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Me and @sagnamgot dapped up by Loren Strickland postgame. As an aside, sagnam is a wonderful gentleman and I would bring Detroit to Cincinnati with him anytime

Marty Mornhinweg was ahead of his time.

Just wait until the Durham report comes out.

This is the last I've seen: “I haven’t got an update, but he’s not prepared to play at all for a little bit. I’d be misleading you and everybody else,” coach Todd McLellan said. “If I said it’s two weeks or three weeks, I don’t know. But he’s not ready to play yet.” They have been very ambiguous about it so far honestly. Wings officially sent Holl to Grand Rapids, looks like JVR is on "leave" right now (just had twins with one or both in NICU) so the three rookies made the team!

I think both of you need to take a small step back here. Nothing wrong with spirited debate but we're very, very close to crossing the line into insults here.

I think they will, yes. But despite the loss to Denver yesterday I still consider a Philly #1, as their 4 wins - while by narrow margins - have been against the Cowboys, Bucs, Rams and Chiefs. That’s more impressive than Bears, Ravens, Browns and Bengals.

Lines today: Finnie Larkin Raymond Kane Kasper DeBrincat Copp Compher MBN Söderblom Rasmussen Appleton JVR, Berggren Chiarot Seider Edvinsson ASP Johansson Hamonic JBD That second pair is fun

A driver is heading east at 35 mph..a second driver is heading west at 50 mph. Both are listening to Madison on Sirius/XM. How long will it take each driver to slam into a bridge abutment to end their misery?

Nicely answered. I'm not sure how we can go back in time and draft Wyatt Langford with so clear a 20-20 hindsight crystal ball at our disposal ... I think Harris might have been looking at the disaster that Avila left behind and figured, reasonably so, that we would not have had the horses in house to support Skubal during his remaining 3-1/2 years (at the time) with the team; that we could not have bought our way to immediate contention with either money or the prospect capital we had at hand; and that by the time we could have built up to a level of contender that a front-liner like Skubal could headline, he would be choosing from among multiple offers from Big Six teams. So, in a way, our contending way ahead of schedule kind of ****ed up that part of the plan. Who knew when Scott Harris came aboard that we were going to win well into October the very next year with guys like Javy and McKinstry and Wenceel and Carpenter and Parker Meadows and a bunch of waiver wire and one-year guys leading the way—and hell, with even Tork? No one in August, 2023 could have foreseen that. So it made sense that we were planning on building more slowly than that, and would probably have to start fielding the winning Tiger teams with Skubal already having a foot out the door. I think that would have been a fact of life most of us would have accepted up to and including July of 2024. But then, out of nowhere, we start winning and surprise the whole baseball world last year—so why not throw all the chips onto the table and go for broke, 2025 or bust? That's what Dombrowski would have done, right? Damn right that's what he would have done. And that's fine if all anyone cares about is 2025, and that the following year is for 2026 us to worry about. But that's not how Harris, and now Baby Doc Ilitch, see things. They know stuff fans generally don't, such as, there was no chance on god's green earth Shohei Ohtani and Juan Soto were ever going to come to Detroit. Heck, you even said yourself that we tried our damnedest to get Bregman, who's clearly a cut below Ohtani/Soto, fielding the best offer by far, and he still wouldn't come to Detroit. Now multiple that by every top-tier free agent of the last ten years. And we don't know what what kind of trades Harris has been turning down that past two years, but I would bet money they looked a lot like the trades Al Avila was falling for and became the laughingstock of baseball over. So, I guess in the end, the answer would have been for Harris to thread the needle perfectly and get the deadline exactly right, such as trading for O'Hearn but passing on Suarez; or somehow getting the Twins to send us Duran while we pass on pundit favorite Helsley. As it was, Harris scored huge with Finnegan, but all anyone will be talking about is how he failed tonight. In the final analysis, no matter what he does, Harris sucks. That's the nature of his job, I guess. As for what I think about it, all I know is this: Scott Harris has gotten us to back-to-back LDSes well ahead of schedule. And I'm going to trust that he's going to continue to move us forward, until he proves to me that he isn't. And when that happens, I'll get big mad at him, just like everyone else is doing now. But until then, I'm going to look at 2024 and 2025 as a bonus and not a birthright, and I look forward to seeing what's in store for us in 2026. And I will go out on a limb and bet that Harris surprises us by demonstrating that we are not just another Tampa Bay Rays after all.

Why are Mariners fans crying and hugging their girlfriends when going up by a run? Save the crying for when the Tigers take the lead in the top of the ninth! Who’s with me?

And for the Jews, his nephew Moises.

