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My dad was on the detail to clean up Dachau in 1945-46. Or, more exactly, he was on the detail to force POWs and the local townspeople to clean up Dachau. He did not talk much about it, but what little he did say was truly horrifying, and I've always thought, if that's the part he was willing to share with us, I can't imagine how horrific the parts he kept from us were.

Yes. Bad design led to the bad developmental processes that led to their once-great and promising hitting going down the toilet. We are only one regular season month beyond it now, and in no universe was all of it going to be totally fixed by now. We can blame the players for it all if we like—that’s a fan’s prerogative. Me, I’m going to give them until next year to start showing us the consistency we have been counting on them to provide us. If they’re still like this by the end of next season, I’ll jump on your bandwagon.

Again, I should be horrified by this why, exactly?

More than half of the alerts I've gotten from Tigers Twitter in the past 48 hours are about Scherzer and Verlander. I agree it is a big deal that they're coming back and that JV is making his Mets debut here, but I think it also sucks that it qualifies as the most exciting news of the season surrounding this team, and by a country mile.

Electric blankets?

I'm surprised Lorenzen hasn't given up more runs... batting practice material in this start lol

I love maps I find it completely maddening when American adults can't point out more than 2 or 3 states.

No one can say I didn’t try to get us off this Seattle/Detroit comparison topic.

Do they have CGI in Russia? The production quality was on par with a Roger Moore 007 movie.... maybe lower lol

TIL

I've watched the visitors broadcast the last couple of series, and the color guys in both series (Ben McDonald and Keith Hernandez, both of whom have been around the block a bit) have all commented on how few professional ABs both Greene and Tork have actually had and how they are being slotted high in the lineup. And how difficult that a situation that is. I don't know whether they will make it or not, I'll be the first to say it, but there continues to be a disconnect between Tigers fans (who are emotionally invested) and the observations of outsiders as it pertains to both this team and just Tork/Greene more generally... and I get the reasons, watching seven years of this crap sucks and seeing prospects struggle sucks. But collectively that emotional attachment really hinders people's ability to contextualize these struggles.

Tyler Alexander with the win. He threw one pitch.

Eric Haase, aka the offense lol

seattle beat detroit. that's why they made the playoffs and detroit didnt. all we needed to do was make geno and seattle punt. once. and we couldnt do it.

You misspelled “grief”.

Seattle and Detroit had the same record and Seattle literally needed Detroit to get them into the playoffs.

Can't remember what other Politician tried that, oh yeah.

No hockey get up even after Shep gets excited for it

You say that, but as bad as the Royals are (ie. legit worse than the Tigers), at least they have Bobby Witt Jr. and Vinnie P. to market. That's where Greene/Tork struggling comes into play.... it would make it a lot easier for the team to market if they, along with Javy Baez, were making more noise.

I agree it’s best to look forward. Let’s beat these chumps.

We saw them at the State Theater (Club X) in like 1991/1992 for free. Friends of ours met that night and later got married.

We went to a baseball game in Cincy years ago on a Sunday and we couldn't get a beer until 12. My family's county in TN is a dry county. You can buy beer but not booze. Have to go to Jackson county for that. Right on the border there's a huge store that sells it. But that county also has every chain restaurant that exists in the US.

Zelenskyy survives nightly assassination attempts

I'm not a fan of nostalgia for a lot of reasons, although I totally get its appeal. But I think nostalgia is definitely a bad thing when it comes to OBT, because if the team is, as you suggest, steeped in nostalgia, that means by definition there's nothing to recommend the current team, outside of the ... ahem ... inside baseball stuff you and I and the rest of us here are interested in. I remember thinking what a bad year 2003 was going to be when I saw the commercials in the preseason touting Tram as manager and Gibby and Lance as coaches. Hey fans, come on down to the ballpark, it's 1984 all over again! We know all too well how that turned out ...

This is some bat**** crazy stuff. Trump used to infamously attack John Mccain and thought soldiers who died in war were suckers and then this:

Lots of video available very quickly of this event makes it pretty clear.

The Russians could stand to invest a few more Rubles into special effects.

Positional value isn't a one size fits all argument. If you have a team ready to win in the playoffs and they fill a few need with top draft picks, that is different than a bad team with holes all over the place taking a RB early for example. When they really need impact players. They wind up wasting a few years of RBs career while they are building a team I don't think SF giving up a bunch of picks for McCaffery last year regrets what they did.

I did feel like some of the series were foregone conclusions, which happens in the NBA moreso than other sports, but the entertainment level has been high including last night.

