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A couple things happened while I was enforced away: Trump and Hegseth murdered a boat of people for whom the previous and extant justification for extrajudicial killings was not proven in any way beyond "just so" rationalization. The existing process for dealing with such a boat is to shoot out its engine and board it to make arrests and seizures. Meanwhile, the leaders of the alliance of Trump's would-be friends got together in Beijing to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War2 and to stab at the heart of the West's post-WW2 political order of NATO and the East Asian democracies we helped build through blood and treasure. They even got Vietnam to attend which fricking hates China but they know the US is a terrible ally at the moment. Xi knows how valuable alliances are...why doesn't Moscow Donnie and Drunken Pete?

You guys also realize teams can rollover cap space to the next season right? You also realize the Lions project to be over $30 million over the cap next year right? They don’t t just have $9 million to throw around.

I aspire to troll like Tiger337

Looks like I picked a good inning to tune in.

GLEYBOMB! we have Bert!

"Funny things happen when pitchers get off their little island".

I used to talk to kids about engineering ethics now and then, what I should have have to them but never did was that best way to have ethical courage on the job is to have a spouse with a job good enough to support the household if need be. 😉

What does Rusty Staub have to do with it? 😉

This. I’ll use that money to re-sign a higher quality three down edge rusher in Hutch. And FWIW, I soundly believe the best GM in the league is in our own backyard.

I actually do like to rouse some rabble every once in a while, but my rabble rate is relatively low. My rabble is replacement level at best.

I would have liked to see Leyland manage with some halfway decent arms in his BP. You just can't do much when your GM gets you one 38 yr old guy that used to be good and calls it a day.

After this Cobb situation, I hope Harris is done with the “finding damaged goods” strategy for the pitching staff. We’ve got part of the core entering their prime years—go out this offseason and get some legitimate pitching.

Torres goes deep. The guy who could easily be replaced by a AA player according to some.

BOOM and we have bertia

Perez singles I hope he doesn’t get thrown out trying to steal.

He does say that, but that doesn't necessarily mean pull out all the stops in order to win the game every game of the 162-game season in Game 7 style. There are times during the regular season he does have to, for reasons of the moment. Apparently he did not regard this as one of those games, and I can see why.

The closest to 'Nam that Trump has ever been lol.

Depends on the prospects and the pitcher. Have any examples of what you would like?

Apropos of nothing, I'm going to guess that you posted this from a phone, perhaps an iPhone, and your autocorrect changed "War" to "WAR". 😃

I thank god every day I married well. And believe it or not, so does she. 😉

Maybe we could rebuild Alcatraz as a golden palace, and tell him it's his kingdom.

It's baseball. Every single player that gets called up the big leagues has to be 'auditioned' in front of real fans in real games before his manager will decide how to use him in the future, it's been part of baseball since forever. A manager can talk all the 'win this game now' culture he wants, but there is *always* a parallel imperative to manage for the season - regardless of what they say to their team and the fans. It's a matter of 'do as I say' for the players because that's what they need to do, while I do the stuff I don't want the rest of you thinking about.

in a sense it is. He's got less than a month to decide who he can use in what situation while there is a lot of turnover going on in the personnel. He has to balance the cost of losing a game now versus the value having a clearer picture of how he can use what he has in a playoff elimination game.

So, ….. Let’s see … now he’s in line for a medal of honor ? congressional medal of freedom ? or maybe a purple heart ? All in addition to his Nobel peace prize, of course. It’s exponential grade lunacy.

What Starting Pitching was available at the deadline that was under control for next year and was objectively bet†er than we currently have?

* yawn * What a treat to wake up, check out this forum thread, & see that Saturday morning trolling is still the choice of some members. maybe later, you can go out and kick some dogs, poke a toddler in the eye, or loosen a spoke on a wheelchair. You know, weekend fun!

I don’t think A.J. considers a game in which a team with a 99.9% chance of winning the division plays the last place team in September to be critical.

If this is anywhere near the truth then Trump would have been yelling it from the White House rooftop. Release the files and instead of redacting Trump’s name black out the victims.

Astros lose in the 12th! Tigers remain 4 up in the “race” for the bye.

The best GM in the league let Josh Sweat and Milton Williams walk and replaced them with 32 year old Za’Darius Smith.

Playing aaa arms cost us the game

Johnson is just what you get when you send Jimmy Swaggart to law school. Every bit as false.

I was talking about YOU haha. Just hoping for an impression...

when Dan said Keider was warming up, I was kinda hoping he misspoke and meant Rafael.

