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I disagree in the NFL where most contacts are not guaranteed. Decker being an obvious example here. The Lions seem to have wanted him to take a pay cut. They were "refusing" to pay the play under the contract. When he didn't agree to that the team cut him, "breaking" the contract. Teams in the NFL are allowed to do this, and they do it all the time. The players don't have the same luxury. They can't go to a team and say: "Hey, I think I've out performed my contract so I think you need to pay me more, and if you're unwilling to do that, I'm going to void the contract and go sign with a different team." Holding out is really their only leverage.

There's apparently a "bathroom" in the Orion capsule. Granted the Orion bathroom makes airplane bathrooms look positively luxurious... but still an actual bathroom is quite the upgrade over the Apollo capsule. If you're squeamish about this stuff, I'd recommend not looking up how the Apollo crews handled this.

Part of me would be so incredibly hyped to be in a mission like this... then another part of me says: Could you really spend 10 days in a small room with 3 other people? The introvert in me panics at that thought.

Anyone else excited about this? I mean obviously this isn't the same as the Apollo missions, but I'm still excited to see that we're going back to the moon. I was technically alive for some of the Apollo missions, but let's just say that the astronauts and I were both using the same type of bathroom facilities then. It'll be pretty cool to watch people walking on the moon live. Granted, that's the Artemis III mission, but they have to do this mission first so this will be one step closer. Just over 9 hours when I'm posting this until launch.

That's pretty much my feeling as well. I'm obviously not in an NFL front office or coaching staff so I dunno how communication like this is handled. I don't know if Campbell or anyone calling him would be perceived wrong or what... I think they probably should have, but I also don't know if it was not done to avoid giving any sort of split messaging. Like if Dan calls then Decker thinks or publicly says: "Yeah, Dan called and said he would have liked to keep me [we're assuming Dan actually said this], but obvious the sticking point is the guy who makes the contracts and Holmes didn't want to pay me. [this part is obviously Decker's possible conjecture]"

Kaline.

Agreed... rate the umps based on it... and honestly, why not ABS instead of umps?

I dunno Nate... but they are giving away pitches, that's for sure! This ump ain't great.

Flat picture mounted on a 3D model base? Yes, kinda... the figure is mostly flat. Are the pictures 3D printed too? Yes! HueForge lets you take a picture and then, more or less, assign colors for different layers. Because the layers are very thin you get "bleed through" of the colors to give different shading. Did you use HueForge for the base? No. I just whipped up the base in OnShape, a free online CAD software. Is HueForge the 3D Modeler? Yes. After you do the necessary work preparing your image and then setting it up in HueForge, it spits out an STL. You import this into your slicer, setup various things like the layer height, infill (100%), and at which layers it changes filament. (If you have a machine with multiple filament inputs you can just swap it, otherwise you'd have to pause printing, and change filament manually.)

What OS are you running on your NAS?

Honestly I think both sides are being pretty good about it. I don't think either are trying to really air out a bunch of dirty laundry. Of course I don't know everything that Decker said to Reisman, so maybe there's more complaining there. But just reacting to the quote there: He may have made it clear to the Lions he wasn't interested in a pay cut, but that doesn't mean the Lions necessarily agreed to no pay cut. It may have been as simple as: Lions: We want you back. Decker: Okay, but I don't want to take a pay cut. Lions: Alright, we'll see what we can do. Just let us know when you've made your decision. Decker thinks: Okay, they see I don't want a pay cut. We're all set. Lions think: We'll see what his decision is and then where we sit financial and figure out what could work.

Yes, you are correct. Kaline is in the back. I'm iffy on Magglio. Not sure if he was a Tiger long enough. Gibson's probably a good one to consider too.

Not a chance! You think I'm gonna risk fate by adding him to be collection of star Tigers? Fate'll take on look at that go: Nope! Too soon my friend, and then he'll have a career ending injury. You think I want that on my head? No way. 5 years from now? Sure... but not now. I used to collect Bobbleheads for Lions and Tigers... but I started running into two problems: First, they didn't always make bobbleheads of the players I wanted, especially old star players. Second, and more importantly: They started getting SUPER expensive! Like $40-$60 for some of them. It just got hard to mentally justify dropping that on something that just sits on my shelf, ya know? So I really had to think about what I wanted to do going forward. Around this time I'd also gotten a 3D printer so I was sorta thinking about whether there was something I could do with that... maybe print little plastic jerseys or something... but I just couldn't find anything that I thought would be cool looking or interesting, and I certainly wasn't good enough to digitally sculpt anything, so I sort dismissed this. I honestly was in a bit of a funk thinking about what I was going to do. I mean, I know it's stupid to get depressed about something like sports "statues" and it's not like I was majorly depressed, but I was a little bummed Literally two days after coming to the decision that I was going to have to give up bobbleheads and being bummed about it, I was scrolling through youtube and saw a video on a piece of software called HueForge... and it all clicked together. So now once or twice a year I add a new "statue" by finding a good picture, cutting it out in inkscape, manipulate it a bit, create a 3D model with HueForge and make my own memorabilia. Much cheaper, and as long as I can find a decent picture I can do it of whatever player I want.

