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This is why we can't have nice things with you around. Biden was told how he was handling student debt forgiveness was unconstitutional, so he stopped doing that way and tried another means to achieve his goal that he felt was constitutional. If it isn't, parties have a right to challenge that too. His tweet above is that despite being stopped, he continued to fight for his goal. Nothing is legally wrong with that. Trump has every right to try and enact any changes he wants to do, but if what he does is determined to be out of his legal rights, he needs to find another way to do it.

Are you talking about Ordonez's offense or defense? 😀

I don't know, if we did offer something better than Houston and he's been stringing us along, then screw that guy. No matter what, he's not going to be worth the 6 year deal by the end of it. He doesn't want to come here. I understand a guy that wants to hit home runs wouldn't want our ball park and he still thinks Detroit is what it was in the Beverly Hills Cop movie. He probably thinks it's like Robocop. Like Houston is some charming oasis with no crime. Bet we smell better than Houston.

Yes, and when MAGAs say that Trump is just trying to fix the economy, what they don't realize is it's not them he's "fixing" it for.

And sounded like James Earl Jones

God is pro america, that's why the Bible was written in English and Jesus looked like Kenny Loggins rather than Gregory Hines.

What has he shown us? He has hardly said anything at all. Almost everything that has been said about him is speculation.

Six years was what I expected at the beginning of the off-season. I didn't think there was any way they could him for less. I still feel that way. I think it's in line with what other players have gotten. He's most comparable to Chapman.

Everyone in the NHL loves JT - even one of the Elias Petterssons, just not both.....

If true I would pull it. I'm done with Breggie/Boras..throw them both in the Houston trash cans. That's my old man rant for 2025 first quarter.

I know when I want to find good STEM talent, the NRA is my first avenue!

WTF? How did I miss this?

Crap, hate hitting my quota of 1 well articulated post so early in the year.

I've worked in both academia and industry, and there are definitely good things about industry-typically you'll get higher pay, better benefits, and it's a lot easier to get a lot of the day to day things (pipet tips, reagents, etc), without having to jump through a series of hoops. The biggest benefit of academia, for me, is that it has been a lot more stable-followed closely by being able to work around a diverse group of students, researchers, and technicians. In industry, I was laid off 3 times in 5 years, whereas my last couple of jobs I've been at for 15, and 5 years respectively.

I would love for him to come over to NA soon...

Shown justabout to swing at a low and away slider. I kid.

One of my favorite places in the US is Santa Fe, New America.

Fort Liberty, located in Fayetteville, NC, was renamed from the original Fort Bragg name couple of years ago. It has been announced that the army base will be reverting back to its original name, Fort Bragg. Originally named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, the fort will now be named for a WWII soldier. Roland Leon Bragg of Maine fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a Private First Class. Bragg was a paratrooper with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division. He was credited with driving a stolen German ambulance to get a wounded soldier to an Allied hospital in Belgium, saving his life. Mr. Bragg died in his home state of Maine in 1999 of cancer. Now you know…the rest of the story.

Cody better throw him off his Pod.

yes but in the same token, it kept their price down on their second contract so in that sense we should thank for Monty for his utter incompetence.

hows the Ilitch family gonna get by with 27 million a year less?... why do people always take the side of billionaires?

Of course we don't really know what goes on in his head, and a player's mien at the plate is usually carefully cultivated, but all that said, to me it all comes down to aggressiveness early in the count. You can't let yourself get behind taking called strikes. I don't know in Tork's case if it's because he can't put the bat on those strikes, or because he's intent on hunting better pitches to drive. You hope it's the latter because that's something he can change of his own accord. If his problem is he can't hit anything that isn't down the middle, then he's got a the bigger problem. I looked at a lot of his AB's when he was at Toledo and I think you could make an argument that he was trying to swing at more strikes, and when he came back up he was pretty hot, though it tailed off again but the end of the season. He's got a nice swing and huge power and he can hit a breaking ball. There's a ton of potential there if he can/will just cover more of the zone. So we'll see.

they seem to have factored him out - at this point if he turns it around it will count as upside surprise. Petzold wrote the other day he thought he would spend the season in Toledo possibly working his way back for '26 when Torres departs. I tend to think the more likely scenario is that if he's going to make the breakthrough it's going to come quickly and he is either going to force his way back this season or we won't see him in the English D again.

I don’t remember that Elon guy being on the ballot? 🤔

Says the guy judging women boxers by their looks. Just more hypocrisy.

