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Justin Verlander is most definitely going into the Hall in a Tigers cap now!

There was a documentary on Netflix a few years ago called "The Pharmacist" that is a must watch.

ANd now it's safe again to root for him guilt free 🙂

or that ice cube became america's favorite dad in the movies for a bit. or ice t has been on law and order AS A COP for like 20 years.

My favorite one I’ve seen all over Facebook lately is the AI photo that was shared that showed Bad Bunny in a dress burning the U.S. flag. They will literally believe a photo or screenshot of anything.

Bridges went after Duren like he was his wife

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2026/02/09/ford-worker-who-heckled-trump-keeps-job-no-discipline-for-incident/88588763007/

I was at Tigers Fantasy Camp, either 2007 or 2008, and Johnny Grubb hit the highest pop-fly I ever tried to catch. I got under it okay, but somehow it glanced off the webbing of the glove and conked me right in the coconut. Hope I don't get ALS from it.

OMG! I have unhooked from the wicked hive mind of this crumbling civilization all morning, and I discover that JV is coming home. Being superstitious I think perhaps I should withdraw from the hive mind more often…

Wow, another Tigers signing I didn't hear about until I stepped into motwnforums. If they had just signed Verlander without signing Valdez, I would have considered it a lazy move. However, signing Valdez as the #2 and Verlander as a bottom of rotation guy is perfect.

Illitch is so greedy - he'll NEVER spend on this team.

Agree about Stew. Duren was fine at that point and Bridges had a good 5 or 6 people holding him back by the time Stew engaged. Silly suspension to take.

Bagpipes in protest are awesome.

Pistons are only a half game behind OKC for the best record in the NBA. 39-13 two years ago they were 8-44 This is incredible.

Don't get on a ladder. 🙂 For those not old enough, once you get to a certain point in life, the first thing you want to think about; how can I do this without getting hurt.

Me too. This got me going.

that's no longer a michigan player. you have forfeited your citizenship.

I laughed when I saw some fans posting on social media trying to convince the league that LeVert came off the bench during the fight.

When I had my left shoulder surgery in 2008, I was prescribed Oxycontin for pain. This was before I knew thing one about it. Tried one. Didn't help. Never took another. Lucky me.

Maybe I generalized too much. But most of what I saw here, callers/texters on 97.1, posts on Reddit and social media, seemed to give a sense of fans being underwhelmed with the offseason moves up until the Valdez signing. In any case, no one should feel that way now. Harris and Ilitch have been aggressive over the last week and actively working to upgrade the talent on this roster.

Welcome home, JV. Make sure to bring the missus around.

Love it, it isn't my money and more pitching is always great!

Speak for yourself, hater.

He hit 99 home runs in his career. They need to bring him back...chase for 100. It'll be just like watching Cabrera try to hit #500. Kind of.

I am in the camp of Olson, maybe not being hurt still, but the team believing that he's not durable enough for a full season and also that they really are going to monitor Melton's innings. I kind of have mixed feelings on Melton. Because if the issue is that they think he's going to need TJ surgery (a rite of passage for MLB pitchers now), to just go ahead and get it done now and maybe he's ready to be tip top in 2028, when baseball returns after the lost year in 2027. Verlander is insurance for that. I am sure they told him that he's not promised one of the five slots. Or maybe - just maybe - the Tigers are going to a 6-man rotation at some point. I didn't expect this. I actually did last year. I guess he's pretty stoked about this. A return to the Halcyon days of his prime. Let's win this all and if Skubal walks, who cares?

I'm hoping they can sign Tom Brookens and Johnny Grubb for the upcoming season. Those guys never got their retirement tour.

Now go get JD Martinez to hit a HR off Chris Sale.

They aren't going to get much for one year of Mize.

Besides retiring as a Tiger, what makes this such a good signing in my view is that we already had arguably the best rotation in the league, so it's not as though this is a desperation signing hoping against hope he can save us. As things stand JV probably won't even make the rotation out of camp, but he could certainly fill the Rafael Montero role when we need a sixth starter. Chances are he will not be much better than league average, but man, wouldn't a league average sixth guy be a great thing to have in our back pocket when we need him. The other thing that makes it so great is that this is a signing for the fans. Not only for the fans—we will expect a positive contribution out of him, as he will out of himself—but this signing is practically Chris Ilitch and Scott Harris sending us a Valentine. That Park is gonna be rocking right out of the gate. April in the mother****in' D, bitches! 😃

I am currently reading a book on the Sackler family called Empire of Pain and it is heavily reinforcing my desire to stay away from opiates. Sad stuff.

