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I think I've told this before but I met my wife the day Elvis passed. It was her first day at the radio station I worked. She was a news person, I was kind of a utility infielder, doing some announcing, public service stuff, and basically a lot of full time fill in work. The station's news director had a bad case of laryngitis that day. The wire machines went crazy with the "world is ending five bells" Memphis, Tennessee..... Her first news cast in Roanoke, Va was the news Elvis had died. He was scheduled to be in town about a week later for a concert. Later that evening a bunch of us went for pizza and beer, I invited her. The rest is history....

The only way that I see this administration caring about Social Security is if there’s a way to make billionaires more money while punishing any previous woke polices and owning libs while doing it.

I like it and I like them being extemporaneous and thinking on their feet. It’s making lemonade out of lemons. It’s dumb, but it’s dumb fun. i’ll admit it gets tedious, but it’s better than old guys in crisp suits with serious sticks up their butts droning on for a hour and five minutes about the old days. Like one of my old buddies from Detroit told me “if it’s too loud you’re too old.“

Ground crew on the field!

Got sucked into the 5 hour Billy Joel doc on HBOMax. This was amazing. It’s broken into 2 parts and is done really, really well. I like Billy but I wouldn’t consider myself a fanboy. Easy watch that tells his entire story. I didn’t quite realize the depths of greatness and the complications of his life. What stuck in my head was the contrast in his songwriting process to that we saw of Paul McCartney in the Peter Jackson Beatles doc. These are arguably the 2 best songwriters of our time (can’t be argued that both are at least top 5) and they couldn’t be more different. Paul typically came up with the arrangement first and the filed in lyrics as they came to him. Sometimes just using gibberish to fill the space until he find something that fits his melody. Watching how the lyrics to Back in the USSR came to be was amazing. Billy usually started with lyrics first and then built his composition around it to create the song. He was able to write and compose a few complete songs within a few hours. He typically would write about specific things that happened in his life. You May Be Right came after a single line one of his wives said to him after a night out partying and ringing his motorcycle home in the rain. He often builds his melodies off classical music instead of the traditional folk and blues that we see in most rock. He played Uptown Girl on his piano in a classical style and it did sound like a Rachmaninoff piece. One commonality these two had is after they achieved a pinnacle of success, they quickly got bored of one style of songwriting and would constantly try to change things dramatically from album to album

Finna-Win-Again

Greetings from beautiful Chicago, Illinois!

It’s going to be near impossible for another team out there to offer a return that is more valuable to the 2026 tigers than one year of Skubal plus a high comp pick. When I say 2026 tigers, I am not referring to the 2026 season, but rather the state of the organization in winter 2026 (which of course includes the 2026 season and beyond, with the immediate 2026 season expected to be postseason competitive). As for comps, the two deals you could look are the Burnes deal (ace-level pitcher but not as good as Skubal) and the last Soto deal (elite MVP caliber player, but not a SP). The brewers were competitive in 2024. But I’m not sure the brewers are popping champagne today based on the dudes they got in return for Burnes. Joey Ortiz was good last year, but not great. I don’t know enough about how the return for Soto is working out for SD, but Michael King is pretty nice to have, I guess. I don’t think any of the other guys are any more than fungible dudes. SD was competitive in 2024. King was very good last year and has been just as good when healthy this year. SD was in a unique situation last year with a crowded outfield that included Soto and they really needed pitching. This might be a deal that the Yankees regret, and the padres might also wish they had done better for Soto. So, it’s really hard to make these deals. No one wants to end up like Baltimore and the Yankees with nothing to show for giving up their assets, and in some cases being substantially worse off. But from SD and Milwaukee perspective, SD is probably wishing they got more than one player of actual value in return for Juan Soto. Milwaukee likely wishes they had done better than Joey Ortiz.

Nobody cares about Logan. There are other things we are interested in right now

Is it late enough that Daniella Upskirt Hour isn't an FCC violation?

It's never a bad time to make Jeff Riger look bad.

Life expectancy is a very complicated issue. Back in the day, infant mortality really lowered the average life expectancy. They ended up looking at 21 year olds life expectancy. As infant mortality percent got lower, life expectancy in general grew. And medical advances, of course.

He has a 113 wRC+ which make him an above average hitter. The average for DH is 114, so he is average compared to DHs.

Tarp coming off

The six part Spy Among Friends about Kim Philby, the British ruling class man who spied for the Soviets for 30 years as a part of the intelligence establishment is really amazing.

League Average .246/.316/.403/.719 Colt Keith .261/.344/.414/.758. TAKE THAT, JERK FACE POOPY HEAD !

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

I don’t care about any of that. I just think it’s a cool picture. It’s all relative isn’t it ? We’re not curing cancer or sending men to Jupiter.

I don't think that's really true. I don't believe he likes himself and he needs to be loved to validate himself. Then he punishes those who don't love him. I believe he is a deeply ill individual.

