy, and they see Trump is their holy man.

NY Times haters, avert your eyes ... Legacy newspapers took strikingly divergent positions on the Trump administration's operation in Venezuela: