1984Echoes

I'm buying puts on "DJT" as well... As many as I can...

BINGO!!! Excellent post. And history lesson for those not in the know...

Like in Afghanistan and Iraq? When we hunted Bin Laden and Saddam until we got them? It's the same thing... right?

Trade Husso. In the offseason. I'm not really sure I care what the return is. Although if viewed as a salary dump (basically it would be) then it might actually cost us a draft pick, or at least a trade down/swap of a pick (like the Cholowski over Chychrun pick swap fiasco...).

I sincerely hope not. Not to be rude (to the Wings & Stevie) but... "Out with the Old, IN with the New"... IMO.

If there is a demand... Supply will find a way. You just noted that above as well. (I get the point about shifting the supply closer to home and it's easier to target... but I don't think stopping cartels will stop China's flow of Fentanyl into America, at all. They'll find another way.) Eliminate or sharply reduce the demand and... The supply will automatically follow suit and fall. It's called "supply and demand", which I am sure you know...

What a ****ing deuchebag. Who gives themselves BS "awards" in order to inflate themselves? Oh, Donald "MF'ing Deuchebag" Trump, that's who.

Yes, I know all this. That's why I said if he's trying to build the team from a less-than-zero standpoint... then he's not able to do this. As you've mentioned, he's had to go out and sign a boatload of FA's just to fill holes. And why I also said: "But now that the team is built up pretty nicely..." I'm hoping he doesn't have to annually sign a crapload of players to fill holes. I guess what that means, ultimately for the team, is that Holmes is successful in drafting, and DC & his coaches "coaching up", enough depth on this team to where Holmes can let 3-5 FA's walk and only have to go out into the market to sign 1 or 2... Meeting your (the NFL's) formula to obtain additional comp picks... Further allowing Holmes & DC to draft and develop depth, future later round starters that require a lot of coaching up, etc... with those extra picks. I don't think we are saying, or want from the Lions, anything different from each other.

A low-A reliever with high spin rates would be the return for Wentz... would be my guess.

Snell signed for 2 years $62 mill. **** no! No thank you very much. Chapman signed for 3 years $54 mill. Nope! No thank you very much. Cody Bellinger signed for 3 years $80 mill. **** no! No thank you very much. Montgomery wants 7 years $172 mill. **** no! No thank you very much.

Right. OLIGARCHY RULES!!! GIMME KLEPTOCRACY OVER DEMOCRACY ANY DAY!!! (Says Putin, Trump, and now Elon Musk...)

The insults against Democracy and the Constitution of the United States never cease with TFG. And in this instance, Speaker Johnson is an ENABLER.

Workman looks like the next Kreidler... And Santana is a baby, not a bust. Which doesn't change the rest of your narrative... We've got nothing in the system high enough/ close enough/ or performing well enough to indicate we have another option aside from Javy Baez. At least in the near term...

I would like the Lions to be in the business of letting aging FA's walk and gaining extra draft picks on an annual basis. Too hard to do when we were at ground less-than-zero... But now that the team is built up pretty nicely... all Holmes has to do is make the annual shelf life/ value/ cost assessment decisions... He did that with CJGJ and Jonah, in particular, this year (Tracy Walker too but he hasn't signed with anyone yet...).

Or at least a better value at an appropriate cost...

At 36, age has definitely caught up with him. I get Yzerman's desire to add enough experience to help lead this team into the playoffs... But for this team to grow, we need some kids to start taking over. And on the right-side... that's Tuomisto. I don't know where he is in NHL-readiness... But it looks like the is being defensively responsible in GR (28 points in 76 GR games, +14...), is a big 6'5" defensive dude... At the very least... I'm hoping he can take a spot away from Petry and/or Holl in the 2024-25 season. The sooner the better...

Oh crap! You already beat me to the same thing! (Sorry... just catching up with everything so...)

See above post...

Chas is being pure disingenuous. Pure hypocrisy since he's lashing out at all of us "history revisionists..." Here is he ranking of every Org for the past 10 years, by Baseball America: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-farm-system-rankings-for-every-team-in-the-21st-century/ To whit: Detroit 2015: 30th Detroit 2016: 26th Detroit 2017: 25th Detroit 2018: 21st Detroit 2019: 14th Detroit 2020: 11th Detroit 2021: 3rd (Greene & Torkelson) Detroit 2022: 6th (Greene & Torkelson start to graduate) Detroit 2023: 27th (no more Greene & Torkelson as prospects; Jobe & Keith haven't broken out yet; Clark not yet drafted) Detroit 2024: 5th

He's Butt-Hurt because there is NOT prosecutable criminality and therefore he is trying to lay "trumped up" charges against Biden, which DO NOT actually exist... in order to make himself feel better? Trying to get some Dem/Liberal/Indie on here to sign onto Butt-Hurt Trumped Up False Charges? "Why won't you guys AGREE that this was a CRIME!?!?!?" That's what it looks like to me at least...

No. The problem is you keep looking at a molehill and telling us "THIS IS THE EXACT SAME THING AS THE MOUNTAIN THAT TRUMP DID. AND YOU REFUSE TO CRITICIZE {insert Dem or Liberal name here: } LIKE I AM OVER THIS... THIS... MOUNTAIN (but... it's really just a molehill) !!!" "WHY WON"T YOU CRITICIZE {insert Dem or Liberal name here: } FOR THIS MOUNTAIN?!?!?!" And we keep telling you: "But it's just a molehill. It's not the same thing." But you INSIST that... your molehill-du-jour "REALLY IS A MOUNTAIN!!!" No. It's not.

The stock is overvalued based solely on Trump hype. It's been known he's a part of this deal since they first attached to Trump's "Truth" Social, and that was over a year ago, or more, I believe. "Truth" Social had revenues of roughly $4 mill or so last year, and losses of over $100 mill+ (I didn't look at any actual financials so I could be checked on that...). With no avenue for profit because of the toxicity of Trump's "Truth". Membership is declining faster than Twitter, errr, X. It should be a penny stock. Before Trump has a chance to actually sell any shares... I predict it will be. And Trump's "3 billion valuation" will quickly turn into $20 million or so... or worse. All dependent on whether the stock is treated at an actual valuation, or a "meme" stock. If it's above $1... Then I think it's just MAGA or MAGA-inspired playing around with the stock as a "meme" because it's attached to TFG. There's no real value in the stock... at all. Short-sellers are going to have a field day.

MAJOR PILFERAGE!!! MAJOR SURPRISE!!! (no... not really...)

Deep into the sty...

I also agree on the size thing... I don't really want to make a judgement on Augustine until he at least gets a full season in GR... I wouldn't be comfortable drawing any kind of conclusions what he may or not turn into until he's close enough (GR) to the NHL to get that comfort level. Until then... I just go with what the scouts say... with a "we'll just see" attitude and awaiting enough time/ nearness to NHL before drawing conclusions. I like his upside/ attitude however. Especially the "steady as a rock" reports... To me that means he's good for the locker room whether he hits his "floor" (backup/ tandem) or is able to push well beyond that. At this point, to me, it's: "Cossa looks like a potential #1" and "Damn! Augustine looks really good... but we'll see where that gets him in a couple years...".