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This should be all over the news instead of the OJ style tracking of Trump’s exact location

Cop lets the door close on him... love it.

Mayor Adams should tweet her a middle finger and say "There's your apology you seditious skank"

Some people are so lost in their echo chamber that it shocks them when it is not what it appears. There are people who honestly believe that New York has done away with criminal prosecutions. They think Porland Oregon is a smoking crater, and I honest to God know someone who thinks in Minnesota you are allowed to kill one person.

I see good and bad with Weaver and he has a lot to prove over the course of the next year. However, I still see more positive than negative. Tear Down (Plus) - I absolutely love how he came in here and tore down the garbage in just one season. It's something many of us had been screaming for the franchise to do for years, but so many people on this very message board said it wasn't possible. Weaver didn't play around and got it done. I respect that aggressiveness. Draft Maneuvering (Plus) - I like how he's maneuvered the drafts with getting extra picks and the picks he's made. Obviously, they haven't all worked out (*cough*Killian*couch*), but getting role players in the second half of the first round of a bad draft (2020) is good work in my eyes. In 2021 he did what he was supposed to do. In 2022 he moved back into the first round and got a steal in Duren at #13. No GM wins on every pick, but I think he's done well overall. Not Afraid to Take Chances or Cut Ties (Plus) - I like that he's not afraid to move assets that aren't working out. We've had a number of reclamation projects come and go. Even his own draft pick that many fans loved got moved and if you think about it, it means he traded Kennard and some second rounders for the #2 pick in that draft. We have no idea if Wiseman will work out, but I like the aggressiveness and willingness to act before you're stuck. Taking chances on guys that haven't bloomed yet and being ready to cut ties with them is also one of the only ways you can get a star in Detroit outside of the draft. Fixed the Cap (Plus) - This team was in cap hell when Weaver came in. He's turned that into a very flexible situation with no long term or untradeable albatross contracts. I don't agree with the Bagley signing, but let's no act like 3yr/13M is anything more than an annoyance - it's certainly not some albatross contract. No Starting Assets (Plus) - This team was in a worse place than an expansion team when Weaver took over. Zero talent and no assets to trade, but we also had a terrible cap situation on top of that. Weaver started from lower than ground zero when he took over. Our biggest name to trade was Dre...and we all know what that was worth. Roster Construction (Minus) - The roster hasn't made a bit of sense. We went from zero bigs to too many of them. In a league that's wing dominated we have no wings at all. If the secret goal is to lose a bunch of games so you can get high draft picks, then Weaver is playing some elite level chess here, but I don't think that's the case. It's also stunting the growth of your lead guards who are being put in a bad situation. Coach Loyalty (Minus) - Casey has to go. If he's still the coach next season that will be a HUGE hit to my view of Weaver. He's a terrible on court strategist, does not run a competent offense or defense, and cannot figure out high school level lineup rotations. On top of that, the thing that people say he does best (player development) is simply false. If anything, he's stunting these players growth by teaching them to play ball the wrong way. The only praise I'll give him is in running a clean locker room even though they're losing. Baffling Free Agency Moves (Minus) - I'm not sure if it's his aggressiveness biting him in the rear, but some of his free agency moves have been perplexing at best. Paying to give away Plumlee to sign Olynyk? The Bagley deal after you've already drafted Duren, traded for Noel, and have Olynyk? His love for dead cap space? None of this is crippling on a team that's not trying to win yet, but it's still a lot of bad asset management and numerous papercuts can start to add up. Bottom line, when I break it down I see a lot more positive from him with what he's had to work with than I see negative. That said, he's got a lot to prove this offseason and next year. Regardless of what he inherited when he came in, this is the last season that anyone is going to accept this type of product on the court. I doubt his seat is even warm with ownership, but it's definitely getting there with the fans. If healthy Cade, 2023 draft pick, player growth, and whatever moves Troy makes this offseason don't result in 30 wins next season, I imagine his seat will be getting really hot with the fanbase and probably warm with ownership too.

When I was a kid, when I’d hear an announcer say that a win was good for a team’s morale I thought that meant morals. So I’d picture teammate after a win being nice to each other and complimenting each other and going out for dinner together. But after a loss arguing with each other and swearing and getting drunk and finding scapegoats on the team.

Worth noting that Vierling, purportedly the LHP platoon guy, did it all against RHP tonight.

Eat it, Houston. Your play clothes suck out loud.

Only 8 home games and the NFL is wildly more popular than MLB.

Magic Mike Abreu

ME ignoring YOU!

if manning loses his job to a 31 year old journeyman starter, there are real problems with this franchise.

The same person who heckles the president in congress during a state of the union speech is demanding an apology.

I gotta ask. What did she expect? What did you expect? What ….. are people supposed to turn a blind eye to someone who comes from another state to be a rabble-rouser, and let’s just admit that’s what she was there for. She would’ve spewed her hateful, diatribe, and some people there did not want to hear this BS. So, they gave her an earful.

I've watched that several times. I love the pre-Darwin Darwinism when they were, conveniently, at Galapagos... Crowe and Bettany made a terrific pair...

