Jim Cowan
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Leyland also did a nice job of chewing post-game food while being interviewed.
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I'm neither disappointed nor pleased. As some have pointed out it removes the lame duck aura, but other than that it doesn't make business sense. I am not aware that Hinch does much particular harm, or much particular good, same as any other manager.
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Go with experience, Dennis Rodman.
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8 minutes ago, MIguy said:
Yeah, I'll go ahead and side with the King of England over Lebron James when it comes to being dialed in on world affairs. 🤔
Neither one of them is authorized to speak about their government's policy.
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I feel badly for Jen Psaki, she is really going to miss out. I was going to date her, but then I thought "No. You guys are going to elect Trump again...well not exactly, the Electoral College will elect him again...and 6 months later Jen will be in prison". So, I'm not proud of it, I said I would call her but I didn't. I just feel like I should be honest with everyone, I am not the perfect boyfriend for someone who is in prison.
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I'm happy about this. I wanted him to get the job instead of Les Moss and Sparky Anderson, but things worked out in the end.
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9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:
When I hear the name 'Pat Caputo', the immediate word association that comes to mind is "shell of his former self.'
So wait, he has a "former self"? 🙂
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4 minutes ago, romad1 said:
The US Government is coming up some actual guidelines for dealing with Chinese state owned enterprises with ties to the People’s Liberation Army or the CCP’ security services wrt EV development and joint projects in the US auto industry. Some will be blocked. My cynical side thinks these are probably a set of loopholes unless the people judging what is an SOE actually are guided by the realities on the ground.
I guess some attempts need to be made. But of course you can't share anything valuable with them, they will just steal it.
My favourite TV expose about Chinese theft of intellectual property was about knockoff golf clubs, specifically drivers. There was Titleist rep there, he was handed 2 drivers...one was legit, and one was a Chinese knockoff. From their exterior appearance, he did not know which was the real one. Then the robot took a few swings with each of them, and the results were hilarious, the knockoff was 30 yards shorter and wildly inaccurate. Then they sawed both of the heads in half and the knockoff had drips in it like runny icing on a cake.
I smiled contentedly at that, with schadenfreude, because I worked with a guy at the parent company in Pittsburgh who was a real asshole and a lousy golfer, and every year he bought a new driver and got a really great discount price on it! He probably had 15 Chinese drivers in his garage.
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2 hours ago, Tenacious D said:
Pat Caputo suggested that the Tigers could trade Baddoo and Manning because we have depth at their positions. He left out that neither have much trade value.
Lol!
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18 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:
Being knowledgeable and self-assured is cause for a time out?
YOU'RE the one calling me arrogant and dismissive (and Lee) because you don't like my opinions.
YOU'RE the one PERSONALLY ATTACKING me.
I already said, twice I think, that I don't disagree with your opinions on this topic. Could you stop, take a deep breath, and try to let that sink in.
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28 minutes ago, romad1 said:
Rats, subscribers only. Got a 20 word summary?
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Santos is so repulsive that he will still be an incel even in prison.
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3 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:
Nothing I've said deserves this comment.
No.. it appears to me that you are WAY, WAY too thin-skinned to hear anything that you don't agree with. I've offered no nasty snarls or hateful rhetoric. Show examples.
Like I said, I'm a non-believer. So you haven't said anything that I disagree with. I just don't think you should call people "asinine" who disagree with you, the way that Donald Trump would.
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He doesn't seem like the ideal Tigers recruit and that proposed contract, OMG, that's way too close to $30 million AAV for me. I want to go at least 5 more years without one of those.
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2 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:
If you're talking about my post... my post was not insulting.
It was a factual Paradox.
A god cannot be omniscient and omnipotent but also a major screw-up. And you cannot claim, after "god" has gone through multiple extinction events (90-95% of all species exterminated in a meteoric collision or volcanic winter or... whatever the cause), millions of years of gradual evolutionary, and significant, changes from a walking chimpanzee (basically) to a walking/ talking Homo Sapiens, and then claim "god" is omnipotent and omniscient after all those (lucky for us) screw-ups. That is the paradox.
Another paradox:
If "god" is a screw-up and is not omnipotent or omniscient (as based upon the above), then he (or she) can NOT create the Universe out of nothing, and can NOT guide evolution (for 3.7 billion years, after the first cellular organisms generated), in order to create the "perfect" human. And with the multiple evolutionary disasters the past 3.7 billion years, there is no possible way to claim anyone's "god" is omnipotent or omniscient and has the power to create the Universe or guide evolution. Anther paradox.
Those two are closely related but not exactly the same.
No omnipotency means a lack of power to create the universe, and no omnisciency means a lack of foresight to have any idea where evolution will go.
Those are not insults. They are simple paradoxical facts. Or... Catch-22.
As for "the desire for spirituality that many people have:... go for it. Believe in whatever you wish to. I won't steal anyone's beliefs... but in a discussion of facts, I stick only to facts, not to any extraneous belief systems which rely NOT on any facts, but on simple story-telling.
But I have a much simpler belief system for myself: Facts is facts.
I didn't read that post, it was far far too long. In your previous posts you are just repeating every question that every 8 year old has ever asked after Sunday school. You should know that, there is no genius insight involved in your comments in this thread. The nasty snarl in your comments on this topic disqualifies you as someone who should be taken seriously. I might have taken your thoughts seriously if they were not packaged in such unnecessarily hateful rhetoric.
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1 hour ago, 1776 said:
The National Baseball Hall of Fame is planning to evaluate Andre Dawson’s request to change the cap on his Cooperstown plaque from the Montreal Expos to the Chicago Cubs. Dawson has long believed that Wrigley Field and the bright spotlight around the Cubs helped energize and extend his legendary career.
Not as much as the 1987 baseball did.
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Just now, MIguy said:
No he wasn't, he was clearly mocking evolution. Then after finishing his poor attempt at a joke, he returned to telling everyone it was time to eat the body and drink the blood of a zombie.
You weren't there, so you don't know what you're talking about. Carry on with your mocking though.
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2 hours ago, MIguy said:
Well considering the water would evaporate within days, that's probably true wouldn't you say? Also, if you were to look at the leftover salt under a microscope, you would certainly see bacteria or other organisms, whether they be living or dead.
But I get it, only an idiot would believe in evolution, the smartest among us know that a mystical dude was sweeping up his kitchen, took the dust to create Adam and then gave him CPR. Then being such a good dude, he saw that Adam was lonely so he ripped one of his ribs from his body and made Eve. Not sure why he didn't just use the dust and CPR method again but hey, god works in mysterious ways.
The priest was making a joke. Good grief.
2023-24 Detroit Tigers Offseason Thread
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Yes, everybody knows Leyland had a Tigers org pedigree but so did Moss, he had paid his dues. But Anderson was a "proven winner" as if against all odds he had managed to achieve success with a team that included Bench, Morgan, Rose, Tony Perez, Griffey Sr etc.
You're right it was uncharacteristic of Campbell whose great sin otherwise was keeping guys too long, as opposed to ditching them too soon.