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The Tigers off season was solid and properly measured for where they are as a franchise. Flattery, Maeda, Miller, Canna , Chafin and Urshela filled holes and provided much needed depth. Committing to Keith at second and moving Jung to third was solid as well. 2024 is the year we find out once and for all what type of players we have in Greene, Torkelson, Mize, Skubal and Carpenter. How they do will go a long way in deciding our 2024 off season shopping when real $$$ could be expensed. Do we have a middle of the order or not and is our pitching "set" as much as pitching ever is stable. They have to be our best five players and do really well if we are going to win the Central.

We have seen some monster offensive seasons in this ballpark. Multiple MVP’s, batting crowns, HR titles. In addition to Miggy’s overall output, we saw incredible performances by Magglio and Granderson (2007), and the Martinez brothers (Victor and JD). Maybe park performance has been influenced by bad offensive teams since 2015?

Snell signed for 2 years $62 mill. **** no! No thank you very much. Chapman signed for 3 years $54 mill. Nope! No thank you very much. Cody Bellinger signed for 3 years $80 mill. **** no! No thank you very much. Montgomery wants 7 years $172 mill. **** no! No thank you very much.

Forget the draft class. Forget the free agent class. The only thing that matters this summer is if Weaver is let go or not.

Exactly. First of all people act like the Tigers didn't even try to sign any one of the big ones, but maybe they did and they were met with a hard NO or the demand was way too steep. I am very glad they didn't pay Sonny Gray the contract he got at his age. He'll help the Cardinals for a year or two but I wouldn't want that deal here. Cody Bellinger? Why? We need our young OFers to play and get ABs. Matt Chapman? Maybe they tried and were just told no. I'll keep saying that it reminds me of everyone going crazy over Rich Aurillia back in the day. Not only did we avoid that horrible deal, but it got us Carlos Guillen who was one of the key players in their comeback. Aaron Nola was off the board immediately. There was never any shot at Ohtani or Yamamoto. Not sure on Snell. I doubt he'd come here without a ridiculous price. I think they actually got two pretty good starters for a good price. Not expecting Cy Young awards, but both pitchers are solid and Flaherty has something to prove - I think. They both seem motivated. I'm fine with their offseason.

Earl Weaver used to say you won with three things...pitching, defense and three run HR's

OH FOR F*** SAKE....now Dave builds a bullpen

Free agents aren't always a sure thing either. See the SS?

That's kind of where I am at. Chapman might have been the best 3B on the market, and his glove alongside Baez would have been fun on the left side of the IF, but his offense has dropped a bit from his prime Oakland days. Ignoring the compensation, I think he'd have been worth a short term deal to handle 3B while Jung is in the minors and to help lengthen the lineup a bit. I think Snell is suspect to coming back to earth this season. He walked a lot of batter last season and benefitted from BABIP. So, I wasn't into paying him off of a Cy Young season. A shorter term deal, ok, that's different. But, again, there's the draft compensation.

Pretty sure all of these has QO so you'd be giving up draft capital for 1-2 years on some rather flawed players.

Which of the contracts signed this past offseason would you like the Tigers to have?

What a moran.

Palestinian terrorists groups operating out of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan were conducting attacks against the state of Israel and Israeli intel was suggesting an attack from surrounding Arab countries was imminent. Egypt had been actively trying to block Israeli access to international shipping. Put in perspective, just as in today, the radical Arabs wanted to eliminate Israel. Israel, being fully aware of this, chose wisely and acted. I believe any country with the military capabilities would have been wise to do the same. Wouldn’t you think? Israel took the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip in this war. Based on their adversaries in 1967, holding these locations is paramount for security purposes. Israel remains under constant threats from Arab terrorists to the north today. I know you have a real hang up with “religion” as you have expressed on this board repeatedly. That said, religion had nothing to do with Israel striking first in 1967. It was a matter of survival against aggressive Arab neighbors that wanted Israel destroyed. I would think you’d support the US being proactive under the same circumstances. Would you not?

Of course he will. He always does. We have no justice system. We have a legal system designed to protect the wealthy.

