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The J.D. Martinez trade was maybe the lowest point for Al. They'd have been better off just taking the compensation in the draft. 3 players..........none of them any good at all, not even BAD major leaguers. Didn't have to trade J.D., but Al opened his mouth SEVERAL times with how desperate he was to trade guys and it took all of his leverage away. He was so awful.

I'm just saying that knowing Miggy's 32 million is going away that you can't bring in ONE bona fide MLB hitter to this team. Not one? Come on, man. Not asking for much. I know we weren't in on the really big guys and all those teams will regret what they've done, but we have a team of AAAA players and has-beens. I hope they can do wonders with Tork and fix Baez and I hope Meadows can return to his average self. I'm like Red at the end of Shawshank.................I hope, but hope is a dangerous word.

We went from one extreme to another and it's left us with motion sickness................Dad spent stupidly, but it sure as hell was fun. I can understand wanting to not do that anymore being a "small market". But we're not a small market, dammit, this is a huge sports town that has been going through a decade of disaster. I hate the Small Market mentality. When this team is good, that park fills up. It's the sucky part of baseball. It takes a long time for guys to develop so it takes a long time to see if your front office is doing a good job, but I think it was pretty clear by the end of 2019 that Al was pretty bad at his job. Same thing as Matt Millen. The Lions let him linger 3 years after everyone else knew. So, in order to be truly fair with Harris, we can't really tell until about 2026, if he's doing a good job. I like the people he hired - they all came from really good organizations, but after 7 years of awfulness we have to wait another 3 or 4. It's brutal.

I think the NFL needs to chuck this idea that a division winner gets the auto bid. The playoffs should be the best 7 teams in each conference. Still have division for scheduling purposes. This idea of an 8-9 or 7-10 team hosting a playoff game is awful. Nobody in the South deserves to be in the playoffs. Tampa Bay is puke. Carolina gave up. Atlanta lingers and the second Winston went down it was over in NOLA. If Carolina somehow gets into the playoffs at 8-9 or 7-10, shouldn't Wilkes get the gig permanently? Don't make the mistake the Raiders made by firing Rich Bisaccia. Rich had them playing really well and they almost beat the Bengals in the playoffs (on a flukey play that might have been a bad call). They hired Josh McJerkface and took a big step backwards.

I think the Lions could beat anyone in a playoff game in good weather conditions. They almost beat the Eagles before their rookies knew what they were doing. Ever since Aubrey Pleasant left they have played like a team that could beat anyone, really. The secondary got so much more physical and aggressive after he left and yes, they still get burned, but they also make some big plays............before they got that way they were just getting passively ground down. Aubrey wasn't following the script and the whole defense broke down. I get why they sacked him.

Oh, they have us believing..............Isn't this what they always do, only to let us down? We've been here before. I remember the year with Schwartz where all they had to do was win 2 of their last 4 and they lost all 4? It would be so Lions for them to go into the Bears game needing to only win 1 game to get into the playoffs, only to lose both. I hope I'm wrong, but I just can't believe. It would take a Festivus Miracle !

I don't think $15 mil a year for Benintendi is insane. I think there is a curse on Illitch related teams. Freakish injuries, nothing but bad luck. The Pistons who play in their building.......get a #1 draft pick who is already looking injury prone and will miss the season. Vrana & Bertuzzi go down to long term injury, Ned can't stop a beach ball, Larkin's hurt now.......and the Tigers with their nightmare of a season. Until they do what they promised with The District, they will be cursed ! And I'm not sure the Lions aren't still cursed. They've got us believing, but isn't this what they always do, build us up and then like Lucy Van Pelt pull the football away? It would be so them to have to only win 1 of their last 2 games to get into the playoffs and then lose both of them, wouldn't it? The most Lions thing ever.

Oh, and if you ever want to pull anyone here at all, you'll have to overpay at first. Like with Pudge and Magglio, but that was absolutely worth it. It won't look nearly as bad as Miggy's last few years, but yes, you'll have to pay someone too much to come here. I am just coming to the realization that unless everything goes perfectly, we're not contending for probably at least 4 more years..........and that's really hard to take.

I would have liked for us to be in the mix or in a conversation...............Even if it's just for show. Give us something to hang our hopes on. Nothing. Boyd & Lorenzen. Yippee !

But, based on what Harris said about the Comerica Park dimensions (which makes me feel are staying the same), isn't he exactly the guy you want for here..........hits in the gaps, gets on base, can cover some ground in the OF. But no, can't spend this year. Chris The Grinch has a heart 2 times too small for that.