I played OF in HS and always thought this and Kaline confirmed it. Balls hit right at you are the hardest to play because you don't instinctively know whether to go left or right. Plus you throw in that park with the high wall you probably hesitate in order to play it off the wall. You have to factor in that it will be too high to even bother trying to catch so your move is to play it the best way off the wall, then you realize it's "catchable" and are scrambling. The ball was also hit pretty hard, not much of an arc. With a normal height wall there's little chance of a rebound so you can go all out because it's either a HR or a catch. But with a trailing ball away from the LF you don't have the backup role by the CF as you would going the other way. If the ball was hit to his left instead of right he could have gone back straight away because Greene is there to field it if needed. All of those decisions in a second and half of action. I can't fault him for that.

The rebuild was in trouble from year one when he missed on all three first round picks. In year three those guys should have been the foundation of the rebuild. They should have been contributing towards winning basketball. Now one isn't here, one is one of the worst PGs in the league, and the third is questionable in what his future/role is. That's bad.

Aerial America on the Smithsonian channel is one of the best shows on tv.

Not really directed at you necessarily, I happen to agree with your issue of Weaver's center collecting fetish. It's more of the comments about the letter and getting sick of hearing about high picks. The reality is that this was only the 2nd FULL season of the rebuild. His first year was basically clearing out the remnants of the SVG era (the Blake buyout was only 2 years ago believe it or not) so he went full rebuild which is what Pistons fans have wanted for a long time. It doesn't mean he hasn't made some mistakes but he's doing exactly what everybody wanted and hasn't made any moves that have crippled the future outside of the busted 2020 draft of course. I'm not championing him or anything but I don't think it's fair to judge him yet. I think Cade, Ivey, Duren and this draft pick is a nice base to build off of. Now he has to supplement the core with the right players and he has the cap flexibility going forward to do just that so it's just a matter of.... we'll see.

Barley’s extension was signed in July, well before Wiseman was acquired. It’s a poor fit with all of these bigs, no doubt. I just think the timing of trading for Wiseman might be a bit of caveat in all of this. If Wiseman is better than Bagley, get him and worry about moving Bagley later on. Bagley tends to get hurt and Duren is still adjusting to a pro schedule, so there’s where some of the log jam can be alleviated there. I guess what I am getting at is, increase the talent level, fit isn’t necessarily the priority. And so, as time goes on, fit becomes an issue, and that can be dealt with at another point. This season is a lost cause anyway. Get the skill set and personalities in house, evaluate in person which 1 or 2 of the 2 or 3 bigs not named Duren to keep/move in the off-season. I’m hoping that’s the case.

"you deserve to relive the best piston tradition of having too many centers in a league that has moved to small, postionless basketball. that's why i, troy weaver, traded for james wiseman, marvin bagley III, and isaiah stewart. i promise that i will bring back the time honored tradition of the late joe dumars era. in wiseman, i believe we finally found our josh smith."

It was the good, the bad and the ugly but they pulled it off and showed signs of their talent.

I knew that we had won by the look on your face.

I was just going to say he didn't have to pitch to Abreu, but nevermind!

Gregory Soto ain’t jacking dongs or making diving catches tonight.

Hows that Kyrie trade working out for ya, Mavs............LOL. Dude is Cancer.

javy could have stepped toward home to give him a target, but Tork has to make the throw to the inside.

Englert with an outstanding effort tonight.

are we going to get a 3 inning relief appearance? Holy 1965 Batman!

Nice game overall for Matt V

The Astros announcers are livid, and they probably should be

I love kevlar bead tires since you can fold them up and carry them easiy on a long unsupported ride or tour, but when they are new they can be so damn tight and require such a fight that it's not ususal for me to ruin a couple of tubes trying to get a new kevlar bead tire mounted the 1st time. A trick a learned from an old hand when mounting a HP bike tire to try and cut down on bead lifts is to inflate, then deflate almost all the way (to where you can squeeze the tire in by hand, and reset the bead all the way around - then reinflate.

8th grade I think.

But Joe Rogan and Donald Trump say this won't work...

But isn’t 65K the size of a typical NFL stadium? I thought the 80K at the Silverdome wasn’t typical.

Omg a lead

Are they trapped in a 1980s video game or something?

Roof closed, oblong has a happy.

That was a gov/SEC complaint - there are more rules when you talk about a company you control. The Dogecoin deal is an investor civil suit and Musk doesn't have any control of Dogecoin..... AFAIK.

Am I reading that right? 8 lbs lighter and the score drops from 7.87 to 4.77? They are the same height. models with extreme variation under marginal input differences is suspect. Difference between 257 and 249 is a weekend of beer and pizza.

Who is Greg Eno and why should I care what he has to say about the Tigers?

you got wonder how much Hinchs multiple lineups and platooning might effect players getting consistent AB and getting into a groove especially with younger guys

Games inside don't count. They played in Florida, that's still spring training. Houston is still an NL team to me so this is exhibition. Tigers are 0-0 and will be 0-0 coming home Thursday.