I guess that makes some sense. I suppose the NFL wants some oversite as well... like being able to say: No, you're plan sucks so we're not approving it. OR: No, you're already stretched too thin because you already have X, Y, and Z areas and we don't think you can do justice to yet another area. Still seems weird though how they're talking about "awarding" a team GMP "rights" to a country. Makes it seem like they were competing against other team and they won exclusive rights to market to that area.

Home runs is the most efficient way to score runs in bunches, since relying on stringing together three singles as an ongoing strategy is fraught with points-of-failure along the way. The correlation between runs scored and home runs for the perios 2014-2023 (excl. 2020) is +0.78, whereas that between runs scored and single-base events (i.e., 1B+BB+HBP) is +0.57—not nothing, but definitely not as good for as home runs. Anyhow, people can go ahead and place prop bets on homers at Comerica Park based on whatever the hell Oddsshark is and what they put on their website, but based on Statcast, Comerica is hands down the worst home run park in baseball: Beyond team run-scoring strategies, the real point is that big hitters, meaning those for whom home runs is a part of their game, are not going to consider the team with the worst home-run ballpark in baseball as a top destination, unless they have already made their hundred million and now prioritize winning over getting good and paid, so that they don't mind suppressing their stats to do so. I don't have anyone in mind who would be up for that even this year.

Easiest thing in the world to predict. He's going to eventually get away with all of it. Even if he loses the election.

Once again, Egypt could open the border and let in refugees. Instead they fortified the border to keep them out.

Big pharma is run by the mexican drug lords?

also a good dunk

I think those are supposed to be totals through 71 games for each season though he's off one in '23

Why would you tell everybody you reached out to him then say it's none of your business when asked if you talked to him?

"Grandkids, come here. I want to tell you about the time I saw Buddy Boeheim have his career high scoring game."

what's wrong with you? lol.

what a healthy person

NATO represents the center of Democratic power in the world. But Fascism is better for business. No pesky proletarian voters forcing laws and regulations on their born with a silver spoon god given right to do what they want.

the pistons need to win 5 games to avoid tying the franchise record for losses in a season. by "srs" this is already the worst team in franchise history. three of the worst 5 seasons have come under weaver. the 16 win pistons did not have a first round pick the next year (the worst team by record but 3rd worst in srs). how depressing would that be? they still won 21 games the next year and got isiah thomas #2 in the 1981 draft. they took kelly tripuka as well as isiah and won 39 games the next year. under troy weaver the pistons have had 5 lottery picks and have gotten worse each season. i'm not even mad. that's such impressive futility its amazing. the hinkie sixer won 19, 18, and 10 before the nba pulled the plug and forced them to fire hinkie and hire brian "burner phone" colangelo. the pistons under weaver have won 20, 23, 17, and 12. does the league just not care about the pistons? is that why they make us live through this hell?

They had strong springs and made the team. Saying spring training doesn't mean anything isn't always true. Players make a team or get cut from their spring performance every year. Some of it shows up in the spring stats, sure. But look at Torkelson this spring, he's hitting under .200. There's no doubt in my mind he wouldn't make a ML team if he were a rookie. So yeah, sometimes stats don't matter. But we also have a BP battle of 4 pitchers for 2 spots. I bet spring stats will be part of that decision. As well as who has options left. Spring performance matters, sometimes.

I think this is more likely the case. I think Sneed may well be the better CB. But they don't think he's enough of an upgrade to warrant what he signed for. Were it up to me, I wouldn't have traded for either Sneed or Davis, I would have signed Kendall Fuller for what Miami did. That said, given the cost of only Sneed or Davis I'd have chosen Sneed. I don't think Davis will resign with us for substantially less than what Sneed just signed for. In any case, I'm fine with Davis as I have enough faith in Holmes and this regime to get it right in the end, even if they whiffed of CBs last offseason.

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The Mackinac Bridge from space.

This is that kid from Oaklands shot chart for the season. In the Kentucky game I think he took 21 shots, all of them 3 pointers. Someone said he had 4 dribbles the entire game. Funny thing. He only shoots 37% from three which with the college short line is not that great.