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The 25th amendment should have been used on January 6. The sooner the clown leaves office, the better off we'll be.

I don't get why the recent signings change whether or not they should trade Skubal. He was very unlikely to sign with them prior to free agency regardless and not very likely to sign with them when he's a free agent. I still hope they keep him for this year. The only exception would be if they got some kind of ridiculous offer which I don't think is going to happen.

Dan and Brad dragged this garbage franchise out of hell and into the playoffs But we shall see if they can make the next step

It’s hard to not be disappointed by this not being one of the first 20 names I thought of. But there were worse options out there, including those on the list. Assuming Petzing will call plays and allow Campbell to manage the game, that alone is a big upgrade. I don’t think it’s particularly hard to make the offensive weapons on the Lions look good. It’s more of an indictment on Morton than a credit to Johnson that one succeeded and the other failed. They cast a wide net and we have to trust this is the right guy. Because if it’s not it’s not just Petzing on the hot seat a year from now.

ben johnson took a heel turn awfully quickly. i dont know if he's on the daboll path but it wouldnt surprise me. the bears have more talent than those giants teams so it probably wont happen. otoh, the central is a harder division than the nfc least. depends on how you feel about caleb and this bears team. he's great outside the pocket and not great in it. if you keep him in there, he'll make a mistake. bears fans will learn what lions fans learned this year: progress is not always linear. its a week to week league. i doubt the bears are as lucky next year as they were this year.

Briceno and Anderson listed among top 10 of their position according to MLB Pipeline. https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/top-10-second-base-prospects-for-2026?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/top-10-catching-prospects-for-2026?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

And he should ask for half of someone else’s team. It shouldn’t be us desperately trying to unload Skubal for anything we can get because we’re mad at Scott Boras.

Agree. If Skubal's 1st choice was to stay in Detroit it seems there would have been at least minimal good faith negotiations Boras or not. The lack of any contact tells me he's mentally out the door, another reason why I think a trade is the best course here.

Maybe he has dementia

Ben is consistent—blew the game against the Commanders last year and now this one.

Right. The actual comparison is 6-7 War from Skubal in '26 plus whatever the comp pick turns into in the future, vs the value of 2 or 3 other prospects, which in total still have an excellent chance of giving you less than 6-7 total over any future. If you were a bad team where 6-7 isn't going to get you anything in '26, then take future, but if you are a good enough team that the 6-7 wins gets you to the playoffs and thus a shot at the WS, take the wins and the pick and let the future further out sort itself out.

My TV shows it's on the local NBC station here in Detroit.

He can look for all he wants. If teams aren't willing to go 10 years at $40-50/yr (which they weren't for Tucker), then he may have to decide if he wants a shorter term $50-60/yr deal or a 10 year $30-35/yr deal

if some team wants to give a 30 year old pitcher a ten year contract, let em do it. i hope its not detroit.

It wasn't bait, honest. More of a hit and run joke. I honestly fretted that you might misunderstand and up the ante somehow, because I didn't want to have to deal with it. Appreciate that you didn't.

This is surely part of it, but I think there's even more than that. How many times have we seen Republicans respond to a Trump atrocity with condemnation in the early aftermath, only to quickly shift gears and pledge their support instead? They already hated the same people going into their initial criticism before abandoning that, which itself tacitly admitting they were wrong. I think they might be getting drastic threats coupled with big payoffs, the latter of which ensures they are in on the crime, so they can't flip or they'll experience the former, which doesn't necessarily have to be a mortal threat, maybe more of a criminal prosecutorial threat, the threat of prison, meaning not country club jail. Threats + payoffs = mobster ****.

Maybe this was genius. Or maybe this is a head coach afraid to hire his own mid-season replacement. Time will tell.

Because WAR is a cumulative stat. A pitcher with a 4 WAR in 180 innings is not as good on a per-start basis as one who has 4 WAR in 120 innings, although that's not necessarily a bad thing—there is value in good volume, too.

Apparently Petzing has a run-heavy scheme and runs lots of play action with two TE sets. Sounds like a guy tailored made for Goff.

And to think I once quit a job because they spelled my name wrong on a 10 year employee recognition plaque. (There were other reasons, that was the one I gave them when I tendered my resignation)

Your Honor, his contract clearly says that he will be coaching for the New York football team, not the New Jersey football team.

war has always overly benefitted starting pitchers who accumulate innings. the fact that park effects can change year to year without any physical change to the park itself or change to the general weather patterns tells me that players who play in the park have as much or more influence on the "park effect" that season than the modelers would have you believe.

As is Donald Trump.

no, no, no, no, NO! 11.5 million per season for a guy who floats around on offense and is the opposite of physical on defense. that's the guy you want as the highest paid player on your team? the wings get continually bashed in physically by other teams, adding petersson to this team only exacerbates that problem. unless vancouver is literally giving him away, i am not interested. now, if the petersson of which you speak is vancouver's DEFENSEMAN of the same last name, that i am interested in. elias petersson the overpaid, soft as church music center? no thanks. i'd rather take my lumps with danielson.

Did my heart good to see Elmer head hunt Grieg after he took that cheap shot at Raymond. Sure he was penalized, but you can't let cheap shots go like that...as they have in the past

Because he hates the right people. That enabled the loonies like Mike Johnson to tolerate it. If the evil lesbians and liberals can’t stand the guy then it’s all good. The other reason is people like Ted Cruz and Rubio and Graham can never admit they were wrong after they flipped once already to be pro trump. They would rather destroy the country than admit we were right about him. We have one more chance, if we are allowed to, to save this country in about 9 1/2 months.

