Motor City Sonics

Eva Grubb - the fake Ginger Grant from Gilligan's Island (now that is a pull on my part)

Without looking it up - what was his UNI number that day?

I am in the camp of Olson, maybe not being hurt still, but the team believing that he's not durable enough for a full season and also that they really are going to monitor Melton's innings. I kind of have mixed feelings on Melton. Because if the issue is that they think he's going to need TJ surgery (a rite of passage for MLB pitchers now), to just go ahead and get it done now and maybe he's ready to be tip top in 2028, when baseball returns after the lost year in 2027. Verlander is insurance for that. I am sure they told him that he's not promised one of the five slots. Or maybe - just maybe - the Tigers are going to a 6-man rotation at some point. I didn't expect this. I actually did last year. I guess he's pretty stoked about this. A return to the Halcyon days of his prime. Let's win this all and if Skubal walks, who cares?

Favorite ending to a movie? It's a lighter touch, not a dramatic one. I guess you could have categories for endings Mine is Say Anything. Waiting for the No Smoking light to go off in the airplane (showing you how old the movie is, you could still smoke on planes in 1989). There is something very satisfying about the way it ends. Say Anything is an extremely underrated movie.

See, people will believe anything they see online.

I saw a post where in the top frame there is an explosion and the back of Tom Hanks suit is on fire. The bottom photo shows Tom Hanks in a hospital bed with all kinds of burn wraps and a caption that reads Tom Hanks was nearly killed in a dressing room explosion. It's not even good A.I. yet comment after comment after comment was wishing him a fast recovery. They're just too stupid to know. It just floors me how easily people will fall for something. Many of these people vote. We're ****ed.

Beef Stew will probably get 10 games, but that reputation will not suffer because of it. The Bad Boys are back !!!

Pistons are only a half game behind OKC for the best record in the NBA. 39-13 two years ago they were 8-44 This is incredible.

I just wanted to take another opportunity to slam Rendon because I think he's lying about the severity of his injury. I really do. He may have been hurt, but I just don't believe him. The dude hates baseball. I mean, I know there are guys out there that are only in it for the money. To suggest that all of these guys are Kirk Gibson-win-at-any-cost guys is silly and if teams are too stupid to dig into a player and get even a hint of their true intention, that's on them, but this guy just says it out loud and that's why I can't stand him. The cost to take a family of four or five people to a baseball game is insane and you know what, those fans that go to the game deserve your best. But we know guys don't always give it. I understand that, it's a long season, it's a slog, but to be just so flippant about it when you get paid like he does - it just insults everyone. Absolutely everyone. Ya wonder why fans hate him? Fake it. He conned the Angels. From the start. And the Angels have spent stupidly for a long time (gotta be tough to watch your crosstown rival these days), but there is another angle that frustrates me about this too. You've got a guy on that ballclub who was on track to be the next superstar of the game and he can't stay healthy, but he's tried and tried. When Mike Trout first came around we were talking comparisons to Babe Ruth and Willie Mays and now it's just trying to get 110 games out of him. He got to 130 last year, but he struggled and you could see it when he tried to run. His legs are betraying him and he's still only 33. As much time as he's missed he has 404 home runs and he's still only 33. What might have been. If he'd have stayed healthy, he'd be challenging Barry Bonds career HR record before 2030. He's the opposite of Rendon. I hope the Angels to him a solid and trade him to a contender at some point, because it's not likely to be them any time soon. I just don't like frauds (when it comes to anything, not just baseball, believe me, plenty of frauds in the radio biz), and he's maybe just about the biggest in baseball history and he has NO shame about it. Screw him.

Javy is a bad contract, but he can still redeem a little of it. Justin Upton was bad. But the Miggy one, I get it. Sure, he was awful at the end, but the thought of him doing his retirement tour in another uniform didn't sit well, so it was worth the risk for the PR sake of it.

Hey, it's February 9th - Spring Training starts this week. It's time for a new thread. I was reading where Anthony Rendon won't play in 2026, but still get paid, but I guess the Angels restructured his contract so they will pay him over several years. I had nightmares NIGHTMARES that the Angels released him and the Tigers said "Hey, let's take a chance on this guy" I think I may hate this player more than Roger (Let me throw at guys heads) Clemens and Chris (Cry Baby) Sale. It's just that he so blatantly ripped off an MLB team and was just so open about it. He never wanted to play. He just took the money. I don't even believe he has a real hip injury. I wish the Angels could sue him. And I don't even like the Angels and they could be the worst team in the AL - and I kind of hope they are. We've had some bad contracts around here (Jordan Zimmermann comes to mind, Prince Fielder too, but at least we got the Rangers to swallow some of that and got a solid Ian Kinsler for him). But that Rendon contract and his attitude towards not wanting to play baseball makes it the worst - in my opinion. So many of us would just kill to be able to have the ability to do this and he just wastes it and is totally open about it. Yep, I hate him more than Rog and Sale.