The reason is they have no prospects anywhere close to the majors for 1st base or 3rd base. All those drafts and they couldn't find one. We know how bad Al Avila was at drafting (Dave Dombrowski wasn't very good either), but he's worse than most people think. I mean, they KNEW Miggy was getting old and they didn't even pull someone from another system that could step in at first or third. Not talking about taking Tork to come in at 1b, but they should have been getting ready for Miggy's DH years back in 2017 or 2018. It's astonishing, isn't it?

I think all that we can really hope for in 2023 is that last year we had possibly the worst hitting coaches in baseball and that, coupled with the shift and a dead ball, was the reason that Baez, Grossman, Candelario & Schoop all had career-worst years and Torkelson was totally lost. Maybe they hired really good hitting coaches now, maybe we will have a livelier ball and the shift ban won't take away so many hits and everyone returns to career averages next year, which could mean another 5-10 wins. I have to believe Tork can hit at least .270 with some power. From what I have gathered, almost every team would have taken him with the #1 pick, but maybe that's wrong. Maybe he's like fellow Arizona State star Reggie Jackson, who also had a terrible rookie season before he figured it out. If he could be 66% of Reggie Jackson that would be awesome, but our Tiger Of The Year hit .253 with .682 OPS and 5 home runs. That was the best we could do and that's horrifying. I am pretty sure that Harris was told he can't spend money this year while Miggy's 32 million is on the books. Next year at least 40 mil comes off the payroll with Miggy, Schoop and maybe even 60+ million if Baez leaves and then we'll have a clearer picture of what the angle is here. Because if we shed all that payroll next year and then we don't spend, Harris & Co had better be damn near perfect in drafting and even then, we're looking at 2026? But it makes me wonder, If Harris' hands are tied financially by Chris Illitch..........why the hell did he come here? Was he about to get sacked in San Francisco and he just wanted the job security? I don't know why he's leave his hometown for this if he wasn't given some money to use to bolster this roster. I know, in order to win, you need to draft well and Al & his cronies were dog shit evaluators who either drafted poorly or didn't know how to develop guys (it's both, I think). But I am really dreading the future now. We know Chris Illitch doesn't give a shit about winning or losing and as long as the team can break even, everything is fine with him. Don't need a fan boy like Cohen with the Mets to own the team, but it would be nice to have an owner who actually follows baseball and it's pretty clear to me Chris does not. Matthew Boyd, Michael Lorenzen, hoping we can maybe possibly get Wil Myers or Eric Hosmer............It's depressing as Hell.

TCU wins this 24-16

Do we know why he left?

The Whitmer kidnappers are going to jail for a very long time. Good. When you look at them, they are right out of central casting. Before I ever saw a picture of any of them I already knew what they looked like and I was spot-on. One of the daughters "oh, they weren't going to hurt her". Yeah, sure. I didn't like John Engler..........In fact I HATED John Engler and I did something about it too, I voted against him twice. (He really proved was a prick he was at Michigan State, didn't he?)

Tigers will probably grab Eric Hosmer. LOL.

Oregon Tea Party.........LOL............Oregon Chapter of the KKK is probably more accurate.

I don't know and I don't care. Twitter is a cesspool just like Tik Tok and Instagram.............you see the way people act in society now..........social media is a big reason why. I think a major story is about to break about him, and it's bad and these are preemptive strikes against those who will report on it. Like it's going to stop anything from getting out. We need to stop relying on it for news anyway. It's like Dave Brandon sending out the Shane Morris concussion memo at 1am........ooh, real sneaky, Dave. As mentioned here, it's just a right-wing echo chamber now. Let them all eat each other. I never needed it and I never will.

This Brock Purdy story is awesome and he's beating Seattle............this is awesome. Mr. Irrelevant.

Not a crime. He's destroying it all on his own just fine.............just let him.

A friend of mine, who is Republican and hates Trump said to me about 3 or 4 days before the 2008 election "If your guy wins, my side is gonna lose their fucking minds".

Yeah, but Obama is Black..........so, you know, it's bad.

Roster-wise it's been a very Avilaesque offseason so far. I hope those new scouting people are really really good. Remember 1989-2005? We're only in the middle of another similar run. I know his hands are tied.............but I hate being out of the pennant race in January every year.

I have been watching Ohio State reaction videos of their fans watching the Michigan game. If find great joy in it.