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Left/right do not matter. We need principled people.

And of course there's this

1876 - All Native American Indians were ordered to move into reservations. 1940 - The first Social Security check was issued by the U.S. Government. 1971 - Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.

Lalonde had an awful defensive system that didn't allow for players to have any sort of agency or creativity outside of this person needs to be here and when you get the puck immediately flip it out of the zone. You could really see it with Seider, any sort of creative plays he used to do with the puck dried up the last two seasons. I also feel that his defensive system seemed to rely more on collapsing into your own zone instead of trying to stop flow through the neutral zone, which I hate. Then on top of that, I feel like the last season and a half he was coaching scared to lose his job and stifled the offense even further. They weren't chasing after dumping and they basically had no way to generate scoring chances. You could tell that the system absolutely crushed most of the players, they didn't seem to be interested in doing more than going through the motions because the system was so rigid and based around not giving up a goal. Todd, while he runs an overall defensive oriented system with players collapsing more into a trap type scenario when the opposition is breaking out, it seems like emphasis is placed on hounding the puck carrier in the neutral zone. On top of that the players seem to be given the chance to actually make plays with the puck, passes or carrying, instead of instantly flipping it out. It seems like guys are jumping up on offense more and possessing more as well. Honestly in the end it all boils down to his "just play ****ing hockey" rant. Lalonde basically coached these guys into being robots in his system which wasn't flexible at all. Todd wants them to rely less on falling back to the system, but work within that system using your instincts and skills to make plays. Plus Lalonde was an absolute moron when it came to deploying people, especially young players. Johansson is playing 20+ minutes a night and he would barely leave the press box under Uncle Fester. Kasper was being shoehorned into a bottom six checking role. The man put Motte on the top line. In retrospect it is kinda crazy what he did to this team, no wonder all the signings looked awful!

Principled means we can eliminate republicans and progressives. I just want a 50 year old Biden and not Hunter. What could have been if Beau were still alive.

The strategy of rope-a-dope isn't going to work if the opposition has nuclear weapons. The key to strategy is figuring out the rules of the game you are playing now. Not in the 1970s or 80s but now. If the stories about the ineptitude about social media are true we may be doomed. Mayor/Secretary Pete is another who knows how the game is played. He might have to be the WWII version of the USS Enterprise of this phase of the struggle.

I see it a little differently, and I'm responding to the whole board here, not just you. I see the Torres signing as a way to get wins from a marketplace in which there is no perfect solution, and in which even the best solutions, at this moment, require exorbitant expense and commitment that will impact decision-making for the next half decade, especially given there are still so many other holes around the roster to fill. I don't think Harris thought we were assured enough of a certain playoff spot in 2025 to where signing such expensive talent would be the difference between crapping out in early October and playing into November. I also don't think Harris merely enny-meeny-miney-moed Torres out of the discount bin at Walmart because he's cheap, and also, wants to bull**** fans and Ilitch into thinking he's doing something when all he's really doing is arranging deck chairs until the Dodgers call with a job offer. Based on his track record so far, I am willing to give Harris the benefit of the doubt that he has a plan to win both now and in the future, until he demonstrates to me that he has no idea what he's doing. When he does demonstrate that, then I will get on board with some of the others here about him. But I don't believe he's at that point yet, especially just because he hasn't signed a particular guy or two yet. I know everyone is sick of the waiting, and yes, the waiting is the hardest part. But some of us still remember how Dombrowski traded away the top of the farm system, and Papa Doc routinely empty the Brinks truck, in a failed attempt to win a ring with a team that was never once the best in the game (2013 being the closest), and how it hamstrung us once he bailed and the torch was passed to someone who was merely Peter-principled into the job and then smashed the franchise into the rocks within seven years. Speaking only for myself, I don't want to see a repeat of that, I'm glad Harris is not working on a repeat of that, and I'm willing to give him a chance to prove he can do the job until, again, he proves to me that he can't. If that makes me a dip**** slappy in the eyes of some, well, can't be helped.

