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You have NO idea how much getting this card from my brother just totally made my DAY! (I had a MAJOR crush on the Bird) ❤️ I am so happy and can’t stop smiling.

Can we stop treating 2020 performance as if it was a normal, full season?

the idea that chris illitch somehow told harris to let candy go to save a few million is silly, imo. if anything, the analytics people had candy worth X amount of dollars and it wasnt his arb number and he wasnt willing to accept a contract for that amount so he left. a month ago we all said how candy sucks and there should be other alternatives to try. now were pining away for him and want to give him $7 million just to spite an owner we think is cheap? illitch bashing for candy leaving is just anti ownership boogeyman wishcasting.

They should just play it safe and shut him down for the rest of the season. No need to rush Cooper Kupp back either.

The alternative theory is that Harris is applying a specific $-value to projected performance, and sticking to it. It may not be perfect... and can lead to the charges you have levied... but I think in the long-term, it bodes well for the Org in not overpaying so often for underperformance...

Nobody goes from talk of tanking to talk of a playoff run faster than a Lions fan. 😂

Lake Solitude from Mt Sunapee in NH.

This was a cool topic in the old place. And I just happened to luck into a shot while camping near Hayes,Va this weekend

The devils they don't know.

And I thought we paid our GM's well.

Hero

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This (bolded) can NOT be the case. They already attempted to bring him back next year, at a lower cost. That means they made some kind of monetary offer to him for next year, even if they couldn't agree on his value. That immediately moots the possibility that they think his chronic injury is a problem. No one is going to try and bring back a player they are certain will deteriorate, off of a recent terrible performance year... at any cost.

The question for Harris is not so much whether he can bounce back, but how the odds of that compare to his confidence he can fill the position with an alternative. At this point Harris is the devil we don't know. Maybe he lands Drury or Anderson and makes us feel silly that we worried about whether we would have 3B covered. Or he doesn't and then we log the new guy's first failure.... I sort of take the attitude that until proven otherwise, I'm going to assume Harris is a star in the making and he's going to prove it to us by pulling rabbits out of hats that Avila didn't even know he had in his closet.

Does she have a laptop?

Draftees and young stars aside, looking strictly at free agency, are teams generally in the business of valuing future projections over past performance when negotiating? If one takes into account past performance, the Tigers were 100% right on principle to attempt to negotiate to a lower number. And it stands to reason that if you're going to negotiate, you have to be willing to walk away, which they did. Others mileage may vary, but I think the new administration handled it well and, if anything, it adds to my confidence in their abilities.

DFW is bad when it comes to rental car location. I remember being in the shuttle a long time. Florida's Southwest Airport (Ft Myers area) was the best but it's also a small airport. The car rental apps have really improved the last few years with regard to not having to talk to anybody or wait in lines. Just show up and my car is ready and show the person the QR code on the way out.

Pet Peeve: People who collect Disability, even though they are perfectly capable of working, and then turn around and bitch about Socialism. I have a relative like that and I don't have to deal with them this Thanksgiving because they aren't making the trip from Florida. What a shame.

Oh mon dieu, pardon moi, s'il vous plait.

Denigrating Fords on Motownforums is like assaulting french cuisine on a forum for chefs and maitre ds of the Cordon Bleu school in Paris. :--)

God bless your brother.

It's all Murphys fault.

that happened at a previous job of mine, but rather than everything breaking when my manager tried to get away, it was everything breaking after I'd gone out of town. my coworkers hated it when I'd leave because they knew they'd be fighting fires and sweeping ashes.

I can understand while some might want to keep Candy, assuming he significantly improves in '23. The risk one has with Candy if he significantly bests '22 numbers is that the club misses out on the benefits of such improvement.. That's very, very low. Non-tendering him was in my view of things a reasonable calculated risk and a decision I won't second guess. On the final active roster in '22 there were 3 position players with enough WAR ( offensive and defensive combined using Baseball Reference numbers) to qualify as average MLB position players. Hasse, Baez, and Greene made the cut. There was at least one (i.e., Carpenter) that might have also. The rest did not. I think our biggest danger might be taking too little risk by overvaluing the current position players we have in the organization.

I would like to bring up Candelario’s old wrist injury again. None of us know his medical records that the team has. Maybe they know he has a lingering problem that make it more likely he has years like 2022 in his future, not the 2, 3, or 4 WAR that some here think is a strong likelihood. I guess we’ll see how things turn out, but a doubt the decision was significantly based on money.

This seems to be a common opinion, but I think Williams's ability to turn a 5-20 yard target into an 80-yard reception is more important than his ability to catch bombs, because he's going to see far more of the former than the latter irrespective of who's throwing him the ball. If he can get open, Goff can get him the ball.

No need to tank anyway. The Rams got us covered. Like I said last week. We're going streaking. The tank can kiss my all of a sudden honolulu blue kool aid drinking self's ass. We play to win the games, lets get another.

wilson had separation but he never looked for wilson. he just locked in on bell who was covered by illinois' cb who is a first day nfl draft pick, the tight end, or a dink to a third string running back. and andrel anthony needs to catch some of those balls. i agree with the internet consensus that michigan didnt take illinois seriously and almost paid for it. rested a bunch of guys, ran very conservative plays for the most part, and almost lost because of it. as to michigan's receivers, they have a group coming up who are very highly touted. i expect them to start to break through next year and jj to look a lot better when they do. bell is a nice player, but he isnt beating potential nfl corners.

they definitely got separation a few times against Ilinios, but it was also a tough throwing day.

any airport with the rental cars in a terminal attached garage gets at least one added star. Which, aside from all the current construction at LAX is a big part of the problem there. I've had it take more than 30 min to get from the car drop to the terminal - absurd. Rental cars are even further away in Houston but at least the buses have a non-public interior road net.

Raider Nation

We can quibble about whether Jeimer is the 4-win player he was in 2020-21, or whether he's worth the 3 wins he is projected for next year by ZIPs. But if we think Jeimer is worth at least 2 wins, which I believe, then he would definitely be worth the $7 million or so he'd've made through arb. And if he's not worth at least two wins, then why would we want him out there at any price? Why bother handing him the job if only he takes the pay cut? Might as well just boot him, change the locks behind him, and hold a waiver wire sweepstakes. The only way I could accept a justification for their lowball offer to Jeimer is if the Tigers decided they simply don't care what they get out of third base next season, because they don't expect to win in any event, and whoever ends up there is just a placeholder for the chicken that hasn't hatched yet anyway. If that's the explicit strategy, OK, fine, I get it. Then any warm body at third will do in 2023. However, if they were thinking of taking a real shot at recovering whatever the post-May-8-2021 magic was, which is not a crazy unthinkable idea, then they need at least a 2-win guy at third, which is worth more than $7 million, and my opinion is that Jeimer has at least a 50-50 shot of exceeding that with whoever he ends up playing for.

I had a very strange dream that the Lions won 3 games in a row, including back-to-back road games. I need to cool it on the edibles before bed.

he's done his penance. i hope lebron and the rest of the nba gate keepers of morality will afford someone who doesnt look like them the same courtesy they afforded kyrie next time it happens.

Visiting my sister in Delaware, she lives actually minutes away from crossing into Maryland and Pennsylvania. I’m pretty certain this particular shot was in PA.

So, earlier today I signed all of the papers to close on a condo. I've been keeping it mostly quiet because finding a home in my price range in this city (especially downtown) is akin to finding a unicorn anyplace but in a fantasy novel, and the process dragged on and on. It's the first home I've ever owned, and for the first time in my adult life I'll have a proper bedroom. Better late than never! 🙂

So I’m thinking you don’t actually have to catch them all.