Motor City Sonics

No, YOU are super nasty. Grand Rapids is fine. You must have been in Grand Rapids and YOU made it super nasty. (I'm not really meaning anything I say, I just want to start a stupid anonymous internet fight for no reason).

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

Maybe it's owners thinking "You know, if one of 'em gets hit, that's millions off the payroll.........plus think of all the sympathy merch that'll sell". Yeah, I am that cynical about those bastards.

Okay, guess we'll confirm it.

Man, that's as close as it gets. The Vern Rhule catch in the 1980 playoffs Lou Brock at home plate in Game 5 '68.

Wait, he was safe..............

Don't blame the Angels for being pissed of there. Horrible call. Ump has to pee.

If he makes the team (he probably will) it will make DCs think a lot, won't it? So it may not have counted today, but it's in the back of everyone's mind. Knew this would eventually happen. Oh, and he slipped a little, too

Greene just getting a sort-of day off today, hopefully. If it's a close game, he'll play at some point.

I was at that Reggie Brown game. From the deafening cheer when Barry ran for 53 right after breaking the 2,000 yard mark to the silence in the place when Reggie was down. That was the most intense Lions game I ever went to.

The thing with Norris is that his head snapped back when his facemask hit the leg of the RB. That's actually a good thing in this kind of scenario. If it had been the top of his head that hit like that, it would be a much scarier situation. You are supposed to tackle with your face facing the target and not the top of your head. If you look at just about every serious spinal injury in football, you will see that these guys were leading with the top of their head, with the crown of their head. That compresses the spine directly down upon itself and that energy has no where to go, so you end up with broken necks and spinal injuries. His head snapping back from a facing position, the energy disperses. Now, it's a serious concussion, no doubt about that and he might not play again, but I think he will. I took a lot of heat online when I suggested on another board that Ryan Shazier's injury was his own fault because he did the one thing they tell these guys not to do - lead with the crown of your head. Not that I don't sympathize with Shazier and his career ending, but it was 100% his fault. These coaches tell these guys over and over and over not to do this. Your target gets broken ribs and you could end up in a chair Mike Utley fell in an awkward way onto the top of his head. Reggie Brown was engaging in a tackle when someone fell into him in that position, he wasn't targeting a guy like that.

Wow, the date on that Lou Christie video. May 17, 1974. That was the day that 3 car bombs went off in about 5 minutes in Dublin and then one in Monaghan about 90 minutes later. The Monaghan bombing was about 7-10 miles from the border of the North and it's believed it was meant to draw attention away from the border so the bombers could get back to the North. A very very dark day. The worst day of The Troubles.

I was at the only Michigan game in history to be ended early. Brady Hoke's first game vs. Western Michigan. It was extremely hot that day. I was sitting about 3 rows from the top. Then the clouds built up and a driving rain started and it was a very hard, sideways rain. Got soaked. It felt great. They took the players off the field for about 40 minutes because there was lightning within a certain distance, even though at the at point with about half the people gone, I was at the top and looking over the horizon and did not see it. The players came back. The game continued but then we saw more weather coming from our vantage point. Saw the lightning this time, and plenty of it - way off in the distance. The rain started again. Sideways again, but from the other direction. Me and the guys I was with we thought about the fact that we are at the top of a large metal bowl with a bunch of antennas all around............might be time to leave. They would up pulling the players again and then decided to call it early just before the end of the 3rd quarter (they were showing radar on the scoreboard and it was a train of storms). Michigan was up big anyway. Then had to take the shuttle back, soaking wet, with the a/c on the bus on high. Freezing the whole way. I think I got lucky there. I don't f with lightning either. Let them make fun of you. You can go to their funerals and give them a big raspberry. There's always a song.......

I don't think so either. So he has a big year. He'll have a few more big years, but I don't know what he is when he loses a step and I feel like that'll happen quickly. He also feels like a guy who might, just might, do something stupid to derail his career. St. Brown and Monty are the guy you ride with long term. The Chiefs survived losing Hill, the Lions can survive losing Williams. They may have made another draft steal with TeSlaa anyway. Those elite speed guys are great, but that elite speed does not last that long and you can find others.

GO FOR IT NOW. Yep, 2027 and 2028 might not be great, but go for it now. Two firsts (which would likely be very late in the first) Go get that guy. He changes the whole defense, he really does. He keeps OCs up at night. The Lions can't keep everyone anyway. Now is not the time to concern ourselves with draft picks, we used draft picks to build this thing and they are in their peak right now. This window probably has 5 years max and we are in year 3. So something similar to the Mack deal would look like this 2026 1st rounder (probably pick 29-32) 2027 1st round (probably after pick 25) 2026 6th Round 2027 3rd Round (pretty close to being a 4th rounder). Sure, I'd do that. In a heartbeat.

If their trade haul was worth it, why didn't any of them pitch in this close game tonight? Oh yeah, I know, because they suck. This ain't the Diamondbacks, who've given up on their season. We've got Skubal tomorrow. He'll give us 6 or 7 amazing innings and then handed over to those stiffs we got. Good luck with that.

So pissed right now. Wasted a great start by Flaherty and the one thing they HAD to improve at this deadline totally destroyed them tonight.

**** Scott Yzerman.

Who is going in next, the electric Kyle Finnegan and that breathtaking 7.4 K per 9 rate? Luke Jackson and that shutdown WHiP of 1.46? The incredible Raffy Montrero? Oooh, goosebumps with that haul. Can't wait for that Charlie Morton call, maybe his kids can go to the game, if they can get out of their college classes.

Yep, the GM with no Balls goes Yzerplan on the baseball team and gets a bunch of stiffs for the bullpen. It would not have cost your best prospects to get some decent arms. Yzerman has an out - his team is not close to being a Cup contender. Harris needed to do something significant and flat-out failed. Not using them in this close game tonight. First game after the deadline and it bites them in the ass. It's idiotic to assume everything will go right again like it did this year. And they wasted an opportunity to really go for it. And that play just now. I think the guy might have been safe.

Hey, ESPN 2 is showing the Pop-A-Shot championship. Wow now that's compelling sports right there.

I feel like Hinch almost couldn't wait to pull Flaherty there in the 7th, then it makes me wonder why he sent him back out there in the first place?

So which new bullpen corpse goes up there in the 8th inning?