Tiger337

Wondering if "afternoon radio guy" is a good source. 😐

At least he aggressively pursued Alex Cobb. Now their pitching is all set.

I am assume you have never managed professional baseball players, so maybe your opinion is just as invalid as you say mine is.

I can hardly wait to see the congressmen family Christmas cards with everyone in the family holding AR-15's.

It's not Rodriguez's job to make things easy for Harris. He did what was best for himself. Maybe Harris should have realized that Rodriguez was difficult to deal with and worked something out a lot earlier. I don't know. It sucks that they couldn't get a deal done, but it's weak to blame it all on the player and to Harris' credit he didn't do that. He took responsibility for it.

Yes, it's documented that the players didn't listen to him. That's not a good look which is probably why the Tigers were able to get him so easiy.

It's easy to imagine. It's also easy for me to imagine other outcomes.

As in criminals will pay him off to make conditions favorable for Bitcoin gambling?

That makes it sound like he's using the Tigers to drive up the price.

What happens if public schools create an environment based on MAGA ideals? Will the shared experience and cultural references still provide a better net social outcome?

Are baseball managers like typical middle managers? It seems to me that baseball managers have a direct daily influence on their players which I think gives then a lot of opportunity to form strong bonds with players. Players also have a strong union which I think makes them as much opponents of upper management as they are employees.

But if you mix the Nazi kids in with the other kids, the Nazi kids will bully them

Are there people that actually think grocery prices will go down? We ALWAYS have inflation. Food prices are not going down ever.

Inflation is lower than it was before the inflation reduction act, so maybe it's doing OK. Or maybe it was gong to start getting better anyway because we are further away from peak Covid. You are right about magic wands. No President has a magic wand which controls the economy. In fact, they are limited in what they can do to fix the economy, especially short term. Have you ever heard Trump talk? Not just edited sound clips but actually talk for several minutes? He doesn't know **** about any policy issue. I see no magic there. Any good results that happen will have to come from elsewhere.

What policy are we talking about?

What if you have educated parents who live in a town with a terrible school system? Chances are they might send their kid to a private school, but what if they didn't want to spend the money and home schooled ther childen?

None of us have been a major league baseball manager, so I guess we can't comment, but I'm just saying he didn't have the respect of the players and I vew that as a negative. I think there are managers who would have handled it better. I am very happy with Hinch as the Tigers manager. I believe if the same thing happened to him in Detroit, the players would be more inclined to listen to him.

And I still don't agree. He was the manager and he didn't have the players respect enough to get them to stop. I don't think that would have happened to Leyland or Anderson. I don't think anyhing like that will happen to Hinch again either. Hinch is great now so I don't care, but I will always view the Houston incident as a bad mark on his record.

I agree.

I understand why people are weary of Bregman. However, I think their payroll is low enough where it's reasonable to extend Greene and Skubal and also make a significant signing.

I lived in a boring white suburban middle class town, so I wasn't exposed to much. Just boring white middle class kids being shallow and treating each other badly. A far as learning how to think, I got a lot out of my education. I got that at home too. I was just commenting on the importance of socialization from schools.

I think home schooling is fine for some kids if they have educated parents with time for home schooling. It also helps if they are involved in sports or other activities. School socialization was an unpleasant experience for me and I don't think I benefitted much from it.

Big Pharma gave us the opioid crisis and ridiculous prices for precriptions that people need to survive. **** them! I understand the point you are trying to make but you are way over generalizing based on a small percentage of hippies you may know.

I have probably forgotten what board I am on at times and said political stuff in here, but I do try to avoid it. The shaming is effective. I mean nobody likes being scolded by screwball. 😃 Plus, we already have dozens of political threads. It's nice to keep his one as politics free as possible.