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I don't want Tarik Skubal tearing anything lol

This started off about Herschel Walker having a son he didn't acknowledge and became what about Joe Biden who didn't put out a stocking for a grandchild he may or may not have. You seriously going to go there?

tiger bats will keep things cool

They've had plenty of embarrassing results this year, but getting your ass kicked and needing to use three position players takes the cake. Whatever it's about, it's probably about time

So, do they let Miggy pitch the 8th?

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On a similar note I just came across this tidbit.

My wife the lawyer says: "If your mother says Lauren Boebert is a ho, better check it out before you believe anything that cray"

RIP Philip Baker Hall, great character actor. Memorable rolls

What has Hinch done outside of Houston, who continues to be a contender without him, that would make teams fall over themselves to hire him?

On top of this in the 3 biggest trades they've made in the past decade in terms of getting back potentially a top 50 prospect that could be an impact bat they instead chose or atleast settled on a pitcher the centerpiece instead. I'm talking about Norris in the Price trade, Fulmer in the Cespedes trade and Franklin Perez in the JV trade.

OTOH, he certainly does score high enough that the Tigers should not be where they are. IIRC the Tigers ponied up the 3rd most off-season money in the majors, they've hired a top line manager, they've spent freely on equipment and technology through their system. I haven't got a clue what's in the water in the Tiger clubhouse that's turned all the bats to noodles, but it's not for lack of an owner willing to provide at least reasonable resourcing. That's a much easier argument to make than to support objectively. I'd certainly entertain arguments about whether or not it's sufficient to win a WS, but not that it's not sufficient to put a respectable team on the field. I don't find arguments attempting to draw inferences between the Sports teams and City of Detroit development persuasive. Hard to imagine two more different worlds. I don't have any particular affinity for Chris Ilitch but when a team under-performs the projections made by every unbiased statistical forecasting service, laying that at the owner's door seems illogical.

i'm scared larussa will die and hinch will get the sox job. lol, what am i saying? reinsdorf would still prop up tony and make him manager, weekend at bernie's style.

Still waiting for you to backtrack gracelessly on this one, chump.

Take a walk around the District Detroit at night and whistle, you'll hear your whistle echo off the buildings and the parking structures because there is nobody else there to absorb the sound. I love that they guy won't give in on selling the house. Good for him. To hell with Chris. I miss Dad.

Reading all of this analytical/what should the team do stuff from you guys is nice...but you're all forgetting the owner of the team may very well be functionally brain dead. This is the same guy that STILL hasnt fullfilled his big promises about District Detroit. Chris Illitch may very well either be a grifter, or a lucky idiot who was borm on homeplate. None of these things you guys are pondering will happen....Chris is an out of touch, clueless, barnacle on the balls of Detroit and the sports teams he owns, and barnacles dont go away, or dont actually think.

How's the District Detroit coming along?

Exactly:

There is one undeniably great thing going on right now........................This board lets us fucking swear. If ever there was a year to need that..................

This should be close to a league average offense (maybe a little less) instead of the worst offense in 80 years. I don't know whether that has anything to with him, but if Ausmus or Gardenhire were the manager, they'd be getting blamed for it.

good point, though a stance doesn't matter that much IF you get out of it early enough in the cycle. I think as big an issue is to get your head to it's stable point quickly. If your eyes are still moving once you are trying to track the pitch you are toast. Just as comparison, I used to think this was Alex Avila's big Achilles heel, but for him it was because he started too upright and his head was still always moving down while he was already in his swing. But in general, it seems logical you want to start with your eyes as close to the path of the ball as possible and execute your swing with as little translation of your head as possible, what movement there is needs to happen early in the load so your eyes can be set during your swing.

It’s this bad: I would rather watch your grandson’s little league team and i don’t know you or what town you live in.

