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Because sometimes crazy **** happens? Once upon a time I was with friends at a bar at the harbor in Lexington, MI. Met a girl way out of my league, and we danced.... Mentioned that I didn't want to go home and maybe we should go instead to Niagara Falls. She shocked me by saying "Let's go". We ended up watching sunrise in Niagara. Worked out well, 4 kids and nearly 40 years..... Moral of the story? Always take the slim chance....

Knowing him, that scratch will get infected and spread directly to his groin

Clark and McGonigle for many years to come!

The immediate declaration of winners and losers is so dumb, especially when one side is nearly always getting players a year or more away from contributing. If it's a straight trade of major league players, it would make a little more sense, but it almost never is.

i dont get the dodger hate. any other team could have beaten that offer and they chose not to do it. why are the brewers ****ing around? you havent won jack since 1982 and the best pitcher on the market is available and you cant beat that offer? dont cry about dodger money when you dont even try to win. this trade had nothing to do with money.

I don't necessarily think a 30 year-old pitcher should get a blank check. No matter how good he was from 27-29.

I just can’t see the wisdom in giving a gigantic long-term contract to a man who will next year be 30 years old who’s had multiple arm surgeries. Same goes for Mize. I have moved on. I am all for the youth movement, even though they’re often returning from various surgeries or will inevitably face them. I’m willing to live with the fact that the Tigers will never be in the upper tier of the handful of teams that can spend this kind of money. I’m also tired of believing that winning the World Series is the only reason for a club’s existence. This is easy for me because I have enjoyed World Series championships twice in my life and it’s great and I want that for all the rest of you who have not experienced it. But for me personally, the drama of the day in day out grit and joy and disappointment of the game is reward enough. I’m OK with downsizing my expectations and being cool with what happens. And it’s not like I have much choice in this.

I don't think it's quite that, but Harris and Ilitch did agree to a master plan to unfold over a period of time and they are sticking to that plan, which includes maximizing our true prospects on the field for the benefit of the Tigers, rather than using them as cards in a game of Pit. This overarching strategy has been public knowledge since September of 2022. A lot of people will provide examples of seemingly good major leaguers acquired in exchange for seemingly inconsequential minor leaguers, and I probably won't have a good comeback for that. All I can say is this is the team we've chosen to follow, the Harris regime results have been pretty good to date, and I'm going to continue giving them the benefit of the doubt until they prove that they don't know what they're doing after all.

Only 3% of the teams win the World Series every year. If that is your only goal, you are almost always going to be disappointed. I have enjoyed the last couple of months of baseball and would like it to continue. I also think there is value in the young players having something to play for.

Literally anyone that still supports this racist asshole has no moral compass.

You should write Tigers fan fiction! Rings are nice and I would definitely like a few more in my lifetime, but the older I get, the more I mainly want them to be a really good, entertaining team with great players to watch every year for the rest of my life. I would definitely rather have that, than to win one World Series ring and then watch them flop around vying for the #1 draft pick the following July. I have definitely had enough of that **** to last me for the rest of my life.

A couple things here: Whether you think what SI thinks is the better offer would hinge on your believing in Pipeline rankings over FanGraphs rankings. I don’t happen to, because Pipeline is employed by MLB which is an inherently politicized environment, so they have to find ways to keep constituents happy; FanGraphs works without favor or access, so they have no barriers to being strict data-driven. Pipeline has Peña 18; FanGraphs has Pena at 26, and a high risk of not delivering on his promise. They also have River Ryan at 25, one spot above Pena. Pipeline also has Williams at 76, 4th in the Brewers org, and Adamczewski at 87, 5th in the org. FanGraphs have them both way out of the top 114 and also 12th and 10th respectively in the Brewers org. By comparison, we received Ryan (25th), Hope (57th), and Smith (the lottery ticket). It doesn’t seem close, by FG standards. Also, the package here was a shortstop and two outfielders, no pitchers. We didn’t need outfielders; we needed outfielder. Plus, we are pretty well set on shortstops at the moment. But Harris knew we need to shore up our pitching prospects, which is why we took two pitchers instead of two more position players. The SI fantasy package doesn’t take any of that into consideration, which is just one ore data point in support of the hypothesis that the national media don’t know anything about the Tigers.

