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24 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

Glad to see the Reds spend that $$ and not the Tigers.  Once the Tigers win on Weds and use the savings to sign Valdez the mood around here should improve.

That would be great.  I'd be interested in him too, but I was figuring they wouldn't pursue him.   

On 1/31/2026 at 12:54 AM, Deleterious said:

Fed Chair nominee appears in the latest Epstein file drop. 

Doesn't look like anything bad, at least not yet. Just attending a few dinner parties. 

A Fed Chair nominee would never have anything bad in his backgrlound.  

Trump doesn't like voting in person because he doesn't know how to use the machines.

26 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

If there isn't a salary floor, then I'm all for eliminating the draft.  I understand it is to help bottom feeders, but those teams typically do nothing to improve their roster. Why should someone like Skenes be exiled to a team with an owner that doesn't even try to put a competitive team on the field?

I know, I know, the Yankees and Dodgers, but people act like the people who own other teams don't have billions of dollars laying around.  They just don't want to spend any of it.

I have always believed that the purpose of the draft was to keep salaries of young players down more than to help bad teams.    

The only remaining pitcher I am really interested in is Bassitt.  Other teams will be interested too.  He may be waiting it out to see how many years he can get.

Eugenio Suarez signs with the Reds - 15 million with a mutual option for a second year.  

42 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Maybe not. Although they seem pretty comfortable with Noem calling shots. To be continued ...

She just an extension of Trump though.  If they rally around her, it's because of Trump.  

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

For anyone seeking to become the first trillionaire, $10 billion can never, by definition, be enough.

He'll never make it.  He's too dumb and wasteful.  

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I think the thing with MTG is that she is a true believer in a way that transcends Trump. She still believes that QAnon is real, that Democrats are evil baby-blood drinking monsters who are embedded deep into the Epstein rot, that there are Jewish space lasers, and more. But her true belief is not subject to Donald Trump's whims as it is with maybe, I don't know, 90 or 95% of the other people we regard in that camp as being "true believers". She was willing to completely break with Trump in support of her true belief. That makes her dangerous in a different and possibly worse way because she has a force of personality that has the potential to rally millions of crazy low- and no-information people to her cause. She can't do that today, obviously, but once Trump dies, those people are going to be looking for a new avatar, and I promise you they won't rally under the flag of Just Dumb Vance.

I don't think they will rally behind a woman either.  

Just now, NorthWoods said:

A spare in frame 1 followed by striking out is also a 290.   

This sounds like 2024 Tigers versus 2025 Tigers.  One feels better than the other, but the result is the same.  

5 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Politics makes strange bedfellows, very strange indeed. Here's Majorie Taylor Green. And for once? I believe her. Yes, very strange;

 

 

Of course, "friends" means "people who are useful to him".  Everything is transactional with him.    

It does sound fake, but she always sounds fake. As you said, she has said this stuff before though.  

19 hours ago, chasfh said:

Yeah, it makes some sense. It’s a bummer. They’re not very bright, though, so, hopefully it backfires on them.

Which might save us

47 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Yeah - I don't like it either. I've always felt like if you are not actively getting better, you are getting worse. With a young team maybe you can bank on some improvement, but most of these guys are now already what they are going to be, maybe Dingler has some upside and maybe McGonigle makes the team and impresses, but OTOH, you can bank that some other guys are going to have worse seasons than the last one. Bottom line you should be working to upgrade the bottom 3 guys in your batting ordet, your #4/5 starters every single year, and your BP every single year. 

As a team that won 86-87 games the last two years, I feel as if they are at a point where even 2-3 wins of improvement can substantially increase their probability of success.  Thus it seems like a good time to be adding a good established player or two.  I'm not really expecting that to happen anymore though.   

I remember when bowling was popular in the 70s.  I didn't play enough to get good at it, but it was fun to go once in a while, ugly uncomfortable shoe rentals and all!.  There used to be two alleys in town  - one really big one which everybody went to and another tiny one that looked like somebody's basement.  The big alley is long gone.  The five-lane basement alley is still there - almost 100 years old.  

20 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

yeah, I was thinking something similar.  Why would they release something horrible like this if it's true?  Release something unbelievable which they are able to sufficiently debunk to their base, and the whole story dies.  Keep the real stuff under wraps.  

4 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Derek Jeter is exhibit one for the fact that defense is nice, but hitting is nicer.

 

There is little doubt about that, but I don't think hitting is something that is underrated very often.  It's more likely to be fielding.  

