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My prediction is that even if he stays under control, Trump will 100% be playing to his base, which is all he ever does, and that's what will do him in with independents. Trump's political strategic error is that he believes his base is a majority of the voting public. it isn't.

Nah, I prefer the politics forum remain civilized.

Looks at calendar to see if its April Fool's Day in June.

the rule to me seems backwards... as far as I'm concerned it's a "pitch clock" not a "batters clock" and the hitter can do whatever they want but the pitcher is throwing, ready or not. They are the ones with the ball in their hands.

I’m most disappointed that they didn’t use this opportunity to gain more assets. I don’t hate Holland. He’s a pure upside swing for the fences. I’d take him over Matas. I just think he would have been there later and I’d rather have had Carter and assets.

Cool. We just disagree. I want an aggressive owner who hires an aggressive GM to build around their stud starting pitcher like the last time the Tigers were good. Prospects are great until they aren't.

ergo: trading Skubal is a loser for the Tigers.

we've investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing.

He good shoot

Whoops, yeah. ACB.

Pretty sure they are trying to get back under the second apron. They still have some work to do.

Love is always real, man! (hear this in Dennis Hopper's voice and you have it.)

Al Michaels allowing an A.I version of his voice to do Olympic recaps. WRONG MOVE AL. If you can't cut it yourself anymore, just walk away, retire. If you don't have that kind of energy let an up and comer do it. Opening a door here that is going to cost a lot of people their jobs and I don't want to hear the whole "this is going to happen anyway", well maybe so, but the people who already had their careers and are riding off into the sunset shouldn't be the one stabbing the next generations in the back. Losing all respect for Al over this. This will start something terrible. The Uncanny Valley. It's like using Audrey Hepburn's computer re-generated likeness for a chocolate ad 20 years after her death. Not only is it morally wrong, but it's creepy.

Jung's wrist is ok and he has been cleared to return to baseball activities in Lakeland.

You never draft based major league needs. You take the best available talent, period, it always works itself out.

This court is sooo compromised. If you have a decision, the debate being tonight shouldn’t have any sway as to releasing it. Utter cowardice.

I wouldn't be mad if they used that pick on Bronny to screw LeBron.

i thought kenny would retire at this point. im sure the players union would like him to continue handing out ridiculous contracts with no movement clauses to average players...

i assume they have 7 votes for democracy; once they have just 5 votes, Roberts could release decision; he wants it unanimous; Alito and Thomas might be getting all they can from this: a delay that is pissing off their critics

I want to apologize in advance to the board. I will be in attendance tonight so they will lose. I go every year they are in town and it’s been six years since I have seen a victory. Fingers crossed 🤞

Biden's campaign released a pre-debate ad a day or two ago which hit the theme of "I'm fighting for you, Trump is fighting for himself".... so a safe bet that's the direction they are looking to go in.

I've come to this conclusion as well... 2020 was as much about persuasion as turnout, but Biden's issues at the moment are with groups that historically have been in the Democratic corner. He has to consolidate.... there's time, but a number of things have to go right between now and November. I don't know that tonight will change much, but certainly the spin from Trump's campaign going in doesn't exactly project confidence about their candidate IMO

Still can’t find Deivi Cruz in the image…

in addition to allowing bribery so long as you get paid after, 6-3 court just got rid of SEC in-house actions, bouncing them to over burdened fed courts. considering that prosecutors don't go after white collar crime generally, this means more and more securities fraudsters will go unpunished. truly awful decision. Corruption, corruption, corruption

I think that just comes with a bit more time. Lucky for us the FSL has done a good job of having some stadiums with Statcast ability so when you look for his Ofers there are usually some high EV balls that are hit at people. Rarely does it seem that he doesn't get ahold of one or two balls a game and gets some high velocity behind them and put them in play.

I believe Samuel Gil might be the first Amish player ever for the Tigers. In addition to his impressive baseball skills, he’s also adept at churning butter and an invaluable contributor to any barn raising.

I'm not watching. Wife and I are catching up on X Men and Deadpool movies for what's coming out next month, plus The Bear has 10 episodes out.

Willi Castro is on pace for 5+ WAR for the ***** Twins; would like to hear Harris & Co explain what they missed when he walked out the door for nothing.

Glad to hear the Pistons did their homework.

