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On 5/2/2024 at 5:51 PM, Toddwert said:

a loss of a big part of your viewers seems like it would speed up the death of Bally sports Detroit

its just short term. These drops have all the time. It's over carriage fees. The sides work it out, usually within a week. 

6 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Detroit has had fewer hotel room than most competing cities for a long time. It's a working town - not exactly a big tourist draw.

you just repeated what i questioned. 

So it has 'fewer hotel rooms' but yet can host super bowls and mlb all star games? And yes its a 'working' town. So are Cleveland, Indy, Charlotte which have hosted in the last decade.

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

 

That tweet made no sense to me. So the issue is hotel rooms? But we have enough hotel rooms to host a superbowl, mlb all star game and the draft? I don't think the NBA all star game is bigger than those events.

43 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

I've read that some teams have been concerned that the quality of depth in the later rounds is worse this year than in previous years, because of NIL incentivizing players staying in school longer when they would be drafted in that range or undrafted. I think this is also the first year where guys that we pickup in the 6th and 7th rounds won't be guaranteed a spot on the team. They'll need to beat out the in-house talent for that gig.

If Brad agrees, I would think a deal like they pulled last year for Brodric Martin, packaging later picks to jump into the 3rd or 4th round, would make a lot of sense. Why take three fringe guys if you could take one sure-fire backup who could turn into more? They also currently have nine picks next year to play with (two 4ths and two 7ths), and that's before even considering possible comp picks for Jonah Jackson or CJGJ.

wait 6th and 7th rounders were guarenteed spots before? I think most were luckly to make the practice squad if not cut. 

And the NIL issue you propose would be nuterlized after a year. And its been in place for 3. There was a massive drop when it went in place, but has been fairly steady in the two years since. So the NIL drop should be fixed by now. 

If its a bad back end its just cause its a bad draft. 

1 minute ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

So goods everywhere but great overall? The math ain't mathing 

(Not saying I have a problem with the pick at all. Just makes me question the system when you get b everywhere but an a overall)

1 minute ago, Jason_R said:

They must really like him. 

They didn't have a ton of needs. Most third round picks are out of the league in two years. No big deal giving it up to go get a guy you like

2 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Why is the Bears pick taking so long? They made the decision months ago. 

1 minute ago, Hongbit said:

I was thinking that earlier.  Could be a late and very cold evening.

For the 200th times, espn asks them to. So they can do all the talking they need to do.

26 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

I could be wrong, but one minor complaint is that I think BH has been slow playing these extensions for some reason.

months ago he could have "set the WR market" at a lower number than 30M. same is true for Goff, who is going to get 50M per.

It's not a video game. You can't just make a 28 million offer and expect them to instantly accept then everything be rosey going forward. World doesn't work like that.

Brown wasn't going anywhere next year. Go out explore the trade and free agent market to see who you can get before you have to figure out how to structure brown's deal. Not to mention teams have to meet with agents, talk about it on both sides, make offers and counter offers them narrow it down. That all takes time. Heck I just took a new job with someone I knew and it was easy as hell and it still took two weeks to get all finalized.

On 4/16/2024 at 11:43 PM, Deleterious said:

Still sad we missed out on Keegan Murray.  

He was too old to several posters here.

4 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

You never know. He might start pulling the ball more and at least move a runner over. You don't need your best hitter hitting 2nd, you just need someone who can handle the bat. So far, I've seen Canha pull too many ground balls to the pull side at important, situational, times. Keith is worth trying, but so are a few other hitters. (Greene)

what is this 1988?

4 hours ago, Dtrain72 said:

What's his splits as leadoff compared to hitting in the 2-3 hole?

You're the one posting how awful he is despite all evidence. How about you provide the info to back up your own claim?

1 minute ago, Dtrain72 said:

Which is sad.

Top 75 in league. 

7 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

I love the team building aspect so much.

For this year's draft... I would start at the #9-ish prospect because ya never know when a guy will slide because... it's a draft... these things happen. I think it would be really hard for a top-5 guy to fall, much, much more rare. I also checked #6 to #8 prospects for a look-see... but I also do not see Chase Burns, or Hagen Smith, or Braden Montgomery slipping.

