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Should have demolished that wing instead.

Options due today, qo's due today, keeping the 40 man at 40 after activating 60 day IL's today, minor league free agents become free agents today. We should get a resolution on Urquidy and Sewald, as well as the QO decision on Torres. Depending on those options, some 40 man trimming may need to be done.

I believe this also. Will there be trade offers, absolutely, possibly even great offers. I also believe each year is it's own separate Universe and our best chance to win in 2026 is with Skubal, anything beyond 2026 is total speculation with too many moving parts. Keep Skubal, add 1 big RH hitter (3B, SS or RF), add at least 1 SP and most of all strengthen the bullpen. Let 2027 & beyond take care of itself within the minors for now, we don't know what our needs are going to be. Maybe McGonigle & Clark fly out of the gate in 2026, maybe Madden comes back & Dylan Smith takes another step forward into the bullpen rotation. We'll see but I am reasonably certain I will enjoy 2026 more with Tarik in a Tigers uniform all year than not.

The tigers may decide to trade Skubal. They might not. That isn’t the point of this particular post. What bothers me most in the Skubal trade discourse is the nonsense of “the tigers cannot let Skubal walk away and only get a compensatory pick.” It’s nonsense because it applies equally to any other team that would trade for him. It’s offensive and completely dismisses the contender status of the tigers. If the Mets trade for him tomorrow, will we suddenly see articles about how the Mets can’t let him walk? About how the tigers have great prospects like Jonah Tong to tempt the Mets in a trade? Of course not. And spare me the idea that the Mets are in better position to extend him. We’ve also got articles pumping up the ****ing mariners as being in on him. Every one of these potential trade partners is going to hypothetically give up a lot of player capital to get him, and then be in exactly the position the tigers are in now that is apparently untenable. **** that.

Active Democrat here. I am a member of my local city Democratic Club, my Congressional District democratic club, the Michigan Democratic Party, Metro Detroit DSA Chapter, and other groups. I regularly hear policy discussions and conversations around ho we can help people out at events I go to. In-fact, when I am the more progressive functions, policy and helping marginalized people is mostly what they talk about.

Just because a guy like Cam Robinson is available one year doesn’t mean another guy like him is going to be available every year. Also, Jax seems to have wanted to get rid of him after a knee injury. In the course of the last year he has played for them, Minnesota, Houston, and Cleveland. Is this really the kind of big move we are blaming Holmes for not making?

That wing is in the White House

Revisiting Tucson, Arizona this week where I lived for 13 years for the first time in almost 40 years and drove by the home I inhabited from May 1977 to May 1978, which is colloquially known as “the Dillinger house” where the famous gangster John Dillinger was arrested on January 25, 1934. It is now immaculately restored with every conceivable gleaming modern upgrade. My pal Milt and I and a cast of colorful revolving third roommates spent a fruitful year within these walls and it was really quite a time.

There is also a lot of loss aversion fallacy in the "You have to re-sign him at all costs" talk. Once he hits free agency, the calculus is the same for all teams (except for tax/draft picks compensation on the edges). 2027 Tigers sans Skubal are the same whether they had him in 2026 or not.

Which means, of course, that no other organization is likely to empty the top of the farm system for one year of Skubal.

I mock Nazis.

I actually trust Stew's three more than most of the other players on the team. Not only that, I think it's critical that we have a big who can space. So, I'm cool with him getting them up there. In comparison to the rest of the teams in the league we take a very low percentage of our shots from three. Like it or not (and I don't), the math bears out that taking more threes - even though you'll miss a higher percentage of them than twos - is advantageous.

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Well, thats pretty good. I just see him as a rebounder, shot blocker and defense first kinda player. He did make a few big 3 pointers in the Utah game. And TBH, I'm always happy when he makes them. 🤣🤣

he best stay on the ground floor of any tall building he enters.

By comparison, of the regulars, that is only below Robinson who is 40.4%. 3rd is Green at 35%

Small sample size, (but not as small as 2 possessions in 1 game) but Stewart is shooting 39.3% so far on 3.5 3 point shots/game. It seems based on that he should keep shooting.

There are some heartbroken traders out there no doubt. She was quite the Jesse Livermore and had quite a few followers, and this is only a few.

