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That's the dirty little secret about capitalism - the more money you have, the easier it is to make more. You actually have to be aggressively foolish to lose a fortune under any conditions less than an general economic collapse like 1929. That's why long term successful capitalist societies must have a lot of progressive taxation and spending on public goods and social capital (health and education etc) - otherwise the trend into oligarchy/banana republicism is a built in inevitability.

For context here was my view: IMG_0908 (1).mp4

Israeli hostages back home. I’m so happy for their families. Can’t imagine what they have all been through.

I think you have to trade him before training camp if he doesn't sign before then, because A) you risk him getting injured before the deadline, and B) you have a larger pool of suiters in the off season. The longer you wait, the less you're likely to receive in return for him.

You were not in the room or on the phone calls or privy to any of the negotiations. You fail to grasp that moves in baseball require the consent of two parties to agree. This isn’t a video game. “He didn’t do what I imagined in my head he could do” is not a valid criticism

and the inverse to this is that duty always ends up falling to Seider, which he is certainly good at, but it's also a waste of his other skills to have him playing a stationary game at the goal front so much.

I am definitely rooting for Milwaukee and Seattle. That would ensure a franchise would have their first championship

They also need to make the audio between NY command center and field officials available after the fact. If they want to put to bed any notion that they might be in cahoots with the bookies who are now their biggest sponsors.

As always, it is disappointing when the refs pull points off of the board. It would have been a different game had they not. Also, ASB catches that pass 999 times out of 1000. It is a different game if he catches it. Apart from that, it seems like the front seven was a lot less aggressive tonight than they were against the Ravens. Was that by choice given the depleted secondary, or was it that they just did not have time to get home? Probably a bit of both. Hopefully Alim is back for TB to juice the pass rush. Then we can get healthy over the bye.

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I know SOL isn't really in effect, except....Lions fans do get to learn the League's obscure rules in the moment more than any fanbase.

You have to hang onto him because you just made the playoffs and are in position to contend next year. Trading Skubal right now would be lunacy. If he gets hurt, you can sign him at a discount.

Looking forward to a rotation of Skubel, Fleherty, Jebe, Olsen, and Melten.

I had a 6th row seat to that entire nonsense. Ref and sideline official came together, discussed for 30 seconds, separated. Come back together at the spot of the ball for the XP. Ref nods, then pulls a flag. That call coming from upstairs is a blatant violation of NFL rules.

I truly don’t understand where this narrative came from about Scott Harris being “afraid”. Especially when you consider he’s been in charge for only 3 seasons and they made the playoffs in 2 of them. It’s an urban legend with no basis in reality.

We learn about more unheard of NFL rules because we're Lions fans.

Sitting right in front of DJ Reader’s entire family. Mom is a nervous wreck LOL

The Mariners didn’t offend me as a fan as those kinds of things go. I can’t explain it. Kind of like the Giants. Their players and fans don’t annoy me.

I'm starting to think the Mariners might be good.

I was watching on Amazon Prime but apparently Ken & Mickey did the game as well.

15 shots vs 79 or whatever the Leafs had. 🤣

🎗️Well turned phrase of the day. Where else but MTS can you find erudition like this?

Ahh, nice fake by JVR, 2-0 Wings! Oops, now I have to find a way to explain how this post is Tigers-related, rather than admit posting in wrong forum by mistake.

All this talk about how Chiarot would be better suited for the third pairing is missing the point. Of course he would be, but when he was hired there was nobody else suited to play on the first pairing. Chiarot has done exactly what he was hired to do, which is to eat up minutes for four years until the franchise had credible prospects to replace him on the blue line. Even now, leaving aside Edvinsson and ASP who promise to be a formidable second pairing, there is nobody who is clearly head and shoulders above Chiarot. Anyway, his contract is up after this season so the search for a successor is on, whether it is a prospect or a new free agent.

Nixon going to China didn't last that long in the grand scheme. He was still a crook.

I wonder who Arizona wanted. pretty much any of the Tigers controllable players performed better than Suarez did down the stretch

I guess you mean that with regards to Chiarot? This is what I see with Chiarot as a 1st pair D with Mo Seider: His 1st year here those two were paired up. 2022-23. Chiarot ended up with a -31 +/-. IIRC, Seider had a -20 or -25 plus-minus when he was paired up with Chiarot, until Walman supplanted Chiarot as the 1st pair LHD with Seider. Seider ended up at -9, so -20 or 25 with Chiarot, plus 15-ish or so with Walman. Walman ended up a +10. In 2023-24, Walman and Seider were paired. Walman ended up a -2 so no great earth shakes there... and Seider ended up a -7. Again, nothing great. Chiarot ended up a -4 as 2nd pair that year, instead of the -31 he had the prior year as mostly the 1st pair LHD with Mo. In 2024-25 Walman left and Chiarot was again 1st pair LHD with Mo... Chiarot -14, Mo -5. In two games this year so far, Mo and Chiarot are both -3. I'm sorry... but I don't even mind Ben Chiarot. I love his hits and toughness on the ice. Just not as 1st pair. I think as a 1st pair LHD he is not only too old and too slow and an overall negative on the ice, but more importantly, I think he DRAGS Mo seider DOWN with him. I like ben Chiarot. I just like him as 3rd pair LHD, and NOT 1st pair LHD... is all. I'm sticking to my guns. Heck, I'll take AJ as 1st pair LHD over Ben any day. Starting today... if I could just write up the lineup myself...

