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You know, if you don't care about supporting the team, there are any number of options at your disposal during this time of rebuilding. You can root for the Lions or Red Wings or U of M or other local teams. If you want to still root for a baseball team and don't want to waste your team on what a team you must think of as losers, you can choose to root for a team that has consistent success, like the Dodgers or Yankees, or who are doing well now, like the Guardians or Orioles or Phillies or Brewers or Mariners. Or, hey: how about the Twins or Nationals or Mets? They are all 8-2 in their last ten games, so they're hot. Maybe you can jump on one of their bandwagons for a while. Point being, if you must root for a team that is winning right now, at this minute, and you either don't understand or don't care about the efforts the team you are posting about here is undertaking to make the organization a winner—or, more likely, if you think the team organization is overrun with bad actors trying to undermine it at every turn so they can laugh at you for following them in the first place—then the Tigers probably aren't the team for you. Either way, even though there is a lot going on with this team that can be fairly criticized, the relentless, childish, and unserious negativity is just soul-crushingly boring. You can obviously stay here and post as much as you like, but if this is what we're going to continue to see from you, then I don't know who around here is going to take you seriously. Word to the wise.

I think the thing teams look for more than someone to help them get to October is someone to help them get to November. That’s why I think the most likely trading partners for Flaherty, assuming continued health and dominance, would be the Dodgers, Braves, Yankees, and Phillies.

I would never say anyone is untradable, but Skubal is under team control until 2027. It would a take a king’s ransom if they were to trade him next year.

4th team was the coach, who was obviously not on the same page as the rest of the org. again, dysfuntion and disorganization comes from bad ownership.

Sheesh... a local store closes because the owners are in the early 70s and want to retire and people say "Another failure by WHIT-LESS and BIDEN". Or a business advertises that they have open positions and everybody says "BIDEN paying people to STAY HOME and NOBODY WANTS TO WORK"

Unfortunately, it's really hard to predict when it comes to an assistant. How much is he really responsible for? How much has he learned? Same questions we had with Weaver working under Presti or Landgon working under Griffin. You never truly know. What we do know is that he is very highly regarded around the league and most reports say that he will be a head coach at some point soon. He's been learning under the guy that most people consider to the best coach in the NBA right now. Also, "Heat culture" is something that many teams wish they had, especially in Detroit where the fans would love a return to something that feels like the "Going to Work" era. He'd be a gamble, just like any assistant without a proven record as a head coach. You're hoping that the apple doesn't fall from the tree. It's not a guarantee, but the alternative is to go get a re-tread who failed and got fired at least once before.

I can't get the tweet to post. But ESPN saying Detroit had permission to interview Dallas assistant Sean Sweeney and Minnesota assistant Micah Nori. They are also supposed to interview JB Bickerstaff. Bickerstaff is terrible. He would be a disaster.

I'm not sure who I'd want in return for Skubal at this deadline, given as you say he is under control for two-plus years still, but it would have to be at the level of Jackson Holliday-plus, and I say "plus" because Skubal is proven and Holliday is not. And Holliday is transitioning to 2B, which doesn't scratch our shortstop itch anytime soon.

I don't think Harris is selling Skubal, and I don't want him to, either. A team could use a premier talent to motivate fans to come while rebuilding, and this organization has already squandered too much goodwill during the last eight years to afford shooting themselves in the foot like that.

Team Hooper?

We should be buyers and sellers. Guys at the major league level include Flaherty, Canha, Kelly and Foley. I’d also be willing to move Jung and most other minor leaguers not named Clark or McGonigle to teams looking to shed payroll. We have no business trading for stopgaps or anyone with a contract expiring—They would need to be part of our future.

I swear just like every offseason we have an "Offseason thread" it feels like every summer we have a "Pistons Head Coach Search" thread as well.