I don't know what you're speaking of. I love this lineup. Always believed!!! I'll answer back later on this one though.

Awesome time! 10/10 would go again!

Max Fried gets shelled for the Yanks and now Harrison Bader is injured and out of game 2 for the Phils. I think god is send a clear message to the Jews.

Should have googled first... Found this article: https://www.prideofdetroit.com/detroit-lions-analysis/144650/detroit-lions-bizarre-safety-kick-penatly-cincinnati-bengals The short version: For a onside kick the ball needs to go AT LEAST 10 yards, but under the new rules it also can't go (untouched) BEYOND the setup zone. There's a minimum distance AND a maximum distance. The kick went to the 46, which is just beyond the max distance. This makes sense as the kickoff rules "lock" most of the receiving team's players into a certain area so it wouldn't be as fair to allow the kicking team to just boot it as far as possible and try to out run the other team.

If you want to play that game: The Lions lost to a team that lost to the Browns! If beating a team that beat the Packers is a good sign, then losing to a team that lost to the Browns must be a bad sign, right? Opponents records: Eagles: 14-9-1 Lions: 9-14-1 This is imperfect of course, but if you look at that it certainly seems like the Eagles have faced stronger opposition. Add in that they are the previous seasons SB champs and that seems to me that it's fair to say the Eagles appear to be the better team right now. On the flip side: The Lions, on offense, have more passing yards, a higher completion %, higher yards per pass attempt, rushing yards, and yards per carry. However the Eagles and allowed fewer passing yards and ypa passing but the Lions have few rushing yards allowed and fewer yards per attempt... so the stats seem to favor the Lions. But then you and look back at the opposition faced and question if the Lions better stats are just because they've played lesser teams so can run the score up more? All in all it's hard to judge when they haven't gone head-to-head... even worse that they're no common opponent and that they have identical records. Right here, right now at this moment... yes, I'd say the Eagles are the team to beat.

If I’m McDavid I would have made veto power over deals like that part of my extension.

Win/Loss is less important to me than finishing in the postseason with a 3 or 4 game winning streak.

David Brown, who played the odd guy Todd Gregory in the show was one of my daughter‘s best friends in high school at Boise High. He was the class valedictorian and a real interesting guy. I spent a lot of time around him. I’m happy for whatever success he gains. He’s lately been in insurance ads with JK Simmons.

I am not sure the folded part is true. Even before the days of rotation chaos, that rarely held true but for some reason exists as a talking point.

A lot of people were questioning how much losing Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn would hurt the Lions, and the Packers game seemed to provide evidence that that might be true. No one was seriously writing off the Lions based on a single game except over-reactionary fans and talking heads on TV with the latest hot take.

Said no one except maybe an unhinged Packers fan.

I'll go on record and say that I could not care less what the stadium is called. Sell the rights for as much as you can, and pour those resources right back into the team. I never say "I'm going to Comerica Park", it's "I'm going to the Tigers game", and that's not going to change (even if they called it Tiger Park, which they won't).

I know the lithium channel very well. Madison is my pretend girlfriend.

Yes, I get that but the game wasn’t even over yet at that point. Too bad the M’s have won their final game of the 2025 campaign.

Psalm 69 is the best. That's the one where Jesus is a keyboard warrior antagonizing liberals on the interwebs.

On the positive side, the Tigers struck out only 10 times tonight instead of what was it, 19 a while back?

That teary-eyed Mariners fan needs more meat in his diet.

Only shades of grey.

Yeah, it wouldn't have been the worst idea.

Wouldn't want to give up any prospects though. Ugh, I hate being this type of fan tonight. I hate being negative like this. But watching our at bats is not fun. There is nothing enjoyable about watching these approaches at the plate.

I liked Placido better. 2-0.

I don’t know why Skubal would want to re-sign with the Tigers when this is the offense they put around him. One hit in six innings. Pathetic.

Two weeks in a row where a play dropped a ball before crossing into the End Zone. So stupid. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. And it wound up keeping the game close and led to a loss. CELEBRATE WHEN THE PLAY IS ACTUALLY OVER, DUMMY !

A Lions game used up all my likes for the day. For some reason, I don't get many. 😆

Manu-er

This is an annoying game.

“The violent left”

JFC do they not care about the ball being catchable or not on PI calls anymore? That ball wasn't close to the receiver, infact the "interference" part actually helped him get even closer to the ball cause without that he'd be running even further away from it.

As dreadful as the Bengals' offense is, it would still be smart for the Lions to take their opponent seriously at halftime. Offense has done nothing since the opening drive.

I‘m slightly disappointed we only have 14 points right now.

Arnold has to realize that they are watching him now.