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Ouch! And to think it's a contract season. He is costing himself a lot of dinero

Detroit is coming into next season looking to prove something too. they came into last season with an entitlement mentality. They were coasting on their reputation and came into week one and got embarrassed. Dan Campbell remembers that. Penei Sewell remembers that. Gibbs and Goff and ASB remember that. They are going to come out in week one this year and try to establish their identity as bullies in the run game and precise in the passing game. They want to announce to the league that they are back.

Not to be too "both sides" but there is also a Dem lady in Texas who has gone missing from Congress. She's on the far side of her sell-by date so its probably illness related as well. Congressional staffs are gonna do that thing aren't they?

I'm still holding out hope....but why do they have Taps on loop on every elevator here?

And Tork doesn't hit enough to justify his abymsal defense. Baez is an athlete and he can cover either SS or CF at an adequate level. That allow Kevin McG to play 3rd(another black hole).

The cavs have two guys who are foul-getting machines: harden and mitchell. those guys get respect and consequently get foul calls. a majority of which they do not deserve (how many times can harden be allowed to run right into someone, throw back his head in a ridiculous fashion, and then get a call? or kick out his feet on a jumper and get a call?). the pistons have one superstar and one wanna be. cade can get calls but doesnt sell it like harden/mitchell and consequently doesnt get as many BS calls as they do. he also eschews contact at the basket sometimes (that said, he should be getting MORE calls for sure). duren is supposed to be superstar #2 but as weve all pointed out, he isnt that and has been useless and gets no respect from officials. the pistons are also very physical on defense. sometimes too much so. the league isnt cheating for cleveland, its cheating for mitchell/harden. like it always has for superstars. which - again - is another reason why the pistons need another star next to cade. duren is not that player.

Exactly. I said in the other thread, but the Pistons are being forced to play on "Hard Mode" and spot Cleveland 15pts every game. It's kind of obvious and ridiculous and someone should be pressing the league about the disparity rather than just debating the one missed foul call on Ausar.

Thirteen Days is a great movie, pretty accurate, but nearly ruined by Kevin Costner trying to do a Boston accent.. then he kind of gave up at some point

What exactly have they achieved in Epic Fury that they didn't already claim to achieve last summer?

Nice to have an adult in charge

That’s a nice neighborhood. I’m in Pingree Park which borders Indian Village.

I have long thought that range is one of the most underated things in baseball. Range is to run prevention what getting on base is to run scoring.

My dad's work building (back in the day)

Thanks for this. Cool story and I will never get tired of seeing that clip of Fidrych's curtain call. Totally amazing...he took baseball by storm.

That pedestrian bridge over 75 - there was a building on the other side of it. It was called Superior Color - a printing company and my dad worked there. During Summer Vacation from school, when the Tigers had a day game, he'd come home for lunch, pick up me and my friends and go back to his job and give us a $20 and we'd go to the game. The game would usually let out about the time he was done with his work day and he'd be waiting for us to drive us home. His company printed the gameday programs and would just drop them off. The ushers at that gate knew my dad, so if one of them recognized me, he'd just let me and my friends in the game for free. Even when we did buy the bleacher tickets - with the tickets, the hot dogs, peanuts and soda - for 3 of us - we'd have change for my dad. They also used to print some of the yearbooks. During the winter, when I was sick with pneumonia and missing 2 weeks of school, he came home with the 1977 year book (before it was published) and he hands me the yearbook with a roll of postage stamps and a stack of envelopes and he told me the addresses for every team are in the back of the yearbook and I should write a letter to each team asking for a pocket schedule. He knew I needed something to do while I was sick. Most of the teams sent stuff back. I would say all but 3 or 4 teams. The Mets sent a huge enevelope stuffed with schedules, stickers, special baseball cards, refridgerator magnets - so I really liked the Mets after that. (Plus I liked the orange and blue uniforms).

And just like that, it disappeared

Looking at defensive stats in Fangraphs: The 2024 Tigers were a legitimately elite defensive team. Last year we were by most measures barely above average. In 2026 we're on pace to be one of the worst defensive teams in the league. The projected OAA of -87 would be historically bad. Even accounting for small-sample noise at six weeks in, the direction is unmistakable. This is more of a range problem, than an error problem. The fielding percentage has dropped some (.986 → .986 → .983), and errors are on pace for a normal season (~99), so we're not making dramatically more mistakes on batted balls we get to. We're simply not getting to as many batted balls. Team zone rating (RZR) for 2026 is .795, down significantly from last year (.815) and 2024 (.804). Where the collapse is coming from: Tork is the single biggest culprit, -4.7 Def, -3 OAA, -7 DRS in 358 innings. First base is supposed to be a defensive non-event, but Tork continues to actively cost us runs there. Wenceel in RF has flipped from a plus defender (+2.7 Def in 2025) to a significant negative (-4.6 Def, -4 OAA) in 2026 Riley in LF has been a consistent negative (-3.9 Def, -2 OAA) and his numbers have been poor for two years now, so this isn't new. But it does factor in. Kevin at SS and 3B is a combined -2.0 in Def across 355 innings. He's a rookie finding his defensive footing, and the metrics reflect it, although we all know he won't long-term at shortstop anyway. Carpenter in RF has been poor in limited time (-3.5 Def, -3 OAA in 150 innings). Hao-Yu Lee at 2B and 3B is a combined -2.3 Def, also a young player. There are some bright spots: Dingler behind the plate continues to be excellent (+5.9 Def, +6 DRS, +5 FRV in 272 innings), on pace for another elite defensive season. Gleyber Torres had been a genuine surprise at 2B (+0.9 Def, +2 OAA, +2 FRV) before going out, and was better than expected from a player not known for his glove. Matt Vierling in CF (+1.2 Def, +2 OAA) and Parker Meadows in CF (+1.0 Def, +1 OAA) have been fine in their center field work. The story is that our defensive identity was built around our infield athleticism and outfield range, and both have deteriorated, partly through personnel changes, partly through young players who haven't found their footing yet, and partly through positional mismatches. The 2024 team was exceptional—this one is looking like a genuine defensive liability, which matters a lot for a pitching staff that relies heavily on ground balls.

They should have won games 3 and 5. We should be talking about the Knicks today.

Agree with this, and I believe there must be some Murphy's law corollary somewhere stipulating that the greater success a front office achieves, the less the team needs to recede in order for them to get fired. After a string of championships and finals, a GM will get ****-canned for his team crapping out in the early rounds twice in a row.

Six Genders and a Vegan ???? Could our resident Trump apologist please list what exactly those six genders are. (No what aboutisms or stupid memes aloud)

His goal is not to contain China, but to make sure he gets his when they carve up the entire world three ways.

No, a lot of them aren't, but the ones that are viewed as geniuses by fans tend to fall out of favor over time. There are very few that are universally admired throughout their whole career.

Well, not all of them ... 😉