I remember a play, maybe 1984, when Parrish and Brookens went for a bunt, collided, and Parrish almost body slammed Tommy and ended up directly on top of him. I think Brookens had to come out of the game, but not sure. That is the closest thing I remember to this play, but this one looks much more serious.

Friday night. Going to put my feet up, maybe pour a bourbon, spend the next 3 hours figuring out which streaming services I need to watch the games this weekend.

Blaha goes into the Basketball Hall of Fame tomorrow (Saturday). Pretty sure it starts at 7PM and will be shown on NBATV.

I trust people who actually know the law than some schlub on the internet or a talk show host with no qualifications to be Sec of War Corn, a law professor at Texas Tech University, noted that critics have condemned U.S. drone strikes since 2001 against militants in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries as extrajudicial killings, but those strikes were legitimate, he said, because the U.S. was engaged in an armed conflict under the laws of war against al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is now at the International Crisis Group, said that designation of drug cartels as terrorist groups doesn’t authorize the use of military force against them. Rather it enables the U.S. to levy sanctions and pursue criminal prosecutions against individuals who support the groups. Nor can military action be justified under the law Congress passed authorizing the use of force against al Qaeda and related terrorist groups following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, experts said. For the military to use force, “there needs to be a legitimate claim of self-defense in international waters, an action that is necessary and proportional in response to an armed attack or imminent armed attack,” said Juan Gonzalez, who served as the National Security Council’s senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs during the Biden administration. “That clearly didn’t happen.”

You’re right about one thing. Shooting and killing a bunch of people that were fishing, and America not caring about it because they are foreigners is exactly the lack of empathy and emptiness that got Trump elected.

That would be great if true. We could search for a more effective #2 this offseason. Or at least I hope that's Harris's #1 priority (aside from Skubal's extension)

The ultimate call for shooting at that boat falls to the Commander in Chief, Donald J. Trump. A person who is perhaps the most profligate liar in American life today. Again, forgive me for not taking anything coming from this administration at face value. Given how often they lie, nobody owes them their trust.

Look, GG is straight up telling you that he does not care about non-Americans, including if they live or die. And if they do die, he doesn't care if they were murdered by American soldiers. Further, his assertion is that the majority of Trump voters feel the same. I for one believe him about all of it.

I care about innocent humans dying, whether or not they are US citizens. You do you though.

Well said. Other teams are blandly uncreative in their approach to acquiring players. They just buy more big guns. But strategy and tactics are as important as fire power. Yes, the Tigers have some big guns, but that’s not all they rely upon. Harris is also engaged in asymmetric guerrilla war. He’s not just responding to force with more force, but with finesse. The Tigers are a bit like the early American revolutionaries who didn’t meet the British Army head on which just marched in lines, and they instead use mobile hit-and-run tactics to wear down the enemy. Harris and Hinch are finding chinks in the armor of other teams and aiming their guns there so to speak while developing their own big guns in the sticks. We’re witnessing something special perhaps even historic with this club.

He might. I think Harris might sign a big free agent this winter if he determines a deal that’s right for what we need. But even if he doesn’t, so what? Is that such a failure on his part? I don’t understand why the key benchmark of success for Harris has to be whether he signs big stars to big years and big money, and if he doesn’t, it must be because he’s cheap or he’s scared or he’s lazy, all of which have been suggested by various people (I don’t mean you) at various times about him for not signing or trading for expensive contracts. I understand other teams have been aggressive signing big stars for big money and lots of years and we haven’t. The Yankees have Judge and Cole and Fried and Rodon and Bellinger and Stanton. The Mets have Soto and Lindor and Alonso and Manaea and Nimmo. The Dodgers have Ohtani and Snell and Betts and Freeman and Glasnow. The Phillies have Wheeler and Schwarber and Harper and Nola. The Giants have Devers and Adames and Chapman and Ray and Lee and Webb. The Padres have Machado and Bogaerts and Tatis and Musgrove and Darvish. They all have big stars making big money for lots more years and the Tigers don’t. What none of these other teams have that the Tigers do is 76 wins and the best record in their league. So maybe winning in today’s game is not necessarily about who has more of the biggest stars making the most money into the 2030s. Maybe winning today’s game is about something else. And as fans of the Detroit Tigers, we’re about to find out one way or the other. Not for nothing, Milwaukee has even fewer high-priced stats and a lower payroll than us, and they’re doing even better than us and everyone else. And they’ve been winning that way for years. Maybe that’s the organization Harris is emulating and not any of the big-spending coastal teams, one of which he left to come here. So maybe Ilitch, Harris, and the Tigers will sign Skubal for many many years and nine figures. Maybe they won’t. I’m in for the ride either way.