Mr.TaterSalad

They spent a lot of capital on improving the interior of this defensive line by trading for Michael Brockers and drafting both Levi and Alim. The interior of this line just has to look better once the season starts and they have the chance to play together. They have to, right?

I'm not going to make any judgements based on one game. That said, unimpressed by this defense so far in the game.

We need to stop giving credence to people that "too far to the left" is a serious concern that justifies voting for a MAGA candidate over a more progressive or liberal one. If one candidate wants universal healthcare through a government run system, a tax on carbon, equity for Trans people, and law that regulate big business earnings and another candidates is being supported by someone who says Jews have no place in the conservative movement, thinks raped women should be forced be bear a child, wants to seize voting machines, and believes Christianity should be a national religion, we cannot continue to accept those as equal concerns. We cannot allow the bothsidesm argument, nor be scared off from endorsing certain candidates because some random group of ignorant voters out there find them "too far to the left". We need to buck that argument and develop a good retort to it because if we give credence to that and allow people to scapegoat based on that argument, we're failing our democracy, our country, and the majority of people. Conversely, progressives need to reckon with the whole argument of "I didn't get everything I wanted, therefore I'm not voting" way of thinking. If one, more center or center-left candidate is giving you most of what you want or a decent amount and isn't going around railing against gays, trans people, Jews, minorities, women, the FBI, democratic values, then you have to vote for that person. We cannot allow progressive escapism either.

If we were one year ahead in our rebuild timeline and ready to be a playoff contender I would trade for him. I'd start by offering a 2nd round pick and if the Bears want more I'd offer a 2nd + 4th. We're not where we need to be yet to trade for a player like Smith and so presently, I would pass on trading for him.

Hey, Dan Orlovsky and Rodney Peete are in the hall of shame and wore #9. That's a hall isn't it?

Oh yeah, that was a lot of fun going to Wayne State when this team was competitive and being downtown then. It just sucked prior to that going to the ballpark and knowing they had no chance to win a thing from about 1994-2004.

I missed all the good Tigers years of the 1980's having been more in 1987. I only got to see the downside of Tram and Whitaker's respective careers. My earliest memories are going down to Tiger Stadium to watch Tigers vs. Indians and there would be more Cleveland fans in the stands than Tigers haha. While I want a Lions Super Bowl more, witnessing a Tigers Pennant is next on my list. I say all that about Randy Smith to say that I've lived through both some really good and really horrific times here as a Tigers fan. As we all have together. Most around my age never got the taste of a World Series Championship and our memories growing up are not watching Jack Morris on the mound and Gibby at the plate. We got to see Filipa Lira start and Paul Backo bat in the heart of the order. If Jeff Lunhow can come in and bring us a World Series Title, I'll be honest and selfish for a minute, that I'd be one of those fans celebrating and forgiving us his past sins. Sign stealing scandal aside, if he really is that much of a dirtbag towards others and created a truly toxic culture in Houston, where people felt harassed and threatened going into work each day, then I'm onboard with keeping him out of here. We as an organization have to evaluate that and the merit of any claims made against the way he operated or allowed his organization and team to operate. If Lunhow can help produce a winner here in Detroit, is someone that Hinch can collaborate well with, and it is deemed after our organizations assessment of his tenure with the Astros that he isn't the complete villain he's been made out to be, I think he deserves serious consideration. I won't write him off just because of sign stealing. While I want to build a consistent winner, I don't want to do it at the expense of creating a miserable and toxic work environment. I would drop him if he created a truly toxic culture in Houston.

Beto O'Rourke is awesome! He called this guy a mother fucker for laughing at kids being shot with AR 15s/

I think he's wrong. I would definitely want to have a nice, hearty burgundy and a good dinner and shoot the breeze with Elizabeth Warren on public policy and the progressive movement for a couple of hours. Is she a deity though, absolutely not.

I don't think for me or most fans it is Epstein, Lunhow or bust. We are very much enticed by the proven track record of their success. In Theo's case, he has been able to replicate it in multiple organizations. Epstein is my first choice for GM, but I'd still be very much open and still very much want this organization to do a proper search, with outside help. I also don't have any real expectation that Esptein would even come here, so it's more of a pipe dream really.

