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This was five or six months into PT for my first ACL repair, so Athletico was a current t-shirt at the time. Long ago donated by now.

And MAGA weaponized DEI for their purposes to mean something else. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive concepts.

I guess there’s some chance that Trump knows that. 😏

I love love love this kid. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/03/08/detroit-tigers-score-game-recap-toronto-blue-jays-jackson-jobe/82054509007/ After Saturday's start, Jobe explained why he approached the Guerrero matchup with three consecutive fastballs. "I'm done with trying to dot a gnat's ass," Jobe said. "Just, here's my stuff. If you hit it, good. Odds are, probably not."

We won’t have a regular season thread for almost three weeks, so I’m posting this here: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/03/09/detroit-tigers-red-wings-to-air-15-games-on-local-tv-in-2025-full-schedule/82065628007/ Ten Tigers games running on channel 2.1, which is full circle for me, since when I first became a fan in 1969, the Tigers aired on channel 2, called by George Kell and Larry Osterman. It does make some business sense to move games to, or at least simulcast some games on, broadcast TV as well. If they place the local team behind a paywall such that no one can ever see them unless they pony up the bucks upfront, then how can they spur interest and create new fans for the game? Except through the gambling, of course, which has been Baseball’s growth strategy for a few years now, and the new people that brings in aren’t really fans of the game. The White Sox will have all their games on broadcast TV here in Big Shoulders, too. Their new Chicago Sports Channel home simulcasts completely on channel 62.2, mainly because they don’t have clearance on Comcast as of yet. Make fun on the White Sox all you like—and we do like—but that won’t hurt their visibility. I wish the Cubs would follow suit with a few games back on GN, too. I would bet most teams will in the next few years.

Not surprising. We all knew this one was coming.

Hope you’re right. Hope it’s not something that will make us wish it was about the economy instead.

DEI is something more, maybe even something other, to Trump and the red hats than just specific examples of race-based employment directives. “DEI” is basically a way for them to drop n-bombs without being forced to explain themselves afterwards.

Race is an attribute of class.

Holy ****, what the **** does this guy have planned for America in September? I’ll take the over on 50/50 that it has nothing to do with the economy.

I don’t think I learned that until I was four.

It reminded me of seeing Dodgers-Diamondbacks at Sydney Cricket ground in 2014. This is a picture of us at our seats. You can see the post behind us obstructing the plate.

No, but I do think the Canadian words were sung louder than the American words, at least by the crowd.

Thank you. Exactly what I mean.

The Trump people were the ones who lit the fire on DEI, and then bull****ted the rest of us into believing the fire was already burning when they got there.

Or not … 😁

Holy ****, that strikeout of Vlad was impressive!

Solid first by the kid.

Max mowing down the side in the first. He’s not gonna let these scrubinis hit him.

I believe we have a Max sighting.

I like you as a person, Lee, I think you know this. All respect due to you and your substantial intellect, please keep that in mind here. You said essentially that Democrats lost the election because they constantly tell people that they are racist or misigonyst because they don't agree with every liberal idea about race and gender. And then, you acknowledged that the Democratic candidates themselves did not say this. That leaves only two options that I know of: (1) you believe it is actually the far left leftists whose statements along these lines cost the Democrats the election; or (2) you didn’t actually mean anything like this when you posted it. I’m not sure whether there is a third option, so maybe you can help me with that if there is. Unless what you’re really saying is that you are here only to vent, and as such you don’t make serious comments on the political forum, so we should not take what you say seriously and should not respond to it as such, which, I think you understand that’s not how this forum works. Sorry to be such a bulldog on this point—I’m kind of an Asperger‘s guy, so I’m hard-wired to be like that—but I’m generally very focused on trying to understand what people mean and trying to make sense of it. That’s where I’m actually coming from, not from a position of trying to hammer you and trip you up, although I acknowledge that they can look like the same thing a lot of times.

That works only if it’s a seller’s market.

Someone’s all in on Vegas.