I need help guys... I'm trying to decide to who add next? I think thinking maybe Jack Morris? Or maybe Lolich? I don't feel like there's any current Tigers who are super star level, at least right now. Well, other than Skubal but I already have him.

It's kinda too bad there isn't anything like employer-employee privilege so that the Lions can plan accordingly. Not saying TA is guilty of anything here of course but it'd be nice from a team's perspective to have a player able to be completely and totally honest about any legal issue so the team can figure if they should work to replace him without the player having to worry about that information being compelled in court. Of course, from a player's perspective they probably wouldn't want to do that anyway. They're not going to want to give the team any reason to think about cutting them early if they are guilty of something.

I think the biggest problem is here is that Holmes did so good in his first few years with players who were star level almost right from the get go that anything else looks bad by comparison.

I dunno if we'll ever know the extent of involvement TA had in these events. I can totally see a situation where these people "went rogue" and TA knew nothing about it but they were using his name with some of the "little people" in the plot to lend legitimacy to the effort. I can also see a situation where TA planned, or helped plan, the events but intentionally kept some distance so he could have plausible deniability. This honestly doesn't seem that likely to me just because that seems to involve a certain high level of thoughtfulness and planning, but then communicating by a easily tracible method of texting from their main phones, dropping TA's name repeated in the conversation, and the apparent amateur effort of the events feels very unthoughtful and unplanned. If I was forced to guess? I'd say TA probably was hanging out with some of these people and they were lamenting about the stolen items. As young men are prone to do they probably started bs-ing about what they'd do if they caught the people they figured did the robbery. Maybe even made some off the cuff plans on how to carry it out. I suspect there wasn't any real intention here, just young guys talking **** and that's all it ever would have been. But then someone (or someones) from the group decided to act on the "plans." In this imagined possible senario I'm gonna assume that Hilton (the guy alleged to be the leader of the actual incident) was in that bs session and decided to make it happen for real. The questions then are: Did TA encourage or authorize Hilton to make it happen? Did Hilton think TA authorized it, even though TA didn't? Did Hilton take the initiative on his own and he (and/or his co-conspirators) use TA's name to try to lend legitimacy to the actions for the lower level players? Obviously if it's #1, that's bad. Whether there's evidence of it remains to be seen but it's still bad if TA actively was involved in anyway. If it's #2 then it's potentially bad. If Hilton legitimately thought TA authorized it (but TA didn't), he may accuse TA of doing it and maybe law enforcement believes him and maybe they go after TA. In this situation TA is innocent, but still have to deal with court cases to clear his name. If it's #3 then it's just bad PR. TA needs to get better friends but it's just a a bad look having his 'friends' be criminals.

I remember when I was a kid we weren't allowed to watch TV on Sundays until after night church... unless the Tigers were on, then we could.

Is it spin?

Tigers on pace to score 2,754 runs this year.

Rough day for Pivetta... does he even make it out of the 3rd?

Who is Mick Gonagal guy? I haven't heard of him before. Is he good?

I would tend to agree. This seems actually contradictory to your previous desire to have the game called right, even if it seems to slow down the game a bit. They actually do this in the UFL and it works pretty nicely... you can actually hear what they are reviewing and what they are looking at and why they made the decision on air. I liked it a lot. Of course... then they'd cut to interviewing the review guy during the game and asking him all the questions again when was annoying, but watching the process itself was interesting.

These are proposed rule changes from the competition committee: 1. Kicking team can declare for an onsides kick at any point, not just in the 4th qtr. - I really don't care one way or the other on this. While I do like the new kick off rules in general I do miss the "surprise" onsides kick potential. This rule doesn't bring back the surprise, so... whatever. 2. Remove the incentive to kick out of bounds when kicking from the 50. - If you'll recall the Lions did this once last year. If I remember the details of this: If there's a penalty that gets enforced on the kickoff, that changes where the ball is placed if the kick goes out of bounds. I think it's goes to like the 20 instead of the 40. This makes sense to me as I don't think the intention of the rule was to allow this. 3. Expansion of Replay/Ejections. Basically league personal can consult with on field refs regarding ejecting players WITHOUT the refs needing to flag the play. Right now if the refs miss an obvious flagrant or non-football act and don't flag it, replay can't come back and tell the refs they should look at something and consider an ejections. This would fix that and I think it's a good rule change. 4. Replacement Referee Contingency. This is apparently just being proposed for one year, but it would allow the NFL officiating department to overrule "clear and obvious" bad calls if a work stoppage involving the NFL Ref. Association occurs. Anyone else remember "Replacement Refs"? Ugh... 5. Changes to receiving team alignment during kicks. I think this is to reduce the minimum number of players who need to be on the restraint line. All in all I don't see anything too earth shattering here.

Anyone know what the rules are in terms of multiple live views at the same time? I'm asking for... uh... for a friend... yeah... Seriously though my brother subscribed to Bally/FanDuel for the RedWings games and shared it with my Mother so she could watch the Tigers and they split the cost. Given that it was just the two of them and Bally/FanDuel apparently allowed two simultaneous views that worked out well for them. Can you do the same thing with DSN?