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wtf, the Marlins gave Miggy a bottle of rum? seems a little insensitive.

"I drive down the road and I see a pickup Truck with a MAGA flag on it. -- and no offensive to that driver -- I just don't like him"

live shot of me in my paris cafe, commenting on the pointlessness of existence, ranting to strangers about taking jobe over mayer, and the uselessness of the sacrifice bunt. (the lady on the right insists that jobe's otherwordly spin rate was reason enough to take the gamble, so i did what all good frenchmen do, i quit the argument and lit up a galoises, smug in my superiority that high school right handed pitchers are injury risks waiting to happen and it doesnt matter anyway because nothing matters in this world and all tigers' pitchers get hurt.) /fin

I blocked that troll, but if anybody wants to ask him when the trade deadline was moved to July 27 at the risk of being driven into a goalpost moving nonsensical debate, feel free.

I reserve the right to get emotional about this team. This team is an avatar of my life. Following the Tigers helped me get through a very rough early life and its been my steadfast companion ever since. Through the good times and the bad. I watched the Christmas episode of The Bear and had to check scores on gameday because it was too much life PTSD to not. Its my Inception Totem. Screw anyone who doesn't understand or approve.

Yeah, I don't get how people can get that angry or worked up over this season.... they need more talent, but they have also showed a lot more real promise at most levels of the organization and the major league team will likely clear the (incredibly) low bar that most of the fan base seemed to set prior to the year.

He's as charming as a Nixon AI android manufactured by the Yugoslavian automaker, Zavasta.

i think this season has been decently successful so far. improvement from greene. carpenter has continued to hit well. torkelson has been slowly improving. lorenzen and rodriguez have pitched well enough to be valuable trade chips. a couple guys in the bullpen could bring back something. players like keith, meadows, and a few others continue to be successful in the minors. while that doesnt mean they'll ever be good major leaguers, it beats the alternative! the downsides are the continued injuries to the pitchers. but jobe and skubal are back and skubal is perfoming well in the majors. they just dont have a lot of talent top to bottom. but the fact that lorenzen and rodriguez have performed as well as they have means they have a very good chance to add more.

Blah. Williamson and Spiers are Faedo-level at best. Siani is yet another LH OF. I'd do ERod to Balt for just Joey Ortiz.

you could add Faedo to the list with that diagnosis

Who is going to tell him 'judical review' of Congressional acts is not in the Constitution either.

We deserve better. But, to quote Clint Eastwood...deserves got nothing to do with it.

Sports was criticizing the Braves on August 11, 1987 for not trading Doyle Alexander yet.

Oh my, is he the Sportz that used to be on MTS? I didn't ever realize it. And I'm following him on Twitter. Lol

tweet and story link for Sue:

This doesn't offset CBT numbers

The beatings will continue until morale improves. 😵‍💫

That Trayce Thompson?

David Robertson is older than the combined age of the 2 guys that the Mets received for him.

Real life Roman Roy really getting on his moral high horse.

Yep, if you even so much as lightly criticize anything MAGA or MAGA adjacent, that makes you an arrogant, elitist coastal snob who is out of touch with reality. If you cheer on Budweiser employees losing their job over the last culture war du jour on the right, that makes you a Real American. Rinse, repeat, etc.

Setting aside the stupidity of this whole culture war item, it's wild to see these guys cheer on people losing their jobs

the Rays started out like the 1984 Tigers, but have fallen hard, decimated by SP injuries. We all assume TB won't make a desperation trade, because they are too smart, but they have to do SOMETHING. right? Ultimately no one knows - not even their current teams - how these kids will turn out. All we know is most prospects will fall short. Its been that way for 100 years. I still remember FG roasting DD for getting robbed by Seattle when trading for Fister. adding an Olson or a Veirling will help the cause. always hoping for a little more than that.

There are a lot more examples of prospects that failed. I don't think it's lower level versus upper level. It's hoping that the Tigers are smarter than the team that they are dealing with and can identify the right players.

I know people have set this bar that where Harris has to get something, but part of how you maintain leverage is having the backbone to walk away if you don't get what you think is good value. I kinda hope that's the approach they take with Rodriguez in particular.... and if they cannot find a good enough deal, just work hard to see if he can be extended.

His voice is worse than RFK JR

This was still a season where I still didn't care so much what the record was. I cared about the individual progress of certain players and whether we could see Harris and his team find a few guys. I'm not interested in a team backing into the playoffs in a weak division with a near .500 record. The games this year have more often than not been competitive. I actually want to go to the games.

woke power lines bro

Electricity never went out before the Nessel regime not sure if you were aware

Nobody should ever be "showing off" their off their fire arms. Owning guns is serious business. And if anybody has a history with illegal drugs, they should lose their right to own a gun.

Especially when your whole strategy is control the strike zone and your young players watch the human windmill at the plate. Do as I say, not as I do.

Since the 9 game losing streak and then losing the home series against the A's?

Been some rough days this year (although not as many as I expected), but this one was likely the worst. Not really competitive in either game.

The boys in the booth mentioned Hal Newhouser having his numbered retired in history today. Found this little tid bit I didn’t know. After his retirement from baseball, Newhouser stepped away from the sport for 20 years, serving as a bank vice president. He later worked as a scout for several MLB teams, including the Houston Astros. Angered when they rebuffed his recommendation to draft future Hall of Famer Derek Jeter in favor of Phil Nevin, he quit shortly after.

This crappy week is great for the Tigers because there is no way they will screw up and be buyers at the deadline now.

Why do you hold the CIA in partcular fault for the Iraq War - it was the Presidential administration that drove us there and it was White House "leadership" driving the aspects of CIA bad behavior. I don't claim to have a clue about Slotkin's CIA work, but in as general proposition, large institutions are generally bigger and greyer than their individual actions. The CIA was an arm of a basically outlaw administration, but as we saw with the Trump admin - it's sometimes a lot better in the long run if some good people stay and throw what sand they can in the gears of the bad actors than to just all flee and leave the field to the baddies. Like a lot of things - it's situational. A high profile resignation can be politically signficant. At the analyst level maybe all that happens is the replacement is a more ideologically driven flack less likely to generate reliable intelligence. Unless you are self employed you aren't likely to ever go very long in a career before you disagree with the ethics of your employer. What you do about it will often depend on how much freedom you happen to have to not participate in what you don't like and how much positive value you think you bring in spite of the company.

Given Don Jr's evident use of cocaine...should he really be showing off his firearms?

That was eery. I don't want to see that happen to anyone.

the dailybeast.com (can’t seem to link the story. Sorry.. if someone else can , I’d appreciate it)