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Dems need to stretch the truth and in some cases exaggerate in their ads. Show the DOGE headlines with the job cuts and presidents fat ass golfing. Show the plane crashes. The unemployment and market graphs. Quit worrying about being fact checked by a newspaper nobody reads or a TV show nobody watches. It works for the GOP it can work for the Dems.

Fine outing for Jack. He and Skubal are ready.

The wife thinks this guy means jazz…

Never make jokes about Hinch when Chas is around. 😃

Shame it had to come to this but our President is a crazy idiot.

What this game is lacking in terms of excitement it makes up for with tedium.

I suppose if it goes back to the pre-expansion days, winning the pennant was the league championship.

The Tigers had a lot of those in the Smith and Avila years.

Braves announcers believers in the minimalist school. Lots of silence. I'm down with it.

Probably Cobb.

Very well said about our northern neighbors;

Jobe, Mize nab final rotation spots, solidify Tigers' starting staff LAKELAND, Fla. -- The Tigers rotation includes one of baseball’s top pitching prospects and one of baseball’s former top overall Draft picks. Detroit formally welcomed Jackson Jobe and Casey Mize to the final starting group on Saturday morning by optioning Keider Montero to Triple-A Toledo.

While I'm in data dump mode, Top 10 international signing bonuses for players currently in the Tigers organization: Cris Rodriguez 1/15/2025 Dominican Republic Tigers $3,197,500 Cristian Santana 1/15/2021 Dominican Republic Tigers $2,975,000 Roberto Campos 7/2/2019 Cuba Tigers $2,850,000 Javier Osorio 1/15/2022 Venezuela Tigers $2,200,000 Jose De La Cruz 7/3/2018 Dominican Republic Tigers $1,850,000 Gleyber Torres 7/2/2013 Venezuela Cubs $1,700,000 Andy Ibanez 7/7/2015 Cuba Rangers $1,600,000 Nestor Miranda 1/15/2024 Dominican Republic Tigers $1,497,500 Enrique Jimenez 1/15/2023 Venezuela Tigers $1,250,000 Samuel Gil 1/15/2022 Venezuela Tigers $1,200,000

Rough estimate of Tigers CBT calculations if you assume the roster I'm assuming and it being fixed/static all year long (It's not, but it's a starting point). The split contract guys will vary based on how often they are in the Majors, players will earn bonuses, etc. Player CBT Total Jack Flaherty $27,500,000.00 Javier Baez $23,333,333.33 Gleyber Torres $15,000,000.00 Alex Cobb $15,000,000.00 Kenta Maeda $12,000,000.00 Tarik Skubal $10,150,000.00 Tommy Kahnle $7,750,000.00 Colt Keith $4,773,750.00 Jason Foley $3,150,000.00 Matt Vierling $3,005,000.00 John Brebbia $2,750,000.00 Jake Rogers $2,640,000.00 Casey Mize $2,340,000.00 Zach McKinstry $1,650,000.00 Andy Ibanez $1,400,000.00 Will Vest $1,400,000.00 Beau Brieske $1,300,000.00 Jose Urquidy $1,000,000.00 Riley Greene $800,000.00 Kerry Carpenter $800,000.00 Tyler Holton $800,000.00 Akil Baddoo $775,000.00 Parker Meadows $770,000.00 Reese Olson $770,000.00 Alex Lange $770,000.00 Justyn-Henry Malloy $770,000.00 Wenceel Perez $770,000.00 Spencer Torkelson $770,000.00 Dillon Dingler $760,000.00 Sawyer Gipson-Long $760,000.00 Ty Madden $760,000.00 Brenan Hanifee $760,000.00 Jackson Jobe $760,000.00 Trey Sweeney $760,000.00 Bailey Horn $223,900.00 Keider Montero $201,770.00 Matt Manning $197,177.00 Ryan Kreidler $147,177.00 Brant Hurter $123,900.00 Sean Guenther $123,900.00 Jace Jung $123,900.00 Chase Lee $62,000.00 Tyler Mattison $62,000.00 Tyler Owens $62,000.00 Andrew Chafin $0.00 Tomas Nido $0.00 Jordan Balasovic $0.00 Dietrich Enns $0.00 Wilmer Flores $0.00 Ricky Vanasco $0.00 Brian Serven $0.00 Jahmai Jones $0.00 Bligh Madris $0.00 Matt Gage $0.00 Ryan Miller $0.00 Brendan White $0.00 Eddys Leonard $0.00 Alex Faedo -$100,000.00 Eduardo Rodriguez -$933,333.33 Pre-Arb Bonus Pool $1,666,666.67 Player Benefits $17,540,000.00 CBT Payroll $167,998,140.67 CBT Threshold $241,000,000.00 CBT Room $73,001,859.33

Giving Malloy another chance to drop one in left too.

Our alumni group had a woman speak several years ago who was one of the people sent to that remote mountain in Hawaii for a year to simulate the psychological toll this will take on people. At the time it sounded like we are a ways away from just that piece of the puzzle.

I think Beasley gave up more buckets than Ausar played minutes. I'm kidding. Kind of.

I’m starting to figure out the new scheme Campbell and Sheppard are cooking up. 3 on the line, 2 linebackers, 6 in the secondary. Brilliant and revolutionary.

That's part of it. I also think teams value versatility more than they did 10 years ago.

Hinch needs guys who play all over the place because we are still working on getting established starters everywhere.

On March 27, 28 of 30 MLB teams will play in 14 Opening Day games. ESPN will broadcast two of them: the first of the day, Brewers-Yankees, in the late afternoon and a prime-time matchup between the reigning champion Dodgers and the Tigers.

For a team relying on pitching they sure have an abundance of poor to mediocre defenders with their best two,Meadows and Verling, on the injured list. This spells trouble.

That scrolling FanDuel thing at the bottom of the screen with the odds on every arcane thing you could possibly bet on infuriates me.

One of the Challenger Astronauts was Ron McNair. As a kid he tried to check out books from the public library in Salt Lake City but it was segregated and they wouldn't let him. He refused to leave and eventually the police came. They finally let him get the books. The library is named after him now. He got a PhD in Physics from MIT.