So... starting at #9:

9. Bryce Rainer, HS SS - elite SS with some power but slow bat speed = difficulties connecting or, lower hit tool. 70 arm, excellent defensive SS, but 1st guess would be he's a .220-ish hitter in MLB.

10. Konnor Griffin, HS OF/SS - "Big bodied athlete/ plus runner/power/arm can play any OF position". Not certain why they also have him as a SS? Swing is long but with fast acceleration through the zone = lots of line drives.

11? Seaver King, OF/SS - "Not a discerning hitter, chases out of zone, pretty low walk rate, bad swing decisions...". Nope. Not a Harris player. Full stop.

12? Slade Caldwell, OF - 5' 5.5"... "can hit with fringy power...". Seriously? No thanks.

13 and 14 are not better.

15. Kaelen Culpepper, KSU SS - makes a ton of contact with fringy/avg. power (which could improve if load can be coached up)... strong defense at SS.

Nothing better that I see after this...

 

VERY disappointing possibilities here, at around 11. If I hazard a guess: Harris will take a chance on Rainer, Griffin or Culpepper, whoever is there at 11. And whoever he believes can be "coached up" in our new & revamped (improved yet to be determined...) developmental system/coaches.

Just my 2 cents...

There are also pitchers in the draft

8 minutes ago, Dtrain72 said:

Leadoff Greene!

 

he has the third best OPS on the team

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

 

here let me save everyone 15 minutes: It gonna suck for a while

I love it when the celebrities read their Mean Cleats on Kimmel 

Slider away slider away

1 hour ago, kdog said:

Last year's stats are just ok. And it was only two months of prolific hitting.

we know its your favorite thing to juts arbitrarily take and remove stats to prove your point, but those months count. he was also 23 with basically no lineup protection. 

37 minutes ago, casimir said:

The weather might be better tomorrow, but will the field be playable?  It’d be less than ideal to make this up elsewhere in the season, but it’d be lesser if injury occurs due to sloppy grounds.

Rain has stopped and we usually dry out pretty quick. Wouldn't think that would a problem. 

it was miserable over in queens today. Driving rain wind and cold. Way worse than yesterday

51 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

So with todays rain delay  I was surfing games on my MLB subscription and came across the Texas - Rays game where Wayne Langford is already starting and starring for the Rangers. Moments later Issac Parades cranked a 3 run homer and I couldn't help but wonder how good we would be TODAY is we hade kept Parades and drafted Langford. Then I felt sad which is no way to feel with so much going well for the Tigers. So I am asking the board for some consolation. Forget about Parades it's been beat to death but did we/Harris over think by not taking Clark ?

Hoping to hear some good news that Clark/McGonigle ( taken with $$ saved passing on Langford) will prove to be better than Langford ( who seems to be Kirk Gibson energy) . Cheer me up please !

Marcelo Mayer

Careers are long. Don't get hung up on the first moments

I think that thing landed on the apartment Im trying to get it. 

5 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

They have 3 night games scheduled in New York? In early April? And it's going to rain all 3 days. Some real thinking went into that schedule making. Real geniuses. 

Our weather has been wacky here for the last three months

 Says it's gonna rain and it's sunny, says sprinkle and it 9 inches. Says sunny and it's out of nowhere wind.

5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

TBF, maybe the MLive people are expressly looking for angles that will give them something different in their coverage than just duplicating exactly what is already being reported in the DetNews and Freep. IDK if ex-tigers is a particularly effective implementation of that kind of strategy but I can see it might be a deliberate effort to get outside what's already available elsewhere.

Just a guess they changed the headline on wire angles and reworked the top slightly if at all.

Make it seem new/relevant without really doing much. 

15 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

That never made sense to me. Have Sunday as an off-day in case one of the 3 days gets canceled. I remember one year, it was beautiful on the Friday off-day. And then miserable on Saturday and Sunday 

The next day is off because season tickets are sooo much more expensive. Nobody wants to then go to game 3 after paying game 1 prices.