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Thank you. From what I watched today, especially with the team bringing out those kids, this was nothing but a class act. There is too much hate in our world.

Bobrob’s 2026 Preseason Prediction #1 – Tarik Daniel Skubal For the second year in a row, Tarik Skubal was the best pitcher in the American League and won his second Cy Young Award. Since 2023, Skubal has had the highest fWAR, 15.9, despite only pitching a half a season in 2023. He’s also second in ERA during that time frame, 2.39, only behind Paul Skenes’ 1.96. Also, during the last three seasons, Skubal has 38 wins, a K/9 of 10.99, a BB/9 of 1.58, and a HR/9 of 0.71. The Tigers haven’t seen this kind of consistency and dominance since Justin Verlander in his prime (more on him later). Skubal has five pitches and just like in 2024, he threw his curveball exclusively against right-handed batters in 2025. One interesting stat is that he threw his changeup more often than any other pitch last year, according to Baseball Savant. This is unusual because normally the fastball is the pitch most often thrown for a pitcher (like it was for Skubal in 2023 and 2024). Changeup: 31.4% 4-seam Fastball: 29.3% Sinker: 23.9% Slider: 12.5% Curveball: 2.8% According to Statcast, Skubal’s changeup value is 26.8, not only making it the best changeup in all of baseball but making it one of the best single pitches in all of baseball; only Bran Woo’s fastball (26.1 pitch value) came close to Skubal’s changeup value. Opponents batted .154 against Skubal’s changeup and 110 of his strikeouts ended with the changeup, so it makes sense that he would throw it more often. One notable trend over the last few seasons is his groundball rate: 2023: 51.6% GB% 2024: 45.7% GB% 2025: 41.0% GB% Normally, I would be concerned over the drop of this rate as I love high ground ball rates as they do the least amount of damage. However, it hasn’t affected Skubal at all. His ERA (2.39 in 2024 and 2.21 in 2025) and FIP (2.49 in 2024 and 2.45 in 2025) remain low. Entering his age 29 season, he is still in his prime years, so keep doing what you’re doing. Experts’ Predictions/Projections: FGDC – 200 IP | 14-7 W/L | 2.67 ERA | 0.98 WHIP | 245 K | 40 BB Steamer – 200 IP | 14-9 W/L | 2.80 ERA | 1.02 WHIP | 243 K | 44 BB ZiPS DC – 199 IP | 14-5 W/L | 2.54 ERA | 0.95 WHIP | 244 K | 37 BB ATC – 188 IP | 14-7 W/L | 2.72 ERA | 0.96 WHIP | 228 K | 38 BB THE BAT X – 188 IP | 15-7 W/L | 2.58 ERA | 0.94 WHIP | 233 K | 37 BB OOPSY – 205 IP | 15-7 W/L | 2.55 ERA | 0.99 WHIP | 252 K | 45 BB RotoChamp – 192 IP | 14-7 W/L | 2.67 ERA | 0.98 WHIP | 234 K | 40 BB CBS Sports – 189 IP | 13-6 W/ L | 2.81 ERA | 1.06 WHIP | 226 K | 44 BB ESPN – 201 IP | 17 W | 2.73 ERA | 0.94 WHIP | 253 K | 38 BB My Prediction: 2025 Prediction – 198 2/3 IP | 17-6 W/L | 2.54 ERA | 0.921 WHIP | 244 K | 35 BB 2025 Actual – 195 1/3 IP | 13-6 W/L | 2.21 ERA | 0.891 WHIP | 241 K | 33 BB 2026 Prediction – 195 1/3 IP | 19-4 W/L | 2.30 ERA | 0.875 WHIP | 248 K | 32 BB

It must be nice to have a government that goes after pedos instead of covering up for them.

Long ago in a land that seems far away

I’m calling it: he’s maybe two or three minutes into the speech when his people suddenly and hurriedly usher everyone out of the chamber for unspecified reasons.

the funny thing is that the most effective way to have the price of oil fall is to support the purchase of EV's, and the build out of wind and solar, but Trump hasn't figured that out. (Sell a million EVs, take the output of a large refinery out of total demand). But of course if 'energy' prices actually fell, that means oil, and the oil fat cats that donated that $500M to him would not get what he promised them for that $$$ - which just shows you that he knew he was lying from the get go. But with Trump it's ever telling the truth that would be news.

Rich Lowrey and Ted Cruz are the perfect embodiment of the weak. They are George McFly to Trumps Biff.

I’m not going to worry about Larkin on this. He just won the gold medal. I don’t expect him to react that way in a moment like this. That’s unreasonable.

Some will like this, some may not.

Meeting up with Flavor Flav would be an infinitely better upgrade than the president.

I don't hate Avila, either. What I do hate is when people insist that Avila deserves as much as or more credit than Harris for the recent run of Tigers' success, and there were plenty of people here insisting as much.

The guy can't walk the distance from the cart path to his ball on the golf course

And another Epstein predator falls.

Of all the giant macros, I think Coors banquet is the best. Coors like it pretty awful though.