And Jared Goff put up 45 on Seattle. Seattle finished the season 3-5 with two of those wins coming against the Rams. These are power rankings for next year. I think the Lions did more to secure their areas of weakness, Seattle was regressing, and I simply trust Goff more to repeat his performance than Smith.

Seattle had the same record as the Lions, faded down the stretch, and Geno Smith is much more of a question mark than Goff.

Even Justyn-Henry Malloy strikes out 4 times in a day. OK, it was in 2 games and 8 plate appearances, but, still, it happens.

I feel pretty similar to this except I'm not as high on the Steelers, Id probably put them near the bottom of the Good tier. Also would move Seattle and Jax up to the Lions tier. Unless Geno is a one year wonder I think both those teams are going to be really good.

Post-draft Power Rankings Elite: (1) Kansas City Chiefs, (2) Philadelphia Eagles, (3) Cincinnati Bengals, (4) Buffalo Bills Very Good: (5) San Francisco 49ers, (6) Miami Dolphins, (7) Detroit Lions, (8) Dallas Cowboys, (9) Pittsburgh Steelers Good: (10) Baltimore Ravens, (11) Seattle Seahawks, (12) Jacksonville Jaguars, (13) New York Jets Average: (14) Los Angeles Chargers, (15) New York Giants, (16) Atlanta Falcons, (17) New Orleans Saints, (18) Minnesota Vikings Not Good: (19) New England Patriots, (20) Green Bay Packers, (21) Cleveland Browns, (22) Tennessee Titans, (23) Los Angeles Rams, (24) Chicago Bears, (25) Denver Broncos Very Bad: (26) Indianapolis Colts, (27) Carolina Panthers, (28) Houston Texans, (29) Tampa Bay Buccaneers Putrid: (30) Washington Commanders, (31) Las Vegas Raiders, (32) Arizona Cardinals

Save us, Florida! Panthers win game 1, 4-2. Played a perfect road game, very disciplined. Bobrovsky came up huge when needed, including on a dazzling Leafs PP in the 2nd period.

i like that pickup a lot for detroit. ibrahim was a good back at minnesota.

Espionage is not whistleblowing and the documents were heavily modified by Russia.

Rest assured, whatever happens, AMS Certified Meteorologists Evan Woodbery and Chris McCosky will have opinions lol

Nah, if he's good, he'll get opportunities. He just needs to focus on getting good.

I have mixed feelings. They started off in Kingston, Ontario in the mid 80s, which is a college town, so through word of mouth news of them spread among students of other schools. But slowly, this was still in the ‘80s. Two of my closest friends from high school went to school in Kingston and I visited them a few times. By 1988 the Hip must have played Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern a dozen times that autumn for about 200 people. I went to almost every one, it was around the corner from my apartment. The shows were amazing. Downie still had a bunch of hair and it would be flying around. Kinduv how I imagine it would have been like to see REM in Athens around 1980. Told everyone about them, many thought I was a bit obsessed. Listened to their first EP dozens of times. Then I moved away, travelled around the world for a couple of years and studied in Europe. By the time I got back in 1993 they were big across Canada. But I had changed. Even their old music didn’t do much for me anymore. Listened to some of their new stuff from ‘93 onwards but nothing really clicked. Never went to a Hip concert after 1989. Don’t even feel nostalgic about it.. Can’t really explain why, as by all accounts they had several classic Canadiana albums.

The thing I find the most confusing about Canadian culture is their near universal love for The Tragically Hip.

I love the "no one had player X mocked anywhere near that spot" bit...none of the people actually drafting players does a mock...team sources have a pretty strong incentive to lie about how they view players so there's a lot of GIGO creeping in there

Three brothers. One already past draft age, one drafted into the Navy, one lied his way into the Marines at 17 to get away from home. The Patriarch was a shoe-maker and the eldest son had a business in custom orthopedic shoes. When each of his younger brothers went off to war he hand made them a leather wrapped handle assault style knife about the same size as the standard issue Navy MK-I. Youngest son disappeared into the PTO and never wrote home. At some point the Dept of the Navy informed the family that he had been wounded in action but they knew nothing beyond that. 2nd son posted to a ship also in the PTO and on one return to Pearl Harbor someone stops him and asks him where he got the unique knife he was wearing because he had just seen another just like it. And that is how my father found his wounded brother half way around the world in the middle of WWII. I still have both my father's MK-1 and the knife my uncle made him, and I'm sure my children will someday have no idea why there will be two old knives in a box at the estate sale.