I don't think Trump cares all that much about his supporters and just expects them to go along with whatever he ends up doing

That's all I've been saying all along, and my evidence is negotiating common sense honed by years of doing it for a living. If you know your adversary has a floor and you offer them something below that, you already know they're not going to take the offer. So, why bother making the offer at all? One reason could be to appear to your constituents that you've made an effort. That's not as uncommon as some may think. Another reason could be you want to establish a foothold in case your adversary doesn't get the floor number they want, and then you can be in position to have your offer seen as competitive after all. But that almost never works because most people see an offer that is outside the range of their expectations as being inherently unserious, and perhaps even a little insulting. Not as insulting as if Al had offered, say, 5/100, which would have been a super obvious insult. But if your you establish a floor number and your adversary's first offer in even a closed marketplace is below that, before anyone else even has a chance to make their own offer, then why would you take it? It's true Correa did not get end up with his $300 million contract, but he did get an offer well above that from the Giants, and that was proof of concept that he was worth that kind of money. He did end up accepting Minnesota's 3/105 because that reset the AAV for a subsequent contract. And it worked, since his second contract with the Twins included six guaranteed years of over $30MM salary, which he would not have gotten from an Avila contract. If all his club options kick in, Correa will end up with $297.1MM over 11 years, which is better than Avila's 10/275 deal would have been, although somewhat short of his $300 goal, and well short of the $350MM the Giants were willing to pay him even after the Avila offer, and before his injury reduced his overall haul.

Klaatu barada nikto.

Here's the rule: Prior to the 2020 season, if a game was terminated early due to weather before becoming official, the results up to the point of the termination did not count and the game was started over at a later date. But as part of MLB's health and safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic, all games cut short due to weather before becoming official were resumed at a later date, rather than started over from scratch, during the 2020 campaign. The rules below remained in place. If a regulation game is terminated early due to weather, the results are considered final if the home team is leading. If the home team is trailing, the results are considered final if the game is not in the midst of an inning when the visiting team has taken the lead. If a regulation game is terminated early due to weather and the game is either tied or in the midst of an inning in which the visiting team has taken the lead, it becomes a suspended game that will be completed at a later date from the point of termination. Based on this, the game would have been suspended at that point and picked up again at a later day, meaning either Tuesday or Wednesday.

It’s definitely not the difference between an ace and a spot starter, but for the purpose of getting us through the rest of this year, I think Morton has a better chance to pitch us closer to the playoffs than Montero does. Once the winter comes, we’ll probably have seen the last of Charlie Morton, but Keider Montero will get another shot next season.

Tigers padlock White Sox, 2-1.

The Tigers' record is 9-5 since the 1-12 horror stretch. I consider 9-5 to be acceptable and respectable. I'm not going to use more positive adjectives than that because 10 of the 14 games were at home and 10 of the 14 games were against teams under .500. I'm not going use more negative adjectives than that because 9W 5L is a .642 winning percentage. In those past 14 games, the Tigers have averaged 5.6 runs scored and 4.1 runs allowed, for a +22 run differential. In the 13-game horror stretch, the Tigers averaged 2.3 runs scored and 6.3 runs allowed, for a -52 run differential.

LOL that was anti-climatic.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6537280/2025/08/11/red-wings-prospects-nhl-danielson-cossa/ New from Bultman. Projects Danielson to be a mid-season call up and to stick. He also has a more favorable view on Wallinder than I recall seeing.

Absolutely dumb...and the best thing ever for rain delays.

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woo, the tarp's coming off!

Yes, and kicks himself for it. https://talkindetroitsports.wordpress.com/2019/12/23/al-kaline-hit-401-home-runs-but-rain-washed-out-two-and-left-him-at-399/#:~:text=On June 1%2C 1958%2C Kaline,from the game were erased. In the final game of his career, Kaline pulled himself from the game after his first two at-bats. It cost him two chances at becoming the American League’s first member of the 400-home run, 3,000-hit club. “It was my fault,” Kaline said in The Detroit News in 2015. “It was one of the worst, if not the worst, decisions I’ve ever made in my life. Sometimes when you make bad decisions, you don’t realize how it might hurt other people.” Kaline was speaking of Tigers outfielder Ben Oglivie, who replaced him in the game and was booed by the fans wanting a few more glimpses of Kaline. “I really felt bad for Ben,” Kaline said. He also wishes he had known about that 400-homer, 3,000-hit club. “Back in those days, statistics weren’t as important,” he said. “You didn’t have ESPN, And I didn’t realize 400 homers would be such a milestone The record book shows that Kaline finished with 399 home runs, and that is official. But No. 6 circled the bases 401 times in his major-league career. And that’s a fact.

looks like Daniella has her wide-angle-booth-cam-appropriate clothing on again today.

I meant over for tonight. I Didn’t elaborate.

Why is that? The game was tied after 8 so wouldn’t they just resume it tomorrow ?

They will suspend before that happens.

Dan kind of did too. tork homers off foul pole.mp3

Where’s Monkeytargets’ 2 runs???

That picture really is perfect. Right when Dingler is about to knock Greene in with a single.

Paddack with 2 scoreless innings. But I still don’t trust a pitcher with a blue glove.

Skubal will pitch for the Tigers next year, he will receive a qualifying offer in the offseason and will sign with the highest bidder. We will probably survive.

Yes

Harris wants the top prospects to be ready for the majors when they are promoted to the majors, and the Tigers have a process to prepare them, and especially after the Tork debacle of a few years back, I respect that.

And yet, since nobody did offer Correa 300M, Al would have been pretty irresponsible to over offer the market. If anything , it was Carlos that made the mistake, not Al. I don’t blame the Tigers for Carlos not understanding his own market value.