Corona? Yuck. That's a one and done beer when on the beach or in sunshine. Any more than that and I'm burping that **** up all day. I guess Blue Lights or Molson were out of the question given the circumstances. I'm back to filling my garage fridge with Blue and Blue Lights. I still have craft beer and go to breweries but for every day at home at night... it's the Blues. I treat the craft stuff as a treat.

I'm probably a Harris slappy too. I didn't hate Avila but I think that kind of job passed him by. No shame in that. He had a great career in the business and did some good things for this org. Nothing wrong with saying we need someone else to take over.

I heard someone predict on a top pod this weekend that Trump might end up just canceling it outright because he's struggling to make it through public events more and more. I don't know how likely that actually is, but it does seem likely that he will have some portion of it that makes everyone question his health.

Man, I gotta give it up to the AI video creator. As nauseating as the content itself it, the technical quality of this is outstanding. Good enough where there will be millions of older red hats who actually, honestly believe this is absolutely real.

I've been saying that the idiot is going to start saying he wants an olympic gold medal. And now he supposedly posts this;

One super nice thing I noticed when streaming was that you were able to switch audio within the video player, so I had Dickerson and Petry. It wasn't, unfortunately, synced up... that audio was a second or so ahead of the video, but that was actually a happy little accident for me as I was working on something else while having the game up... so whenever they announced something interesting happening I could quick pay attention to the video to see it.

Alan Shepard had that. It's why he was grounded before his first scheduled Gemini flight. He found a doctor to do what was then experimental surgery where they inserted a tube do drain fluid. He got back on flight status and commanded Apollo 14 and golfed on the moon. Prior to that he flew 15 minutes in space. The movie Apollo 13 didn't represent it very well. He was cleared to fly and was to be given Apollo 13 but management stepped in and said he wasn't ready yet so he swapped missions with Jim Lovell. In hte movie Hanks says "Al Shepards ear infection flared up". Not true. It was merely about training. Good luck. If it is Meniere's it might be an easier resolution.

imported beer

It's been years since I have blocked anyone, but the new blocking function works well. You don't even know when they posted.

I get it, but meanwhile north of the border…

I’m trying to remember why I hated Thomas Massie. If I were a billionaire I would be behind him. Not because of his politics but because he represents the normal window of politics. Just reset things and we can fight about the margins and not democracy itself. I saw an animated video explaining Iran Contra. Jesus Christ that seems like small potatoes today.

Probably. The Big Club wouldn't allow us to profit anyway.

Brian Wilson had that figured out years ago.

The long shot and how to make money from it. We are about 6-7 weeks away from the mid-terms. Within the next week it will be silly season for the next two years as the Big Club decides who we can vote for in 2028. The long shot: Thomas Massie. He throws his hat in the ring with the promise to continue the quest against the Epstein criminal enterprise. He promises a position in his administration to Ro Khanna, both of which have shone to have balls of steel when it comes to this subject. That wins in a landslide. Unless they kill them first. How to make money. Less than 500 bucks buys you a dozen or more domain names. Buy up a bunch of combinations. You could even go so far as getting bot farms to spam social media on rumors to help drive up the price. The pigmen of Wall Street would be proud. 🙂

"Security" for the Olympics. Like a true Trumper, a day late and now we're about $3 million short thanks to this trip.

Isn't Patel supposedly in Italy for a 'work trip?'

I remember a few years ago discussions about Presidents "picking winners and losers". This all goes well beyond that. Also encroaches on the idea of Free Enterprise.

What at I missing that some would not like it?

Tomorrow’s February 23 game has a WXYT AM radio feed featuring Skubal as the starting pitcher.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVEoxIXDxic/?igsh=M3VuMnNtZ2IzdXN5 The photo is indeed real as there is a full video of Larkin and Team USA partying with a pedophile-enabling fascist.

WOW **** THAT. **** Dylan Larkin too. This really puts a damper on the win knowing that our teams captain is partying with a known fascist like this.

I think it all verifies that no one was lying when they said more than once that ChrisI would spend when the time was right.

I didn't realize it was on delay until I read that today. It looks like both games were, both Russia and Finland. I was working the counter in the bowling alley the night against Russia. Apparently not many knew the results, including me. We had a 24 lane house and when people came in they said to make sure to keep them up to date on the score. I had a TV at the counter. People were running back to the bar between their turn bowling to watch, and at the counter, what little they could. I would run a streamer across the scoreboards as the game went on. Finally, I got to put: USA 4, Russia 3 - FINAL. The place went nuts. It was really amazing. We had 4 or 5 guys from there who rented a motor home and went to Lake Placid. They couldn't get in the arena, but was there. They said the town went bonkers. That had to be a memory of a lifetime.

That’s a deep cut.

Has The Donald started saying he deserves an Olympic gold medal yet? I mean, we know it's coming. The orange cheeto knows absolutely no shame.

Waiting for Wilson to tell them to keep their ****ing bear and spike it on the ground.

Maybe Trump is trying to create a narrative that Greenlanders are merely indigenous Eskimos being abused and neglected by their Danish colonial overlords so we’re coming to the rescue. Or something.

Bump.... Any details yet on how or where we'll be able to watch Tigers games in 2026?

Wow. Just wow. Episode 5 of A Knight From Seven Kingdoms is a masterpiece. Did I just watch one of the best TV episodes ever? Maybe