Didn't matter what he was in or who he was playing. A pot-smoking college prof, a smart ass Army surgeon, a scientist trying to stop an alien invasion or an evil President overseeing kids killing each other as a game show - Donald Sutherland was a brilliant actor. Most actors are short, so it's harder for tall actors to get parts, but some break through because they are just great actors (James Cromwell comes to mind). And he had a great speaking voice too. But his best part was one of the most subtly brilliant performances in film history - as a heartbroken husband desperately trying to get his wife to acknowledge the death of a son and the pain of another in Ordinary People. He didn't even get an Oscar nomination for it. Probably because he was very political. One of the biggest snubs in Oscar history. A fine Canadian. R.I.P. Donald Sutherland. 88+ years is a good run

lol Deborah and Mark. Sounds like Gen Z's grandparents.

One underrated thing going into this debate, IMO, is that while incumbent Presidents usually are at a disadvantage going into debate #1 because they are rusty (think Obama v. Romney in 2012), challengers usually are more accustomed to the debate format for having gone through it in the primary cycle. That isn't the case here.... the GOP had primary debates, but Trump ducked every single one of them. And now, apparently, he's not even doing mock debates. Caveat being that some of this may be expectation setting on their part, but regardless it's not hard to imagine that Biden is taking prep more seriously than Trump is.

We have to frame calling up guys from Toledo as a way to further their development. It's not about saving this season or fixing this terrible offense. JHM deserves more time to see if his hit tool can develop facing major league stuff. Keith has to stay up because of their investment in him. If they think Meadows has made some good swing changes, he deserves a shot and Baddoo should be sent back down. But they can't fix this season either way.

Yep that's why high end relievers also can fetch a relatively high return due to their extra importance in the playoffs.

Clarence is waiting for the check to clear

Yes, we need Trump to be Trump! Free DJT to speak out about how his campaign team is backstabbing him! Lies, assassins everywhere! Nobody to trust Donald! Beware, even of your money-grubbing leech children. Except the blond one who looks like....Mother!

Biden has accomplished more than any Dem president since LBJ - and no one effing cares.

Lots of polling movement for Biden since the trial ended and Trump started going out and ranting and raving.

Trading present tense productive players for even top prospects is usually a loser, especially the way teams are valuing them now. IIRC Verdugo was a top prospect in baseball. Red Sox gave up Betts for him, Betts is still an all-star, Verdugo is a journeyman and not even with the BoSox. White Sox tried the same and got nowhere. When it comes to all-star baseball players there is no replacement for the bird in hand. At the time we thought we got a decent return for Verlander, in the end not so much. If you had given up an all start in trade to TB for the consensus best prospect in a generation in Wander Franco, it still would have blown up in your face. Until a guy proves he can play and stay in the majors, he remains a crapshoot.

the thing you don't credit enough here is that it wasn't only Bill Clinton that stopped guy marriage or Joe Biden that led a law and order swing. Those were where the majority of public opinion was at that time on those issues. The public moves on issues-it's a process, and sometimes the move is a huge distance, culture evolves. Politicians in general move with it, not ahead of it. Sometimes leadership makes a difference - maybe it did on LGBTQ issues to some degree, or maybe not. But in the majority of cases political outcomes are lagging, not leading, indicators of where the public is on an issue. It was the same 28 yrs ago as it is now. Why can't Biden just turn around the country? - because a huge number of voters are still electing GOP members of Congress and may even re-elect Trump. 30 yrs ago same sex marriage was still losing a fair number of ballot initiatives. California of all places, had its voters overturn same sex marriage as recently as 2008. A Congressperson is supposed to be a representative. If the people he represents change, he has to change with them at least enough to be re-elected. The US public has always had a deep reservoir of reactionary tendency. Of course that's become more obvious today than ever.

You are disappointed with Greene? A 23-year old posting a 135 OPS+? Tough critic.

My company was beyond weird about this one. “Spend the day contemplating the reasons for it” That could mean a lot of things.

Stubborn and...thankfully... gone

We can trade Flahtery and sign him next winter. It’s a rare thing but possible.

Oh, what's it matter, we're gonna suck forever.

Unfortunate time for the Tigers to play in Atlanta....Myself and my son were at all 3 games. All 3 games the players looked lifeless on the field and in the dugout. They have all packed it in as well as Hinch. The way he is managing the playing time is absurd. The Braves looked like a MLB team playing a college team.