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Amazing we live in a time where this is newsworthy

Jobe might end up being a case of outsmarting themselves. But, for now, we'll just need to be patient with Jobe.

I got the flu shot and booster at the same time. Only issue was leaving Walgreens when all the metal objects started flying off the shelves at me like shrapnel.

I gave zero credit to you when I used this analogy with a coworker earlier today but am giving you the props you deserve here.

I appreciate your honesty and vulnerability on that but you just have to know that you're being judged as hard as this guy gets judged:

No, that was not in the last year. The on-field performance at the MLB level was last year, we can all attribute that to Hinch. But not the organizational changes nor the drafting strategy... Hinch just accelerated the process. You can even say vastly if you want to. But it didn't all happen last year. That's just being disingenuous.

Well, that kinda put a damper on this. Lol

Nothing really stuck (January 6th was the closest), but we should still be alarmed by someone trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power by any means necessary. Luckily by the time Trump was a lame duck, anyone with any competence left was long gone. We might not be so lucky next time if we aren’t careful.

I maintain that tanking is a perceived problem and not an actual one. The idea that all teams can be competitive every year is illogical. Teams, at times, need to rebuild, and to rebuild you need to exchange present assets for future ones. You can't get rid of assets and simultaneously remain competitive, it just doesn't make sense. If you sign a successful free agent, the logical thing to do is flip him for future assets to fulfil the rebuild, thereby reducing competitiveness. You can call that "tanking" but it is a reasonable strategy at times, and nothing that requires any punitive measures.

I bet if we allowed the fight to happen, the butterflies would kick the shit out the gravy seals

yeah - the misinformation and misunderstanding on the mask issue is deep. Cloth masks have *never* stopped virus from passing through them, their major property is to break up your exhalation patterns to reduce the range to which you spread virus around yourself so that other people who are trying to stay a reasonable distance from you have their risk reduced. They protect other people from you - so when worn by all produce and aggregate risk reduction to a population, but still not directly to individuals. OTOH - even with N95s - which can reduce your risk of inhaling someone else's shed virus and can protect you directly, few people who have them wear them properly (i.e. tight!) enough for them to actually do what they are theoretically able to do better than cloth. The fluid mechanics of air flow, particle distribution and filtration are really all outside the expertise of most of the medical establishment - even they have trouble figuring it all out, and good data is very hard to come by because good experimental work is really hard to do or reproduce - you are immediately faced with too many variables to track. The epidemiologists are mostly reduced to waiting for retrospective public studies on mask use, which are also fraught with difficulties. There is a reason that in industrial health science, for all hazardous atmospheres, only true respirators have ever been considered acceptable protection

I wear a mask as additional protection for myself, for sure, but I’m also wearing it in case I am currently a carrier but don’t know that I am, and have dealings with people who are more at risk either because of their age or medical condition. I can’t be the only person thinking like this, can I?

Only 4,905 cases/day in the latest Michigan update. By far the lowest total in some time.

they need to get rid of mask requirements in school altogether. if they want to keep them going for this year to make the unions happy, so be it. but they should be gone next year. no forced quarantines or testing either. if youre sick stay home. if youre not sick, then go to school. lets just hope it keeps mutating down to the point where its nothing to most people (even moreso than now).

A lottery will have no impact on "tanking", because teams aren't doing it for financial reasons, that is a faulty assumption. They are simply taking a longer term strategy to success, that is all, some competently, some not so much. Thinking it's laziness or greed that cause teams to lose on purpose, and some contrived carrot or stick will change behaviour in an already extremely competitive industry is just mind boggling. They are REBUILDING, exchanging present assets for future ones. There's nothing wrong with that! Idealy you maintain an adequate core to be consistently competitive, but the fates are fickle, it doesn't always work that way.

