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Let's not assume everybody stays healthy. Cross that bridge when we get there. I do think Montero would be a good back-end reliever though.

if you have a no movement clause and then demand to be traded you can eff off.

and if he says "i'll only go to minnesota" he can sit his happy ass at home and not get paid.

cosign, endorse

It is interesting that agnostic is allowed but atheist is not. In the past, I have often seen Christians regard the two as equally "bad". I have always thought that every person with any curiosity at all must have experienced some agnostic thoughts in their lifetimes.

Two or three years ago I did a summer-long feature on Fidrych's 1976 season roughly trying to keep up with the date of the publication with the date of 1976. I had a blast doing it. People really enjoyed it. I did the same thing for the 1968 and 1984 Tigers and they got decent positive mentions, but "the Bird's" blew those two summer-long features out of the water. People kept talking to me about The Bird even after I was done with the feature. I have Fidrych's Topps rookie card (not great shape and in a screw down protector so we all know that is horrible) on my wall in clear view when I look at my office monitor (as I'm doing right now). I also did a 1976 Tiger season replay, and while the team did just about what they did for the actual season, Fidrych was horrible at the start. In fact, if my season was the actual season he wouldn't have been starting any All-Star Game. He would've been at Evansville. 🙂 But he did better the second half and even with him struggling for a good chunk of the season, it was a fun replay. In fact, it's one of the most done replays in the gaming world - the Mark Fidrych 1976 replay. Hardly any of them that are done are really Tiger fans. Some are, but not a lot of them. He still holds a lot of magic with not just Tiger fans, but MLB fans of all teams.

By May 15, 1976 I was a pretty passive baseball fan. I was 11 years old I went to a few games with my dad. I collected baseball cards, but I really wasn't that into it. On that cloudy, cool Saturday my dad took me to a hardware store. Not a chain store, a really small and crowded store on Van Dyke south of 14 Mile Road. My dad was one of those guys that would want to talk shop with the hardware guy. Pretty boring for me. But while he was doing that, I stayed at the front of the store, where they had a little black and white TV. The Tiger game was on. There was this kid I'd never heard of pitching. Skinny and tall. All arms and legs and he was just kind of goofy-looking. Circling the mound after every out, getting down on his knee to pat down the mound. The catcher would throw the ball back to him and the next pitch would come right back. No pitch clock needed with this kid. One little, Two little, Nine little Indians made one out after another. I think my dad finally got done with the hardware guy and we left in the 5th inning. We lived 3 miles away. He made one quick stop at the store. I got home and turned on the TV and there was only two outs to go. The game was already over and that goofy kid was still pitching. Six weeks later the rest of the country was introduced to Mark Fidrych on Monday Night Baseball. In just six weeks the Tigers were selling out games he started and after that Monday night game - FIdrych was selling out road games too. He didn't even really know who Babe Ruth was. He was an instant Superstar, but he was genuine. It was innocence. It was real. He is the reason I fell in love with baseball. That Summer was wild. We had 3 All Stars (Fidrych, ,Ron LeFlore, Rusty Staub). The Bird started the game in Philly. I'll never forget the stats 19-9, 2.34. We thought it would last forever but it was over in less than 4 years. But I will never forget that Saturday - 50 years ago today - that changed my life. I'll never get tired of watching this clip. Here's the box score from that game. Wow 50 years man. Where the hell did it go? https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET197605150.shtml

I'd be very disappointed if the Wings accepted what the Wild have to offer in a trade for Larkin

This seems like a good spot for this low level joke. The four hidden problems in the panel are problems, but as we can see, a lot more is being hidden in plain sight.

this would have been a good candidate for moving up the starting time.

Sounds like it. From this blog post, which also has some great stats on Fidrych’s heavy usage in 1976 and his strong deferred start to 1977: https://prestonjg.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/update-things-i-meant-to-write-just-after-mark-fidrych-died/ “He threw complete games in seven of his first eight starts. By that time he was 6-2 with a 1.83 ERA. He didn’t give up a home run in his first 66-1/3 innings. He faced 38 batters in each of those last two starts, with just three days rest between them. Performance-wise, he was every bit the pitcher he was in 1976 (at least through the end of August), if not better”. “Then he got the hell beat out of him in two starts, being knocked out in the sixth inning of each game, allowing 21 hits and 12 earned runs in 11-1/3 innings. He later came to believe he tore his right rotator cuff in the first of those two games, July 4 at Baltimore, although the injury wasn’t diagnosed as such until 1985. (In the 1986 SI piece, Gary Smith wrote Fidrych’s right shoulder popped “ten days after he returned from the disabled list,” which would be early June, which seems unlikely based on his performance.) On July 12 he was pulled while facing the fourth batter of the game and was done for the year. (Jim Crawford came in to relieve Fidrych and threw 8-1/3 shutout innings.) According to the next day’s Detroit Free Press, team doctor Clarence Livingood diagnosed Fidrych’s problem as “a tired arm.”