Only good things happen from having Olson, Melton, Montero, and Jobe around JV everyday. I still think he’s got something left in the tank to get major league hitters out.

JV is coming home!!!!! Outstanding!!

It blows my mind that snoop dogg of all people is everywhere now

I will never understand the idea that a ball in play is required to qualify as action. Who doesn’t love the art of pitching?

I saw a post where in the top frame there is an explosion and the back of Tom Hanks suit is on fire. The bottom photo shows Tom Hanks in a hospital bed with all kinds of burn wraps and a caption that reads Tom Hanks was nearly killed in a dressing room explosion. It's not even good A.I. yet comment after comment after comment was wishing him a fast recovery. They're just too stupid to know. It just floors me how easily people will fall for something. Many of these people vote. We're ****ed.

ha. I didn't open the link or read the URL. Just the quoted portion.

the Marouns be like

You hope to get a cakewalk like Charlotte in the 1st. 4-0 not a single game within 10 points.

I think the biggest thing is that fish does not keep, and Americans are used to meat meaning beef, which you can leave thawed in a fridge for a week and still be perfectly fine. Once a piece of frozen fish thaws you literally have minutes to start cooking it if you want to preserve its quality. And then you have the insane practice of American grocers that receive their fish frozen (as virtually all fish is shipped frozen) and then thaw it out to sell it to buyers that take it home and freeze it again. By the second thaw you might as well toss it as it probably already stinks.

I’m surprised it took Trump this long to jump on that. It has all the elements to portray it negatively to the willfully ignorant and uninformed. “They keep all the money”. Back then it could be sold as “didn’t cost us a thing. Ain’t it beautiful “. Now you reverse it. “We get nothing”. A perfect situation for his ignorant supporters who are repulsed by knowledge and facts. The entire movement tries on misinformation and lies.

Elbows up!

Back in 1984 I lived in the country. We were almost off the grid. Only electric. But I had a TV tower when I bought the house, no antenna. So I put one up. No rotor, we were dirt poor. I could aim it toward Detroit and the Tiger games. The wind would move it and I would have to climb 30 foot up this thing and adjust it while my kids yelled at me from the window by the TV - a little more that way, no, too far. I wouldn't trade it for the world. 84... Great year was it not? Had number 3 son born that year (in October no less). His middle name is Allen, after Mr. Trammell.

Season, I believe.

I hope the Canadians tell him to pound sand. The bridge is will still be there long after Trump assumes room temperature.

Seider is Germany's alternate captain. I don't know if that means he wears an A on his jersey or something weird like Ä or ß.

It cuts both ways though. The Dems (or rather, all voters with sanity) need to unite, yes. But Rs still need to figure out a path without DJT. Is that Vance? Don Jr.? Rubio? It's not as if the GOP is innately well run right now so as to anoint a successor. DJT will throw any successor under the bus in a heartbeat if he dares question a move he's made (or video he's posted) in the last 12 years. Trump doesn't actually care what becomes of the country when he's dead and gone, he just cares about his "legacy" (which is why we see his name getting thrown on **** indiscriminately). So in 2028 (or even in the primaries if they dare to have genuine open primaries), Vance (or the GOP field) will have to pretend like DJT is beyond reproach (lest DJT cut them off at the knees with his base), while not being the actual cult leader who has defied all historical odds to become the rapist/racist/pedophile in chief. And if it doesn't work, and Newsome/AOC/Shapiro/Beshear wins in 2028, all bets will be off in the GOP. It will be chaos as they try to fracture into either (a) trying to replicate Trump with a Dr. Oz / Vince McMahon / Trump Jr. figure, or (b) making a half-hearted return to conservatism with a Rubio / DeSantis figure. That all said, the path forward isn't crystal clear for the GOP either. Of course, they do have going for them that their party has managed to unite behind a person as horrific as Trump. While everyone on the sane side gets their knickers in a knot over Clinton/Biden/Harris not being their perfect candidate.