I'm not sure you're clear on what the word "disingenuous" means, because I'm certainly not pretending to not know something I for a fact know. I think the Tigers made very little progress organizationally pre-Hinch. Sure, they got Mize and Torkelson and Greene in successive drafts, but any tanking team drafting that high would have done the exact same. It doesn't take deep savvy analysis to draft the consensus best player. All that takes is not outsmarting yourself with a "bold" pick once you're on the clock. Beyond Torkelson and Greene, the cupboard is pretty bare. Even Dingler, the next guy on the list, had problems developmentally as he crashed to earth in the second half of this past season, and despite his obvious physical talents, I don't think we can count Jobe as a top-tier prospect before he throws even a single professional pitch. To the degree we can credit Avila for wanting to move the organization into Baseball's top tier on analytics and maybe even performance science, I have to ding him as being an incompetent agent of that desire. Yes, he hired Jay Sartori and he announced the birth of "Caesar", but even several years afterward, Avila couldn't make the Luddite manager he himself hired accept any of the inputs that came out of that corner. Avila may have wanted the Tigers become one of Baseball's analytics shooters, and I agree he was on record for a few year giving it lip service at least, but he had no real idea how to make it happen on the ground until AJ Hinch. The way I see it, hiring Hinch the one great thing Avila did that not every other GM would obviously have done, since he was a guy who was seen as somewhat damaged goods coming out of Houston. But I will credit Avila as probably understanding that Hinch was the one hire he could make to supercharge that whole process, since he was steeped in the actual implementation of advanced analytics on the ground. Hinch is only decision-maker in that organization who has had any success doing it, and as far as I know, before AJ, the Tigers didn't make any of these scouting and organizational moves that everybody is universally praising, unless I'm forgetting some developmental or scouting genius Avila himself hired before HInch? We can agree to disagree, because neither of us know more than the other guy about what's going on in that front office. You can believe Hinch was the icing on the already finished cake, and I can maintain that Hinch was the catalyst who blended the raw ingredients into the delicious cake batter we needed to go from there. But I definitely do agree with you that at long last, the Tigers are going in the right direction, and as a Tiger fan first, I couldn't be more thrilled.

It's a place where a sensible conservative like David Frum can write something interesting.

Is that a security person putting his hands on her and giving her shit for exercising her free speech? That should be investigated.

What a horrible message for kids

"No one would care what she thinks". That's pretty funny, coming from Adam Carolla.

fangio isnt going to want to recruit. i want a younger, hungrier guy.

Really funny to see the “conversation” go off the rails after facing pushback from 8-year-olds.

The extortionate pricing may be in part why, during my days as a media client, many of the vendors who invited us to suite games laid out only boiled hot dogs, one-ounce bags of Lays, and Miller Lite. I remember Diamandis (Car and Driver, Road & Track) use to spring for really nice spreads with dogs, brats, sliders, chicken tenders, several brands of beer, even liquor. But no matter what, every suite experience culminates in the dessert cart. Mmmmm …

Her Docs say it's very rare and even than, a severe form of it is rarer yet. My wife is just special like that, lol.

Punishing someone for losing is the antithesis of a draft. Mixing the two concepts is absurd.

My wife won the lottery and everybody else got screwed (but not by me, I'm married).

Five years is a long time and those five years are just as valid as the next five years. If your team sucks for five years you have failed as an organization.

Sharing this because, well, it’s true.

I don't always agree with the saber community. I pride myself in being half saber and half old man who hates the modern game.

looked like good chance he ended up dead, in which case learning would be limited.....

that's how I read it. Until then I can view it as the Truck is also trying to pass someone but not doing it as fast as the car wants but the moment the car can get in front, even if they are being a jerk about it, then the response is to brake, not speed up. That tells me speed is not your concern.

I signed up for Spotify after hearing about this. Decent platform.

I would be more comfortable without the vitriolic personal attacks too, the ones without any content. Leave the low road available for your opponent, don't use it yourself.

But can you understand why, as a moderator, I might be asking you this question… as your post isn’t so much an answer to his post, but more of a personal attack? And doesn’t actually enhance the conversation? Can you recognize that?

Popcorn Sutton, last of the true Moonshiners. Got busted a few years back looking at 10-20 years got put on bail and capped himself.....