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Good for Deion. Glad he's in remission. Good for him to be open about it too. It might help others face it. But overall, I have never cared so little about college football in my life. I don't know if it's because my job keeps me extremely busy (and I am glad about that), or if it's because baseball is so front and center this year, but I really hate the direction college sports have gone. I used to be against players getting paid, then these conferences in schools started making decisions only for money and I changed on players getting paid, but not millions. It's just chaos now. I know it's always been slimy, but now it's so blatantly slimy, but so is everything else these days. I just can't get excited about it this year and I'm not that sad about it. I mean, Go Blue, I guess............

Gee, you see what happens when you're good, Pittsburgh? You should give it a try.

Riley Greene is 6 RBI away from being the first Tiger to have 100 RBI since...............(year and player, and it ain't Miggy)

Wow, Did the Astros sign Daniel Schlereth ?

My Coccyx Hurts

Oh for the love of ****, someone make Mike Love go away. Just crawl into a hole.

I lived in ABQ for a year. Granted, it was in the 90s, but I don't think it's big enough for MLB. Night games. No rain delays in the Summer and Summer nights in Vegas are more comfortable than Summer nights here.

5-2 on a road trip is nothing to complain about, no matter the opponent.

Chris Paddack just can't beat his old mates.

I really really like the Twins City Connect uniforms. They are elegant and simple and not tacky like so many others, including ours.

Someone AI'd my name (a station listener) to figure out if I was the same Mark Copeland that worked in Lansing in the 90s. AI got our call letters right and the city right but it said that I was a part of the Kenneth Copeland religious family and that our station was a religious station. Good think we're relying on this so much more - nothing could go wrong. .

He's being the Wide Receiver, who every time they don't catch a pass they throw their hands up in the air like "Why was there no PI call there". Credit for the effort.

A thing I love about message boards is somebody coming in here for the first time is probably thinking Why is everyone suddenly saying Bert ?

WE'VE GOT BERT !

it's your fault. you're an enabler.

Wanted to post something nasty about Rog, but nope, sorry

Q Johnson gets concussed in a preseason game. Looks kind of serious. Harbaugh's an idiot.

Well, I feel like Las Vegas has kind of peaked, hasn't it? I know the population exploded the last 30 years, but isn't that tide turning or about to turn? Especially with sports gambling being league in so many states now (and more are coming). I hate sports gambling, even though I took about $600 from Bet MGM a couple years ago on hockey bets (I never bet more than $10 and always picked an OVER on a 5.5 goal total and won at least 2/3rds of the time, then 5.5's started disappearing). Does Vegas have that juice it once had? And adding an A's game to a tourism package - does that even move the needle? Sure when they play Ohtani or Aaron Judge, but what about most of the games. Most regular people couldn't name a single A's player from the past 5 years if you put a gun to their head. Do they think FIsher is suddenly going to try to sign a bunch of superstars? I don't think Casino owners are giving him money to sign players to have fans spend nights away from their Casinos. That Sphere thing, though really cool, has been a massive money-loser. You have to have a massive artist play there and there aren't that many of those. The A's would be way better off playing in front of a bunch of tech nerds in San Jose. the hockey team works because their first year they went to the Stanley Cup Final - so they set themselves up for the next few years and then won it again, so it's stayed hot. Plus it's two games a week in the winter. Raiders do well because they have a national following and only 8 or 9 home games a year - and on a weekend mostly I think the NBA would do very well in Vegas because there is only 41 teams and players would probably love to play there. But baseball? 81 games a year? Team that hasn't been good in 20 years and hasn't had a bankable star in that whole time? Not seeing it. Not unless they book big concerts for right after the game (which they might try). Nashville - I get. Not big, but little competition. Charlotte is kind of like that too. Who knows what team payrolls are even going to look like after the 2027 strike. .

Milwaukee is such a well-run organization. They survive losing star players constantly, but still remain competitive. But of course, they still have not made it to a World Series since 1982. I can't believe Christian Yelich is only 33. He seems so much older. Seems like he's been around forever. Tigers seemed to have survived their crash, but I'm just not feeling good about their chances in the postseason. Maybe the one thing to consider is that nobody in the AL looks all that dominant. But it just feels like the Tigers are just holding on right now. Mize has not been close to the same since the All-Star announcement. Tarik hasn't been as dominant the last couple of starts (maybe he's holding back a little bit to keep something in the tank for the postseason, but he doesn't seem like the type of player who could do that). Morton & Paddack are iffy. Flaherty is broken. Melton has looked great, but I know they are limiting him. Losing Reese really really hurt. Just hoping Riley and Carp can stay healthy. And it feels like Parker Meadows and Matt Vierling aren't even part of the organization anymore

