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Did they call tonight's game yet? This whole weekend may be a wash out.

G We are going down with the ship.

Agreed. But with the track record of the trades Harris never makes, we're better off thinking about who we'll take with the draft picks. I hope we at least sign Mivze, if his price isn't too high. Skubal and Boras are determined to get every penny they can get.

Fryman for Gabe Alvarez, Joe Randa and Matt Drews. That trade was an inappropriate joke.

I get the feeling that Harris might have 1 but not 2. I can tell you that the second one is definitely not a strength of mine!

It goes both ways. If you have a highly rated prospect but you know he does not fit or has critical flaw then move him for established talent. But it has to be done quickly before that flaw is exposed. Not easy but necessary.

Do what the Brewers do. Problem is you have to recognize talent that is not hyped and then trade for it and draft it. It really is two simple but hard abilities a successful GM or PBO must have : 1. ) An exceptional judge of talent and : 2.) Can you make decisive decisions quickly .He who manages change best wins the most.

And we didn't see the list of all the prospects who didn't work out. Like you said earlier, many (most?) prospects never work out.

Long before Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders came onto the scene, there were options to stop Donald Trump or a guy like him from taking control of the White House. The best way to have avoided Trump would have been to reelect Jimmy Carter in 1980. We likely don't get Trump if we didn't have the failed presidency of Reagan and the era of deregulation and union-busting that came about as a result. The next best way to have not gotten Trump was to elect Walter Mondale and stop/reverse much of what Reagan did. After that, it would have been to have had a progressive President like Jesse Jackson to reverse what Reagan did and bring back the New Deal era of the Democratic Party, minus the segregation and discrimination of course. After that, the next best time to have stopped Trump would have been to nominate someone like Paul Tsongas as the Democratic nominee for President in 1992 instead of the Diet Cola Republican that was Bill Clinton. We got Trump as President not because of any one person, though Reagan and Clinton aided in him becoming President. We got Trump largely because of bad economic policies built around failed economic theory. Trickledown Economics and an era of deregulation gave us Trump. Not supporting the material conditions of working and retired Americans gave us Trump. This failed economic theory of putting the wealthy on top and assuming wealth would trickle down the pyramid was deeply flawed and always doomed to fail. It gave us an exploding wealth gap and stagnant wages. They gave us an economy where people's economic means were not keeping up with their cost of living. We got Trump because bad trade deals like NAFTA/CATFA/PNTR with China, guided by failed economic theory, crippled blue collar jobs and hollowed us industrial states. We got Trump because economic theory and big business told us that it is better to have employer-based, market-priced health insurance that leaves many uninsured, many more underinsured, and millions bankrupt due to costs they incurred after getting sick. We didn't get a demagogue like Trump after FDR. Even though FDR had to deal with the worst economic crisis in our countries history, he and the Democrats gained strength through his Presidency. We got 4 terms of FDR because he was so beloved by Americans. And he was so beloved because he helped improved the economic well being of the average American and guided us through a World War, nearly to victory before dying. They buffered the economy with regulations like Glass-Stegall and prevented economic shocks like the Great Depression from routinely occurring. They improved the lot of the ordinary (white) American with Social Security, the Public Works Administration, federal jobs programs, National Industrial Recovery Act, Electric Home and Farm Authority, and more. These programs provided financial security and jobs for people so thy wouldn't fall into despair and become susceptible to demagogues like Trump. And they paid for it all and created financial stability with progressive income taxation on the wealthy and big business. We can complain about who should have run when to stop Trump. While that has some relevancy, the real debate should be centered around policy. Bad policies, built around a failed economic theory of Trickledown Economics, being implemented are what lead to the material conditions of working and middle class Americans getting worse. The Presidents and Congresses who pushed them are certainly to blame.

Its bad here in Northern VA and i wouldn't pay to do anything outdoors in this crap.

1st round picks for both Skubal and Mize? End of the 1st round? That"s kinda tempting...

So, I called YouTube TV about them adding WYMD-20 In Detroit. It doesn't sound like they will be. Does anyone know a streaming option? Does Xfinity or DirecTV carry it? I have 3 TVs and no antenna to get OTA.

Obama seems like a great guy, is a good campaigner and better orator, but his judgement as a political operative, party manager/leader was never in the same league with this other skills.

pranshanth on the wwp: cossa's not ready to be an nhl goalie. fundamentals fall apart at the end of every season.

I would say that by the std of what a hopeless role it is, Biden and Gore both had pretty successful vice-presidencies - Biden didn't run, Gore lost his White House bid. GHWB did win a Presidency from the VP but he had a really long resume prior, was well known pre-VP -- maybe even better than Biden was. You can blame the press for some of Harris' problem - no doubt the MSM had their head up their butts through most of the Biden presidency, but whose fault it was is pretty much beside the point, it justs add to the premise that from 2020 t0 2024 Harris was not able to do much to build/burnish a public profile sufficient to help put her on a path to a win.

If anything, less crazy but more in line with the white christian nationalist thinking. Along with a big contribution.

If it's that, I sure hope it's another team giving it to him or at worst case, we matched an offer sheet. Like you have said, It seems completely silly to negotiate against yourself. Offer 5/100-125 and tell him to go test the market. If he comes back with an offer for 5/150 i'd likely match it, but if it's 5/180 or higher, I'd have a hard time doing it.

Only if the value of those prospects is higher than the value they place on 1st round picks, which is what they would get for them if they didn't resign.

How many were acquired for two month rentals?

It depends on whether the players they receive in a trade have a better chance to make it than the one high pick they get when they leave. If Harris thinks the answer is yes and the Tigers are out of it at the deadline, then of course he should make a trade.

Sounds like they didn't even have a chance to give him a meaningful death at the end of season 2. He'll end up being killed off screen between seasons or something.

Pretty bad but not feeling this is the thing I mean, stroke a check and avoid having to testify. That's fun.

He says 5/$180 for Duren.

Great article. I never realized this many prospects worked out. It makes me realize just how bad Al Avila's scouts were when he traded away all of the expensive Tiger players.