If you study the list of mass shooters in the last 75 years, "white male with weapons training" shows up repeatedly.

It got dramatic at the end, but the Tigers are in the playoffs. Now we find out who and where they play. They don't control their own destiny - if Cleveland wins tonight and tomorrow, the Tigers end up with a wildcard spot.

I don't think they do. Home field is great, but I'd rather have Skubal, Flaherty, Mize in Cleveland than Flaherty, Montero, Mize at home.

Kenley Jansen strikes out the side in the ninth and the Tigers are one win away from clinching a playoff spot. If they have clinched a wildcard, do they pitch Skubal on Sunday if the division is still up for grabs?

Remember the most important thing about the finish to the MLB season: Mike Johnson is willing to shut down the government so Adelita Grijalva can't force the Justice Department to release the Epstein Files.

My dad was born in 1933 and the Tigers went to the World Series in 1934. He got married in 1967 and they won the World Series in 1968. He died in 2005 and they went to the World Series in 2006. My dad did not cause Tigers World Series appearances. This is a post about Tylenol and autism.

Torres, Carpenter and Greene in the 7th. This is important.

There's about to be a huge rainbow at Comerica Park. From the press box, it will appear over the scoreboard.

This is a real gullywasher at Comerica Park.

Spencer Torkelson gives the Tigers a rare lead, followed by Riley Greene's 192nd strikeout. He's currently on pace for 202. #KWatch

INTERVIEWER: describe yourself ME: you know that feeling when you press the button in an empty elevator and wait for the doors to close

Charlie Morton just became the fifth MLB pitcher to hit 200 batters and the first born in the 20th century. The last one to do it was Walter Johnson.

Woke up this morning to get ready for the Lions game, like I've done hundreds of times over the last 33 years, and immediately fell over. Five hours later, and I'm still in bed with the world spinning from the worst vertigo attack of my life. This really sucks.

I keep reading about how the right never celebrates shootings and is respectful of the victims. I have about 1,000 Twitter messages from 2018 that prove that 1) MAGA members are horrific to survivors of school shootings and 2) don't realize two people might have the same name.

The world is burning, but Tarik Skubal's tests came back negative, so I might be able to make enough postseason money to pay off my new laptop. It's all a balancing act. (Thanks to all of you who made recommendations. I decided to focus on sturdy over weight this time.)

We'll find out how relevant this is tomorrow: If the Tigers get a bye, their first playoff game will be in 22 days. If not, it will be in 16 days. "The data showed that on average pitchers required 35 days to recover from an oblique injury..." pbats.com/oblique-inju...

I have respect for The Guardian, but they are running hard with someone who is demanding anonymity, claiming Tyler Robinson was "pretty left on everything." "The friend said that he has not spoken to Robinson in years and began to drift apart toward the end of high school."

It isn't a "difference of opinion" if you want to take away human rights from people I love.

We don't know who shot Charlie Kirk. The people claiming Trump had him shot because he called for the Epstein files to be released are no better than the ones claiming a "lib" killed him because of his bigotry. And it didn't have to be a sniper - ask any Michigan deer hunter.

Am I the only one skeptical of "transgender antifascist ideology" engraved on bullets?

In 1939, the A's lost a home doubleheader to the Yankees by the scores of 23-2 and 10-0. In their next home game, they lost 17-7 to Boston. According to @baseball-reference.com, that's the only time a team has lost three straight home games by double digits. The Yankees can join them tomorrow.

Saturday, the xG graph showed DCFC's 4-1 win over Orange County probably had some luck behind it. Tonight, New Mexico United's 4-0 win seems fair, even if they scored one of their goals from their own half.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe." - Charlie Kirk, 2023.

Final score: New Mexico 4, DCFC 0

Tough night for Detroit City FC in New Mexico. Playing without their first-choice forwards, then gave up two goals in the first 20 minutes. They need a big second half.

