Tiger337

I assume you are talking about Fox News, which is the most popular media outlet in the country.

Sounds like it was a good opportunity for a platoon, something that Anderson did often.

I imagine my hero from that period Ron Leflore would have disappointed. Not Mark Fidrych though. Long after he retired, he once gave a talk during a youth baseball training session. I met him briefly afterward. He was exactly as I expected the whole time - humble and flakey.

Jason Thompson was another one in that group and I hated the Al Cowens trade.

None of the previous two anecdotal examples proves anything. In general, it's been proven that Edman's approach works better than Biff's approach, but people respond differently to Covid and the vaccines. I am glad Biff was one of the lucky ones.

I am not sure why I included Gibson. You are right that he belongs in the 74-78 group with Parrish, Whitaker, Trammell, Morris and Petry. What an amazing haul! Howard Johnsion was in 79 and he should have been part of that group too. That was the period where I was falling in love with the game and I though it was always going to be that easy.

So, the balloon has been shot down. Biden is now a tough guy.

When you bring Scott Livingstone into a conversation about player development successes in the past 45 years, you know something is wrong.

The next best infielder is Scott Lingstone. You could put him at third base, move Fryman to shortstop and Santiago to the bench.

Position players who were drafted or originally signed by the Tigers since 1978 who had 5+ WAR for the Tigers: 20+ WAR Kirk Gibson Travis Fryman Bobby Higginson Curtis Grandersion 10-19 WAR Brandon Inge Alex Avila Tony Clark 5-9 WAR Nick Castellanos Omar Infante Ramon Santiago Milt Cuyler https://stathead.com/baseball/player-batting-season-finder.cgi?request=1&match=player_season_combined&order_by_asc=0&order_by=b_war&year_min=1980&year_max=2022&comp_type=reg&team_id=DET&exactness=anymarked&games_min_max=min&minpasVal=502&mingamesVal=100&season_start=1&season_end=-1&weight_min=0&weight_max=500&location=pob&locationMatch=is&date_type=dob&date_comp=%3D&month_val=0&day_val=0&year_val=0&year_debut_min=1978&num_franchises_comp=gt&all_stars_comp=gt

Never gets old. I don't remember why he said that. I am really hoping he loses the nomination bid and runs as an independent. The all his supporters get to see a Democrat land slide because their hero only cares about himself.

That makes sense. They had almost the exact same number of at bats for Detroit, but Suarez wasn't good yet. One could argue that he wouldn't have developed as well had he stayed with Tigers.

Definitely one of my top moments as a Tigers fan. Maybe because I was younger then, but this is even more memorable than the Ordonez homer for me.

I think they both count. The return doesn't really matter as far as ability to develop players.

There's one point for Law.

Social media engagement is fun. Sometimes they alert me to things that I haven't been watching, but I don't expect them to be accurate all the time. They are really no different than us here.

I'll add Alex Avila. There are a few others, but you are right it's been going on for a long time.

I hope Todd Jones' commentary is better than the peanut butter knife stories he wrote for the Detroit News.

That's right. I remember the motocross now too. He always seemed like a player who did what he wanted and didn't give a shit what anyone though about it.

DeSantis is just the boring version of Trump.

It won't work, Trump will just make goofy faces and then insult his competitor. That will be good enough for the diehards. Trump has never said anything of substance in over 40 years. He is not going to start now.

Another thing about Yount is he had a reputation of not being in love with the game. Early in his career, he had a contract dispute and threarened to quit the game and become a pro golfer. I know I always always thought of him as a rebel after that, although not really in a bad way. If there was a perception that he didn't like the game or if he really didn't like it that much, that could have affected his number of all-star appearances.

I usually found out about trades listening to the radio. They would have a re-cap of the trades each night during the winter meetings. If it was a smaller signing, I wouldn't find out out until a day or two later in the transactiolns section of the newspaper. When they signed Phillips, I was at a grad school dorm with no TV and poor radio reception. I found out about it in a phone call with my father.

That is a somewhat better viewpoint.

The few MAGAs I know think Trump is a Christian and a patriot who is honest and tells it like it is.