Leaderboard

I think they need a starter more than a bat. I have little faith that Olson will be healthy, Melton is a question mark and I am not excited about Drew Anderson. I'd like to see more offense too, but there is a better chance they get in-house help there than in the rotation.

A guy like Chris Bassitt would help the rotation and shouldn’t command an onerous contract.

I think they have a good chance of making it, so I'd like them to improve their chances while skubal is still here.

I don't think it's that simple, but it's a reasonable take if you think it is. As for the bat: we might already have the bats in house. yeah, I know prospects fail all the time yada yada, but since the guy got us to the LDS two years in a row by surprise, I am giving Harris all the latitude that has earned him to continue to bring his plan to fruition. And if the plan calls for leaning on the talent we have in house, plus strategic pickups from the market, to get us back into the playoffs and hopefully to the next level in 2026, then I'm on board. If it utterly fails and we miss the playoffs this year in such a way that it's obvious it's due to his inertia, then I will join in the chorus of boos.

It went beyond mere questioning why years ago. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/why-do-american-white-evangelicals-support-putin/13846702 While many white evangelical leaders oppose Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, televangelist Pat Robertson recently said Putin was “compelled by God” to invade the country in order to precipitate the coming apocalypse. In 2015, Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham, leader of post-war American evangelicalism) visited Putin and Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, in Moscow and told the Russian press that “millions of Americans would like [Putin] to come and run for president of the United States”. Though Putin had just invaded Crimea, in 2014 Graham nonetheless applauded his efforts to protect children from “homosexual propaganda”; Graham moreover held that the importance of protecting Christianity was sufficient “justification” for Putin’s decision to strafe Syrian cities by way of support for Bashar al-Assad’s bloody civil war.

How many days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training?

A couple of questions 1. Who would you like to see win it? 2. Which team out of all of them do you NOT want to see win it? 3. Who do you think will be in the Super Bowl? 4. Who will win the Super Bowl? Some fresh blood in the playoffs this year. Jacksonville is a great story. A redemption, of sorts, for Trevor Lawrence. I am sure if they won the whole thing we'd get a better DUVALL from Liam Coen than we did in his press conference. The fresh blood in the AFC might ber stifled by Buffalo and Baltimore - showing that playoff experience out does W/L records. In the NFC Ben Johnson certainly is the story for the coaches. Amazing turnaround. We lost a real gem there. But it would be so painful to see Stafford win in his first year after the Lions and then Ben win in his first year after the Lions. I don't think the Bears will. 11 or 12 win teams are not frauds, but they did benefit from a weak schedule, and keep in mind that last year the Bears were a better team than their record. They Eberflused several games. Philly's obnoxious. Seattle is the team tucked way up in the corner of the country that nobody seems to talk about. That works in their favor. And Carolina is a cute little story - but a reason that the Lions were right to try and change playoff seeding. It's ridiculous that a 12 win team from the West has to go on the road to Carolina or Tampa to play an possible 8-9 team. I'll Go First 1. Buffalo. As a long-suffering Lions fan, I feel their pain. I would love to see that city exorcise it's Super Bowl demons 2. Rams. I just don't want to see Stafford win 2. That would rip me up. 2b. Chargers. Because Jim Harbaugh is a dirty rotten sociopath and the ****ing Chargers belong in San Diego so we can hear that great disco Superchargers song again. Put Chicago, Philly and Green Bay near the top. Yep, good ol' spite 3. Buffalo vs. San Francisco. No more Mahomes to get in the way and San Francisco's return to form would give me hope that the Lions could see a similar path soon. The least-likely would be Carolina vs. Houston. 4. Buffalo 41, San Francisco 35. I think long playoff experience comes in handy for both coaches.

Indiana really working and dominating Alabama. I hope their Cinderella story continues.

Gulf of Mexico.

No. I need to. Haven’t been in the office since, what seems like 3 weeks ago. Then I got Cameron Crowe’s memoir and have been chasing up some stuff he’s mentioned. Great book by the way.

I think most opinions here fall somewhere between "get him out of here" and being 100% satisfied with what he's doing. I may be closer to the latter than you think, but I still would like to see him do more.

Bye teams about to be 0-6.

And if you move away very far you need to file for your gun registration in the new locale and comply with their regulations.

So what? Maybe RFK is trying to get everyone else to swear off vaccines and doctors and go all in on holistic alternative medicine and eat food scraped directly off the highway, but Trump is damn sure going to have the best of traditional doctors, medicine, and treatments available to him at all times. I'm starting to think Trump won't drop dead any time before age 90, and even so, no matter when he does, no matter how old he is, no matter how he dies, an entire ecosystem of murder conspiracies is going to spring up to cloud the circumstances his death for decades afterwards.

Nice job using "perverse" given how UofM's athletic department's last month has been going.

LOL - I just figured this out two days later. MOO should have been MOH - Duh! Still didn't catch it the second time. This is what happens when you get old and stupid(er).

OSU = cats.

HaHa - though to be fair, if the word 'see' is being used in the wider sense of perception in general, it would apply to instrumental measurements, so while you can't see DM visually, you can point to objective physical evidence that implies its existence. That would be the sense I meant upthread when referring to the position of an pure empiricist (I think I had used the term 'objectivist', when I should have used 'empiricist'. Objectivist would be an accurate enough word semantically but I forgot Ayn Rand hijacked that otherwise good word for her nonsense.)

I think they have set it up to become IP centered around the daughter.

Thank You Miami.

There may cold and snow in Ann Arbor tonight, but the tears in Columbus are bigger Miami 24/OSU 14.

His wikipedia page is amazing. Lots of "but Wexner was found innocent of this" tagged at the end of a lot of crimes he was near and around including assassination and cocaine smuggling.

In between popping out of her seat periodically to lead cheers for the home team, this enthusiastic young lady next to me told me she admired my hockey IQ.

You mean the guy whose name is on the Medical Center at Ohio State and also one of the biggest donors to their football program.

Further to that why would a loving and merciful God who loves us create us in such a way that deception is part of the deal? We are gifted with knowledge but according to the creationists that contradicts things. And why would our eternal life be subject to birth lotteries? It’s the trap of absolutist theology.

Assassins and spies own the country club. Hard to see daylight between our own nation’s administration and criminals. Being sick of this is a sign of healthy sanity, Sue.

I just gotta ask…. Why TF are there meetings, AND telephone calls involving world leaders (whose countries are at WAR) being held at a private country club??? Why is this not even getting mentioned / questioned?? There is nothing secure about that place. Not the rooms, not the grounds, not the communication devices. Good lord, why not just invite the spies & assassins to sit at the damn table & serve them croissants and coffee followed by a spa massage??? What the actual ****. and let’s not even talk about that sham of a press conference afterwards. How dare he say that Putin wants only the best for Ukraine. I am sick of this man’s lies and mind numbing stupidity. just sick to death of it.

Bridget Bardot died. That’s for another thread. But courtesy of Simon Shows you Maps… Only Chubby Checker, Dylan, and Bernie Goetz (which in high school I thought was Burning Jets) are still alive

The most ballyhooed Tigers prospect I can remember from the old days was Kirk Gibson. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/1978-draft-spotlight-kirk-gibson/#:~:text=Gibson drew attention from scouts,“was his raw speed.” This was long before Sparky Andrerson called him the next Mickey Mantle.

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.