If we were to trade Skubal this deadline, the Tigers might as well run ads telling people to stay home for the next couple of years, because there will be nothing to see and dream on. And make that double if we were to make the choice to trade Skubal and sign Flaherty for a single year, as someone suggested, instead of trading Flaherty and keeping Skubal for 2-1/2 years. Skubal is the one great player on the team and we have him locked up until at least mid-2026. Barring injury, there’s no way he’s not breaking camp with us next March.

Yep I agree. He's got a lot of ammo for sure. I think my concern is more around Biden inadvertently butressing the Unified Reichs crap about his age

You can play out all the ways this could backfire on Biden. Be too aggressive and you make Trump seem like the good guy. Then again, what if Trump reverts to previous Biden debate form? What if Biden can just drop a "would you shut the hell up? or a Reagan-like "There you go again" on him. Biden has a lot of actual ammo to use: "This is as close as most convicted felons can get to a Secret Service protectee" "Let me tell you about 'suckers and losers'; the people who decide against all better sense to be your legal team" "My cabinet supports me; you tried to murder your VP" "Why did you have all those documents and why did you fight the subpoena, and why were you so interested in the Deutch bank whistleblower?"

I have decided that I am not going to watch. I’ll get my info second hand from trusted sources. (family I like, and some of you folks 😁) I seem to be getting much too emotional, aggravated, and just plain unsettled with this lately. (Hoping I actually survive til November, and then to January)

Biden's all jacked up on Crestor.

We should do a GDT for the debate

No matt how you feel about the pick, you have to laugh at fans reactions. Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, talked about Holland before the draft. Now every idiot with a keyboard is saying how they really felt Holland was the best player in the draft.

what can you do? Nothing of value is *happening* (yet...) 🤷‍♀️

It's an IdahoBert game thread!!

Have you taken a look at the 2020 draft recently? Tork has been bad so far, but every team in baseball takes him with the number 1 pick that year. That was the COVID draft, teams were basically flying blind because there was little to no scouting going on. They were going off old data from the previous season, and Tork was looking like a sure thing based on what he did in 2019. With hindsight being 20/20 who do you take with the number 1 pick that draft? Garrett Crochet, I guess? There’s no way anyone would have taken him with the number 1 pick that year. No way. I think Avila stunk, but using Tork’s career bWAR as evidence is kind of silly IMHO. There’s plenty of other ammo for that particular argument. The 2020 draft is so weird to me, the reds took a kid with the 12th pick that had tons of power and now in 2024 he’s stuck in AA with a .600 OPS. At least Tork will have a major league career, ha. with all that said, I’m hoping the Reds are the team the Tigers trade Tork to. I could see him hitting 40 bombs in GABP.

the return on that is 5 years out (2030!) and with a low probability of actually hitting on a ML player. yes, something is better than nothing, but that would not be a good result IMO

That guy sitting across from him has to be Triple Seven (for those old school MTS folk)

Translation: The Supreme Court is open for business!

randy smith was terrible. al avila was also terrible. differenr situations. smith took over an aging mlb team but had some younger players in the system who turned out ok. higginson, clark, weaver, justin thompson, rob fick! i dont think smith gets credit for any of them except maybe weaver (who was really just "ok") and fick (also just "ok"). he should rightly be criticized for the juan gone deal. smith's team's came within a whisker of 500 a couple times. better than "avila constructed" teama have ever done. avila's only good season was a team he inherited from DD and the proceeded to add jordan zimmerman to. i come not to praise randy smith but to bury him. but i'm burying him right next to the guy who traded away hall of famers for peanuts, signed jordan zimmerman to put the tigers over the top, and inked javy baez to a long term deal. winning % smith: 422 avila: 415 (not counting the covid season, which helps avila). theyre both terrible.

The best thing to happen during the Randy Smith era was Juan Gonzalez turning down his 8 year/ $140 million offer at the start of the 2000 season. Terrible decision by Juan, great for the Tigers. 2nd best move was trading Greg Gohr for Damion Easley. But then he gave Easley a big contract extension and we ended up eating most of that. None of his other moves really came out to the Tigers' advantage. Terrible GM.

I get that you have decided that Avila can not get any credit for any successes from players currently on the team and that any player that succeeds will be because of something Harris did. However, Randy Smith was horrible. The only thing that saved him was Gonzalez not wanting anything to do with Detroit and refusing that stupid contract.

This Phillies team is classic Dombrowski, except the bullpen is more reliable. Lineup of mostly veterans acquired from other organizations with power and spotty defense in places. And a killer rotation, many of whom are homegrown. He is a master of the quick turnaround.