There's a spot open in my fantasy curling league if anyone interested.  We don't use traditional categories though.  It's sabermetric.  

2 minutes ago, Screwball said:

We are not far away. I gave up on baseball. They brought me back a couple of years ago when they went nuts in the second half. Then I found out about Skubal. As an old pitching fan kind of guy, I loved to watch him work. What a treat. So I'm kind of hooked again.

I did the bucket list thing in 2019 and went to Lakeland for a ST game. Booked them the first day - great seats - great trip. Would have liked to see of the old picture in the clubhouse with a cleat mark in it was still there. Shoe thrown by Mr. Leyland. He was my guy.

I'm still here so they have a chance to win one more before I'm in a urinal. 

Florida traffic sucks. 

 

My father and I went to Lakeland for Spring training several times.  It's something every tiger should experience at least once if they get the chance.  You are right about the traffic  Getting from the airport to Lakeland is not fun, but I love the park (and especially the back fields) and love the warm weather after a cold winter.   

43 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Yes, stone, my mistake. Not sure about the Harris thing. I might have confused myself.

The Harris thing was just a joke.  Most of what we talk about in the off-season is about what Scott Harris is doing or not doing.  Nothing much has been happening lately, so we have gone off on tangents.  

40 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

They have already targeted Haitians in Massachusetts.  One of my students had his whole family deported last year.  He gets to stay because he was born here.  Lucky for them, they were sent to Canada instead of Haiti.  I don't know the details.  

5 minutes ago, Screwball said:

I only want to say this, and I will say no more. I don't know how much of this stuff is true, and nothing would surprise me. I have read about this Epstein stuff for years, for the record. 

If this takes down Trump, and if he is guilty, I hope it does. But don't stop there. There are a whole bunch of other sick ****s who were also a part of all this. They ALL need to pay the price.

Nothing less is acceptable. I have a daughter. Nuff said. And probably better off not said.

Absolutely.  Anyone involved with this needs to be punished severely.  Most of them won't of course.  The rich and poweful can get away with anything.  

So, we've gone from basebal to hockey to soccer and now bowling?  

Harris REALLY needs to do something.  😉

30 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

I hate how people latch onto these tip line reports.  It's no different than the loonies on the right who take reports to VAERS as proof the Covid vaccines are killing people.   

Besides, there's plenty of fun to be had watching Elon getting torched on Twitter for emails showing he was visiting Epstein Island.  

I am skeptical of the reports.  However, I believe there is a high probability Trump is guilty of knowing what was happening at the very least, so anything that keeps the general idea in the news is good in my book.  

4 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

It's a walk out/don't consume day, like last Friday. Considering it was just put together in the past couple of days it's especially impressive.

I drive through Concord Center every Thursday and there is usually a small protest happening there.  Westford has frequent protests too.   

3 minutes ago, buddha said:

i dont really agree with any of this.

1) i disagree with the basic theory behind it, which appears to be that every team needs to be on an "equal playing field" or a "more equal playing field."  i believe you should be rewarded for success and punished for failure, not the american sports way, which is to reward failure (the ability to get the best young talent at an extremely cheap price) and punish success (the more you spend on labor, the more you have to pay a penalty).  so we will never agree because i value this more than you.

2) historically, teams that dont spend can also win.  the royals won.  the rays were in the world series.  the brewers and cleveland won divisions.  lower payroll teams can and DO compete.  and win!  the current system allows them to do so.  it does a really good job of it, quite frankly.

i dont care that small payroll teams dont win every year, or every other year, or even once every five years, but they DO WIN.  And they are in the playoffs every season, winning divisions over much higher payroll teams.

the yankees didnt win every year in the 80s, 90s, and 00s when they had the highest payroll and the dodgers likely wont win every single year either.  and even if they did, i'd be fine with it, just like i'm fine woth baseball in the 1950s when the yankees DID almost win every year.

3) higher payroll teams can make up for mistakes easier.  sure.  they can sign big, fancy free agents like juan soto, alex bregman, aaron judge, gerrit cole, or xander bogaerts that supposedly guaranteed championships but turned out not to. 

4) competing and not winning is ok.  sport is fun because it's sport.  and baseball is better when it has a villain to root against.  

One problem is that eveyone is so obsessed with winning championships that anything less than that is considered failure.  So, every year 29 teams fail and the average team wins a championship only once every 30 years.  

I alao agree that villains (teams that spend a lot of money and win more than other teams) are good for sports.  Every team having the same probability of winning each year would be boring.