Think about it............ The team who might win their 3rd straight Stanley Cup was largely built by Steve Yzerman. Makes you feel good. There's hope. It's taking longer than we'd like but you see the potential there. I trust Yzerman. He gets five more years before I start wondering. The Pistons were in quicksand for years and Troy Weaver has come in and made a bunch of moves and most of them are working, he's got the skeleton of a good team and he's got the budding superstar. A good draft pick and a above average free agent gets them into the playoff chase. I think he's done wonders very quickly, even thought it isn't showing in the record (part of that was by design) The Lions seem to have hired a sensible GM that doesn't say a bunch of stupid shit and doesn't act holier than thou. So far I think Brad Holmes has had 2 pretty good drafts, but we won't know. The coach? A bit of a buffoon, but far better than the arrogant ass we had before. The players LOVE the guy and they'll fight like hell for him. There's hope, not this year, but even national pundits are talking about the Lions. And then there's Al.

carlos correa: 307/376/460 javy baez: 188/232/288 just in case anyone wants to argue again that we got the better deal with javy...

i thought he should have been fired after the jd martinez trade.

I hope you looked at the post I made last night during an angry outburst. You saw what 20 years of drafting has brought, as far as position players. You couldn't even put a full respectable lineup for 20 years of drafting. I'm not giving up on Spence, I'm not giving up on Greene, but this idea that Colt Keith or Ryan Kreidler or Roberto Campos will come to the rescue is ridiculous. Right now our development guys are busy screwing them up somehow, probably tweaking the things that are working to the point where they don't work anymore. I don't know, I just know every single person involved in scouting, drafting and developing players needs to be fired at the end of the season. I shudder at the thought of them having their hands on another draft but you can't really cut everyone loose in mid-season. I know it won't happen. I know Chris doesn't care, so here we are 1988-2005 all over again, and with that as the standard of suck, we're only in 1996. Gonna be a great fuckin' decade.

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Can we skip ahead to the part where Dan and Jim go against corporate?

You can't say GD on the air....

Clean house? F*ck it, turn Comerica into a parking lot.

Have you heard some of the crap he has said? I'm not saying this isn't bad, but it's lower on the list of reasons why I don't want him in DC.

Seems to me, this overall is low on the scale of reasons why he would be a bad choice.

The Yankees series was my last straw in having any hope for a turnaround. This dumpster fire of a franchise is the new Lions and Chris Illitch is the new William Clay Ford.

I have literally given up on this franchise as long as Illitch and Avila are a part of the picture. I believe, and have for quite some time, that Avila isn’t a MLB GM. Illitch doesn’t give a crap about this team. I still believe Avila has Chris believing that the sun will rise any day now so he rolls along unconcerned. It’s. All. Bad.

Is this another ‘What About’ venture? This started out with a specific article about a specific topic. That didn’t last long. Any comment on the Biden piece? Have you read either link posted, including the CNN link?

I did a search for this and it was all tabloid/Murdoch/daily caller/Washington examiner sources, fwiw.

Hunter had a child with a stripper and denied the baby she had was his. A paternity test proved otherwise. Joe Biden has made references to his grandchildren and consistently the count is one less than he really has. Last year they had stockings up for all but that same granddaughter as well at the White House.

Iin college sports? Not likely again in our lifetimes. College sports is on a firm track along the road to perdition.

A corpse doesn't move.

You might want to sit down. You are going to be waiting a while.

Knowing that most of that scene was improvised makes it even better. You can see Jerry trying to keep from breaking character.

Just wait 'til it warms up.

Yeah we don't need a scout to tell us whether Kerry Carpenter is actually somebody to get legit excited about, the fact that he hasn't got injured yet is all the confirmation I need to realize that he probably is destined to just be an organizational guy, if he was destined for more he'd already be hurt by now.

andrew vaughn was really bad last year. this year he's pretty good! i expect a similar trajectory from tork.

sure, but after 5 years of drafting we had a couple guys in the top 10 prospect lists! rebuild. over.

What are the odds Smyly gives up four runs if he pitches the inning? Just stupid to have a bunch of guys come in to pitch with a four run lead. Just have Smyly pitch the inning and you'll get to the 9th with the lead.

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