Mr.TaterSalad

Maybe I generalized too much. But most of what I saw here, callers/texters on 97.1, posts on Reddit and social media, seemed to give a sense of fans being underwhelmed with the offseason moves up until the Valdez signing. In any case, no one should feel that way now. Harris and Ilitch have been aggressive over the last week and actively working to upgrade the talent on this roster.

I'd be worried about Joseph's future with the team were he to have a procedure like this. Guys that play full seasons aren't Brad's type of players. LOL, I kid. I kid.

You were whelmed and excited for Drew Anderson and Kenley Jansen as moves that would have put them over the top in the AL? Because the sentiment around here and with a lot of fans in general seemed to be one of an underwhelming mindset. Feel how you want to feel though. If Anderson and Jansen moved the needle for you then great. Valdez and Verlander are big time moves that give me clear optimism for winning this division now and being a top 2-3 team in the AL in a way the prior moves did not.

What an offseason. In the matter of a week we all went from completely underwhelmed or downright upset to out of our minds excited. What an incredible offseason this has been in the matter of a week's time. First Framber Valdez and then the return of Detroit's favorite son Justin Verlander. Amazing! Great job Scott Harris.

Seattle rebuilt their team from Russell Wilson faster than what we did here. We regressed in-fact and didn't even make the playoffs. What a disappointment.

Is Jason Myers the Super Bowl MVP?

The guy that blew Matt Patricia off the field in his debut game on Monday Night Football and exposed The Pancho as a complete fraud is now going to be a Super Bowl champion. Amazing!

And people want to get rid of Goff. Darnold looks like Scott Mitchell out there ducking and throwing to nowhere.

I can't believe of all the years, this is the year the Lions don't make the playoffs. What an awful game. There are Thursday night football games more exciting than this. Really pisses me off we failed to make the playoffs with these joker QBs in the Super Bowl.

He's got the intellect of one. So yes, Trump is the 7 year old. The difference is, most 7 year olds I've known aren't racist and even if they were racially influenced by bigoted people in their lives, could still be given the opportunity to learn, grow, and change. But most 7 year olds didn't refuse to rent houses to blacks, want to see innocent persons of color put to death, or pull black dealers off the casino floor to satisfy racist white patrons. If a 7 year old opens a lemonade stand and refuses to sell lemonade to black customers then maybe we can talk and use that as a teachable moment about equality and racism.

There's no proof she actually worked at McDonald's. Trump is relatable, because he's a billionaire who knows what it's like to put in a day's work at McDonald's. I have problem voting for a black person, I just don't like any of the black people who have ever run for office.

I can see the Lee Greenwood Super Bowl halftime show . . .

Yes, because kids today and anyone who isn't a redneck under 65 want to hear Lee ****ing Greenwood. I'm no Bad Bunny fan. I don't listen to that type of music at all. But Lee Greenwood at the Superbowl halftime show . . . LOL!

A live look at a Donald Tru . . . George Wallace campaign rally from Alabama in 2024 . . . I mean 1968. Who can tell the difference at this point?

His black "friends" are also grifters like the Don King's of the world.

Why should anyone be surprised that a guy who was sued because he and his dad refused to rent homes to black people, a guy who accused 5 innocent men of color of committing a crime they didn't commit simply because they were persons of color, a guy who's casinos took black dealers off the floor for certain white patrons, a guy who used the n-word on the set of the Apprentice, a guy who has so few people of color in his administration, would put out racist content comparing Barack and Michelle Obama to apes? We may have hit another new low, but I'm not at all surprised. He's always been a George Wallace, Orval Fabus, Lester Maddox type of guy and if you continue to support this stone cold bigot, so are you.

So I am very pleased with the Framber Valdez signing. Bringing in another lefty like Valdez to be a solid, legit #2 behind Tarik Skubal, is a real anchor for this starting rotation. I now feel we have the potential to have one of the 3 or 4 best rotations in all of baseball and maybe the best or second best in the AL. This was the kind of big acquisition we were all collectively waiting for I think. I certainly know I felt major disappointment and completely underwhelmed with our offseason up to this point. So kudos to Scott Harris, Chris Ilitch, and anyone in the organization who helped get this move done. Just a few of questions to ask out of my own general curiosity though. Had you asked most fans, and many in the media, what position they wanted the Tigers to make a big move at or upgrade at, I think the answer would have likely been a bat/positional player. 3B, CF, DH, somewhere along those lines. Why do you think the organization kept its powder largely dry this offseason, until this point and didn't make a major acquisition? Was it simply they were waiting for a result on the Skubal arbitration? Also, why did they chose to sign a starter in Valdez versus bringing in a bat/positional player like a Pete Bichette, Bregman, Suarez, etc.?

Do you feel like we are headed into a similar situation as the last few seasons where we falter down the stretch in late February and March or do you feel this team, this year, is better positioned to close out the season strong? Where are you at given how we've played heading into the Olympic break?

Democrats have lead the charge and been the only political party leading the charge to have nationwide Gerrymandering reform and have maps that are fairly drawn, more neutral, and nonpartisan in nature. Republicans by in large have not gotten behind any sort of Gerrymandering reforms, nor have they supported the idea that maps should be neutral and not be partisan. In-fact, it has been just the opposite. Trump directed Republicans states to make maps even more partisan this cycle. So one party, Democrats, has been leading efforts and introducing legislation to have congressional and state legislative maps drawn fairly. The other party, Republicans, has opposed almost all efforts at federal and state levels to have fair, nonpartisan maps drawn.

Wasn't the knock on Kayvon Thibodeaux that he doesn't live, eat, sleep, and breath football? I thought attitude wise, he was not a fit for the Lions.

I hate the Gerrymandering wars we are in right now. Gerrymandering was a problem before Trump got into office and needed to be reformed. Now, thanks to this clown, the problems are only getting worse. I get what Virginia Dems did and that had to do it given the current environment we are in. I'm glad it is 10-1 in favor of Dems now. I just think we desperately need national reform on Gerrymandering. Only Dems seem to be interested in that though.

I don't care who that sender is, it could be Trump himself, Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or any other wealthy person or powerful politician. An email like that raises a ton of alarm bells. That needs to be thoroughly investigated and looked into, regardless of who the sender is.

First off, it is simply a conflict of interest. It's a conflict that he is an owner and he gets to call games as an announcer. He gets to be privy to some level of pregame planning of a team's strategy and play calling (even if he doesn't fully participate in the usual announcer pregame prep with participating teams). Second off, Brady comes from an organization with a clear and blatant history of cheating and bending the rules. Spying on other teams practices, deflating footballs specifically to assist Brady and be to his preferences, falsified injury report allegations, screwing with opposing teams coaches headsets, having a staffer in the press box taking photos during the Bengals-Browns game. If Brady came from any other organization, it might not be as big a deal. But coming from New England, with their history, makes me at least, a little more suspect.

We've cut taxes on the wealthy in this country for decades and it's driven us straight into the economic toilet. The data is clear, tax cuts for wealthy people don't trickle down and manifest into economic growth for the rest of us. they only increase income inequality and lower the standard of living for everyone else.

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