1984Echoes

Go for the Japanese Trifecta: Maeda - back of the rotation and attracts Yamamoto (along with the promise to target Imanaga as well...) Yamamoto - Tops the rotation along with Skubal Imanaga - Lefty, could be a jack-of-all-trades as a spot starter, lefty middle reliever, etc. in 2024. Could take over Maeda's spot after a year or two in the league to get acclimated. Or push Maeda (as a RH'er) into this spot if he acclimates quickly. Just a thought...

Damn... Yeah...

I love all of the seasons. Some season may be better or lesser than others... but I haven't really thought about them in those terms; I just love the quirkiness of the characters, the story/plotlines that they use, the insanity or craziness, in the middle of exciting Dakotas/ Minnesota/ (and Kansas City?)... It just works. I haven't actually thought of the seasons in a rating format... This season actually starts a bit slow for me... which sounds crazy after what's already happened... but they're introducing the characters and plotlines so I expected that. And I see the potential in who/ what they've shown so far; so I expect some implosions are soon to be forthcoming. I have a lot of anticipation building up...

Fargo.

How about exclamation points? We are going to offer you $______________ !!! Personally, IMO, enough exclamation points (but not too many... at least 3 but not more than 5...) should close the deal because it shows HOW serious a team really is...!!!

If Maeda opens the door to getting Yamamoto: I approve of the Tigers serious interest in him. Yamamoto at the front of the rotation and Maeda at the back-end, or wherever he is needed in the rotation, to stabilize it... absolutely works for me.

In other words... Call yourself a trendsetter... At least for this offseason...

You realize chas, that this entire offseason that EVERY potential free agent offer will be questioned as to whether it was serious or not... (IE: $240 mill/ 10 years offer to Yamamoto.... WAIT!!! Is that a serious offer?)

WAIT!!! How do you define a serious offer for Maeda?

The Giants let that deal die due to a measly health examination...? Then they were NOT SERIOUS!!!

PS: Eagles-49'ers is a tricky game as, if the 49'ers go on a winning streak, it's possible they knock us down to the #3 spot. We have to win our games too, which goes without saying... but lose 2 or 3 games and it opens up a path for the 49'ers...

If you don't get into as bidding war for a player asking $330 mill and offer AT LEAST $350 mill, $380 mill, $420 mill... You are not serious. Bidding war participants only are serious. Everyone else is just BS'ing and wasting time, space, and oxygen...

This is my choice. Facing Stafford and the Rams in Detroit would be spectacular (a spectacle...).

The "not serious" logic being used is just beyond ridiculous. I just can't... anymore. I've had enough. You can take the baton from here on out...

The flipside: If someone is crapping all over the dinner table then who has an appetite? Wanna eat dinner right now, when someone is ****ting on the table right in front of you? If it's just a fart, everyone goes "Ewww, yuck!" and then laughs about it. And continues eating dinner. But as in everything, there are limits to what is acceptable versus too far gone. I shouldn't be the one to talk because I don't contribute all that much to any of the game threads... a little bit here and there. But it does get sort of gross in some of these game threads sometimes, which to me is just a bit unappetizing. Just my 2 cents.

It's always worth it to try. But removing nukes from Korea...? North Korea will NEVER agree to that... EVER. So you would need to provide some documentary evidence on that bolded part... otherwise, hogwash. But... even though Trump is an imbecile, if he had some remains of soldiers sent back to the US (I vaguely remember that also...); it's a positive. I don't want to declare Trump 100% bad, cause no one is 100% anything, good or bad... But getting back remains would go on the positive side of the ledger, one of a few that he managed...

Through executions and self-induced famine wiping out percentages of the population every few years... What a jackass. (Applies to both, although Kim is obviously the more deadly of the two and the other asshat is mostly hot air.)

PS: One other point: The Astros offer was PRIOR to free agency. One week. Why are you comparing this offer to free agency offers? He had already turned that offer DOWN when the other offers came in. You're trying to resurrect that offer, just so you can compare it to his FA offers in order to make a point? He wanted length. Twins and Tigers were willing to go 10 years. With serious offers that offered a higher AAV than the Mets or Giants offers. He opted for longer term and lower AAV. Oh... by the way, the Astros offer ALSO fits this definition. Lower years, higher AAV, so he turned them down and went with the longest term he could get his hands on. They were all serious offers. You seem, curiously, stuck in a position here... Is there some kind of ax you are trying to grind here? Against Avila maybe...? I get the dislike, but your position is not based on logic. It appears to be based on emotion.

That does NOT make those other offers not-serious.

How about we try some facts: What did the Tigers offer Correa? 10 years $275 mill = $27.5MM AAV (For some reason I thought it was $295 mill but I was wrong...) What did the Twins offer Correa? 10 years $285 mill = $28.5MM AAV What did the Giants offer Correa? 13 years $350 mill = $26.9MM AAV What did the Mets offer Correa? 12 years $315 mill = $26.25MM AAV What is chasf calling the Tigers Offer? Not Serious. Come again?

No... It's TNL. The New Lions. There is no "same old" associated with this team whatsoever, so your acronym is inappropriate. In fact.... You should be ashamed of yourself!!! For inappropriate language...! 😉

NOT the Same Old Lions...!!! No matter whatever else you can say about this game... but these are the NEW Lions, NOT SOL...!

1) It was $295 IIRC. 2) Subjective opinion. No one beat the Tigers offer. The $330 mill is completely meaningless. Serious offer.

I can ask for $600 million and not a penny less and if someone offers $450 million that IS a serious offer. If no one else offers above $375 mill and I take the $450 mill... Tell me again how that is NOT a serious offer? Just because it was lower than what I SAID I would not accept less of...? Any player can ask for the moon. $295 mill absolutely was a serious offer. Go ahead and stick to your subjective guns... I get it. But I'm not changing my mind either. They made a serious offer for Correa (sorry to sound like a broken record), OBJECTIVELY.

They didn't make that offer as some kind of joke. It was a serious offer. "This is the best we can do." Not quite $300M, but that's a serious offer. "We understand if you're going to look for a better offer. But we really want you on our team."