Keith probably could have done that. I'm not upset that they signed Torres. It was a surprisingly good contract for the Tigers and he has offensive upside. It was just odd because he doesn't seem like a great fit defensively. He not a good fielder, not versatile, not even willing to move to change positions. It seems to me like he was a good value, so they decided to jam him into the roster somehow.

I see your LGJ and give you Barry Goldwater Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

Lying doesn’t matter. Proof doesn’t matter. Pictures don’t matter. Videos don’t matter. Congressional hearings don’t matter. Swearing to tell the truth at these hearings doesn’t matter. What part of this isn’t anyone understanding anymore?

and she's going to direct national intelligence LOL or make a coat out of some dalmatians

I get the feeling Chris wouldn't know who Torres was. It's not like he is a big name. my hope is that Harris sees something in him where he thinks they can get him back to the level he was in his good years. If they can do that, he can either give them a really good year in a playoff run or a half season before flipping him at the deadline. I am kind of done with flipping players at the deadline though even if it worked out last year.

“Mesdames et monsieurs, bienvenue au Centre Bell”. Am at Wild @ Habs. My first Habs home game attended since 1989. Btw, they are back to booing the U.S. national anthem again, lame. Surprising, too, as they are usually thrilled when someone tries to stick it to Anglo-Canada.

It seems that you have no idea what average actually means.

I'll be straight with you: I'm a bit worried about people running just to "throw the old guard out", because it will tend to attract a lot of the same "leftists" that boomerang back and forth on the spectrum just for the attention. people like ... well, like Simena (and Fetterman?). I want to see people running who have the same principles as the old guard who are also young and not afraid to mix it up with the Trumpers.

Elon Musk is everything Republicans claimed George Soros was and more.

Not even a toy bullpen car https://www.ebay.com/itm/356273065749?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=9QQjqESrRxy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=kqHvYtTeTyS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I would never want to get on Bert's bad side. Things are getting heated!

"for miles and miles..." is the legend. Not to divert but here's another cool moon video where Dave Scott demonstrate's Galileo's theory where he drops a hammer and a feather.

Insane...

YOu know you can't let a space thing sneak by me..... but I already covered teh Apollo 14 mission here somewhere... This was Shepard's long awaited return to spaceflight after his 15 minute miaden voyage almost 10 years earlier. He'd been grounded due to ear issues. He had what was then experimental surgery, now it's kind of routine. Fellow astronauts were a bit but off that he was given a command without being a backup but he was a legend still. Stu Roosa took up some seeds with him and later they were given to friendly nations and planted as "moon trees". He was an environmentalist and flew planes to help put out wildfires. He would have commanded an Apollo 20 if they hadn't cut out missions.

President Trump is doing such a good job delivering on what he said he would in his campaign that the left has resorted to posting garbage like this. Pretty soon this will be reported as fact on CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN so the far left heads will explode over more false info.

Just go to share and copy the link.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

5 will get you 10 he exempts oil.

Well said. This is 'not' the 1990s anymore for offensive production.

To be honest, that sounds a lot like what 84 was saying. The best player on their board that they love. The right fit-ie lives and breathes football. And we’ve seen how best player for them is completely different than other teams.

There will be an SNL concert on peacock. Not sure if on NBC that 7 min opening on their music special was brilliant.

Fans always get BPA wrong, it’s not the best player available on some consensus draft board, it’s always been the best player available for that particular team at that particular point in the draft.

More of this, please...

Of course, while many are rooting for Trump to somehow step aside, look who's a heartbeat away ... Oh, and hey, look! Bluesky embeds now!

Like holic, they realize that he's made a fool of them and they'd rather run away than admit they were duped.

I think Harris will need to take risks at some point during his tenure with the Tigers. It's pretty rare for a team to have long-term success solely based on their own products. The perfect contract for the perfect free agent is never going to happen.

