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I have a hard time figuring why Chris is constantly tagged as the problem when he has been willing to spend on MiLB and training facilities (which his father wasn't) and ponied up substantial cash last year. I don't believe the issue is resource. If that is what was holding them back Avila would still be here doing what the owner who didn't want to spend money wanted him to (given that theory). A problem right now is that other than the stupid money contracts being handed out, which almost every baseball observer here concurs are foolish for the teams offering them, there is precious little available mid-tier where the Tigers have the scope to operate and could theoretically be making upgrades to the team. Teams are keeping young mid-teir players in the fold more than ever because teams know they are the undervalued commodity in the game. I won't bother relinking the dead horse GIF but the Tigers' problem is coming up with enough players of their own to get to within striking distance of what you can do in free agency. Fans who constantly grouse about them not spending Mets level money need to find a different team to root for or accustom themselves to being disappointed because the Tigers, along with more than half the other teams in MLB, can't and will never play in that money league. Mid teir managements have to win with smarts and working harder - that's just the way it is.

Someone once sugggested a drag queen named Rhonda Santis should follow him around.

No longer in middle management? 😀

3 things: 1, I don't know if y'all have noticed, but Avila is gone, so you can quit bashing him and move on. 2, Ilitch hasn't restricted spending, rest assured, the Tigers will have a budget at, or above, what is prudent for their market.I 3, you all act like bidding on premium free agents is the only way to become competitive. Those types of free agents are the siding and roofing of roster construction, there are many other avenues to building a consistent, successful franchise.

So good.

That's what we get in a society that eschews collectivism as a commie vice and values rugged individualism as a paramount virtue, both passed down through the generations.

I always said the complete tear down and sole dependence on high draft picks was a bad idea. I'd like to see some trades. The best opportunity right now might be to trade relievers and lower level prospects for players who are major league ready. Given the crazy market for pitchers right now, maybe they get a major league hitter for Rodriquez.

damn I just got a new job and now you have me rethinking my career choice

There should be a deplaning custom where the first 2 minutes are for who doesn’t need to go in an overhead bin. Just get up and walk out. 1/3 of the plane is now empty. Of course it would never work because there’s always someone who says “yeah but my stuff is right here… I’ll just quickly get it” or “I gotta get off now!” Nothing works when people have to cooperate. 5% of people make life miserable for 95%.

Chris Hayes just said Ron Desantis, who many call "short trump" and I'm pretty much always going to call him that

good news! zach wilson is a fucking moron.

The Hill jersey is fine but this was my favorite. I actually really like our whites as well. The Blue isn't bad either. I pretty much hate every alternate jersey they have released the past 10 years.

BYU took two planes to their bowl game. One for the team and one for their wives. I saw two different reports. One said 25 players are married the other said 30. Either way, that is 70-80 wives they had to bring.

Hey........With Karate I'll Kick Your Ass !

The luck of the Vikings is insane.

Living in Indiana seeing the Colts implode like that brings me great pleasure.

Enjoy it Minny.....we get the division for the next 6 years. And good luck in the playoffs...your luck is over!

This Vikings team is so fraudulent. It’s incredible.

Whatever, these fucksticks better just beat the Giants.

I feel bad for Jim Irsay’s sobriety.

I left to take my dogs for a walk with the Colts up 33-0 at half, and come back to a 36-36 tie. What the actual fuck is going on, lol?

I'm other news,

Disc replacement. That explains a lot. Disc replacement is still controversial. There was a lot heat generated last year over an NHL player considering one, though his name escapes me. I find it completely believeable that no-one at UM wanted to do one. There isn't necessarily any issue of competence or care here, it's simply a techinical practice difference of opinion. I can easily see a conservative doc telling a 19 yr old that the risk of cutting edge spinal surgery wasn't justified *in his view* if the deficit is such that he could have a perfectly normal life without the surgery but also without football. That sets up an unresolvable difference of opinion. In that case if the young man takes the agency to go somewhere else that is the correct answer. He gets what he wants and the Docs at both ends are comfortable with their decisions. Maybe nothing to see here really and nothing wrong with the outcome even if some set of fans would have rathered a different one and some folks feel the need to justify their honest decisions by belittling those of others. C'est la vie.

Wonder if Hockenson is tired of all this winning?

Wallman banks one in off of Erne! Way to earn that one haha. My phone wanted to autocorrect to Walkman which I’m shocked is in today’s lexicon.

The fourth line of Soderblom, Kubalik and Veleno is buzzing. Veleno made the game 1-0 after good plays from everyone and then drew a penalty a few shifts later.

kind of the same way people who wait to merge in traffic til the last possible second forcing everyone already in line to break to let them in

Michigan Medicine is at such a high standard that their doctors should not be questioned is the same mindset that allowed Dr. Anderson to operate for more than 4 decades.

chris is the problem because he didnt fire avila until last year.

At this point, the worst that could happen is that they end up exceeding my preseason expectation (six wins) by one. But they very easily could win out and sneak into the playoffs one year early. Now if Minnesota loses out and we win out, and we win the division, that will be both awesome and hilarious. It’s all gravy from here.

Yeah - Hosmer is not a bad baseball player, he's just not the player SD paid to get. At 32 ie might have a year or two left to bridge a gap. But the Tigers have left themselves in a box by not maintaining Tork's flexibility to at least fill in at 3rd and Cabrera stuck at DH. If you had some flexibility to swing Tork to third maybe once a week against a heavy LHH team, and DH was open, you could carry an insurance policy like Hosmer, but right now, you are in a situation where if Torkelson starts to hit, you have no place to give a Hosmer ABs at all.

