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Annual reminder.....scouting comps are physical comps, not performance comps.

Cancel the ASB...keep playing!! 🤣

Tigers targeting college players who have little leverage in negotiations. Someone’s gotta pay for our Day 1 high schoolers.

I’ll be shocked if she’s even a judge in a few years. I expect her to resign and take a ridiculously high paying job with the Adelson Family Foundation.

Probably drafting a bunch of college seniors for below slot over the next couple of rounds.

Weird, I thought saying Trump was chosen by God was ridiculing Christians.

If God was watching out for Trump why didn't he watch out for that Firefigther and father who was there and protected his daughter? Why didn't God look out for that man's life?

you have a problem.

What strikes me here is the quote "replace them with our people". These hypocrites always talk about wanting small government, but they really don't. They want THEIR people in there.

I think Kamala Harris would be a good president. She seems to be a quite accomplished person, I don't think she lacks substance.

Hang this around their necks too.

538 has Biden as the favorite, so I'm not sure where this certainly the favorite to win comes from.

He’s Peter Thiel’s bitch.

Low cost index funds, diversify some, set and forget. Easy peazy and you come out ahead.

I liked the book, but I also think he's also a much different person today than he was when he wrote that book.

There is however... Still a couple prep pitchers I wish they'd chase. But... I'm assuming the bonus demands put them out of play...

I agree that we should not move prospects for rentals to help our cause this season. However, I would move some in a trade for a controllable player that can help beyond this season, similar to our first round picks we dealt for Cabrera (Maybin, Miller) and Anibal and Infante (Jacob Turner).

The Tigers are, at best, a .500 team. Not yet, but close. I wouldn't trade a single prospect in hope of passing half a dozen teams for the last wild card. This little hot streak is really fun and hopefully signs of things to come in a couple of years. But don't trade away a future player who could possibly help us win in a couple/few years. Just my opinion...I hate trading prospects.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2024-mlb-draft-day-one-recap/ "This might be my favorite group from Day One. Lefty-hitting shortstops with power are rare and Detroit got one in Bryce Rainer at 11, hit tool risk be damned. I had a first round grade on Owen Hall, whose frame and arm action are screaming with long-term projection, and his pitch quality foundation is already in a great spot. Ethan Schiefelbein is almost like a diversification pick because he’s polished. There were some college arms available who I have ranked a little ahead of him (Bruce Cunningham was the big one), so it wasn’t as if Schiefelbein was an alternative to a lack of college pitchers, but I had him ranked right around where he was taken."

This case wasn't going to be heard before the election anyway though, that's the weird thing to me. The easy way to kick the can was already lined up by the Supreme Court. Prosecuting a former President will now take months, if not years, of evidentiary hearings to suss out the line between official acts and unofficial acts. That wasn't going to happen before November.

Precisely my point. Here it is boys. This is playoff baseball. Let's learn some lessons now.

I have too many stories about stupid moves and big losses, so many that if I started recounting them here, I might have to go into therapy to cope.

Reminds me of my foray into the 1990’s market rise and 2000 crash. Lots of good war stories have been written about that time period in the markets.

Flaherty was signed for the sole purpose of improving his pitches and, if so, to be moved at the trade deadline. Harris waited too long last season with the ERod deal and it failed because of the no-trade clause in his contract. Flaherty can be traded anywhere, find the best possible deal and move him. There are many possible playoff teams that need pitching so just make demands and if no team(s) meet them, keep Jack here. Wait to see if his back is OK and try to extend him. If not, take the comp pick.

(Checks the thermostat)

I love the movement on Hall's FB. Wiggins is on my radar for our pick at #85. Brassfield... No.

It's also the height of hypocrisy for you to whine about YOUR religion after supporting the dozens and dozens of antisemtic videos MB posted. Apparently your religion deserves special treatment you fail to afford to others. Even weirder you do that on a sports forum.

Says the guy whining about his religion... on a sports forum.

Phil Mankowski is one of our neighbors. Great guy.

They don't draft players without knowing what it'll take to sign them.

If Evangelicals don’t represent you, then please try not to take offense at criticisms of them, even if they’re referred to by the blanket term “Christians.” It’s almost always the Evangelicals being referred to, which you can probably deduce from context clues.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/arizona-florida-complex-league-schedules-changing-for-2024/

In the MLB report on him is speculation of moving to third and winning a gold glove there.

