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Could this be the one?

I used to ask this before and the way it was explained to me was that ERA is strictly there to show how a guy is at actually pitching the ball independent of mistakes made by fielders including himself, if you punished him for making errors that would also mean you are factoring in his defense which isn't what ERA was supposed to do.

So the "Christian" ownership is suing it's insurance company because of an act of God..... You can't make this stuff up.....

Hey, I could be watching today's game and buying all the great products advertised on the broadcast. But, I can't. I just can't spring for another gdamn streaming service from of all things a broadcast network. I paid for MLBtv and for Directv's MLB xtra innings package and I'm all paid out. FUCK YOU ROB MANFRED.

Maybe doesn't top this, but I'd rank 'Patriot Act' up there pretty high.

They seem likelier for the Tigers to want to trade because of contracts. But to Edman’s point, they need to move whoever they can that makes sense as far as the return is concerned. I don’t care about Soto’s or anyone else’s team contract control. Obviously they can negotiate up the player value because of that variable. But as flukey as relief pitchers can be from season to season, especially if they happen to be getting worthwhile position players or starting pitching in return, make the trade.

Yes, it seems most people take a what have you done for me lately approach to Sr. There were plenty of poor Tiger teams early on under his ownership. It doesn’t excuse Jr. I know some people have this assumption that Jr doesn’t know much about baseball. It’s funny, the same was said about Sr at the end of the Randy Smith era, but that is all forgotten after Dombrowski turned things around. Some kind of change needs to be made soon. They’ve gone through the draft with Avila and will go through the trade deadline with him. Maybe Avila gets shown the door a few hours after the trade deadline just like “mastermind” Sr did with Dombrowski.

Vladdie still poisoning his former friends

Not AJ's style to be this explicit, but they earned it today!

no chas, its because aj hinch is teh worst manager ever and would be unemployed....nay, he would be in jail, if the tigers hadnt stupidly hired him.

Well, you have to admit, that's pretty smart. So therefore he didn't think of it. All he had to do is agree to treat Ivana's corpse like a plastic bag full of dog shit, which he willingly did.

Sarcasm sometime can be lost on a message board lol

I don't think it is good news. Alex Jones is currently being sued by the Sand Hook victims and I think this bankruptcy is preemptive strike to make it harder to collect if they win.

Darryl Rogers wants to know what a guy has to do to get fired around here.

You can only control a reliever as long as his arm is intact. I would be open to dealing Lange, Foley, and Soto too. "Team control" be damned. Cisnero and Funkhouser weren't dealt last year because they had years of control left.

This is the last week without football until mid February. HOF Game on Thursday.

I can understand both views but I'm on the side of the strategy being fine, unfortunately we just have a guy that either is a terrible negotiator that also doesn't know how to identify and/or a player development program that screws up the development of the guys they got. As much as I hated seeing Verlander go we got a top 30 prospect, a guy who atleast one of the sites ranked in the top 75 in Daz and Rogers who was seen as borderline top 100 by some. If say that top 30 guy in Perez developed into the frontline guy like many thought he could be, Daz became an Austin Jackson like CFer like some thought he could possibly be at one point and Rogers a solid everyday catcher that would make the trade and in turn our rebuild look alot better. Unfortunately none of those things happened, whether it was because those guys were overhyped and never were going to come close to their ceilings or because the Tigers just failed to develop them? Either way is a detriment to the organization but that doesn't change the fact that the idea to trade a pitcher in his mid 30s who had a ton miles on him for 3 young prospects was correct, particularly when they weren't planning to compete for a couple years. It's just unfortunate we had the wrong person pulling the strings and the pitcher we traded away ended up being a once or twice in a generation type who not only didn't decline in his late 30s but may have actually gotten better.

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