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As bad as this is, can you just imagine how bad it would be if the rebuild wasn’t complete 🙄

If there arent any sort of real changes made after the all star break, please dont go to any more games or give this team your time and money, a message needs to be sent from the fandbase.

Honestly some heads need to roll...dont care who at this point, Al, Hinch, half the players, etc...this is beyond absolute bullshit.

At least not this time.

Today was a good day for a long hike in the remote wilderness of New Hampshire.

The AFT just passed a resolution supporting reproductive rights including access to abortion. That's not surprising given the general left lean of a labor union. What was surprising is that it was unanimous as we are not without our Fundamentalists. Perhaps some of the poignant, personal stories from fellow delegates caused them to change their minds or at least sit on their hands.

Lebron is playing at the Drew League today. I wonder if Stanley Johnson is in Lebrons head.

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The air power thing is a real problem. F-16s and Western aircraft in general are something of a challenge. 1. Ukraine airfields are austere like all soviet era airfields. They are used to ignoring runway maintenance. FOD (Foreign Object Debris) is cleared out of the way so the ultra complex GE and Rolls Royce engines on Western fighters can operate without having stones and birds and deer sucked into the engines. So, the Ukrainian airforce wants F-18s which apparently were modified in 2009 to have improved resistance to FOD and 2. The F-18 has two engines which give the airframe better survivability. That was one of the primary considerations of the Canadians when they chose the F-18 back in the day. Long distances and arctic conditions meant they wanted their pilots to have a second motor to row the boat home in the event of in-flight emergencies. I worked in an F-16 unit at Selfridge back in the day. That plane had a very perilous situation when the engine went out. They had a back up power unit control the electric controls so it could at least control its flight surfaces. When that backup power unit was engaged it triggered an automatic checklist with the EPA because the weird substance used was highly toxic. F-16: wonderful dogfighting aircraft, not as expensive as bigger models, but i'd rather have two engines.

But every time I see there has been a new post in this thread, I rush to see whether it’s announcing a Klingberg signing.

I’ve been traveling recently and following mostly on game day. I’m finding it provides welcome emotional detachment from watching this slow motion train wreck on live video.

I expected this. The "line" you mentioned is the Dnieper River. Those would be the Russian ammo dumps and command centers that are exploding. The HIMARS we gave them are working.

Hold on now, I thought Hinch was pulling the strings last season. What happened?

I got a glimpse of some maps the last few days that are the sort of digital in-the-weeds stuff they compile from all the various inputs. Most glaring things. Russia cant' stage anything within 80km of the FLOT (forward line of own troops) without it getting creamed. Ukraine has regained a lot of territory in the extreme west of the line (Kherson area). On one day last week, the number of "explosion" OPIRs (I actually don't know actual translation but close prox is Operational intel reports) was off the chain just inside the Russian lines. I don't know if any Ukrainian offensive will happen but it sure seems like the Russians are straining under all the new heat they face.

The more the lack of communication continues, the more it puts the whole marital issues story in doubt. And even if the issue turns out to be marital problems, going dark on the team and ignoring attempts to check in with him for a month or more has to be considered inexcusable. Regardless that the Tigers are not paying him during this time, Rodriguez still has a professional, contractual obligation to the Tigers that he can’t just unilaterally cast aside at his choosing. Imagine having marital issues that you temporarily had to leave your job to handle, your employer checks in with you after two, three, four weeks, whatever it is, and you complete ignore them. Would you expect your employer to respectfully back off and still hold your job for you, no matter how long it took? Regardless of the situation Rodriguez is in, In the end, the Tigers have a business to run that affects thousands of other employees, as well as answers to a constituency encompassing an entire state. The team can’t simply put their plans in a holding pattern, held hostage to the whim of a single man who abandoned them suddenly and has gone into radio silence. I respect the idea that family is the most important consideration in the world, and that here in the 21st Century employers are expected to give employees some room to manage major family problems. There’s a reasonable limit to that room, though.

I really don't want to hear (I have actively avoided) any whining, crying, bitching, or anything of the sort... I want DFA's and house-clearing trades. No trade available for a guy? DFA. I can make a list if the Tigers FO needs one.

Just go home early to the Houston brother...you don't want to deal with this nonsense:

… because there wasn’t anything wrong with it. It was kind of obvious what the gesture WAS all about, which is why this particular dishonesty is extra insulting and annoying.

Its a serious condition and it affects almost dozens of people across the World!

People talk about the draft like it's the NBA or the NFL draft, but the baseball draft just doesn't have the same impact and it has no immediate impact. It's is fun to speculate and dream though.

Many many years ago, I spent like 2 weeks trying to contact a Jack Hinnoffe from a marketing list.