But really, it is true that it's Elon's company and he's free to do what he wants. But despite the complaints of his cult, the rest of us are free to criticize. Advertisers are free to reevaluate their relationship. And "content creators" are free to head off to other platforms. That's capitalism, baby. You make decisions and have to reap the wind

If we don’t see remarkable improvements at any time within the next five years, it’s basically a failure.

No, I found them. They happened before the teals. It was the Bad Boys era kits, but the blue body and red accents were exchanged for red body and blue accents. https://www.sportslogos.net/logos/view/n3y6c3pd1eqakesi0vf8ewl49/Detroit_Pistons/1995/Alternate_Uniform sportslogo.net can be such a fun time kill.

Setting this deal aside, the main challenge in getting a free agent to choose Detroit might be less about Ilitch keeping the wallet slammed shut, and more about convincing free agents even at the modest level of a Benintendi to be willing to risk five or so of their prime earning years coming to a team with practically the worst reputation in baseball. The year of evaluation will be as much about next year’s top free agents evaluating us, as it will be about our evaluating the players deep into our 40. It’s a good first step to hire a new brain trust up and down the system and say we’re going to change our process and establish a winning culture, but it’s also up to us to show and prove that it’s really happening. Once we do that, free agents will be vying to come to Detroit.

People from the back of the plane who think they are entitled to cut in front of everybody while deplaning.

Twins, trying to lose, sign Chris Davis to 1-yr, $11M contract on the heels of hitting .160 last season. Sorry, meant Joey Gallo. Nice recovery on losing out on Carlos Correa.

Guy wanted to go out and play. Swift would have been pronounced dead.

I'd love to get a dark brandon nft on my obama phone

I don't really think it's a crisis.... I love me some twitter but I'm warming up on Post and/or Mastodon these days so capitalism

Didn't they have alt reds in the early/mid 90s? I do like those. Roll with the whites, blues, and reds, and the simplicity of those 3 are just fine, thank you.

Yes, especially good news about Vrana. Wishing him the best.

Trump was certainly the catalyst. I once looked through the old site's threads to see if I could find anything but I think it was just gradual. I do think I was prepared to vote for Rubio or Kasich, or anyone else with the exception of Cruz maybe. I voted for Romney and wanted him to win. Once I saw the GOP go all in on Trump I realized it was bullshit. A lot of people will never admit they were wrong.

he'd probably make them free, the big socialist.

Any references to Goff’s 2021 season is foolish. Banged up O-line and RB and no wide receivers, except for the Sun God. He gets a mulligan from me.

Who cares about any comparison between Stafford and Goff? The question is should the Lions burn a 1st rounder at a position that doesn’t appear to be in need of an upgrade (vs using if to improve our defense). Also, if anyone saw the game between OSU and Harbaugh’s babies, you would not use a top-10 pick on Stroud. I’m happy to ride 2023 with our current offense and use our 1st and 2nd rounders to upgrade the D.

Yeah, his numbers deteriorated… along with Gurley’s knee and Cooks’s concussions. We all saw him play his way out of LA. It wasn’t all his fault but clearly he was a reclamation project when he got here. He will never have the arm talent of Stafford or the physicality of Allen or the speed of Jackson or the creativity of Mahomes. Yes Goff has proven he can look lost behind a porous line with no weapons (like Brady and Rodgers), but he’s also proven he is good enough with the right pieces around him to put up top ten QB numbers. There aren’t a lot of guys you can say that about. If I thought there was a can’t miss, generational talent this draft like Trevor Lawrence was said to be, I’d want the Lions to take him. I prefer to go into next year with Goff and a top five DL pick as opposed to the same mediocre defense and a lottery ticket under center.

I've made the comp before but I still see a lot of Kansas City Alex Smith in Jared Goff. The Chiefs blew it up in 2012 after going 2-14. They fired everyone and brought in Dorsey and Andy Reid. They had the #1 pick in 2013, but rather than doing the stereotypical thing of picking the top QB available (though there wasn't a consensus #1, this was the weird year where EJ Manual was the only QB taken in the 1st Round), they signed Alex Smith in free agency and took Eric Fisher at #1, the best tackle available. They had Smith for five years, and went 53-27 in that stretch, making the playoffs four times and finishing above 0.500 each season. I think if the stars aligned, they could have made a Super Bowl run with Smith, and it sure didn't seem like they were in any hurry to ditch him. After the 4th year though, the stars aligned in a different way, where a QB they had scouted as being pretty dang good fell to a spot where they could trade up and get him. That decision worked out pretty well, as Smith started for one more season, then Mahomes took his place and took them to the next level. I think a lot of the controversy with Goff amongst fans is the optics surrounding how he came to Detroit. He was shipped out of LA along with significant draft capital, and the season after they replaced him LA won a Super Bowl while Goff struggled on a 3-13-1 team. That screams "he's no good", regardless of whether it's true or not. It's not. Far more went into Goff's lack of success in LA in the later years and Stafford's immediate success in LA than meets the eye of that trade. And I think if Goff had been signed in free agency rather than kicked out of the last place he was at, a certain contingent of people (I'm not directing this at anyone here) would have a little bit different view of him.

Ewww... I hate that trade. As Buddha nicely put it earlier... I'll defer to people much more talented in prospect analysis than I am (ie, an actual NFL front office)... but at first blush... ewww. I give up a 12th over all and my first 2nd-round pick and wherever we land in 2024 to move up 3 spaces in the first round and 6 spaces in the second round? That just feels like WAY to much price for the small jumps.