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If Colt Keith's throwing arm does not get injured again, and the Tigers can stop playing musical chairs with his fielding position, I think Colt will be fine at third base. He is an above average athlete - his base running value on baseball savant is in the 89 percentile. He is not a Castellanos, Malloy, or Jung. Colt has played the majority of his innings as a professional at third base. Colt is already an above average MLB hitter (107 OPS+) and getting better. Contrary to what media talking heads are saying, the Tigers have every reason to provide opportunities for Colt to improve over the next 7 years on a team friendly contract - as opposed to paying Bregman $200 million and watch the 30 something decline over the next 7 years.

McGonigle on the roster as the starting shortstop on opening day is already priced into my expectations!

In the BA Era, the only Tigers position prospects ranked in the Preseason Top 10 are... 2007 Cameron Maybin (6) 2021 Spencer Torkelson (5) 2022 Riley Greene (4) 2022 Spencer Torkelson (5) By all indications, McGonigle will be 2, and the talk is that he and Konnor Griffin are a different brand of a elite than most 1-2 combos. Every prospect is different. Every prospect reacts differently to failure. Saying that the Tigers shouldn't promote McGonigle because Scott Sizemore flopped shows a lack of understanding of the difference in their pedigrees. And some fan on their couch isn't going to know the ins and outs about whether failure would positively or negatively affect McGonigle more than the Tigers' staff or McGonigle himself. The Prospect Promotion Incentive Draft Pick rules give a big incentive to the Tigers to put him on the opening day roster if he is ready.

Instead of Commander in Chief, he should be Decorator in Chief. Offer him a job on HGTV or with Chip and Joanna Gaines. Now would make America grate again!

Same. I've been critical of the Keith situation (how he's been handled, his output, etc). Key to note he has put up good offense for his age and he hasn't found much of a power stroke yet. He could be a guy that has an impressive leap this season.

Him putting Schroder on Brunson while Ausar was riding the bench only to see a 7 point lead late in the 4th immediately evaporate was a real sign that JB is not a good in game coach. Great motivator but lacks with the X's and O's. Sound Familiar? Cough Dwayne Casey Cough

He did hit at the end of ‘24 and was a catalyst in that lineup that surged to the playoffs. I’ll give him a mulligan for last season—missed ST and had a bizarre injury that disrupted his season. I feel much more bullish about a healthy Parker next season.

Urgent care didn't have the equipment to see the full ear, but there was very little earwax, but he thinks it's a perforated membrane, so sound goes in, goes through the hole and has nothing to bounce off of. It heals by itself, but I am still going to the specialist on Monday. I hope he's right. I know not to use Q-Tips like that. FAFO.

San Diego - March 26 2026 1. Torres 2B 2. McGonigle SS 3. Greene LF 4. Carpenter DH 5 Tork 1B 6. Keith 3B 7. Dingler C 8. Perez RF 9. Meadows CF Skubal P

Not all prospects are the same.

Don't know where to put this, so I'll just dump it here;

Indeed. Maybe JB screwed up his rotations. Or maybe FT shooting could be one of the messages sent by having Ausar sitting and also forcing other guys to be responsible for defense. The team is doing so well that maybe we lose track of the degree to which a coach still needs to push some of their buttons once in a while.

The Pistons rank 29th in free throw shooting. They shoot 74% from the line, where league average is 78.6%. Only Milwaukee shoots worse than they do from the line. Didn't we hire some big time shooting coach? Are we ruining his career?

Part of our decision (or my wife's) was that her parents wedding anniversary was 12/31. (Ours was 12/30). I'm sure her played a major role in that as well. We did do it on a tight budget though. Her mother was a caterer, my dad while basically a lawn care guy before it became semi fashionable also had equity in a floral shop so he supplied the flowers. A simple reception in the church's fellowship hall. Our hotel room for the first night was the "bridal suite' at the Holiday Inn on the Virginia Beach ocean front (a whopping $25 a night).... Some great memories though. Including my Pittsburgh relatives just beating my wife down the aisle. We had the audacity of having a wedding at the same time as a Steeler playoff game.

I was going to ask about Ausar's minutes after looking at the box score. For a team that is built on it's defense and then you lose a game giving up 131 points, it seems like something is off when your best defender only plays 16 minutes.

It seems like a lot of teams are going for multiple utility type young cost controlled players. The Tigers have a few of these types that are actually pretty good wherever Hinch plays them. Yes, having established players all around the field would be ideal but also extremely expensive.

The way it looks to me, the nature of the battlefield really has changed, hasn’t it? For millennia it literally didn’t matter how smart a guy was—you just sent him forward with the line as part of a brute force attack and they were mere chum, so it almost didn’t matter whether he got mowed down or how many went down with him. But by the time Vietnam came around, operations were far more complex and multi-faceted, which required a minimum level of intellectual capacity not needed during the Crusades (which used children!), for instance, and could lead to the failures you describe. Today, of course, there is no real battlefield as in the type imagined during the Charge of the Light Brigade. If there that kind of hand-to-hand engagement anymore, it’s more street to street, building to building, trench to trench, hill to hill, tree to tree, etc, which also requires a higher minimum of intellectual capacity to execute properly than chivalrous open field combat. Am I close?

Watch Green Bay lose their last 2 games, making the end of the season...what coulda been for Lion fans. Add insult to injury...

