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1 hour ago, tiger2022 said:

In about 5 years all sports will be behind a pay wall.  They are potentially locking out a whole generation of younger fans who will decide they'd rather not spend X-amount to watch sports when they can do other stuff with their time and money.  And almost anyone under 50 does not have cable or direct TV or anything like that.  

Baseball really needs to reevaluate their model for the future because it's a sport where mainly older people watch.  I know of very few young people that will watch a baseball game.  Not saying there aren't younger fans, but baseball isn't like football, hockey or even basketball.  There is a lot of standing around and doing nothing during a baseball game. 

 

There is a lot of standing around in football too.  I think that sport has benefitted from betting longer than any of the major American sports.  

5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

of course there is an alternate view that both parties are walking dead, that 'political party' as a basic paradigm is dying and is not revivable exactly because the very people you need to be in them (the sane middle) won't go near them anymore. While I keep seeing this talked about, my question is what does it look like in practice? OK - so for starters you run ranked choice primaries and every candidate is a free agent, but how does a legislature function? Firstly, how to have stable leadership to manage an agenda if every leadership vote is an ad hoc exercise among a couple of hundred free agents? Sound like a recipe for getting even less done than the broken legislative processes we have now.

I like ranked choice, but it might be too complicated for a lot of voters.   

58 minutes ago, oblong said:

I don’t read it but i do follow on twitter but if someone gets joy and satisfaction from doing it that’s fine with me. I don’t know her circumstances. As far as I know she hasn’t asked for money. 

Blogging is fun and I appreciate the work it takes to keep one going regularly even it's just writing opinions.  I don't believe she makes any money off of it.  

I just get a little annoyed when I see certain bloggers frequently showing up on my timeline like they have inside info.  I'm not blaming her for that though.  There were probably people that didn't like me showing up on their timeline when I was blogging a lot too.  

3 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

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. 

Mike Trout was on a track to be the next superstar?  He was best player in the game for five staight years and was a top 5 player 9 times.  It's a shame that he can't stay healthy now, but he more than earned the superstar label.  

5 hours ago, Edman85 said:

The only thing I hate more than the "Give 100% of the credit for player's success to the person in charge of baseball ops at the time" take is arguing the same thing over and over again.

 

Actually I hate several things more than both: seafood for one.

Seafood is the worst.  I'm a picky eater and there are a lot of things I don't eat, but most of them are either not healthy or they can be replaced by something else which is just as healthy, so it doesn't matter.  I eat reasonably healthy, but seafood is the one big healthy food group I am lacking.  I can't even stand the smell.  I know somebody is going to suggest a seafood that isn't too bad, but I still won't eat it.   

I would have had no problem seeing Cabrera do those 7 years with another team.  Like Chas said, one awful year is OK, but 7 is way too much.  I loved to watch his great years.  He was the best Tigers hitter of my lifetime, but I really wasn't all that attached to him.  It wasn't like he was a lifetime Tiger like Kaline or Whitaker or Trammell.  In fact, he won his only World Series on another team.  His off-field activities were not very endearing either.  

7 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

 Our pitching staff may be a team strength this year.

It better be.  

I watched parts of the game only because everybody I know has been and will be talking about it.  I don't do commercials or half-time shows, so it was on mute half the time.  The superbowl is one of biggest scams we have with advertisetrs all over the country convincing us that the superbowl commercials are a must see event.  

19 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

When Trump decided to move the USFL to the fall and go up against the NFL, they had to fold operations. He put the fledging league out of business. Everything Trump touches, dies. Trump vodka, steaks, casinos, college and many other ventures. Anyway, the USFL sued the NFL and won. Their award? 3 dollars. The USFL was finished, thanks to Trump. Feel sorry for the other owners? No, lay down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

Yes, that is my first memory of Trump destroying something.  I liked the USFL and was not happy that he destroyed it.  

Trump tried to buy teams in the NFL for 35 years and was rejected every time and of course he always had a lame excuse.  He tried to buy the Colts in 1981 and the was turned down.  Then he claimed he never made an offer. 

Then he bought a team in the USFL and tried to merge the league into the USFL.  He bragged to Rozelle how great he'd be for the NFL.  The NFL was not interested.  He claimed that Rozelle had offered him a franchise. The USFL, led by Trump sued the NFL.  

He tried to buy the Patriots in the late 80s.  Again he was rejected and he claimed it was because he didn't want to take on the owners debt.  

He tried to buy the Bills in 2014 and was rejected him because he was too disruptive.  He claimed he never wanted to buy the Bills and only bid on them because he wanted them to stay in Buffalo.  

The NFL is apparently smarter than the rest of America.  

11 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Youtube TV doesn't carry MLB TV. I have a subscription and have to access it thru my Roku. 

That is what I do.  

7 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I get ESPN unlimited with my DIRECTV subscription, so I think I’m good.

I also get MLB TV with my DirecTV extra inning subscription, so I can see it on TV or online for a single subscription. 

I am seeing that ESPN Unlimited is part of the Youtube subscription, but somplace else I saw that you can watch MLB with youtube.  I probably wont know until I try to watch a game.   

58 minutes ago, chasfh said:

If this is actually true, I cannot imagine that MLB simply doesn’t care if they lose fans. 

 

Crap.  Not sure what to do with my Roku/YouTube/MLB combo now.  Baseball is getting harder to watch each year.  

That debate is over.  Harris found his balls last week and the team is all his now.

18 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Old, white racist says what?

Trump is still MAD because the NFL wouldn't let him buy a team.  

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

I have done it multiple times. I just haven’t done it on every post.

It’s emoji for when you say something controversial and follow it up with *ducks*, as in, someone is gonna throw something at you for saying it.

I didn't see anything controversial.  

6 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

 I really don't think a possible draft pick will decide his progress.

It's not the only factor, but I think it could have an influence.  The reason they have that incentive is to encourage teams to promote players on opening day rather than wait a month into the season.  

Just now, chasfh said:

I am not putting ducks on every post.

You have done it multiple times.  I was just curious what it means.  

Or maybe we will have competitive authoritarianism.  

7 minutes ago, casimir said:

Because geese aren’t available.

🐅🐅🐅🐅

7 hours ago, chasfh said:

Tigers beat their 2022 projection by seven games? Well, maybe Baby Doc was a little too hasty giving Al Avila the gate after all ...

🦆🦆🦆

Why do you put ducks on every post now?  

33 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I'm not sure who thinks the draft picks are that important, fans or Harris? The Tigers just gave up a pick when they signed Valdez. Didn't they? 

He was worth a draft pick.  The draft pick they could potentially get for McGonigle winning would be a better draft pick (right after the first round) versus the one they just gave up (I think after the second round?).  Harris won't bring him up if he's not ready, but if he is ready, I think he'd rather try for the draft pick than delay his service time.  

6 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

I don't want to link it here, but somebody sent me a link to a "TotallyTigers" blog post about Skubal. It totally read like an AI Slop blog regurgitating Rosenthal. Am I off base there?

No, That blog is horrible.  

9 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

When I was getting my masters degree another women in my program was probably 25 or so and in high school she co-op'd at some tier I supplier and a bunch of old guys taught her fortran.  By the time we graduated, she was freelancing and doing quite well.  She said she was going to pursue fortran as long as it paid the bills, from what you say, I wonder if she's still playing with it today.

It is still used in fields like meteorology and aerospace, but languages like Python are now more typical for advanced mathematical computing. I have played around a little with Python and I like it.