I guess we may never know! I have heard stories that guys like Babe Ruth would go to what today is Nemo's after the game as well. I kinda hope that its true. Just like when we used to be able to play pickup games at old tigers stadium after they tore it down, cool feeling to think you stood in the same batters box as all those legends.

lucchesi vs. lorenzen sounds like a mob fight

I’m tired of apps for companies making this transition from a utility to just pay my bill or get support to something being used to sell me services. The latest is my mortgage. Before I can get to payment options they keep pushing me to refinance or telling me how valuable my home is if I want to sell.

Post-draft roster evaluation: QB: Jared Goff / Nate Sudfeld / Hendon Hooker... A- Goff isn't perfect, but he's plenty good enough. Hopefully Hooker stays on track in his recovery well enough that we don't have to carry three QBs into the regular season, or at least are able to drop Sudfeld and pickup someone else's training camp cut to backup Goff while Hooker recovers and develops. RB: Jahmyr Gibbs / David Montgomery / Craig Reynolds / Jason Cabinda... A I didn't expect a total overhaul at this position in January, but on the outside looking in it appears to have improved. The only real question is how they will mesh with the offensive scheme and offensive line. WR: Jameson Williams / Amon-Ra St. Brown / Marvin Jones Jr. / Josh Reynolds / Kalif Raymond / Tom Kennedy / Antoine Green... B- / B+ The B- is without Jamo and the B+ is with him. This group scares me a little bit without him. There is really no vertical threat, and I'm not sure what to expect out of an aging Jones. We need Jamo back quickly and we need the others to stay healthy. I would not be opposed to finding someone for this group. TE: Sam LaPorta / Brock Wright / James Mitchell / Shane Zylstra... B+ I expect LaPorta to come in and compete from day one. I expect Wright to pickup where he left off with being a block first, occasional weapon. OL: Penei Sewell / Taylor Decker / Frank Ragnow / Jonah Jackson / Graham Glasgow / Halapoulivaati Vaitai / Matt Nelson Colby Sorsdol / Ross Pierschbacher... A The only thing keeping this from an A+ is the small question mark at RG. Hopefully Glasgow and Vaitai can turn that into a training camp competition and make each other better. If we get 2021 Vaitai, this could be the best offensive line in football. DT: Alim McNeill / Isaiah Buggs / Josh Paschal / Brodric Martin / Levi Onwuzurike... C+ The only true "weakness" I see on this team right now. This was a position group that definitely could have stood to improve in the offseason, but no real improvement has been made to this point, unless Martin is better than I think he is out of the gate as a rookie. These players performed well enough down the stretch, and if they can replicate that performance, I think they'll be alright, as in not actively costing us game. I worry about ground-and-pound teams with really good offensive lines (notably the Eagles and 49ers) having their way though. EDGE: Aidan Hutchinson / Charles Harris / James Houston / Romeo Okwara / Julian Okwara / John Cominsky... B+ A crowded room, but one devoid of high-end talent outside of Hutch. We really need one of Harris or either Okwara to turn into an every down option that can take some attention away from Hutch. If Houston can even come close to replicating his work down the stretch it will make a world of difference to the entire defense. LB: Alex Anzalone / Jack Campbell / Malcolm Rodriguez / Derrick Barnes... B Improvement has been made, but that wasn't hard considering this was the league's worst linebacking corps not that long ago. We will still need Campbell to come out of the gate hot if we expect this to be a better unit. DB: Cam Sutton / CJ Gardner-Johnson / Emmanuel Moseley / Kerby Joseph / Tracy Walker / Will Harris / Brian Branch / Jerry Jacobs... A- What a difference a year can make. This is a whole new look secondary. My only concern is putting so many new pieces into one defense while getting Moseley and Walker healthy. If they can mesh and get on the same page culturally, this will likely be the best secondary in the division by a wide margin. ST: Michael Badgley / Jack Fox / Jake McQuaide... B I don't like the idea of Badgley being our kicker this year. He's good enough in the short range, but he can't be trusted from 50+. I don't want to be going for it on 4th and 9 from the opponent's 35 in a must-win game because our kicker can't be trusted to make a 52-yard field goal. I'd like to bring in one of Nick Folk, Robbie Gould, or Brett Maher, and let them compete with Badgley for the starting gig. Jack Fox is still great though. Coaching: Dan Campbell / Ben Johnson / Aaron Glenn... A I think this is one of the best coaching trios in football, and that if this team meets their potential we will need two new coordinators for 2024. Overall Offense: A- Overall Defense: B Overall Team: A- This team has sky high potential in an NFC that isn't very good. It seems to be in Dan Campbell's MO to expect there will be a game or two where we come out flat (that's not a knock, it's impossible to give 110% in 17+ NFL games), but I think - if we stay healthy - we should be favored in almost every game this season. I'm really excited.