The man who claimed the Democrats put a fake birth announcement in a Hawaiian paper in 1961 is now claiming they put a forged birthday greeting in a private book in 2003. Trump doesn't even bother coming up with new lies, because he knows magafascists will believe anything.

Political violence is abhorrent, no matter the target. The lack of gun control makes it much more common.

If Bill Clinton raped girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should rot in prison. If Donald Trump raped girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should rot in prison. That wasn’t so difficult, was it?

Real problem on a Sunday where the Lions and Tigers each lost. How long is AJ Lee's music going to be demon looping in my brain?

The Lions have rushed for 100 yards in 25 of their last 27 games and scored a rushing touchdown in 27 of the previous 28. Today, they have 47 yards and no TDs.

Chase Meidroth is hitting .591 with a .690 on-base percentage against the Tigers this season. The only reason he hasn't done even more damage is he's 0-3 on stolen-base attempts.

I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?

Today's schedule: 1:10 - Cover the Tigers game. 4:20 - Watch the Lions game to prepare for covering them tomorrow. 8:00 - Watch the DCFC tape to prepare for writing this week's blog posts. Not a bad Sunday.

Okay, what the FLYING FUCK!? @peterclines.bsky.social, @chuckwendig.bsky.social, @scalzi.com, any chance of you re-skeeting this? It'll get to a LOT more people that way, and I believe it NEEDS to get to a lot more!

For $8K/month, I'd be making a significant impact on elections, and not in the Jill Stein sense.

A preview for tomorrow's game between @detcityfc.com and @sanantoniofc.bsky.social: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We got a package today addressed to "Baby Ashley". Unless this is B's way of making an announcement, Angie and I have no idea what to do with it. Does anyone know anything?

Cis people: This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand. And buy the trans people in your life a drink.

One small snag in my GAR (Goals Above Replacement) calculations for the USL Championship - the stats on the website don't break out players who have been with two teams. The obvious example for DCFC fans is Kobe Hernandez-Foster, who has his full-season stats listed for both DCFC and Birmingham.

Can you imagine the reaction if any other president announced he had raised $1.5 billion when he was ineligible to run again? Either he's planning a 2028 campaign or he's putting this money in his pocket. Neither of those are acceptable.

the way the creation of AI speaks to a desire for a life experience without any resistance, without sharp edges or heavy tasks or pushback or complexity or difficult unresolved arguments... to want that life is natural, but also immature. and achieving it may be very, very bad for us in the end

Travis Kelce has made $111 million in his career, including $17.5 million in 2025. Granted, Taylor Swift made something like $400 million before taxes in 2024, but I still don't think he's marrying her for her money.

New #DCFC reports coming this week: 1) WAR for the USL Championship. Thus far, I have done DCFC. The leader is Michael Bryant at 2.7, followed by Devon Amoo-Mensah at 2.2. 2) Scouting report for San Antonio. 3) Matchup preview for Saturday. 4) Game report on Saturday.

Tarik Skubal is the best pitcher in baseball, but that's one of the worst pitches you'll ever see him throw.

Unfortunately, I only have xG data for the first hour of @detcityfc.com's 2-0 win over Tampa Bay, thanks to the rain delay. They only had a 0.8 - 0.7 advantage, but they turned that into two goals.

Keys to the game for @detcityfc.com tonight: 1) Press Tampa Bay in the offensive third. The Rowdies are very vulnerable to turnovers when they are trying to launch a counterattack. 2) Be patient on offense. City is 0-47 on shots outside the box in the last six games. They can't waste chances.

This is, all of it, another attempt at Prohibition, and like Prohibition, it will be economically devastating, make criminals out of ordinary people, and it will fail to work. Stand up for free speech and mature content!

I don't agree with all of Gavin Newsom's positions. But he thinks slavery was bad. That's a hell of a start.

The difference between a sports journalist and a content creator is the former will tell you your team's strengths and weaknesses. The latter will only tell you about one of them. This post isn't about sports.

My insomnia has gotten so bad that I'm strongly considering sleeping somewhere other than my bed, just to break the pattern.