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2 minutes ago, pfife said:

Yeah engineers are way worse

*ducks*

One thing Trump has in common with engineers is that he thinks he is always right.  

13 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

I'd forgotten baseball digest too.   I only took that for a while.  Don't recall why I dropped it.  

I got that for years.  It was hokey by today's standards but is was great for a youg baseball fan growing up in the 70s.  

25 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

 

Fidrych is still the only MLB player to appear on Rolling Stone

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Bullying and threatening people is the gold of the process!

I’m pretty sure he knows what he’s doing on this one. 

Maybe, but being a mob boss is not the same as being an engineer.  

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I know that for us pitcher “wins“ mean nothing but apparently pitchers themselves think wins are really big deal. At least that’s what I’ve heard. 

My fantasy league switched back to wins this year depite my protests, so I am forced to care about them in a selfish way.  Also, Valdez is on my team.  

Valdez looked like he was struggling tonight, but survived five innings.  

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15 minutes ago, chasfh said:

If what you are asking is, did Trump put on a green visor, put pen to paper, and spend hours going over spreadsheets and creating flowcharts and call plans? I would guess no.

Did he have anything to do with the process at all other than bullying and threatening people?

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Trump engineered the gerrymandering of the House through a pressure campaign, and after Callais, no fewer than eight states redrew their maps in his favor that experts estimate should pick up 10 to 12 seats overall, while another estimate says they could gain as many as 16 to 18 seats if all the aggressive redraws were to fully materialize. Link 

I don't know what the benchmark would have to be for you to acknowledge it as a success, and maybe it can be argued that he did not get a 100% uptake rate on the re-draws, and there may be some way it all still falls flat for him in November. But at this point, I don't believe it can be reasonably argued that he did not succeed in his quest to engineer a gerrymandering of the House.

Trump engineered it or someone else did it and he took credit for it?

14 minutes ago, oblong said:

There were also rumors he got it from jumping from a window or fence when a woman's husband/boyfriend got home.

But without the injury he probably would have flamed out.

I don't know if he would have totally flamed out since he was still good in 1977 before the injury, but he might never have lived up to the expectations set in 1976.  He was a finesse pitcher rather than a dominating pitcher, so I would guess that he would have had a hard time sustaining the success he had in 1976 for very long.  

Fidrych was cruising along until this game right here:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL197707040.shtml

All of the sudden, he gave up 6 runs in the 6th inning and was never the same after that.  I don't know whether it was wear and tear that finally gave out, but the career ending injury seems to have happened in the 6th inning of that game.  He tried to work through it in the next game versus the White Sox and was terrible.  

On 6/4/2026 at 8:22 AM, chasfh said:

This president can’t engineer the gerrymandering of the Senate, so they will have to resort to some combination of suppressing turnout beforehand and limiting access on-site.

He can't engineer anything.  He may have great instincts, but anything that takes intelligence is beyond him.  Getting some thugs to help him limit access is more his thing.  More fun for him too.  

7 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

If I recall at the time wasn't the knee injury a result of jumping over a chain link fence?

He was fooling around in the outfield catching flyballs.  Rusty Staub warned him, but he did not listen.  

8 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

That worked out better for Blyleven.

The story is that Fidrych injured his shoulder compensating for a knee injury suffered in Spring training.  My suspicion is that his arm was abused during his rookie year and that ultimately led to an injury.  

June 5, 1976

Tigers 3 Rangers 2.  Fidrych pitched an 11 inning complete game versus the Rangers.  Blyleven also pitched a complete game.  No relievers or extra inning ghost runners needed.  

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX197606050.shtml

27 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

edit. This is the approved list. 

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It is interesting that agnostic is allowed but atheist is not.  In the past, I have often seen Christians regard the two as equally "bad".  I have always thought that every person with any curiosity at all must have experienced some agnostic thoughts in their lifetimes.   

56 minutes ago, casimir said:

Yup.  There were “too many” starters in spring training.  And then May happened.

You can never ever have too many starters.  

On 5/25/2026 at 8:37 AM, chasfh said:

I suppose it’s possible, although I do have trouble accepting that a guy mentioned, like, 38,000 or something times in the Epstein files wasn’t involved.

The dirt on him might be that he had a competing rape factory.  The hints are there - his modeling agency for girls and girls working at his Maralago spa.  He got mad because Epstein was stealing his women.    

7 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

 

I never saw that one before.  Thank you.  I love his interviews - so genuine and unscripted and of course the Massachusetts accent!

34 minutes ago, Shelton said:

I also know that motor city bengals is one of the worst sites out there and would never visit or read. 
 

Byb is barely tolerable. 
 

Rogelio works hard and I appreciate the coverage but I don’t need their opinions. You guys here do a much better job.  

yes, this site is the best place to get news, facts, opinions about the Tigers.  It's why I come here so frequently.  

Mize could have a short DL stint.  Of course, that assumes no setbacks which is not a very safe assumption for him.

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/tigers-casey-mize-trending-toward-short-il-stint/

"Mize (adductor) tossed a bullpen session Tuesday, Chris McCosky of The Detroit News reports."

That reminds me how Jeff Leonard was called "penitentiary face", even on national broadcasts.  This was widely viewed as funny at the time.  Even though I don't think it was mean spirited, it was surely racist and wouldn't be allowed today (at least not on national TV).  

Just now, I was reading that Dave Bergman was the one who came up with that nickname.  He was previously called "prison face", but when he told everybody, he wanted to be called Jeffrey instead Jeff, Bergman changed in to "penitentiary face"

7 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Sometimes, voting for an All Star is more career recognition than it is for how they are currently doing. Totally unfair but it's the name some fans vote for and not the recent stats.

Or sometimes it's just fans stuffing the ballot box for players on their favorite team.  yeah, this is worse than the Hall of Fame!

7 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I like doing both although Hall of fame is usually a more robust conversation 

I do like evaluating current players, but the period of time leading up to the allstar game is arbitrary.  It's basically what a player does from April through June.  So, when you later call someone an allstar, it just means that he had a good first half of the season one year.  Allstar Zach McKinstry!  I also no longer care about the game itself so evaluating what a player does from April to June has to particular significance to me.