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Don't look now, but Jalen Duren is starting to turn into a very good player - and he's only 21.

We added his record "What's Left Of Me" a few weeks ago. Solid radio song. Reminds me of Jackson Browne.

That is what I heard about it. Its more of a documentary for those under 35 that weren't around when LZ was still active.

Pad Thai? Why do you hate America? You need to eat AMERICAN food like Pizza and Nachos!

Air was playing at the Fox that night. I went to that concert. It was pretty hoppin' down there.

Wait, Buffy Saint Marie is not Indian and she's not even Canadian?

Paying guys on past performance can really mess up a team (Alex Bregman peaked 5 years ago, by the way).

Isn't he barely old enough to drink?

I just watched the highlights of that Philly game? Who is their coach? With efforts like that he probably shouldn't be their coach much longer. That was an embarrassing effort. Don't get me wrong, I'll take it, but only one team came to play last night and it wasn't PHILA.

I don't care who Philly played or not, you win a game without Cade and that's impressive. I wish they'd done more at the trade deadline. They may have gotten a little more depth, but I can't believe there wasn't a player out there somewhere. They might be one good player away from making things quite interesting. But heck, I was looking back at the season predictions and nobody had them winning 26 games all year. Nice to see.

Motown Forum members reacting to the Tigers signing of Alex Bregman

I forgot about the other little wrinkle tomorrow. The Red Wings owe Mr. Kucherov for that dirty play on Ras at the end of the last game. If that hadn't been at the end of the game I would have expected someone from the Wings to have a bit of a chat with Mr. Kucherov, but as much as winning would be the best revenge, they owe him a "conversation" early in tomorrow's game. You can't let guys do that to your mates.

Hop in. But sir, it's *gun click* I said, hop in

That guy's gonna get us nowhere. I think it's gonna be Manning out.

Sorry, misread the schedule. yes, tomorrow. They could lose 11-0 and make the playoffs, but this is a statement game.

Tonight is the biggest game for the Red Wings in what, 7, 8 years?

Everyone around here today

I don't understand all these working-class folks thinking AI is some great thing. It's great if you're a billionaire, but for the rest of us it's the end of your career. It's scary.

The New York Jets would be all over that.

Okay. Sure, Does it making any mention of who would come back to the Tigers in this "Stunning Trade"? The Tigers can redeem themselves too with a stunning trade for Juan Soto. See - I can do that too ! You should see the trades I made in OOTP !

Remember - Baez was a plus player when surrounded by other really good players. He was signed here to be THE GUY and it did not suit him. Could be the same with Bregman A few points - 50 point drop in OBP in one season is alarming - Left Field at Minute Maid park is 315 - Surrounded by All Stars in Houston - 31 years old But the positive points - Right handed bat (So is Matt Vierling) - Some power (but only a little more than Vierling) - Very good defense (Vierling is actually pretty good at third Offense Defense Sure, Bregman's better, but his he $25 million dollars a year better? Assuming Bregman is getting about $28 million a year and Matty is getting $3 million. If he does sign with the Cubs (or Red Sox), they may be doing the Tigers a long-term favor. And I think Vierling will get better too. And Jace Jung is a total wild card since we have such a small sample size and he was hurt.

Car door is iced shut. Pitchers and Catchers report in a week.

He wants a long term deal as he's turning 31 and coming off a 50-point drop in OBP. He might actually need to take a 1 year deal to prove that drop was a fluke and not a trend. If he is looking for a 1 year prove it deal then he's not coming to play 81 games at Comerica Park. At this point he can't really live up to any hype. Tigers are still skittish because of Baez -- and they should be. There's more than one red flag here. You're right - Tigers offered what they think he's worth and Bregman's not really that close and it's gonna take several teams dropping off to make anything happen. I am surprised Seattle is not in the mix. They finished one game short of the playoffs and don't have a third baseman, do they?

If they are keeping Baez on this team, then I don't know how McKinstry or Ibanez fit on this team Outfield // Infield // Catcher Vs. Right Carpenter-Meadows-Greene // Keith-Torres-Sweeney-Jung // Rogers (Dirk Diggler) vs. Left Perez-Meadows-Greene // Tork-Torres-Baez-Vierling // Rogers (Reed Rothchild) DH will be kind of a floating position.