Make provocative posts, then complain about not liking provoked responses to said provocative posts. When posts are more easily construed to be entry points to civil discourse, that is probably more of what results.

Myles Turner still plays with Lego’s

so now we are mad at Law for ... being complimentary of the team?

He blamed it on Obama and Biden. Remind me... who was in between those Presidents?

OK Scott 😃

confirmation hearings are a total waste of time - the appointees just lie through their teeth. Until a Congress is willing to impeach or judge or cabinet officer for having lied at a confirmation, it will just continue to get worse. There is no accountability.

Guy signs with a team that is playing in a minor league stadium they are SHARING with an A team in a place with ungodly heat and humidity and thunderstorms nearly every day. The Tigers have Javy Baez still on the roster. I am changing my offseason from a C- to a D+. But a lot of us had this fear of "Hey, we made the playoffs, we don't need to do anything because EVERYONE will develop more on their own". I feel like Torres is every bit as likely to have a Javy Baez type season than to have one that turns his career around. And Alex Cobb. I'm hopeful he can maybe be Mike Lorenzen 2.0 but I feel like there is an equal chance he can be Kenta 2.0. But why the ever-loving **** is Baez still on this roster? He's done. I think what happened last year feels very flukey to me. It was miraculous. I don't think they repeat that - and that means that a team with this lineup and a rotation of Skubal-Cobb-Olson-Mize-???? will have to play over .500 all season and I just don't think they can do that. Not without another good starter or not without another good bat, which doesn't seem to be coming. And as far as Bregman goes, I really don't care about him anymore. I know we're the only team still in on him and this Houston thing is a play to get the Tigers to jump. I would love to have him in the lineup, but not for stupid money and I am glad the Tigers aren't biting, but it seems clear to me that he really doesn't want to come here and I'm like the rest of Detroit. You don't want us? We don't need ya, we've gotten through plenty without ya. Bye. I would have loved to have had Kim. OBP guy, does things that work great in a big ballpark. Would have been the best glove at any infield position (sorry, Sweeney, ,you're average). I'm like Lee, I think he would have been a better deal than Bregman when you add the potential finances into it, when honestly Lee should have been the primary target all along. So what if he misses the first 6 weeks, the 6 weeks they're gonna use to realize that Baez is finished.

Chatting about this on bsky last night...the SNL music special was amazing. Highlights: the incredible music history lesson that watching 50 years of supremely diverse performances is the Rage Against the Machine/Steve Forbes events the previously not seen by me: Dad's band at daughter's wedding sketch

Speaking of which, this article just dropped on MLBTR: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/01/mlb-mailbag-bregman-red-sox-kelenic-tigers-marlins.html It's a subscriber-only article, but if you don't subscribe, I can share a little of it with you. They write that despite owner Jim Crane saying he is unwilling to pay the luxury tax for a second consecutive season, the 6/156 offer is still open to Bregman, per GM Dana Brown, and if you take them at their word that it is still an open offer, it would most definitely put the Astros over the threshold again, and all Bregman has to do is say the word in the next sixty seconds and he's back: I don’t see why Scott Boras wouldn’t just accept the Astros’ offer. It’s true: if he finds Bregman a bigger offer elsewhere, he wins. I’m not sure Bregman would be happier; I don’t know what’s going on in his head. But accepting $156MM to stay in Houston would hardly be a disappointment, and it’d still be more money than Matt Chapman received on his recent extension. Here's the Tigers' portion of the article: The only reason for the Tigers to sit this one out is not liking the value presented in signing Bregman at whatever price would get him there. The guy turns 31 in March and his walk rate fell off a cliff last year. As nice as the fit is in Detroit and as much as they can afford him, it’s still not necessarily a good signing if it’s in the $175MM range. I decided to subscribe for a month basically to get this article. I got a reward card from DirecTV and it's kind of free money, so why not.

Big 70 today. Who'da thunk.