Skubal would have to be an incredibly sweet guy to stay with the Tigers when he could go to the Dodgers and live the dream there. He’s a pugnacious fighter and he’s ambitious. It would be out of character for him not to be all that he could be. And there’s a good chance it’s not only about money. Being on a perennial World Series contender is pretty attractive in and of itself. We should enjoy our ice cream before it melts and enjoy his last season as a Detroit Tiger. Full stop.

I’m not blaming Holmes for not making a move but I don’t think he deserves any praise for not making any. He has his reasons and they very well may be justified but it’s a bottom line job, and the bottom line is that he chose to not improve this team.

I hesitate to generalize about this tragedy. You think that there are people who should be on top of the world then it turns out they are not. I read somewhere that before the chase police were summoned to his address for a “welfare check“ because someone felt he was in danger of harming himself, but he wasn’t there when police arrived.

She’s running for president. She may not be as dumb as I thought.

They should erect a statue of her along side the big bull out in front of the exchange. Maybe something like Lady Justice riding a broom.

Funny since Houston is one of the destinations mentioned for Morant.

Don’t worry, once we slap the QO on Skubal, no team will touch him in free agency, surrendering a 2nd round pick.

Horrible to hear about this. He was only 24 years old and was just starting out his football career. My thoughts are with his family, friends, teammates, and everyone who loved Marshawn. Way too young to go.

I don't know what the offer would have to be to pry Skubal away from the Tigers this winter, or who would make such an offer, but if that offer does not make us better in 2026—if it were to force us to take a step back from contending—then it's just not going to happen. Simple as that. Because if Harris purposely takes us off the contender track for the promise of making us better than we are now starting in 2028 or 2029, the fans would go ape****, the players would go ape****, the free agents would avoid us for the rest of his tenure here, and he'd be basically a marked man in this industry. The only PBO job he could get after a debacle like that would be along the lines of Pirates, White Sox, Rockies, et al. The only way he wouldn't be a marked man is if it's widely known the Baby Doc forced him to sell off Skubal which, after the millions poured into the infrastructure of the team to make us a perennial contender, simply doesn't pass the smell test.

How much different is it in calling Cam Robinson a starting LT than calling Skipper a starting LT? Neither one would hold such a position for long if not for being emergency fill-in. Robinson was probably better than Skipper, but not dramatically so.

One of the GOAT traders is retiring. Pelosi will not seek reelection.

I think it's part of a larger social dynamic. I guess the metaphor might be that it's easy to never have to restrain a dog when all you have is golden retriever puppies, when you have room full of dobermans it becomes a different story. A lot of our idealized thinking about liberty, freedom, and sanctions at the institutional political and legal level was developed in a society where social and religious constraints on behavior were very powerful. IOW, it's easy to over idealize how committed you are to things like free speech and action legally in a society where no-one will ever say the most destructive things anyway because of other levels of deep social constraint. As we find ourselves in a society where behavior has fewer and fewer sources of control outside formal institutional rule/legal structures, we are finding out that those don't work so well all by themselves.

OK, so, first this part … "If we see someone leaking, you’re fired," Eric Korsvall, the organization’s chief operating officer, said during the question and answer portion of the meeting. While Roberts stated unequivocally in his original video that the Heritage Foundation would never cancel "our friends," he said Wednesday he should have made clear there was a "limiting principle.” "You can say you’re not going to participate in canceling someone … while also being clear you’re not endorsing everything they’ve said, you’re not endorsing softball interviews, you’re not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should’ve made that clear." So the attendees are warned to not leak the meeting under threat of termination, and then Roberts pussyfoots around the apology clutching his pearls saying he would never cancel anyone. I don’t understand the point of apologizing internally while allowing the impression externally that Roberts is 100% behind Carlson and, by extension Fuentes. Separately, I found this interesting, from the end of the article: Roberts took questions from the audience, including from Robert Rector, a welfare scholar, who described himself as a 47-year veteran of the Heritage Foundation—"longer than most of you have been alive," he said. He harkened back to William F. Buckley Jr., the National Review founder. "I hope you know who he is," Rector said. "The boundaries that he set forth, William Buckley, in the early 1960s, were twofold. You have to expunge all anti-Semitism, all of it. But that’s just part of it … the other is you have to expel the lunatics. Ok? The lunatics who think that Eisenhower is a communist. And we have them back now. Ok? They are both here, back, just the way they were in 1959. And we have to go back and set the general parameters. You say, ‘Oh, we don’t cancel.’ We do cancel. Did we cancel David Duke? Yes. Did we cancel the John Birch Society? Yes, ok. Because they were harmful. Because if they’re in your movement you look like clowns. The issue here is Tucker Carlson … Tucker’s show is like stepping into a lunatic asylum." It took a guy with half a century in the organization to remind everyone of how the Foundation finally ended up canceling the crazies after all, in a way they refuse to today. He remembers. This is in part why fascism is making such a strong comeback in America today: te fascist world we fought to destroy in no longer in living memory. It’s just a tall tale to people today.