Mother f----- Mut, you mother f------you, you f---- piece of s--- you big tough guy, you mother f--- keep that mother f--- here, keep him here.

I had stopped the steroid (Dexamethasone) drops in my ear the Wednesday before last when I ran out and saw that improvement on Thursday when I did the hearing test. They gave me another 10-day supply and I re-started Thursday and then last night and this morning I am getting a fair amount of fuzzy hearing in the left ear. So much so it's actually a little distracting while listening to music and I kind of need to plug my ear a bit because I have a show to put together for Sunday evening. This is the most significant hearing I've had since 12/26. Not really functional, but it's there. Going to a chiropractor next week. I have read about dozens of cases where issues like mine were greatly or completely resolved with a few adjustments. Still don't know exactly what caused all this. Some sort of virus is the thoerry - since the steroids seem to be making a difference, unless my healing is just natural and the steroids are doing a placebo thing. Hey, whatever it is - just keep it going. If I make the progress I had in the last week I feel I could be hearing somewhat normally by Mid March. I certainly hope so because the Lemon Twigs are coming to the Blind Pig on April 27th - and I am NOT missing that.

Oblong will back me on this one, since he knows the area. The parking garage behind the Village Plaza building over by Garrison collapsed on a guy in a car and they had to get a guy out of there. You know that parking garage. First thing I thought was "that thing is still standing?" which led to "That thing wasn't blocked off" and then "even if it wasn't blocked off, one look at that garage and I am saying "un-uh, no way am I going in there". A fair question shoudld be, why is that building, the strip mall next to it and the garage not torn down yet, hasn't it all been vacant for a decade now? Can't be very safe. This is how it looked 6 1/2 years ago, it looks even worse now. TEAR IT DOWN ALREADY

Have you seen how people act if someone gets a sandwich order wrong? Total freakout. Smashing things, throwing things at employees, screaming at teenagers who took the food order. You've seen the videos, right? People are just ****ing insane. I don't know what was up with this fool, but thinking about what happens 20 minutes after I make this decision was not in the cards here. Just like the guy who shot someone for putting too much mayo on a sandwich. They don't have that thing in their head that says "What will happen to me 30 minutes from now if I do this? How will this change me life?" They can't figure it out, so they just do **** like this. I'm the opposite. I am always worried about what every single decision I make will end up costing me. Even the dumb stuff, but I have learned to chill a bit more lately.

Wait, so the Knicks are the second best team in the East? That's cute. So 121 -90 118 - 80 one more on February 19th. Wow. And Duren didn't play.

In this building when JB stands, nobody sits.

The Pistons need to focus, man, they're only up by 29.

Left ear has gone from only detecting 100khz to 90 to 85 in a month. So progress, but very slow I may end up getting a bionic ear at some point.

Underrated movie Hell Or High Water (Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges in one of the best roles in his career). Great writing Great pacing Great cinematography Great acting It was nominated for a few Oscars, I think it was better than Moonlight or La La Land. Way better than both Serious tone with a little room for humor

No. Things being named after you are an honor bestowed on you, not something you demand (unless you own it). It just shows how weak minded he really is. He's so pathetic. So we'd have to spend money (and will be spending money) for signage and then we'll have to spend it all again in 2029 when the **** gets renamed to what it was. How about no re-naming things without a 2/3rd majority vote in the house/senate and not leaving it up to one individual How about the next President passes gets behind a bill that ONE MAN can not pardon people. There needs to be a Pardon Board consisting of judges and a few select politicians. It's just amazing how many things this man has ****ed up permanently.

Got anything to say John James? Nope, he needs that primary endorsement too much.

Oh, **** this caller. You didn't already know? It took all this? You're a ****ing moron.

You see? That's what I am saying. yes, Tucker is better, but not THAT much better. Comparable BA/OBP. When you start talking about SLG and OPS, you do have to factor in two VERY important things. 1 - Park Factor. 2- Lineup surrounding the player. I'm not way off base here. Now the separation will start to widen because Higginson tailed off sharply and quickly and I would imagine that Tucker will last longer and players now take better care of themselves (I think Bobby may have been a bit of a partier, and I don't blame him, soak up all that youth while you can), but up til this point, they aren't that far apart.