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its a different game now. they cant handcheck and play defense. if they were playing with 2004 rules, maybe the pistons do fine. but in 2017 rules? they probably get waxed like everyone else unless the warriors get hurt.

the rumor was he and morningweg wanted quinten jammer. but that may have been apocraphyl.

he cant hit a major league fastball. that's not him being a "head case", that's him not having a basic ability needed to succeed at his job.

why? are we experts? as if the fact that the public - who is largely devoid of scouting information and expertise - didnt have a ready made answer instead of tork thus makes tork's failures not the fault of management. or his selection is ok because fans didnt know any better. its their job to know, not our job. were just fans.

someone better. i'm not a baseball scout, i dont know.

how do you draft a guy #1 for his hit tool and he cant hit a ****ing fastball? i'll wait to hear how this wasnt al avila's fault because CONSENSUS!

ummmm....no.

and when they did do a press conference, gores was a clown. remember how he lauded the team becauae of all their community work? in the midst of a 28 game losing streak? perhaps its better that they issue a press release instead? that said, the release was also ridiculous so maybe not?

so bronny goes 17 this year?

the bulls still owe a #1 pick to san antonio for derozan. they also have portland's #1 from an earlier deal.

because lavine is a cancer. selfish player who is constantly injured now. all the options for "salary dumps" are flawed players making a **** ton too much money. duh. teams dont trade their best players in salary dumps. then again, it beats joe harris. unless were tanking for the 5th pick again.

love how gores uses "i" when he refers to the organization. what a narcissitic prick.

then we should draft him.

the worst pistons gm since who? late stage joe d? billy mckinney? **** vitale? that time they let grant hill bring in christian laettner?

they need a stretch big man and he can shoot, especially when the games mean nothing. and the pistons arent going to be playing meaningful games for a while.

he's going to make $50 million next year.

it will look like professional sports free agency, which is what it is. there are no restrictions for college students to transfer betwen schools, so there are no restrictions for college athletes to do so either. until they unionize, sign a cba, and then sign a contract. which is what is coming next.

kat flexing when he's down 30 is the ultimate kat move.

watching the twolves shrivel up and die is so awesome. pussies.

i think most people dont care about ty cobb or his legacy other than baseball history geeks like myself. i cant imagine baseball folks sitting around thinking "you know what would be a great idea? talk about how ty cobb was wronged!"

as i previously said, they talked about a book written about a player. they do that all the time. its not an effort to rehabilitate anyone. its content for a website and publicity for a book. youre making it into some conspiracy about Baseball because you dont like the people that run baseball.

you didnt say "likely" before. you said Baseball embraced it. i dont see any evidence that Baseball or baseball embraced anything. i just see an article about a baseball player, the same way there are articles about almost every book written about a famous old player. if anything, sports organizations trip over themselves to discredit their racist past and racist former players. they go out of their way to "honor" and remember black and other non-white players no matter what their actual contributions were. its good for business in 2024. in many ways, its a much needed correction considering the long history of mistreatment. but i dont think Baseball has made any attempt to institutionally rehabilitate ty cobb or any other past person whose reputation has become one of abject racism. i dont see anyone looking to fondly remember kennesaw mountain landis or cy young. theyre becoming pariahs.

youre right, "everyone" is an exaggeration. however, it was an unequal and unfair society.

no, but you said top 60. givony has him at 54, i think. not a huge prospect and not a lottery pick, but someone that some team will either overdraft for the publicity/lebron dreams or take a flyer on in late round 2. phoenix apparently has dreams of getting lebron somehow shoehorned into that team. it wouldnt shock me if ishbidiot drafted bronny in round 2. (if they have a pick, i dont even know if they have one left anymore)

"baseball" embraced it? i think if youre as involved in baseball as you are, you might think that. the average person who knows a little about baseball still sees ty cobb as a racist, regardless of the revisionist history. i dont remember some grand pronouncement about cobb as "not a racist" from baseball. they published a story on a book about a baseball player, they do that all the time. otoh, you pay attention to baseball a lot more than i do so its possible im off base. as for cobb, it would be pretty unusual for him NOT to be a racist considering where he grew up and the time he grew up in. however, the stories from al stump seem to be exaggerated to sell books. there is a middle ground between cobb as some enlightened figure - which i find very hard to believe - and cobb as the ultimate white racist villian cariacture he was portrayed as by stump and ken burns, where be became the lightning rod for all that was bad in american society in that time period. admittedly, it is easier to see cobb as the latter more than the former. american society was cruel to black people. and that includes most of the people living at that time who we regard as great americans. your lincolns, your jeffersons, your roosevelts. all of em.