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One positive from this? This isn't the Red Wings where you can cross check our captain in the neck and skate away like nothing happened. You run at our top guys..you're going to pay. Duren stepped up for Stew awhile ago and now Stew is throwing hands for JD. Circumstances could be better..but it' good to know we have a team. A team that's kinda melding the Go To Work identity with the Bad Boys identity.

Audible Cy

My mom had advanced dementia for 9 years and my dad had heart failure for 17 years (although he did remarkably well and didn't suffer a lot). I was in charge of their health care, especially for the last 9 years. My mom was in a rehab place for a few months and was mostly neglected, so I pulled her out of there and took her home and vowed to never ley her go to another home. The agency home health aides were ridiculously expensive (and the aides were not getting much of that money! It was all "administrative cots"), so I decided I would handle their health care privately and cheaply and at home where my parents would feel comfortable. Since I was still working full-time, I hired live-in home health aides from Africa and Haiti for about 65k per year which is actually dirt cheap for dementia care where I live. Dealing with aides was annoying and stressful, but they took better care of my mom than she would have gotten in a home. I took care of my dad as best as I could. This whole experience was the most stressful thing I have ever been through, but I am so glad I kept them out of homes and let them live their final years with some dignity. It's also really good that I can live the rest of my life without guilt (at least not from that!) and know that I did my best.

My sister died the first week of September, 2017. The last thing we talked about was Verlander being traded. She didn't like it obviously. She was going into hospice and communication was tough at that point. I thought about that just now after seeing a photo of him in camp in a Tiger uniform.

I am excited to see what Verlander can do, but he could just as easily be the next Charlie Morton as be the hometown hero making his grand exit. I'd be happy if he's a good five inning fifth starter with occasional flashes of his old self.

Ample room to sign me to a deal.

No, that was America asking: "Who's Hasan?" He will have exactly zero impact on any elections.

Glad it wasn't more games for Stew, but 7 still hurts the team a ton. This is the toughest part of their schedule down the stretch where you want to keep your lead in the East. But, I guess it's fitting for the team that likes to give up leads and win tough games down the stretch. Looks like they'll be trying to do the same thing with their playoff standings. I would've given Bridges 6 games. One less than Stew who gets the extra one for coming off the bench. This fight doesn't get escalated without Bridges. He immediately jumped into a 2 man fight and shoved Duren. Then he ran around the crowd after Diabate was restrained and it could have been over in order to take a closed fist swing at Duren who was walking away, which is what set Stew off. Maybe I'm biased because a guy who beats his wife into the hospital should no longer have the privilege to play in the NBA, but I also feel like he was the one who took this thing from a 3 to a 10. I thought Duren should've been just 1 game, but the league needs the Knicks to win a national TV game against us, so why not toss an extra one in there.

I don't know if anyone has made rthis joke yet..But Skubal is Cy Young...Verlander is Cy Old

When you work for thugs….. Some of these guys need to go into the detention centers they’re putting up everywhere

Home opener should be close to a sell out regardless of pitcher. If JV pitches game 2 of the series, the Tigers could start the season with 2 sold out games.

Pirro needs to return to TV where she pretended to be a lawyer..

(wrong thread)

I’m very excited for Verlander to be back, but if we’re being honest, Reese is probably a better pitcher at this point in their careers.

Not since the auto zone came in... https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-get-small-hundreds-of-minor-leaguers-have-shrunk/

Thanks for the insight.

Greenberg said short people are not angry. He also said Tiger337 is a #$@&%*!

Pacers screwed up and won last night. To compensate, their entire starting lineup is listed as out tonight.

But JV and Framber are not standing together. They must have hated each other in Houston. This is a problem. Fractured locker room. Fist fights, dirty looks. Man, and I was so excited yesterday.

Valdez looks like a midget next to those guys. No wonder he has anger issues.

I guess to me JV's always been THE GUY in my relatively short (compared to most of you guys) Tiger fandom. A Virginia kid, went to ODU, always seems down to earth (even with Kate)

As is so often the case, Bondi’s ridiculous performance was aimed at an audience of one, when anybody with eyes to see can tell her that Pig-King will not hesitate to throw her to the sharks. She’s a fool.

Be careful what you wish for. People being out of work is not a good thing for anyone.

Every department in our government has become politically partisan. Not a single data point coming out should be trusted before being vetted by someone from the outside. We have become no different than Russia, China, or Iran in this regard.

Exactly! It could be part of the grander strategy, and I'm not even kidding about that one. Better to be thought incompetent to cover up their criminality than to be thought criminal when they are merely incompetent. Incompetent people are routinely underestimated and never taken seriously.

Even better: maybe they closed the airspace to temporarily deactivate FAA logs so they can allow in the Central American planes they control full of drugs and underage girls without having to document them.

I had that same feeling about Nomar while looking him up not long ago. He had a .313 lifetime batting average. Two things: (1) That’s really high! How did I not remember that? (2) Who does that anymore? Hardly anyone: only six other guys with 5,000+ plate appearances in the entire playoff era had a higher lifetime average.

I meant he was on track to be the best of all time. Not just today.

Joey also had a lot of problems between his ears.

This. It is the smart move.

yeah, nice to see JV in the old English D again but I'd rather have a healthy Olson.

So any news ?

Why stop now? Especially when we can pay these guys in 2040. (Suckers don't realize the end of the world is in 2035)

On the downside, Ben Verlander tweets now...

I never realized that the Tigers didn't use uniform #35 since Verlander left in 2017.

I like it as much as they next guy, but I would rather have the league averaging 5 K/9 rather than 8-1/2 K/9.

Look! Spines! About ****ing time.

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.

A current WCF team would move to the east most likely. People say the three possible teams are Memphis, Minnesota, and New Orleans. Also, the Pistons have been hot garbage for 1 1/2 decades, and they do an expansion draft now? They had years I would have left the entire roster unprotected in an expansion draft.

Another thought, all these rule changes and tweaks have just made tanking worse. if a team could tank and get a superstar, they would get better and gradually rise in the standings. but when you tweak the lottery and the worst teams keep getting screwed (like the pistons did), they keep being mired in that desperate attempt to get a superstar player. ultimately, as long as there is a draft and no relegation there will be tanking.

Not me, I've always been a fan of his. Hopefully we see news of his new contract this weekend and hope it's for multiple years.