If he and Hinch can build this team into a World Series winner as they did in Houston will any fan or member of Detroit media give two bleeps about what type of person Lunhow is? Winning forgives most all sins.

Hell of a team Randy Smith assembled in 1996. Look at that rotation and outfield he had put together. A murderers row of Tony Clark, Bobby Higginson, Travis Fryman, and Kimera Bartee. With Buddy Bell managing, who can believe they only went 53-109. Shocking!

I was a kid during the Randy Smith years and followed this team religiously on PASS, UPN 50, and then FSD. Watched games weekly, read all the box scores, had a Cecil jersey, collected Greg Keagle and Jose Lima baseball cards. I was so hyped up on so many Randy Smith prospects that went no where from Encarnacion to Justin Thompson to Matt Anderson. I was an angry and disappointed 11 year old kid when Randy traded Gonzo straight up for Karim Garcia. What a fiasco of a trade.

I still feel someone from outside the organization needs to be brought in to work with Hinch and Chris Illitch on this one. It cannot be next man up like it was with Al. If Hinch decides he wants a guy he is familiar with from the Astros like Jeff Luhnow, Pete Putila, or Scott Powers then I'm not opposed to that. I just want there to be an outside voice guiding Chris and Hinch towards making the smart decision and not simply going on who AJ already knows.

Avila's trades look pretty damn pointless at times. That Verlander trade was an all time terrible trade. Getting nothing for JD and Nick set us back as well.

Which is why it's paramount they bring in outside help and get a GM who doesn't have the Dombrowski/Avila stench on them. Yes, I know that we won with DD here, but our drafting was littered with terrible picks, the farm system was a wreck, and player development was subpar. I never thought I'd say this in my life, but Chris Illitch needs to follow what Sheila Ford-Hamp and the Lions did when they hired Brad Holmes. If you can open up a blank checkbook and get Theo Epstein in here, which I highly doubt is the case, then fine. Otherwise, an outside firm, agency, person, has to be brought in to assist Chris in this search. If he just takes the next man up approach, as he and his dad did when replacing DD, I think it will be destined to fail. I think they may need to hire both a Team President, who reports to Chris, and then that person, Chris, and someone on the outside find their GM candidate collaboratively. From there, Chris can stay out of the way and let the new Team President and GM spend the next year/two/three to rebuild and revamp the scouting department and player development personnel.

Whose tenure was worse, Avila's or Randy Smith's?

Chris doesn't even have the decency to offer him free parking.

Whoever the next GM is, I hope they come in and gut this scouting and player development staff from top to bottom. Our player development, especially when it comes to positional players and developing everyday ballplayers, is a complete joke. There is a reason our farm system has plummeted in the ratings recently. A reason why those we call up frequently don't look ready for primetime. A reason why you can't name any positional All Stars developed by this organization. Who is is the last home grown, perennial All Star we've had from this organization? Who is the last positional player we've developed that is worthy of batting in the 1 through 5 spot in the lineup? Once they get traded out of Detroit (see Nick Castellanos or Andrew Miller) do they seem to really turn it up and develop into top-tier players. The scouting and player development side of this organization needs a complete overhaul and I hope it gets one.

Mike Valenti speculating that Sam Menzin will get the job. Is there any chance we get a real GM search and it lands us someone outside the organization? Maybe Theo?

There goes Al and he's LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNG GOOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

So are these two Indiana officers going to arrest Trump, MTG, Lauren Bobert, and all the other idiots who are anti-cop with their anti-FBI rhetoric?

I find it ironic that for all the shit progressives get from people and the mainstream media, Democrats chances to keep or expand the majority in the Senate come from progressive candidates, with one exception. Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin, progressive. Cheri Beasley in North Carolina, progressive. John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, progressive. Raphael Warnock in Georgia, progressive. Only Mark Kelly in Arizona is a true run-of-the-mill moderate Democrat. Maybe you could argue Tim Ryan too, but even Ryan has progressive ideas on trade and healthcare and was an original M4A co-sponsor in the House in 2019. Where are the pro-corporate, anti-choice, anti-gay, lite beer version Republicans to save us when we need them?