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I’m glad you appreciate the overview. Maybe some people believe that Al Avila worked super hard at his job but just wasn’t any good at it. But if Al wasn’t acquiring talent—the top job for any rebuilding team—at the rate of even the average team, then just what was it Al was working so super hard at?

fellas, no need to fight. just go watch some wembanyama tapes and dream about next year.

Probably the Yankees. Better team and ballpark to hit in, which would help net a better long term deal. $2M is negligible in the grand scheme of things.

I think those are all fair criticisms, but I think they are arguable. There is a position you can take to defend those decisions, and had they gone the other way, they’d already be forgotten. To say a single decision cost us a 60-minute football game is a very high bar. YMMV.

The first time I got it I didn’t know what it was. Because of my job I can tell my salesman to just shoot me a vin and I can do all the work myself in regards to features and such. I’m driving it home and I thought the car died on me after 7 miles on the odometer.

Some results I would like to see today: - Notre Dame over Clemson - LSU over Alabama - Texas Tech over TCU - Maryland over Wisconsin - Illinois over MSU

This really explains a lot though. Because he appeared at least to be doing a lot of the right things and occasionally when all the planets lined up you had a surprising season like 2021. Then, you see what the deficits really were when you have a season like 2022 and this explains really well at least one of the factors in how that deficit was expressed. I think Woody Allen said that 80% of success is in showing up and Al showed up a lot less often than everybody else.

I can’t imagine the kind of overpay it would take to get Carlos Correa to come here and lose for at least two more years.

Not sure why I should care what some guy named Jimmy Dore thinks about any subject. It's nothing personal to him, but it's no different than how one feels about cable news and its pundits I could easily get the same kind of analysis sitting down at a local bar and talking to a stranger most likely. And it'd be more authentic because he wouldn't be monetizing it.

Scorsese’s disdain for marvel movies is well known.

Musk had one idea I think could might help him successfully build Twitter into a subscription based service, and that is to make Twitter a sort of one stop destination for people looking for one off news from paywalled sites that they aren't interested in enough to subscribe to on a regular basis. The idea, as I understood it, was that Twitter negotiates some limited access rights for its uses to access otherwise paywalled sources such as local newspapers etc. It's a theoretical win/win if the originating site can get some revenue from Twitter for the single hits they just otherwise woudn't get, and it would provide twitter with something of sufficient and unique enough value to offer uses that they would pay for it. Of course the problem is that negotiating access rights to enough sites for it to get off the ground could be a herculean taks, and there is no guarantee the content originators share the belief that it would be good enough for their business to be interested. But it is at least an idea that might be attractive to a fairly large customer base. meanwhile, he seems to have forgotten that both Ca and the US have layoff notice requirements (60 daya) for enterprises of Twitter's size, which Twitter has pretty obviously violated. Class action suit has already been filed

Just checked the box score. Cade having a good game. Mobley with 7 blocks. Not even 10 games into the season and I am already just counting down the months till Casey is fired.

Now that is funny.

And that the 1st Amendment had a clause within it that insulates oneself from the consequences of speech. (It does not) Elon Musk or Josh Holmes or whoever all have the right to free speech. And because of the same 1st Amendment, the rest of us all have the right to call them out, or to not do business with them, etc. Same with advertisers. At its most basic, it's just a reaction to the change of culture. And that much of it doesn't have much use for their vision of the world.

In the first few minutes, he probably says “they were lying”, oh, about 10 times. It seems we have to assign malfeasance to a whole cast of people. Like they wanted to intentionally hurt people. I’m just waiting for the news scroll soon where they report that Dr. Fauci, that lying fraud (who only devoted his whole life to dealt with infectious disease), has been shot in the head by some disgruntled “victim” who will “never forgive or forget” and needed to see that scientist dead so thAt he can’t ever lie to good Americans again.

Tip of the cap to the Civic Cipher radio hosts, who, knowing what Ye was about to do actually trademarked "White Lives Matter".........Ye has to pay them to sell any merch with the phrase and they are not giving the okay to do it. They have lawyers too..... https://civiccipher.com/

You need to fill more minor league holes when you have zero depth on the farm or your player development apparatus is inept and high to mid round college picks can't make high A.

If you agree that Job #1 of a rebuilding regime is to pull out all the stops to acquire players to rebuild the system, then let's take a look at the data. Using Spotrac as the source for International free agents, since Al Avila took over, the Tigers signed 37 total AFAs. The average team signed 49. The Tigers signed substantially fewer. I realize you've already said you don't trust Spotrac to be complete, so if you have a better, more complete source I can look at, I'd be obliged if you'd share that with me. As for other transactions type, I hope you trust MLB Transactions Tracker, because that's what I am going to use for the rest. Trades: Al Avila's Tigers made 47 trades since he took the job on August 4, 2015; the average team made 83 during that time. Waiver claims: Avila's front office made 16 waiver claims; the average team made 28. Free agent signings: Avila's team signed 32 free agents; the average team signed 36. Minor league contracts: This is the one area in which the Tigers exceeded the average. Avila signed 151 minor league free agents. The average team signed 115. Why did Avila focus so much on minor league free agents? Can't know for sure. Could it be partly because it's a relatively easy, frictionless transaction? No having to scout and take chances on a 16-year-old from a foreign land; no having to deal with another team negotiating against you; no having to beat other teams on a waiver claim; no having to negotiate a major league deal with an agent; and if it doesn't work out, you're on the hook for a mere two weeks minimum salary (if he is released during spring training or the season; before that there is zero termination pay). Given so much of this kind of high-touch, labor-intensive work is not associated with it, I assume it's not much more involved than looking up a list of MiFAs, sending a bunch of emails offering to sign them to a minor league contract, and executing the contracts of any of them who accept. Maybe @Edman85 or @microline133 could weigh in on this? Even if it does take more work than that, the point is this: a team in rebuilding mode should be burning up the phones and scouring the wires looking for players from every source available, and such a team should be among those making the most deals in each transaction class. The Orioles were such a team. So were the Mariners. Those teams are now ready to compete. The Tigers have to practically start all over. Maybe Al Avila did work hard at his job, but it was either at something other than pulling out all the stops to acquire players, or else his concept of working hard to acquire players fell short of what's required to do it successfully. One thing I am pretty certain of is that Al Avila worked to the best of his capabilities.

I think that they gave it their best effort and put in as many hours as any other organization. They just weren't any good at it.

I never liked that five-year plan thing that teams were selling to their fans. Teams should be working to make improvements through all aspects of team building all the time. It shouldn't be all or nothing. Teams will have down years from time to time, but some of the improvements needed to get back up again should already be in progress. There is no need to tear everything down and start at zero and then spend five years "re-building" while your team loses 100 games every year.

Whatever Beaumont is called now reinstated visitor restrictions for children due to RSV.