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What a weird week. Lions get objectively robbed of a touchdown by a violation of NFL rules by NFL officials. In seeking to uphold the integrity of the game, the official blatantly lies about how the process occurred in a post-game interview. When called out on the lie, the NFL doubles down, seeking to protect its integrity by lying about how much integrity it has. The Chiefs are called for zero penalties in a game, the first time that has occurred in the NFL in approximately two years. Brian Branch gets suspended for a game because of a fight, instigated because of the apparent lack of enforcement of safety rules during the game by officials. The appeal of this suspension is heard by former Packer d-bag Jordy Nelson and is predictably denied. In the aftermath of the suspension, NFL Films releases a hit piece on Brian Branch. Within hours, in the face of immense backlash, NFL Films deletes the piece. What'd I miss?

Says the guy who has copied and pasted the same article from a third rate publication multiple times saying the Tigers should have signed Bednar instead of Finnegan.

you misspelled 'cheap'

I’m excited by this team because we are building it from within rather than from without. I like that aspect of it.

Winning at the casino is disqualifying but bankrupting a casino you own is awesome business acumen

About time they catch a break.

This was simply the case of a high profile standalone game where “the office” saw something that put KC behind and made the call because it was technically correct. The on-field official was put in a bind because now he knows they missed the infraction. Since the next play hasn’t started he has to either 1) ignore that he knows it was a foul by following the rules, or 2) break the rules and use assistance on a play that doesn’t allow assistance. The bet didn’t play a part at all. Bias and opportunity did. Bigger point to this current conversation, bringing up Jaymo’s name is just reckless and inappropriate. That is how baseless rumors start. Please stop.

ASP is an NHL goal-scorer!

I wouldn’t be surprised if the impetus for the clip getting pulled came from within the Lions organization. It was up and then down very fast. Too fast for it to have been the result of social media backlash. I wouldn’t be surprised if a player sent it to Campbell who sent it to Rod Wood who sent it to NFL Films with the message “what in the absolute hell is this garbage?”

"All the best people" Who kiss his orange tush

Seems like other teams don't want the prospects we don't want.

Oh wait, maybe you meant the first movie. Second one too.

Great news, just heard the house of reps has cancelled all votes for next week. Any days passing and the GOP isnt legislating is a W for the USA.

My wife, just now, sent me a text asking why the Tigers traded Skubal to the Yankees. After a brief moment of panic I realized it was one of those dreadful internet proposed trades masquerading as a done deal. It's going to be a long offseason.

My 2025 Ford F250 backup camera shows on the screen upside down. Dealer said they have no current fix lol.

I thought nothing of the Appleton acquisition until I was chatting with a couple of Jets fans this summer (yes, there are several in Vancouver) who said that this was a good pickup. Not for the goal-scoring which has occurred so far, but yes as an upgrade to the 4th line.

I'm glad Seger is using Seger

So then the Tigers shouldn't have traded for any of the names you listed in your earlier post?

Insight of the day. Well, insight of Wednesday, anyway. But yeah, good one.

The purpose of walk up music is to fill silence that gen Z folks can't tolerate My conjecture has always been that today's experience at the ballgame is designed to keep rock concert goers from walking out after the second pitch .

SHOTS!

Not the c word I had in mind, and I am not talking a derogatory slur towards women. Cheap is one way to describe it, but Lajoie and the Tigers were high practitioners in the art of collusion around that time.

Is that similar to the lessons he learned when he signed Michael Lorenzen for 2023 (pitched only half of 2022) or John Flaherty for 2024 (had injury problems in 2020-21-22 but did pitch full in 2023...)? Harris taking flyers doesn't bother me. I like it when he takes the right ones though. Maybe Urquidy will do us right in 2026. Walker Buehler? (OH, and Dylan Cease would be a great sign too, as a few have mentioned here...) I would definitely be interested in taking a shot with Buehler to see if we can help him recover his magic. I'm just sayin'...

Bringing JV back holds virtually no appeal for me. To say he's a shell of his former self is still an overstatement. The only difference between him and the Maeda/Cobbs of the world is what he used to be for us.

Remember when Nixon had to stage a cover up for his enemies list? To show how much norms have changed, it’s wild to see how much it’s just out in the open now.

MAGA acts like they uncovered a scandal when Pritzker reported his winnings on his tax filings and made those public. He’s not even trying to hide it. He also said he’s donating the winnings to charity.

Phillies expected to trade or release Castellanos Phillies To Trade Or Release Nick Castellanos - MLB Trade Rumors https://share.google/jTWSH9dOkG127KadI

I wonder if Illich/Harris would consider something deferred. Maybe 10/500 with half deferred? If he stays healthy for 5 years he potentially could be an excellent closer on the back half. I think Harris should consider being creative. It would be huge for the Tigers to keep him

Nice performative dive by Barger on a ball he could have pretty easily caught standing up. Can’t blame him—it gets him lots of love from media and fans who don’t quite notice it.

