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You spelled Viña wrong. and yes, I am joking.

I’d rather they pay Fetter than Bregman

Points given up the Lions in the 2nd half of their past 7 games: 0, 11, 0, 0, 0, 20, 24 I’m hoping a lot of the breakthroughs the past couple of games is due to injuries and depth and that the hoped for return of a few players this week will help with that. Buffalo is a very good 2nd half team, by the way.

Chris Fetter is Baseball America's 2024 MLB Coach of the Year. Well deserved.

I don't, and I desperately don't want to.

So far this off season has me a bit bummed out.

LOL - I seem to remember one season Porcello came out of ST with like a 0.00 ERA and still proceeded to be his usual <100 ERA+ pitcher for the season....

It does matter. The stats don't really matter, but whether he has learned what he needs to learn to start in the majors does matter.

I was that “arrogant” person. These folks either have no kids or the kids are grown adults. They were indulging. Nothing wrong with that on its own. Just cut the bull****.

Those who shop for electric rates are in for a rude awakening as well. I have been shopping and going forward our electric bills are going nowhere but up. I don't know how it scales, but my electric usage runs about 27% of my bill. What a friken ripoff. But it's going higher. I'm paying .0582 per KwH right now. Best I can find is .07 something. So for ever 400 Kw the bill will go up $8 bucks, which is only the electric.

We are in a weird place. Everyone complaining about the economy being so terrible but as a whole the American Consumer is spending like a drunken sailor - that's going to make it harder to push inflation lower - and just more so if the Fed keeps easing. I think the Fed is still taking some money out of circulation with 'QT'

This particular thread tries to stay away from political trolling. Take it to the election threads.

Give that man a designated driver, lol. The Lions’ defense incurs enough injuries on the field, don’t need any on the roads as well.

LMAO...welcome to Michigan;

Hicks was also acquired before Liranzo came aboard and before he became a known dude. Same with Briceno's AFL breakout, even if he is unlikely to stick at C.

A more efficient facilitator of classified information transfer to the Kremlin?

Fun fact: Rocky is the only player in Tigers history to play 163 games in a season.

Well, the Winter Meetings are over tomorrow and it looks like Team Harris will accomplish their #1 goal: Not making any mistakes. Congrats to all and we are off to Applebee's* to celebrate! (*please don't forget that the per diem is $49/day.)

COWARDS!! At least the good news is that Talbot was playing pretty well before his injury I thought.

I'm old enough to remember going down to West Virginia to grandma's house. She was a treat. Hated me and dad. Cooked on a pot belly stove, which also served as a heat source. Fridge need a block of ice which was delivered to the door. This was even in town, a little burg in the hills. Next door neighbor, uncle Ed, had a huge garden. He also used to take a part of a pig and hang it in a root cellar rubbing it down with salt over months. That was the holiday feast. Pies made with lard and the sides from the garden. They all grew up during the depression, but I'm not sure the hillbilly's even knew it. They were really good with corn too - especially if they put a fire under it. 🙂

Liar posting content from another liar on state media talking about the goings ons on other state media Hard pass

For a political party that spent YEARS pitching a fit about unelected, unappointed Czars in the Obama Administration, they have no problem with Czar Musk and Czar Ramaswamey being unelected and unappointed heads of an organization that Congress didn't authorize.

I dint know if this is legit, but it would be wild. It’s probably the school his girlfriend is going to enroll at.

Having virtually every big name FA go to one of the Yankees, Mets or LAD for stupid amounts the past few years has really put a damper on my enthusiasm for the game.

We have almost zero waste. Most well run restaurants will be the same way. Some exceptions. First one is when you first open a new place. Traffic is so sporadic and unpredictable. We have nights we do $1,000 and the next day do $30,000. You have to be ready for the big night because you generally only get one shot with a new customer. If they come in and half your menu is 86'd they wont give you a second shot normally. Second is weather. If you normally do 1200 people on a certain night and there is a snow/ice storm and 50 people show up. Well, its a bad time. After about a year you really see waste drop off to nothing. Chefs have enough data on how busy you are and that obviously helps them on supply orders. Plus, your staff is fully trained up and that always equals less waste. We also do 50% profit sharing and let me tell ya, that really makes your staff pay attention to detail when the waste is coming out of their own pocket basically. We also do a staff/family meal every day. So on the odd chance we do have some waste, we make it available to the group doing family meal that day. As far as donating, we tried. Its too sporadic for them to dedicate a volunteer to pick things up, etc. So we implemented a program that lets our employees volunteer 5 hours a month and we pay them for it. Originally that was just for food banks but now we let them do it for most charities. We aren't going to pay them to donate time at the local right wing militia or some free Hamas group. Religious charities are fine, just not the extreme ones. Unfortunately, not a lot of employees take advantage of this.

As far as Tiger fans are concerned, I think the wild card question for our future is what kind of spender this Ilitch will be. Seems like most posters here believe Baby Doc will turn the team into the Pirates or Rockies, if we’re unlucky, or into the Rays, if we’re lucky. Meaning, whether we win or lose on the field, we still lose our Skubals at free agent time and, who knows, maybe our Greenes, too. Personally, I do not accept at face value that’s what he’s is going to do. He may not throw money around practically indiscriminately the way Papa Doc did—which I don’t think would be a good thing, anyway—but he has has already shown that, if he’s been convinced we’re in a position to win, he will spend the money. Exhibit A: Javy Baez. The Pirates or Rockies or White Sox owners would never have done that, were they in our position at the time. I agree with people who say they don’t think Harris would have come here if he knew we’d become the Rays and lose all our homegrown players at crunch time, so if we win at all, we’ll have to do so on a shoestring. Others might think he would take one of only 30 available job no matter where it is, but I think Harris was smart enough and career-focused enough to vet the situation well before accepting the job here. Bottom line, I will choose to believe the Tigers will spend when it’s time, until they prove to me they won’t. It’s simply not time to push in all those chips just yet. Too many other holes he inherited that we still have to address. But I do think it will happen.

This might be a bit harsh. But I think Harris cares more about development and process wins to much bigger degree than winning games next year. He wants to win. But he's not going to take on contractual risk to make the team better in 2025 just because of 'momentum' or the 'Skubal Window.' As a fan who cares about next year, it's a bit frustrating. But that's my way of reconciling things. We might take a step back because they have development losses and no contigency plans. But they don't want contigencies from older vets on bad contracts.

Tommy's wife in Landman gives me huge Tammy Taylor (FNL TV show) vibes. She is also the least interesting character and gets way too much screen time. Never been on the production side of breast feeding. But beer producing more milk seems suspicious. Has Demi Moore's career tanked? She is basically a background character. I don't even think she spoke this episode. Ariana's dog had more screen time. Curb stomping the bosses son seems like a bad career choice.

Counterpoint: LOL