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Is now a good time to talk about how Matt Stairs and I dated the same woman in the same week?

While I appreciate people slamming Hegseth for the security failures, I really want him getting hammered on lying about it. We have bemoaned the constant lies from Trump and his GOP enablers. This is a good place to start hanging the lies out for constant condemnation.

I mean, he is full of ****.

Bobrob’s 2025 Preseason Prediction #15 – Jackson William Jobe Usually I only do 14 predictions, 5 starting pitchers and the 9 everyday hitters. However, I decided to do a bonus one this year since the Tigers have 6 starting pitchers this year that will likely contribute a significant amount of innings due to at least one injury (same thing could be said about the lineup with the injuries, and the way A.J. Hinch plays matchups, the line is a bit more blurred on who is a “starter” and who is a bench player). If Alex Cobb were healthy, it is likely that Jackson Jobe would start the year at AAA, but he has made the opening day roster and depending on how he does, might just stay in Detroit all year. It will be interesting how Cobb will fit in the roster if everyone stays healthy and no one is struggling. Would they send down Jobe if he has an ERA of under 3.00 with a lot of strikeouts and a low WHIP? Jackson Jobe pitched two innings in September, allowing zero runs, one hit, one walk, and striking out two. Due to injuries, Jobe was able to be on the post-season roster, and pitched another 1 2/3 innings in the playoffs, allowing three earned runs, five hits, no walks, and no strikeouts. Of course, this is a very small sample, but at least it gave him a taste of the Major Leagues as he was expected to get called up to the MLB at some point in 2025. According to Baseball Savant, Jobe threw a 4-seamer, cutter, changeup, and sweeper (slider?) in his brief time with the Tigers. Reports say he has also added a sinker. Here are the scouting grades according to MLB.com (on a scale of 20-80): Fastball - 70 Slider – 70 Changeup – 60 Cutter – 60 Control – 55 Overall – 60 Control is Jackson’s Jobe’s biggest issue as his walk rate was pretty high in the minor leagues in 2024. 2022 – 77 1/3 IP | 3.84 ERA | 24.3 K% | 9.0 BB% | 18.4% HR/FB% 2023 – 64 IP | 2.81 ERA | 32.6% K% | 2.3% BB% | 16.4% HR/FB% 2024 – 91 2/3 IP | 2.36 ERA | 25.6% K% | 12.0% BB% | 4.1% HR/FB% Jobe’s fastball typically sits around 95-97 MPH, but can get it up to 100 MPH at times (reminds me of Justin Verlander), so he should be able to have a high strikeout rate. Jobe has never pitched over 100 innings in his professional career, so it will be interesting to see how he gets used as the season progresses. I will not be surprised if they move him to the bullpen at some point to limit his innings, especially if they are in position to make the playoffs again and want to rest him so he can be ready to make a playoff start. Just like with Colt Keith, Trey Sweeney and every other rookie, it’s hard to predict how Jobe will do with an extended stint in the Major Leagues. Hitters will adjust as scouting reports make their way through the league and then Jobe will have to adjust. Not to mention if his control is going to be a big problem. Baseball America, MLB.com, and Baseball Prospectus all have Jobe as a top five prospect heading into the 2025 season and is a favorite of winning the Rookie of the Year Award. Regardless of what happens, I am very excited to see him pitch this year. And with any of these predictions, rookie or veteran, no one knows exactly what will happen. Experts’ Predictions/Projections: FGDC – 112 IP | 5-7 W/L | 4.64 ERA | 1.38 WHIP | 87 K | 42 BB Steamer – 130 IP | 7-9 W/L | 4.65 ERA | 1.38 WHIP | 100 K | 49 BB ZiPS DC – 94 IP | 4-5 W/L | 4.62 ERA | 1.36 WHIP | 73 K | 35 BB ATC – 106 IP | 5-5 W/L | 4.46 ERA | 1.30 WHIP | 87 K | 39 BB THE BAT – 106 IP | 6-8 W/L | 4.50 ERA | 1.28 WHIP | 90 K | 35 BB OOPSY – 112 IP | 5-5 W/L | 4.23 ERA | 1.35 WHIP | 98 K | 49 BB RotoChamp – 108 IP | 5-6 W/L | 4.50 ERA | 1.34 WHIP | 88 K | 41 BB CBS Sports – N/A ESPN – 110 IP | 7 W | 4.01 ERA | 1.26 WHIP | 105 K | 42 BB My Prediction: 2024 Prediction – N/A 2024 Actual – 12 1/3 IP | 1-1 W/L | 3.65 ERA | 0.89 WHIP | 8 K | 4 BB 2025 Prediction – 133 2/3 IP | 7-9 W/L | 4.38 ERA | 1.399 WHIP | 146 K | 70 BB This is the last prediction that I’m going to do this year, mainly because tomorrow is opening day. I could easily do a prediction on more hitters as it’s hard to tell who will end up playing the most this year due to injuries and production. Spencer Torkelson could be the everyday DH and hit 30 home runs again. Manuel Margot, who looks to be the opening day centerfielder, could start out hot and gain more playing time even when Parker Meadows and Matt Vierling are healthy. Jace Jung could still get the most innings at third base, even with starting the year at AAA. At the same time, Zach McKinstry or Andy Ibanez could also end up as the everyday third baseman. But I made my predictions, and I think at the end, this is what I think the lineup will look like: CF Parker Meadows 2B Gleyber Torres LF Riley Greene DH Kerry Carpenter 1B Colt Keith RF Matt Vierling 3B Javier Baez C Jake Rogers SS Trey Sweeney Not to mention any mid-season trades (hopefully the Tigers will be buyers this year instead of sellers). Well, I guess there’s nothing left to do but say: GO TIGERS!!!