I suspect Hinch, like any other manager, would rather have eight All-Stars who are locked into their positions than a roster of pretty good guys who can play anywhere. He’s dealing with the limitations of the roster given to him, just as Harris is dealing with the realities of the marketplace to assemble that roster. If we had Dodgers money and Dodgers cachet, we would have Dodgers rosters and Dodgers rings.

No one is sure that anyone will. The only practical known is that the 26-man roster we see on the page today is not the 26-man roster we break camp with. Here in December, though, all the possibilities are still on the table.

“Playoff JB” shows up again and benches one of the best perimeter defenders in the league then goes into the postgame complaining about defense. And where was the guy JB just said was the best rim protector in the league? Also on the bench. Inexcusable. Yeah, they’ve could’ve won anyway with some free throws made throughout the game and some better execution down the stretch, but I'm pinning this one on JB for making them play with one arm tied behind their backs.

Why was one of the best defenders in the league sitting on the bench when George scored his game winner?

JB is absolutely terrible at drawing up end of game plays. How many times are you going to let Cade go one on one with zero screens? Just awful.

Get careless Caris out of there.

Another failed challenge because JB trusted a player.

I’d like thoughts on any other years that match this year in terms of who we have lost. Maybe it’s a statistical inevitability given how things took off in the 70s and 80s…. Those folks are old now. Jack Nicholson is the most tenured Oscar winner, 50 years. Duvall is the oldest, he will be 95 next week. I believe for best Actress Julie Andrews has both honors.

My personal objection was spending that capital then not putting him on the field to learn on the job, instead putting less talented players in his place.

Colt seem to me to be the kind of guy who needs to develop confidence, so if they can leave him be to get comfortable at 3B I think he's the kind of player that will help. By the numbers, the sample size is too small at 3b but at least he didn't grade out so badly it jumped out, Neutral RDS and -2 on Statcast. +1 lateral, -1 in, -1 out. I though the best thing in the statcast data was a max throw of 87 mph, which means his shoulder has recovered pretty well and he seems fairly accurate. If he develops even a little more, his arm won't be a show stopper for him. I think a risk for Colt is he lets himself bulk up out of being a decent fielder.

My buddy Todd's son Sheldon Dries won the AHL player of the week.

Drunk on Vernor’s?

That’s a bit extreme IMO. He has a lot to learn, but the injuries, especially to Branch and Joseph crippled the secondary and what their scheme is. I give him at least another year as he had major glimpses earlier in the year.

There is a horrible history there with McNamara. The studies show that a cadre of lower than average IQ (draftees ?) during the Vietnam War that he authorized to be inducted we’re causing more casualties per unit because they would blow cover, fail to understand basic field operations, get lost, etc.

Williams played well against the run for the most part...I don't think drafting him was a mistake, assuming they did so to have a replacement for Reader. Failing to replace Ragnow and Zeitler with quality vets was an issue on the OL

He’s caught six touchdowns as a rookie WR4. I think that’s pretty darn good. He and Titus Young are the only two in Lions history to do that. ASB had five. As long as he’s not a head case like Titus, I think we found the X receiver we’ve all wanted.

Ok, ok, enough fish ‘n chips and birthday chat. Let’s get back into which is the more extreme, Scott Harris’s awesomeness or Al Avila’s awfulness.

He’s going to turn it onto us some day if he can’t be stopped.

When will the draft thread appear?

Offensively I think this year has just been bad luck. Defensively I strongly feel that our scheme allows for more injuries specifically in the back 7. We are one of the highest man to man teams so we are always chasing and tired. This to me leads to bad tackling form and playing out of control which leads to more injuries. We need to mix in more zone or at the very least rotate earlier in the year more often to save snaps for later on.

Narcissist brain = serial killer brain

In my situation this person is an attention whore. They thought it would be great to have a Christmas wedding and that the extended family would love the opportunity to see each other. We tried to suggest waiting until the middle of winter when things are boring. The wedding had 300+ people. Half of the invited family didn’t show up. Those that did were shoved into tables in the corner and they left early. Not a single family member was happy about having to do this. BTW, this was the third wedding for this individual and all 3 were large. One involved going to Rochester NY. The previous 2 were over within 18 months. That’s the context. And the couple are both over 50 so it’s not like it’s young people who don’t know any better.

My mom's big gift to me on Christmas is a Gift Card, one of those Vanilla Gift Cards. I take mine out today to activate online and the 3-digit security code is not there. I angle the card a little bit and see that it has been rubbed or scratched off. Uh-oh. I go to the store, try to buy some strawberries with it - just to check - and it's declined - no money on it. Someone got to it, re-packaged it and put it back in the rack at the CVS on Outer Drive in Dearborn. She purchased the card on 12/22. So if it can be shown that itwas used before then, and the company sees that, she should get refunded, right? I'm not holding my breath. This sucks. This really ****ing sucks. Gee, what a great Christmas/Birthday. People who use their hands on computers to scam others out of money - when they get caught, they should get their fingers broken. You know, like in the movie Casino. They get caught twice, the should get fingers sawed off. Oh yeah, that's brutal, but to hell with people like that. My mom is very upset over this and she did nothing wrong. The card and the packaging did not look like it was tampered with at all.

Two articles in MedScape today signalling the impending Apocalypse. One entitled "AI Psychosis", about the surge in reports of psychosis-like symptoms linked to intensive chatbot use; the second entitled: "How to get ChatGPT to Recommend Thalidomide to a Pregnant Woman" This one is about how a Chat session might be hijacked to produce malevolent results.