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Royell Storing:
--- Quote from: John Corbett on April 27, 2026, 09:41:17 PM ---I remember Simmons well and without looking it up I believe he ended up with the Cubs at one time.
Lolich did have a 25 win season in 1971 and followed it up with 22 in 1972. He had several more seasons in the high teens even though he served in the National Guard and did two weeks each year away from the team for much of the 1960s. If Lolich posted the numbers today that he did in the 1960s and 1970s, he would be a borderline Hall of Famer but because he pitched in an era when starting pitchers were expected to pitch a lot more than they do now, he doesn't get the credit for it. 217 career wins would certainly get you considered for Cooperstown these days. In 1971 Lolich pitched 29 complete games. By comparison, there were only 28 pitched in the entire American League last year and only three pitchers threw as many as 2.
I just read a book about the 1968 Tigers and learned a story I had never heard before. As his playing days were winding down, Lolich was looking ahead for ways to earn a living. A Tiger fan asked him if he wanted to go partners in a pizza chain he had started. After considering it, Lolich declined and decided to open his own donut shop in the Detroit area. That donut shop did well and was his main source of income for decades to come. The pizza chain did pretty well too. It was started by Mike Ilitch and was the Little Caesars pizza chain. Mr. I as he was called ended up buying the Tigers and the Detroit Red Wings as well. The Red Wings won a Stanley Cup for him but the Tigers lost both World Series they got into under Mr. I.
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The Tiger team aside, the flavor of a "Little Caesars" pizza is only superior to the box it comes in. Going way back to when Johnny Carson was the only late night programming on TV, "Little Caesars" was the only large pizza chain in So Cal making/delivering pizzas. And they dominated buying TV add time during the Carson Show. Very business smart, but the product being produced was horrible. These "entrepreneur's" that were pioneers of the "Franchise" concept made out like bandits. The quality of the product they offered really didn't matter.
John Corbett:
--- Quote from: Royell Storing on April 27, 2026, 10:15:56 PM --- The Tiger team aside, the flavor of a "Little Caesars" pizza is only superior to the box it comes in. Going way back to when Johnny Carson was the only late night programming on TV, "Little Caesars" was the only large pizza chain in So Cal making/delivering pizzas. And they dominated buying TV add time during the Carson Show. Very business smart, but the product being produced was horrible. These "entrepreneur's" that were pioneers of the "Franchise" concept made out like bandits. The quality of the product they offered really didn't matter.
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I don't think I've ever had a Little Caesar's pizza so I can't comment. I've just never lived near one. Domino's used to have the same well deserved reputation for bad pizza but they completely changed their recipe and now they have some of the best pizza of all the chains. Dominos had been founded by Tom Monaghan, who also owned the Tigers. He bought the club in 1983 and sold it to his pizza competitor Mr. I in 1992.
John Corbett:
I do have one question about the recent attempted assassination of President Trump. How old are the security cameras at the Washington Hilton. I haven't seen resolution that bad since the 1980s. Modern cameras aren't that expensive. I think they could afford an upgrade.
Joe Elliott:
President Trump has played an estimated 261 rounds of golf while President. About 50 times a year.
Why is it necessary to build a Golden Ballroom, that dwarfs the White House, so he can be safe, what 4 times a year? 8 times a year? While attending a ball.
While Trump continues, 50 times a year, going around a golf course?
Protection at a Washington Hotel is a piece of cake compared to protection at a golf course. At a hotel, metal protectors can be set up. There can be several layers of protections set up. The President is not constantly moving out in the open where protection has to be constantly moving with him.
The only reason a gunman did not get off a rifle shot at Trump in the summer of 2024 was because the gunman left his rifle laying against a fence in full view. Without that, the protection was not several layers of protection, but one Secret Service Agent travelling ahead of the President and alertly spotting the rifle. Minimum precautions would have foiled the efforts of a dozen Secret Service agents.
Benjamin Cole:
Finally, we agree on something. It looked like a 1970s-era washed out made-for-TV movie, now on YouTube, except worse.
You can't even call that a security camera, as who could be ID'ed in that blur.
Web-cams are literally a few bucks to install now.
Over at (dis)Education Forum, they are calling Trump a "stochastic terrorist" who incites violence.
Get it? Trump is responsible....
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