I think Platner is rightly cooked at this point. He has had scandal after scandal for the better part of 6-8 months now. Nazi tattoos, disgusting posts online/reddit about sexual assault, allegations of affairs and being hostile to woman. He should step aside and end his campaign and allow Janet Mills to become the nominee. Unfortunately, his ego and arrogance won't allow for that. He's blowing a golden opportunity for Democrats in Maine and assuring that Susan Collins will be back in the Senate.

Abdul endorsed Kamala Harris and was openly supportive of her election. He did the same in 2020 for Joe Biden. Yes, in the primary only, he supported a vote for uncommitted. But in the general he did everything you asked. Furthermore, as someone who has seen him speak at least 5 times now, he does far more than just pitch Medicare For All. He has a whole swath of ideas, on a range of issues. Just because you plug your ears and go la-la-la-la like Lloyd Christmas doesn't make it so. It's just you choosing not to hear or acknowledge them.

it wouldn’t be hard to figure Mac was POd after he went to the olympics and then ended up hurt again, even if happened after he got back. the team knew he would go if given a spot but that doesn’t mean a coach trying to make the playoffs who thus doesn’t care a whit about the playoffs still isn’t frosted over it

I'm probably taking second overall if it is offered honestly.

I hardly knew her ...

Madden should go to Toledo before Montero does. Keider has earned his roster spot. There’s plenty of others that should go before him.

That endorsement did wonders for Kamala Harris. The UAW seems to have lost its magic. They endorse the rat****er who helped Trump instead of the candidate who worked on the task forced that saved all their jobs.

Yup. There were “too many” starters in spring training. And then May happened.

I never saw that one before. Thank you. I love his interviews - so genuine and unscripted and of course the Massachusetts accent!

At some point in the future, maybe 40 or 50 years from now, people will genuinely wonder how we could have allowed a clearly mentally ill man to single-handedly take over the country for a time.

yes, this site is the best place to get news, facts, opinions about the Tigers. It's why I come here so frequently.

Hopefully other GM's don't bring up that Larkin only had one 5 on 5 goal this calendar year 😬

Wings should definitely ask for comparable packages to the Robert Thomas ask. Larkin is a little older and hasn't put up 80 points in his career before, and Rob Tom did it twice. But I'd like to think that other GM's would be enticed by how he plays in the Olympics and think they can unlock something more with a better roster. Yzerman should just read out all the puff piece quotes from the Olympics and sell them on what can be!

I also know that motor city bengals is one of the worst sites out there and would never visit or read. Byb is barely tolerable. Rogelio works hard and I appreciate the coverage but I don’t need their opinions. You guys here do a much better job.

trade ideas: Kings: To DET: C Jimmy Lombardi, 2026 LAK 17th Overall, 2026 CBJ 43rd Overall, 2027 LAK 1st Round Pick, 2028 LAK 1st Round Pick Wild: To DET: C Charlie Stramel, 2027 MIN 1st Round Pick, 2028 MIN 1st Round Pick, 2029 MIN 1st Round Pick flyers: C Jack Nesbitt, C Jett Luchanko, 2026 PHI 21st Overall, 2027 TOR 1st Round Pick Lightning: C/RW Sam O’Reilly, C Ethan Czata, 2026 TBL 58th Overall, 2027 TBL 2nd Round Pick, 2028 TBL 1st Round Pick Leafs: 2026 TOR 1st Overall Cbus: C/W Kent Johnson, LD Jackson Smith, 2026 CBJ 14th Overall, 2026 STL 43rd Overall Bruins: C Fraser Minten, C William Moore, 2026 BOS 23rd Overall, 2028 FLA 1st Round Pick Panthers: C Anton Lundell, 2026 FLA 9th Overall, 2026 FLA 40th Overall from Sloth's favorite Dollar Store Yzerman Substack.

Little Marco: “I’ve never seen him sleep”

If calling somebody ugly is rhetoric that causes people to become violent, I can think of a certain person whose favorite pastime is doing just that. Now what's his name again?