The Dodgers offer was better than the Brewers offer.

I define your character by your opinion of Fauci.

Special spots in hell for people who go after Fauci. The man is a hero.

We are suffering enough already

Besides, it’s a bad world anyway and a plain old good baseball game takes the edge off of it. Case in point, Hayden Panettiere died overnight. She was fantastic in the video game Until Dawn that I played with my son many years ago. And she’s been in tons of stuff I’ve never watched. Savor this season while it lasts no matter what. Baseball is the cure.

So in other words lie because the president is a toddler who needs to be babied and his supporters are too ignorant to understand what happened. Why does Grim put the blame on those who didn’t start the war for it not finishing? That makes no sense.

I actually don't have a major problem with draft dodging as long as the person is honest and humble about being too chicken to serve and is respectful of the service of those that did serve. What I do have a problem with is Trump pretending to be a a military tough guy, frequently disrespecting those that did serve and depicting himself as a war hero in stupid gifs.

Who will do something? Anything? Your kids don’t matter. Your health doesn’t either. Nor your economic interests. Nor your community’s peaceful existence. Not the air you breathe. Not the soil under your feet. Not your safety at home or abroad. Not your religious freedom. Nor your ethical values. Is there any entity that hasn’t been purposefully decimated, deconstructed, dissolved, diluted, desecrated, or destroyed? Haven’t we had enough? You better be prepared to fight like your life depends on it. Because it’s becoming very obvious that your life will actually depend on your willingness to fight on whatever field the battle is enjoined. I don’t have children. But dammit, I’ll fight for your kids. And your grandchildren. I hope to God they’ll be more than 70 year old baby boomer bitches out there doing it.

Also, it's fairly probably that the return we would get on an oft-injured just-short-of-proven front-of-the-rotation guy is basically the same as a sandwich comp pick, so we might as well get the best of Casey for the rest of this season in pursuit of our playoff appearance.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7486169/2026/08/02/tarik-skubal-trade-dodgers-tigers-return/ For those that want Keith Law's opinion: Detroit could walk away with an above-average starter who throws something like 140 innings a year, an above-average everyday right fielder and at least a quality reliever if not another starter. That’s quite a return for two months of any player, given how teams presently value years of control. I assume Tigers fans are ticked off right now, and I’m not here to invalidate your feelings. I would only counsel them that this deal may be better for the franchise in 2027 and beyond than you think at first glance.

Red Sox fans were saying the same thing about their team before they got hot. Tigers fans were saying it in 2024. The current Tigers have more talent than you keep saying. Perhaps they can get better with a creative deadline and that can include trading Skubal. I am hoping Harris tries to be creative and ballsy at the deadline rather than just trading everybody for the best list of prospects available. I don't know what that entails or even if it's a possible, but having a fire sale for the best collection of prospects isn't going to excite me.

This is great news! Those are NOT the players we want. He should be fine bringing in average to above average players then.

Here is Ray Lane's call of Gates' 14th inning walkoff homer. Then is Ernie Harwell's call of Gates' 9th inning walkoff single in the nightcap. gates brown- ph homer walkoff.mp3 gates brown - dh nightcap winner.mp3

I am not in a hurry for any of those three guys given their production to date.

Or Troy Melton or Kevin McGonigle or Riley Greene. You are right; there is far more miss than hit on prospects and the jump from AAA to MLB is honestly enormous but to only focus on the fact that more miss rather than hit or maybe don't reach the potential that people thought they could even if they end up being an overall solid player seems silly but I am someone who enjoys tracking players from the minors to the majors and if you don't that's fine I guess I prefer to live on the optimistic side of things because if I were to live on the other side what would be the point of even watching the team.