Theyre whippin up a fake Nobel peace prize for the Nobel peace prize loser Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/05/fifa-peace-prize-world-cup-draw-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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I am all for getting our socks knocked off by a great offer for Skube. Despite the success of the Tigers, you can't build a team for the WS, just the playoffs. Statistically, a 537 pct team (Tigers) playing a 574 pct team (Dodgers) isn't going win 50% of the time but its going to be darn, no not darn, damn, damn close to that. What is more important than star power is player control and depth. I want quality players who will contribute for a number of years in specific roles and help ensure a playoff spot in 2026 and beyond. With the quality of players we have projected for the next 5 years, it would be foolish to diminish years 2-5 because of a perceived better chance for year 1 due to one player. I don't believe for a second that the players will feel betrayed if they trade Skubal for quality players. They didn't in 2024. Spring training 2025 held an optimism that we hadn't felt in years. 2026 is going to be filled with eye opening prospects who are already used to winning. I would be very happy to add two or three more prospects to the mix for Skubal. w

Elwood Blues knew how to handle Nazis.

"Good evening and welcome to another exciting evening of NBA basketball." George Blaha is a Detroit legend.

Today is the last day you can put somebody who was added to the 40 man since August 15 on waivers until early March. I am looking at you Tanner Rainey.

This is a guy who had several hair transplants or procedures and beat up his first wife because one supposedly went bad....

A guy who expects the entire world to bend to his will is never, ever going to modify his approach to anything ever.

As I recall Marvin Miller feared such a scenario.

They dont help cover for pedophiles like you do, but their position on the shutdown is to help people with health insurance premiums so thanks for demonstrating how dishonest you are so easily.

Appalling and par for the course

The Democrats definitely do care about the working people of America, even if part of the reason is to earn their support in the democratic marketplace of ideas. We all know who it is the Republicans care about, and it ain't the people who have to work for a living.

Twenty million dollars And they put you on the day shift Look out kid They keep it all hid Better jump down a manhole Light yourself a candle Don’t wear sandals Try to avoid the scandals Don’t wanna be a bum You better chew gum The pump don’t work ’Cause the vandals took the handles

Calling Democrats “hostage-takers” ignores reality: the GOP can’t even get enough votes on its own bill. Procedural math > political blame.

Republicans control both chambers, but somehow it’s the Democrats “holding the country hostage”? That’s like blaming the passenger when the driver runs out of gas.

You summarized my feelings completely. This isn't about trading hurting our future by raiding the top 3 farm system for 2026. This is about keeping the momentum going, knowing the future isn't lost if (more likely when) Skubal leaves for draft pick compensation as we have one of the top farm systems in the game. As you said, trading Skubal sends a message to the current guys and current and prospective FA's that when given a legitimate opportunity to compete for a championship, we are going to punt it for the future out of fear we will lose the best pitcher in the game the next season. It also shows them that we aren't even willing to try and keep him. I do think the Tigers will make Skubal a legitimate offer in FA. I think it is 99% likely another team makes an offer considerably higher that would make no sense to match. But if the Tigers make an offer that would make Skubal the highest paid pitcher both by AAV and total $, players will know they are willing to try. And players would understand IMO. Just like their pursuit of Bregman last year. Trading Skubal would all but guarantee the Tigers would be only getting FA's who need to rebuild their value, and that once homegrown players reach FA, if they are any good, they are likely gone. Like Jason_R said, this isn't a spreadsheet or a SIM league.

As one who shut this stuff off years ago, and then got hooked again; I thought the entire playoffs were a really good show. As much as I didn't like how it all ended, it was highly entertaining. Drama, long games, a little bit of everything sit on the end of your seat type stuff. I'm glad I watched. Bravo to baseball for this one.