Fcl season will be close to over by the time he signs. Both will probably be in lakeland.

Tigers select Rainer

Watching the 9th inning again with the Dodger announcers. They sound sad...lmao They said the Dodgers haven't won a game when they didn't score after the 1st inning in 5 years. I'm glad we kept that streak alive!! 😅

Yeah, the younger cooler dads who were coaching the father's day allstar tournament games I was watching had these on. Apparently they work. I think also there is a UPF aspect because some of God's creatures get melanoma under his flashlight.

When my heart is pulling for them, but I’m not physically present through any media connection to follow them, they seem to do better. It’s kind of like Schrodinger‘s cat but when I open the box it’s alive.

The Dodgers come to town 47-0 when they have the lead after 8 innings. They're now 47-2. Hee-Hee

I summon a rally

But what does the anemometer on your driveway say?

I hope we don’t take a linear approach to adding talent—doesn’t have to just be moving veterans for prospects. If we can also package some prospects for a controllable player (i.e., Vladdy or Bichette), we should do that, as well.

Saw this yesterday at the local Regal theater because I like getting at least something out of my $20 a month subscription and it was great. It’s not a kids movie. It’s kind of an art house animated feature about adult suffering. It’s actually pretty incredible. My son, who is 50 years younger than me, really wants to see it so I’m seeing it again Sunday afternoon. It’s worth seeing twice, and I like hanging out with him too. It’s got a 98% critic rating on rotten tomatoes.

You could always try Sports_Freak's driveway.

I'm a terrible, terrible investor—it's practically more like gambling to me—and my losses are legion. I am the only guy in the history of the world to lose money on Microsoft in the 1990s. Even so, I have had a couple of big wins. Notably, I put $5,000 into Netscape in 1995 and sold it a few weeks later at $7,000. Then I put all that in Sun Microsystems and held on. Around 2000 or so, whenever they hit their top and even after it had slud some 30% or so, I sold off and still collected more than $70,000. In my case, though, it was truly blind squirrel nut. I'm sitting on another win here, although not as big as I'd like it to have been. I bought 10 shares of NVDA last May at $313.40/sh, which after the split works out to 100 shares at $31.34—so, some $3,100—as part of a play in AI with some discretionary money into stocks including MU, ORCL, PLTR, IBM, and, funnily, MSFT. NVDA went up as high as $140 yesterday. That's a four-bagger, the company is now the highest valued on the market at over $3T, which seems completely overheated, and I'm thinking, maybe it's time to bail. So yesterday afternoon, I set up a stop limit at 125.10/124.90, meaning, initiate a sell of all shares when it drops to or below 125.10, but only if it stays over 124.90. That way, if the stock has a wild hair moment where it drops to one dollar or something before boomeranging back up, I don't get shook out at that price. NVDA was down yesterday, closing at 130.78, ten dollars off the day's high. This morning's pre-market showed it hovering around 127. Good chance the stop limit order would execute. In my limited and shrinking understanding of technicals, the market likes round numbers to serve as resistance and support. So, I could envision the market getting down to just below 125, a very round number, then turning around and shooting up, which would sell me out at the lowest point. Then I would not be a participant in a new run. So I thought, why not take a bit of a chance here and split the order? I'll set up a stop limit sell for half the shares at 124.10/123.90 (down a dollar from where I had it), to avoid a round number shakeout, and the other half at 119.10/118.90, which would avoid the same kind of shakeout at 120. Well ... this morning, NVDA did go down and down, flirting with the 125 floor before breaking through, and going down as low as 124.30, before turning back around. As of 1028am ET, it's back up around 126 and change. So, based on my changes, instead of selling the entire lot out at 125, per my instructions before the market opened, I still own 100% of my NVDA because I had changed those instructions. I think in a perfect world, NVDA goes back up to 140+, then I reestablish my stop limit for something like 129.10/128.90, and I clear a few hundred more dollars. Fact is, though, even if it dives later today and both sells are triggered, I still have almost quadrupled my little investment from $3,100 to more than $12,000, taxed at 15% instead of as income. So even though I'm not getting maximum points for style in that scenario, I can still pay for the housepainting job we're getting done right now with the win. This is the "game" part of the game. And, also, why I don't gamble unless there's only house money involved.

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