But I will give him credit for hammering this out. I told my father (MAGA) that I will NEVER call Trump a good president. He attempted a coup against the Constitution of the United States. He is a TERRIBLE president, by U.S. Democracy, and MANY other standards. But I also told him... "I hope, somehow, some way, Trump does the right thing for the country." He has ****ed our farmers, again, with his tariff wars. He is ****ing the middle class, with the tariffs themselves. They are REGRESSIVE taxes, AGAINST the middle class and poor. the top 5% are HARDLY affected by tariffs. Amongst many, many many other evils and terrible harms he has inflicted upon this country. . . . But I don't think any president is 100% bad or 100% good. I'll give him credit for working this out. Israel got all of its hostages back. That's a positive. How this works out in the future, for Gaza, no one knows... But if there are no more terrorist attacks from Gazans/Hamas and they can rebuild their territory (country for those who wish to use that) and lead better lives in the future, without inflicting or suffering harm to others... That also is a positive. (But unknown at this point). Just my fair, and balanced... 2 cents.

The Trump Crime Family is corrupt to their core. Maybe not all of them. But... Completely, and totally, corrupt. From Donald J. and on down.

We almost already did. Until Teddy Roosevelt became president.

I think this is correct. At the core, they are interested in the benchmark, not how it's achieved. But that still means they want a whole lotta green. 🤑

Granderson and Jackson were not rentals. That trade was not made because Dombrowski needed to get something for Granderson/Jackson before they walked. It was made because, in part, because Dombrowski liked Scherzer and Jackson (I think especially Scherzer at the time the trade was made) better than Granderson and Jackson.

I can't believe Seattle won. That's huge for them.

A couple bounces earlier in the game go our way and it could’ve been a much different score. Mahomes fumble that bounces right back to him and weak pass interference call along with not catching a 4th down conversion. With that said the lions defense allowed to many extra yards on tackles that allowed the Chiefs to have short 3rd down plays which we stopped but then easy 4th down conversions to extend drives killed them early.

I thought everyone knew the Tigers had an offer out to Bregman. He signed with Boston. Either Harris was given a chance to match Bostons offer or Boras just used the Tigers offer to get a better deal. Thus...Harris was either played or he was the victim of a very unethical agent. Either way, he should have given Boras a deadline to accept so he could move on to finding another 3rd baseman. But I get it, some people are happy with Harris. I'm just looking at it without rose colored glasses. Harris is flawed.

An ACC official resigned this year after replay came down to review a play late and the ACC office told him he needed to overturn it anyway. If we have rules, they should be followed. The rules say that the seven mf-ers on the field who are paid tens of thousands are solely responsible for that call. That’s how it should be.

There is venting, and there is arguing with bad faith trolls. All that does is raise your stress levels, waste your time, and sometimes bring you to their level. Best to ignore it. The last few weeks of trying that has been pretty liberating.

Plante is off to a great start with 3G 3A in 4 games

Wow, so they're continuing to neuter defense. Terrible choice. Just what fans want, to watch more guys stand at the free throw line all game.

If the new cba negotiations go well and they have a 2027 season. I'd prefer they sign Skubal as well. I understand the risk. It was frustrating to see Max, JV, Porcello go on and win WS elsewhere

A 2027 rotation of Skubal, Jobe, Melton, Olsen and anyone else could be very good.

All good. I'm trying to stay out of here anyways. Just really more giving more advice than anything else that feeding trolls only empowers them and drains you. Ignoring them drains them.

If Skubal is dead-set on becoming an FA, the Tigers must trade him before opening day, IMO.

Re: CF Looking at all his numbers, Parker looks like the guy there should be a decent chance to fix. His fall off is all about too many GBs. He hasn't fallen off on K rate or BB, or much of anything else except he hit too many grounders this season. I would guess that's related to the league pitching him down, but wouldn't you think a competent coaching staff could at least get him into the position he needs to be in to cover the low pitch better?

Right, or somebody gets hurt, or Keith is completely lost at the beginning of the year, or any number of things.

I only worry about blocking McGonigle, but that seems like something that would work itself out. The pick they would get would be a pretty good one, assuming the Tigers are still getting Rev Share money and get a Compensation 1 Round pick, which would nominally be 32nd to 34th depending on if the Dbacks offer Zac Gallen or Drake Baldwin wins the Rookie of the Year. The Phillies, Yankees, Blue Jays, and Dodgers are all in the CBT Penalty box and their pick moves back 10 spots, so they will all move behind the theoretical compensation pick the Tigers get. If the Mets don't win a lottery pick, then they are in the bonus too and their (likely 17th, very slight possibility 18th) pick moves back 10 spots too.