RatkoVarda

7 weeks from tomorrow is the trade deadline, and for the first time since 2014, the Tigers will be buyers! One real need: high octane bullpen arm to compliment Vest Nice to have: 1. more pitching is always good and 2. they can add any bat at any position to this line up if 3B, CF or SS is struggling with health/performance. But if Vierling and Meadows are healthy and contributing, it will actually be difficult to improve the lineup. Harris would need to either get a star, or maybe he just gets a guy like Ibanez who does one thing really well. My picks: David Bednar's last 2 seasons have been rocky for Pittsburgh, but he looks good again, and I'd trust Fetter to get him right. He's an All Star at his best. Under control through 2026 as well. Suarez makes sense if Arizona continues to crater, as long as we don't discuss who we got when DD traded him away. Bregman would be the funniest addition ever. Sleeper position: Catcher. Jake looks bad before and after injury, Dingler I suspect will wear down, and Hinch would love a LH compliment to DD.

I love. love, love that the Tigers do what they think is right, and its working. just 4 sacrifice bunts total; last in stolen bases, but first - by far - in extra bases taken. 4th most pinch at-bats; don't know how to measure, but Hinch must be near the top in both moving guys around in game and playing late game defensive substitutions. I see little complaints of "why are moving guys around?" when they have the best record in MLB. don't know if there is a way to check, but Hinch I assume players 12 position players (everyone but back up C) more often than any other manager.

don't forget these people are effing crazy Tulsi says we are closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before but elites have bunkers and don't care.

John Roberts must be very proud to hear Trump has suspended the 1st Amendment

so the Sec of Defense wipes his nose with the American flag? Wait until Fox News hears about this! That's a thousand times worse than all the things Obama never did.

I once sat next to Fred Thompson (senator turned actor) at Jaleo. He was there with a young woman who I really hope was his legislative aide.

not sure if the decades of failures in the international space were due to talent identification or talent development, or a combo of both. DD and Avila tried to spread the money around and not go for one big guy. perhaps they lacked the connections to go big. the 2 guys they hit dead on were traded - Adames and Suarez, and I guess Greg Soto was the best pitcher finally now Wenceel and Montero are contributing. hoping that Briceno and Rodriguez and others, are not C Santana, Jose De La Cruz, Adinso Reyes, Alvaro Gonzales, Julio Martinez, and the best one of all Adelyn Santa - great name who could not get visa after signing for $750K if they have hit on Rodriguez, Harris and team are on a pretty incredible run

Green is a guy who goes through the MAGA motions, but you can tell his heart was never into it. I guess he decided to save what remained of his soul.

I always heard that US troops could not be deployed on US soil. No idea if that is true or not. But no one will stop him either way.

interesting. the new CBA could be less friendly to free agents. will it cap the years on FA contracts, like the NBA? is there going to be a salary cap? more dire luxury tax penalties? the new new CBA could also be more friendly to free agents. maybe they get rid of draft picks penalties (not that it would effect Skubal's market) if there is no CBA for part of the Winter, there would be a mad scramble to sign players in January (again, that might not effect Skubal's market)

SF really makes no sense as Buster Posy is now is charge and Harris would have to report to him. That's a demotion no matter what your title is. Not sure is it "shallow" to want to be in charge, but that is exactly what Harris has in Detroit. Control - control from a hands off owner who spends on all sorts of things whenever he is asked to by Avila and Harris. I know we are supposed to say Ilitch is cheap, but that's not true. Harris has pissed away $50M on 3 contract to Boyd, Maeda and Cobb and gotten zero in return, and we have not heard a peep from Ilitch about it. They are poised to be competitive for the long term.

again, Trump and Miller and MAGA have made the country less safe by directing resources away from deporting criminals, and just deporting any non-white they can find.

any juror who finds him not guilty is gong to the slave prison instead

good thing for TACO because this will be a cluster f

this guy makes the point that Dems are still trying to win a political game that no longer exists. Good public policy is irrelevant to a MAJORITY of Americans. They want to be entertained. So Dems, do not try to stop Elmo and Dump from attacking each other so we can focus on policy. No one cares!

I find it really hard to believe that the guy who said multiple times he wanted to f*** his own daughter, barged into the Miss Teen USA dressing room, ogled a 10 year old and said he would be dating her in 10 years, raped E Jean Carrol, and groped dozens of women, would be involved in child sex trafficking, even though he bought the sex trafficker's airplane that he rode on 7 times.

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I find it doubtful that Campbell University SS Zach Neto turned refused the Tigers, signing for $1M less with one of the worst professional sports organizations on planet earth.

Tor just handed out a $500M contract and they are 1 games out of the Wild Card. For them to trade their starting SS, Harris would have to give them ML pieces that improves their team now. I think there's a match, but very difficult.

this is what the Nazis voted for

until MAGA voters start caring about competence and truth, nothing will change. Nancy Mace having her people on social media with burner phones is a perfectly reasonable plan - that's what MAGA wants, sick burns and lots of engagement. Obama and Biden and Nancy Pelosi won't let us read the bill before we vote? MAGA still believes that stupid lie because they love the lie. If you told the average MAGA moron today that Pelosi stopped Marge from reading the bill, they would believe it. GOP will own the debt? Never, it's Obama's and it Pelosi's fault and Trump tried really hard but RINO's stopped him! The idea that GOP voters will acknowledge reality about who owns the debt (Americans) is laughable. **** off Tlaib.

getting injured diving back to the base is what turned Colt Keith from a third baseman who pitched in HS with a 60 grade arm into a second baseman who now plays first base. 😞

open it up

I think the Tigers have gotten better about identifying talent, but man, they are clearly a lot better than they were in developing talent.