I’ve asked myself this question many times lately. It goes to show the moral rot of nearly half of Congress. There’s literally NOTHING he could do to lose their support.

There's no other way to put it: Donald Trump is a graphics novel-level supervillian. Simple as that. He will stop at nothing, and he won't stop until someone stops him.

Oh boy

That aspect doesn't worry me so much. Even if he is disconnecting mentally from a *future* with Detroit, if he is angling for a record setting deal, he is going to be driven to perform in the '26 *present* to get it.

Vance/Thiel 2028: All Power To the Powerful!

lol, sorry. I was teasing and should have been more clear about that.

A little over 3 weeks til pitchers & catchers report..Feb 11th. The team can add players to the 60 day DL on the 12th? Who besides Jobe gets added? Can we wait until then to add another SP? Who is the most likely to be DFA'd if we sign someone before then?

…. And we’re all just going to pretend that this is normal behavior? And defend this line of thought? And when I say “all”, it only refers to those that CAN have any mechanism of government push back and refuse him. When will enough be enough?

I understand wanting Tong, Sproat, William, Vientos, and Valdez over one year of Skubal. I just suspect the Mets will also prefer Tong, Sproat, Williams, Vientos, and Valdez over one year of Skubal.

Pitchers and catchers report on February 11. 24 days.

Or.... Leviticus 19:33-34: "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God." Of course there are other verses from the OT that Christo-fascists cherry pick to justify themselves, so why can't we?

The Mets are so obvious a destination for Skubal. They need starting pitching and are trying to win in ‘26. Whether Tarik makes $19 of $32 won’t matter to them. While before I was ambivalent about a Skubal trade, I now believe it’s essential. Between the arbitration drama and salaries given to Tucker and Bichette, I don’t see a scenario where he stays. A Skubal trade doesn’t need to be a punt on the season. Just requires some creativity on behalf of Harris. Would love to see something in this vein: Mets trade that yields Tong, Sproat, Williams and Vientos Torkelson to the Reds for P Nick Lodolo Sign Framber Valdez to 4/$120M C Dingler 1B Vientos 2B Torres SS Williams 3B Keith LF Greene CF Meadows RF Carpenter Bench/DH: Rogers, Baez, Perez, Jones, McKinstry Rotation: Valdez, Flaherty, Mize, Lodolo, Olson In the wings: Tong, Sproat, Melton, Long

U.S. Congressman Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania, Chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee used an instance during a speech in July 1956 as reported in “The Tablet: A Catholic Weekly” of Brooklyn, New York:2 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/08/17/media-mind/

This reminds me of a yard campaign sign I saw. To paraphrase, it said “In this house we stand for virtue and dignity and righteousness and humility and civility and servitude and faith….” And it was for the orange asshole. I mean, come on, seriously? WTF.

I agree to this action, but in addition, I think we can cease to be consumers of whatever Products/Companies are advertising on their networks. Harder to do, perhaps, but probably more impactful.

i disagree with most of that except for the part about baseball. baseball has so many salary constraints that favor owners its ridiculous. so many constraints that help smaller markets already. the mets spent more money than god last year to win a total of 83 games. only 4 more than the bottom feeding, cheap ass marlins. the mighty market of milwaukee won 97. yes yes yes the dodgers. oh no! the pirates couldnt sign a 33 year old corner outfielder with declining stats. someone please think of the children! if anything, the current system is TOO owner friendly. it lets owners off the hook for not investing in their product while quietly sucking up "revenue sharing" money from teams trying to win. i am no fan of unions, but if i'm the players here, there is no way i let them do a salary cap. and i dont think the owners will die on that hill either. they know they have a good thing going. there are much more pressing issues to address than player salary constraints and growing labor coats, the players have largely lost on those issues already.

It seems one of the new things here in Cornhole is trivia. Couple of different flavors, one in the middle of the town that has now grown to ballroom size with over a hundred people doing general style, or in my case, a ****hole bar doing music trivia. You get a team (no money involved) and each team puts an app on their phone. You create a team name and get hooked up with the trivia guy who keeps score. You get points for a correct answer, and more points for being the fastest. The trivia guy sits somewhere with a mic and speaker. He plays a song over his speaker and through the app you play the game. It loads a full screen of the alphabet. This competition was based on 70s, 80s, 90s music. He would play 15 seconds of a song, and as soon as you know who the artist is, you hit the letter of the first letter of the name of the band. After the 15 seconds, he would tell how many teams got it right, who the band was, and who was the fastest. He did around 25 songs, took a ten minute break (bathroom, cig, joint :-)), then did another session, this time one hit wonders. Another break, then you had to do the first letter of the name of the song. That was tough. Then one more for band name. Probably total close to 80 songs over the course of the night. Started at 6:30, done by 8:30. They had around 40 people, and 10 teams or so teams. I sat with a couple musician buddies of mine, who both played in bands over the years. We got smoked. It's amazing how fast some of these people were. No matter, it was a ball. I haven't had that much fun since the hogs ate my brother.

INOHAN PANIAGUA!!!!!!!!!!! TOP TEN PROSPECT BY END OF SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was going to take Harris, but CHAS already too him. I am taking Dugan Darnell. He will get the save in game 7 of the 2026 World Series.

I guess I’ve grown up because I resisted the urge to say “yabba dabba do”.