Toronto's offense is most everything that Harris wants Detroit to be. And Max pitched a good one

Harris needs to do 3 things this Winter that I don't think he has done before: 1. Sign an impact FA (Bregman or Bichette are only clean fits) 2. Trade real young talent/prospects. They do not need 7 guys for second base. 3. Trade a superstar. Skubal is leaving. And if all they get is a 2027 draft pick as compensation, THAT will set the franchise back for years.

I’m guessing this is a cume number and not average quarter hour. It’s easier to accumulate nine million viewers across five hours than across two-and-a-half.

DD proved you can trade away every bit of minor league talent and still win big, if you have unlimited money to spend on payroll. And that will work for several years. But it will eventually catch up to a team and cause several years of fans suffering. I wouldn't trade those seasons, as a fan, even if it wasn't possible to continue the winning. Those years were, by far, the most successful seasons of my lifetime. And I'm old as dirt. 🤣🤣

I can tell that’s not the Republican version of the flag because it lacks a swastika.

Imagine being a trump fan and also simultaneously requiring others to have 100 accuracy on stuff

I never like to make assumptions about injured pitchers. I hope Olson has a strong healthy season, but I am not penciling him for 30 games or anything close to that. They need to acquire another legitimate MLB starter even if Flaherty stays.

the river in question was probably the Cuyahoga in Cleveland, which did famously catch fire a number of times in the '60's prior to the passage of the clean water act. I couldn't tell you off the top of my head who the major industrial operators were. Republic Steel was there but there were many others. I have no idea how AOC would have gotten to Deloitte - clearly misinformed or typoed or a sloppy research. That bit aside, 'burning rivers' in the pre EPA days is truthy. If you missed the 60's you really don't have any idea how bad the environment was before the clean-up started. You could see the smog hanging over ever major city, smell the stink walking near any highly trafficked road, crappy dead inland water everywhere. It was real and it was bad.

That wasn’t even the first play call on 4th and Goal. They took a timeout on the first play call because they were about to take a Delay, but the play call was for Goff to play action and roll out. It was a stupid bet, I don’t think there’s any real likelihood of foul play there with the betting. I think the NFL ops just overstepped their authority and Wrolsted covered everyone’s ass by toeing the company line in the pool report.

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if they trade skubal they are most likely going to lose the trade because skubal is already a great player and most prospects - now matter how highly they are ranked - do not pan out. otoh, there is a very good chance that skubal gets injured again and/or declines from this peak soon (and will still likely outperform any prospect package). only the tigers know their budget. do they want to spend 25% of it on one player? if you held a gun to my head, i'd say they dont trade him, cant re-sign him, and he walks. but that next year will be very fun when he pitches.

When the Red Sox traded Betts for a big package, it could be argued that not signing him was an impetus for a Red Sox backslide. In fact, I'd argue that more often than not, the team that trades a superstar typically gets far less in return in the long run. Harris knows that. I still don't think it's his preference to have such a heavy contract, but odds are, if a trade is made, Detroit will be a diminished team both next year and into the future. You just don't breed a CY. Detroit has been blessed to have JV, Max and now Skubal......and still they don't have a ring to show for it

Cautionary tale. There was a time that the Dodgers had a #1 prospect young outfielder everyone was salivating over. Boston finally pried him loose in return for Mokie Betts. Since the trade, Betts has put up another 32 WAR, Alex Verdugo has produced 8.6 and doesn't seem to have much left at only 29 (Jeter Downs didn't produce any). It's *really* hard to match any young player(s) to a superstar. You just never know ⚠️

I understand. His value is higher with control over a full season than it would be at the trade deadline when he's only a rental. And the Tigers may not trade him at the deadline if we're contending. The fans would scream bloody murder and for good reason. No, the only way the Tigers can move him is this winter. Or keep him, sign some other talent and make a run for a title? That would be my choice.

I think you’re overestimating the likelihood of performance of the packages and underestimating the value of 2026 Skubal to this team. IMO that value is worth more than 1 top prospect in an organization and a flyer-I’m valuing the comp pick as roughly one of the top prospects in those organizations.

they shouldnt be counting on jackson jobe to be anything. i'm not saying he wont bounce back, but his trajectory now is more likely to be average-ish casey mize than the all world spin doctor he was touted to be.

Anybody here ever been to a game in Milwaukee? It’s actually pretty nice for a giant carport.

That made me like him more. If Bauer had a case he could sue. He hasn't. There's a reason no MLB has gone after him to help their club.