That was basically how it was for the first 4 or 5 questions

I switched to the radio feed during the interview and when the player Lee was speaking for about 30 seconds, I was hoping that the translator would translate with something like “yes.“

Trump’s response of “I know nothing about it”, is beyond comprehension. It is, in plain English, ****ing scary. He is out of the loop, and the inmates are running the asylum. They are all totally inept, all of them playing a game that has opened all of us to danger from the many nations out there that will cheer our demise and work towards it. …. And the GOP acting like “nothing to see here” is absolutely traitorous.

I'm a bit surprised so many people on MotownForums have dated. Apparently chicks dig the Tiger talk!

This administration is defective. Starting at the top.

On This Day, in 1997;

Killing kindergarten kids is OK. Killing wealthy executives is going too far.

Remember Nick's mom? I do.

I saw an older dude wearing a navy blue Tigers' warmup jersey with Zumaya on the back in the check-out line of an IGA grocery store in downtown Vancouver about 10 years ago. Turns out it was his dad.

She dated him before me. I asked her if I was more exciting than him And she said: "yeah, he was fat, married and boring"...whereas I'm just boring.

My younger sister once cut Tyler Collins’ hair at a SuperCuts

I don't mean to pick on you in particular, but I'm tired of hearing about how close Florida or Tx might be. When the GOP loses one in either place I'll pay attention.

My guess is 0

Name dropper.

dropping margins are nice, but the Dems need wins.

HighOPS, who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?

"Siri, add Mogul to chat" "Adding Goldberg to chat"

I don't think he's likely to trade down. Not that he won't, but looking at the current 53-man projected roster, there aren't seven obvious holes. Let alone 8, 9, or 10 with added capital. Rather than draft nine guys and have to release both of our 7th rounders, hoping they make it to the practice squad, just because of space, I'd prefer to draft five, have them all make the roster, and have the best player on Brad's board (when he moves up) make a significant impact on day one.

Great showing by Sasser, but we already knew what he was - a scorer who can get his own. Problem is he's not much more than that and he's undersized. Makes it really tough to find a spot in the rotation for him. More importantly, the Pistons are now at least .500 on the season and they're 1 win away from doing something nobody has ever done - tripling their win total from the previous season. Not only that, the few teams that have exceeded the Pistons single season turnaround in games won have done so by adding a Hall of Fame player. The Pistons added 3 vets who've never even been to an All-Star game and also lost their 2nd best scorer in early January. Atkinson will win CoY because that's been the narrative all season, but the Cavs won't hit the 70 games people were predicting and they won't even have the best record in the league.