Well, if it does fall through (and again, the need for face-saving will very likely stop that), the team would have to stay in the west, so Salt Lake A's? Portland A's (better ring to it). Vancouver A's (or should that be Vancouver Ehs?) They are NOT going to go back to Oakland - unless a local champion steps in and buys them becoming a folk hero there. Sacramento's audition has been a disaster (kind of unfair as there are a LOT of OAKLAND A's fans that would never give a dime to John Fisher). To me the rankings for expansion are 1 - Nashville (it's a done deal, we're just waiting on the Rays to settle and CBA to get settled) 2 - Salt Lake City 3 - Portland 4 - Montreal 5 - Charlotte 6 - Vancouver 7 - San Jose 8 - San Antonio/Austin But some of those places, I just don't know. I think baseball's expansion possibilities are limited. Places that would make sense like Northern New Jersey and Indianapolis would get blocked by existing teams, but those places make sense geographically, population-wise and income-wise. I just don't know that there are many places clamoring for 81 games a year over 5 months. Romantically people would love to see Montreal be given another chance, but things were shaky there, at its best. The best chances they had at winning it (1981 and 1994) got disrupted by player strikes, the stadium is like something from another planet and the guy that owned them at the end was a con man. Plus politically right now, the chubby behemoth is going to punish baseball for expanding in an enemy country like Canada and we know baseball is kissing the ring. Portland hasn't really proved to be a baseball hotspot even as a minor league team and speaking of politics. Be ready for nightly protests and people disrupting things Salt Lake has a ton of money, and if Colorado's support is any indication, baseball will do well there (because there isn't much else), but is there enough of an area population? I mean, SLC Metro is smaller than Grand Rapids and GR has a lot of surrounding communities that would love to get behind a team represent their half of the state. SLC has a few suburbs and then a whole bunch of nothing. Vancouver - well, there's the enemy country thing, but I don't know how hungry they are for baseball. Huge Asian population there, but isn't more from China than Japan or Korea? Vancouver makes more sense than Montreal, though Charlotte - Geographically it makes sense. No other team can really make a claim, ,except maybe the Braves. There's plenty of money in Charlotte and plenty of regional population, but aren't they more into racing than baseball? San Antonio/Austin/Central Texas. Plenty of population. No state taxes would attract players, but the Rangers and Astros would do everything they could to stop it. San Jose. I think it makes a ton of sense. If the A's had moved to SJ they would have had a MUCH easier time of it. Plenty of money, no shortage of people and it's a tech town and engineers are attracted to baseball. I would much rather see the A's here, then in Vegas. If The A's in Vegas thing falls apart, then San Jose makes the most sense. And if FIsher wasn't the owner, then you'd win some Oakland A's fans back. They did have a fanbase. Fans showed up when they were good and we're a perfect example of that. The Tigers attendance the last five years has been horrible, but when the team is good, we show up. Gee, what a concept.

Wow, this is as far as they've gotten? A mound of dirt is a perfect metaphor for John Fisher/Rachel Phelps. I think it will happen now merely for face-saving purposes, but they just don't care about baseball in Vegas.

Aren't they building the stadium?

I agree, but there is no real rival for us in the NL and I will be glad to take a team that doesn't really try to win.

Can't do Detroit and Chicago because the two Chicago teams already have that thing. St. Louis has the Royals. Toronto is in the same league. Have you not been paying attention the last decade, because MLB is scheduling the Tigers v Pirates every single year for a long time now.

Getting medical treatment -- one drop at a time and I am bored.................... Here's the MLB expansion (in 2031) AL East Baltimore Boston New York Yankees Toronto AL North Chicago White Sox Cleveland Detroit Minnesota AL South Atlanta Kansas City Orlando Rays Texas AL West Las Vegas Los Angeles Angels Salt Lake Sting Seattle NL East New York Mets Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington NL South Cicinnati Houston Miami Nashville Stars NL Central Chicago Cubs Colorado Milwaukee St. Louis NL West Arizona Los Angeles Dodgers San Diego San Francisco Schedule. Division Rivals x18 = 54 League Rivals x6 = 72 Interleague Rival (Every year) x12= 12 Interleague Rotaton 4 teams x6 = 24 Interleague Rivals - Trophy Name Baltimore v Washington Beltway Boston v Philadelphia Patriots Yankees v Mets Big Apple Toronto v Arizona The Leftovers Trophy (until Arizona moves to Vancouver then it's the Maple Leaf) White Sox v Cubs Windy City Cleveland v Cincinnati Ohio Detroit v Pittsburgh Rust Belt Minnesota v. Milwaukee Norsemen Atlanta v Nashville - (some sort of southern reference) Kansas CIty v. St. Louis - Show Me Orlando v Miami - Sunshine State Texas v. Houton - Lone Star Las Vegas v San Francisco Screw Oakland Angels v Dodgers - So Cal Salt Lake v Colorado - Rocky Mountain Seattle v San Diego - Vedder Cup (which is actually a real thing now) Playoffs All Division winners get a bid 3 wild cards, the 3 next-best records Seeding is 100% based on record, regardless of standings, so a division winner with 83 wins would be lower than a third-place team with 88 wins First round - Best of 3. #1 gets a bye. 2 vs. 7 - all three games at #2 home 3 vs. 6 - all three games at #2 home 4 vs. 5 - first two games at #4, third game at #5 Second Round best of 5 - all teams re-seeded Third Round best of 7 World Series best of 7 Expansion Draft Each Major League Team can protect 10 players from the 40-man roster and 12 prospects (non-40 man). Expansion teams will be allowed to contact 10/5 players to ask if they would accept being drafted. For every player drafted away from your team, you get to move two players onto the protected list (from the 40 man) For every prospect drafted away from your team, you get to move three prospects onto the protected list No team can lose more than 2 40-man players or more than 3 prospects. The expansion teams will get an extra 2nd round pick (in mid-round) the first year they draft, an extra 3rd round pick (mid-round) their second year and an extra 4th round pick in their third year (end of round). I'm just playing around. I know much of this is very unrealistic. Well, actually, I do believe Tampa Bay >> Orlando and Nashville and Salt Lake as the expansion teams.