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Verlander was better than Flaherty last year. I agree he probably won't do anything this year, but I think you are exaggerating how hopeless he is.

i.e., body count in Vietnam

The US keeps trying to comfort itself over falling behind the rest of the developed world by every measure of quality (and quantity!) of life by clutching to productivity growth numbers, but Krugman has done an interesting series this month blowing up the idea that those numbers mean anything like what we think they do. When you use the wrong yard sticks, measure the wrong things, you tend to get bad outcomes.

I thought they signed Verlander just to give him a parade lap and then the organization would put him on the IL regardless of if he were hurt or not after 3 or 4 starts and bring him back to pitch one last game at the end of the season. It was just as bad as the Alex Cobb signing. Flaherty hasn't been very good but I think Verlander should have hung up his spikes a few years ago. It's kind of like watching Aaron Rodgers try to play QB last season.

Well, i'm just speculating that it will be some deal he cut with MBS or some such foreign despot to import a couple hundred blond girls 12-15 yrs old for indentured servitude which will net the Trump family some cash. Is that too far fetched? I mean he is a Pedo who does things to get paid.

Like theyre gonna increase the slush fund by 1.488b?

Around 4pm we will see something insane they have been holding off releasing for the Friday before a holiday weekend.

Don't bother looking at the Baltimore weather forecast.

People in that top 20 have so little interest in emigrating to the United States for some reason. Slovenia is a surprise actually. Former communist countries tend to still be lower on the list but Czechia, Slovenia good on you. The East German reunification was and remains turbulent but still.

Is Flaherty better than JV? IDK, JV hasnt been healthy. Flaherty isnt very good, if it comes down to him or Montero, who would you rather see? The money Flaherty is making gives him a very long leash but he's horribly inconsistent.

This is a name I’d like, although I doubt Yzerman would do an offer sheet.

Flaherty is still much better than Verlander. As long as the Tigers still think about playoffs, they don't want Verlander anywhere near the mound.

That's one of great things about Harris never making big transactions. You can do a longitudinal analysis! Tigers record from 7/1/24 - 6/30/25: 101-62 Tigers record from 7/1/25 - 5/21/26: 54-73 Mostly the same roster for both periods.You could argue that their roster has been somewhat "better" in the latter period.

For what it’s worth, Sweeney did help us get to the playoffs during pitching chaos ‘24. I don’t understand how you can be one of the best teams for over a half season and turn into one of the worst over the same time period with largely the same roster.

You would think somebody would have done that by now. Whoever did that would be a national hero. They would also put their lives in danger, but you would think somebody would just snap some day.

Lilacs are the best. Favorite smell on earth.

He’s getting the money regardless. Just find a spot on the team where he will hurt us the least.

I wish the Tigers only got two months of Sweeney! It terms of WAR, the Tigers have lost that deal so far. However, that is not the point. The point is fans always think their team can get great prospects at the deadline and they usually just get players the other team doesn't want to keep that badly.