But doesn't the removal of the strip affect Comerica's chances of hosting the Cricket World Cup some day?

for ordinary people

Exactly this! Now the texts are out the Dems and MSM can’t bury the lede. It’s not the war plans or even the idiocy of mistakenly inviting a reporter. It’s the intentional use of an outside system for the sole purpose of hiding communication that could potentially be subpoenaed. This is highly criminal activity at any level. It’s not an only fireable offense but also one that could have jail time.

This is what I’m seeing. He is just there to spew his usual verbal diarrhea of nonsense and lies after the fact. He’s not with his finger on any button, except the red one for his Diet Coke.

It would expose their previous tributes as nothing more than marketing. I have some problems with what they've been doing regading Jackie Robinson. They haven't done enough to own up to the reason the entire country knows who he is in the first place. By presenting it as HIS accomplishment they are able to frame it in a way that doesn't tell the real story. This wasn't a guy who was just so damn good he worked his way into the leagues and finally a black player could play. MLB kept him and them out. They were all just as good. It was blatant racism. "Jackie broke barriers". No, Jackie had a door opened up for him that a bunch of assholes kept closed. His greatness beyond his play is in how he dealt with the continued racism and blowback. I've always felt MLB took themselves off the hook in how this was presented. and if MLB truly felt sorry about it and had sincere intentions they'd not be reconsidering this, if they are doing that.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1NfSgmkaJK/?mibextid=wwXIfr See, this guy gets it.

On the other hand, I wouldn't worry about making roster decisions based on parallels with what the Angels think. I think the bigger priority here is to patch something together to bide time until Vierling/Meadows return while at the same time keeping Greene out of CF as much as possible. Now, Moniak's 2023 was fueled by a .397 BABIP, so I agree that his 2023 OPS should be discounted as such. But he is a 110 +OPS vs RHPs on his .318 BABIP vs RHPs over his career. So, if he can field CF well enough and maybe just maybe hit enough at the bottom of the order to fill a platoon role in CF, I think its worth consideration. He'd be cheap, he'd be expendable, he'd fill a short term role.

I like it when the interviewer asks a question of the player and you can tell based on the facial expression of the player that he understands it or even answers it himself.

SGA has scored 1900 points this year....through 3 quarters, the only player to have that many points total is Anthony Edwards.

I think it's wild that coming off of four years of hearing my old man talking about Biden as if he was Konstantin Chernenko, we now have Donald Trump demonstrating that he has no ****ing clue what's going on. And no, I don't think this is all part of some secret plan or 4D chess or anything, he just doesn't care. Credit to Goldberg for going public with this, going against the grain of how his fellow journalists have handled things thus far... if it was Maggie H, she'd be hawking a tell-all book in 2029 about this incident.

That ESPN televised game with the Dodgers will be a gigantic Dodger love fest.

Finally. onwards to real ball. See you all Thursday evening

Just saw it named Whiskeyleaks

as in 'comeback to Toledo'?

Casey shrugs off the double. I like this new found composure.

Javy Mays

I can't believe a team starts Harrison Barnes, Bismack Biyombo, and Chris Paul. Maybe if it was 2015.

When the Angels don’t want you, I would have to be given stronger arguments than he was good against RH two years ago.

Wow, I'm more surprised that THJ is available than Cade sitting out. Dude looked like he would be done for 4-6 weeks and was in a boot after the game.

Being the Tigers Centerfielder is like being Spinal Tap's drummer.

LOL - you got the "your input has been circular filed" form letter!

LOL - that's were Torkelson has thrown a monkey wrench into their plans. NOBOBY thought he would come to ST and out OPS both Keith and Malloy by 300 pts. The did the right thing in planning for his failure so it should be the kind of dilemma you want to have, it's just not very convenient right now. There are four off days before Arp24, I suppose they could go with 12 pitchers and carry the extra position player - they'd like to have both Malloy and Tork against the Dodgers.

Yes, caught trying...

I have got a whole bunch of international students who may be going through somethig similar soon if they can't get jobs quickly after graduation. They have only been here a short time, but these are hard working, motivated students who could definitely help employers. Many of them are from war torn countries, some are on asylum, so I have a lot of very anxious students this semester.

I know a couple of people who are going through that now. Both have been in the country for decades.