Remind me again how transgendered persons or drag queen bingo is the real problem with society. I'm confused, because I thought raping a child would be far, far worse than coming out as trans or hosting a drag show. The right always complains about the degradation of society.

Not a team here that we still can't beat.

Worth linking an archived article. This sounds like we got a great kid in addition to a stand out ballplayer. https://archive.ph/EwkpU

You proudly vote for rapists and pedophiles though so.... sit this one out.

I can’t feel bad for Skubal. This played out how he wanted it to. If he loved being here so much he could’ve not hired Boras, could’ve signed a big, yet reasonable extension, and could have not missed 2 months of our year to contend because he decided not to disclose a possible elbow injury three months before the season started just so he could win more arbitration money. If he loves it here and loves his teammates so much, then guess what he can do this offseason. He has gotten everything he wanted in this situation.

The same can be send for the compensatory pick we would have selected if we kept Skubal.

I was more concerned with making sure he would be eligible for ROY considerations next year to hopefully net us a first round pick at the end of the round.

The upside is winning the game.

So in the doubleheader nightcap, the Guardians were down to their last strike. 1 on, 2 out, trailing by 2, top of the 9th. Listen to this beautiful Tom Hamilton call of the next pitch … Cleveland Cincy Ending.m4a

no what you fought and died for was the right of the people to govern themselves, whatever that looks like. If you don't like the public's choices, support better public education, join a civil society org and work to get to the public you want, but don't say anyone working inside the process is somehow unAmerican, they aren't. People you disagree with, even vehemently are part of what an open democratic society looks like. There will always be ugly people in the process. Mamdani is no worse than when David Duke was running for office or any of the RW wing racist nuts you also had to fight for. You think you have it bad, what about the millions of black servicemen who came back to face Jim Crow in the South. What the hell were they fighting for? The American public is its own responsibility and I agree we're doing a pretty lousy job at it, but the problem is in the mirror for all of us.

One consideration at the trade deadline that sometimes flies under the radar is off-season roster crunch. You can sell off and acquire a bunch of close-to-the-majors guys, but if you crowd your 40-man roster, you have some tough decisions to make in December. Some teams make trades at the deadline with this in mind, and a team with room to spare may be able to get a guy they like for the 40-man roster that another team is looking to get ahead of a crunch. I just did a quick off-season 40 man look and think, despite 11 players on the 60-Day IL, the Tigers have plenty of room to spare and may be able to seek out a bargain in that regard next week. Also, adding Clark prematurely before season's end is not going to cause any tough choices over the offseason.

I'd call him the Pyrite President but not enough people would get it. (chem nerd joke)

I believe you are right, but has their ever been a pitcher rental of Skubal's talent available at the deadline before? I am not expecting a big return, but I think his market is kind of an unknown. Still hoping for a 7-game winning streak right about now!

Man, you are going to be so let down by the return on Skubal if he gets traded. Here are what I would consider some more realistic trade packages for Skubal. Brewers: Adamczewski, Letson Dodgers: Hope, Ferris, maybe Harlan Braves: Smith-Shawver, Bauman Tampa: Hopkins, Forret Any of the above I would consider good-great offers for 1/2 a season of Skubal. I am definitely making the Dodgers pay more in this scenario but yeah I just want to temper expectations here because I already know everyone is going to be down on the return. Also Fischer has like 120K's between A+ and AA so not the control the strikezone type player that the Tigers covet.

Hopefully this works, and im glad hes doing this. PEPFAR is one of the biggest successes by our government in a long time and i strongly support it continuing.

What is your favorite SNL line that may have contributed to the mathphobia bringing our society to its knees?

The best thing about McGonigle so far is that he really hasn't had a slump. He seems to be able to make adjustments on the fly.