I could make an 'old man yells at cloud' lament about RAP in general but I just let you all assume one from me....

Since Trump gutted the CDC, we'll never know if it is true or not.

we're not crying, we're laughing at you.

Detroit can place someone on the 60 day IL tomorrow.

and it's a narrow (or maybe wide, who knows) fabric of that "Christian" church that's made up of denominations and sects that in terms of doctrine have fundamental disagreements, and fought wars over them, but the common thread that overrides those doctrinal differences are profit and control over women and fear of minorities. JD Vance is in bed with other Christians who think he's going to hell but since they are "owning the libs" it's all good.

You don’t like it very much do you? This is exactly what your maga has done since 2016. Present random data from random sources and treat it like the undeniable truth.

Totally agree. He deserves the parade. And yet, if Philly had the injury luck that Detroit had, it's a different conversation.

I think the while “veteran presence” thing is generally overblown, but to the degree it’s valid, based on everything he has shown us this offseason, Bregman probably ain’t it.

If you can believe the rumor mill, Chicago, Boston, and Detroit have multi-year deals on the table for Bregman. I don’t want to see him in Detroit but…anything over three years would be foolish, two years being reasonable in my opinion. If part of the plan here is to bring in a veteran presence for the younger guys while solidifying third base, signing a guy that participated in a cheating scandal wouldn’t be my idea of a good choice, under any circumstances for that matter. I’ll be glad when this Bregman is signed elsewhere and we’re talking about spring training.

When the Tigers win 112 games in 2025 Bregman will be really sorry he wasn’t a part of it since they could’ve won 114 if he’d signed.

I think it comes down to Meadows and Keith. If Meadows could give us a full season of how he played after August last year, then he's an All-Star. He made a huge difference and they don't get to the postseason without him.

it's unfortunate that the year under Monty was probably a wasted development year for all of them.

I hope that doesn't happen, but we should converse if it does. I know some of your skillset and its valuable in the private sector for sure.

Apropos of this but otherwise unrelated, many years ago sitting on a jury I was amused by a prosecution detective who tried to snow a college town jury with some very inventive ballistics physics that gave the academics that he had the bad fortune to have on the jury a good laugh back in the jury room. Always know your audience!

Upon further review...it appears to be nonsense. A typical Twitter falsehood.

This is starting to feel like the Tigers are an average looking girl competing with college bound cheerleaders for some jock. Of course I’ll forget all about this unenviable comparison if he joins the club and does what we hope he can do.

The 2022 Chicago White Sox are a warning. Coming off their division winning 2021 season they had a young core that was still developing and there was a very bright future. Then it all collapsed. Granted, we don't have a 76 year old manager who does not connect with younger players and did not really embrace Sabermetrics, and often did not put his players in the best position possible. But keep that in mind. A few missteps, a couple of injuries and all this promise built up last year can evaporate very quickly. Do I expect that to happen? No. But, I don't believe momentum carries over offseasons. Just can't be under way .500 again on the first day of Summer, like they have for every season since 2017. They got away with it once, they probably don't again. Last year's turnaround was a once in a generation thing and that included the Twins once in a generation collapse.

naw - she's just a liar - and at this point her act is pretty stale.

small fly in the ointment is that the Congress passes laws to establish the size and scope of the federal government and the executive branch's responsibility is to discharge them. For the executive to usurp the authority of Congress is not the system you swore an oath to, so does that mean your word is only good when you find it politically convenient for you?

She's either incredibly naive or forgets how many times we've heard this from her.

I have to say the FCPA is pretty weird to work under. I was working for an oil industry services company and we had to drill on FCPA all the time, and in fact one of our divisions got nailed by it once which put the whole company under extra oversight. It's been a number of years and I probably have the details wrong at this point, but IIRC the weird thing is that FCPA doesn't (at least the state of the law then) actually prohibit bribery in general, only the very specific act of giving a government official money for doing something that is part of his official duties. It's very narrow in that regard. So under FCPA you can still toss money around in a developing country like crazy. You can pay off the president, as long as you don't pay off the official who is supposed to approve your permits. I get the idea, and I suppose some FCPA is better than no law at all on this end, but I don't believe it drove any stakes through the heart of overseas business bribery and so the general objection from US business was that it didn't do enough good to justify the compliance cost. Now of course they *would* say that even if it weren't true - and I was never high enough on the food chain to evaluate the claim one way or the other. 🙈🙉🙊