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In the articles I have seen it’s not clear if this means you need a prime subscription or to use their app. What if someone didn’t have a smart TV or Roku or whatever and wasn’t a prime customer yet pays for cable? Can they watch the Tigers like always? The News article says “regional content will remain…” but I don’t know if that means all the non Tigers/Pistons/Wings only or if that’s included.

I think so too.... but only a joke I would make with someone I was close to.

For the same reason I never watched the Sorkin/Jeff Daniels "talk show host" show, I just do not feel drawn to shows about the industry, especially on the news side. I think mentally it's too close to reality and I want my viewing to be an escape from that. Granted I never watched a second of those shows so it's by definition an ignorant take but with so many things to choose from.... I didn't choose those. I'm not interested in watching an avatar of the Murdoch family or Bill O Reilly or Jon Stewart. I started watching Echo and it reminds me of Andor. Street level stuff that's not directly connected to anything else in that universe.

You are right. The tiles were an issue known all along. I mean they were there for a reason and times were replaced after each mission. Each one was hand placed and many had to be specifically cut. In that scenario nobody really did anything wrong. Conspiracy theories abound that leadership knew it was doomed, but like they said in Apollo 12 after being struck by lightning at launch and worrying about the heat shield and chute electronics being fried preventing deployment, “well we would die now or 10 days from now so we might as well do the mission” They were test pilots. Doing “rescues” wasn’t feasible given all the prep work involved in a mission and having consumables onboard the doomed craft to support a crew for the time it would take. For a later mission they did have one setup as contingency. But it would not be easy due to the # of spacesuits required for EVA. I saw an elaborate flowchart showing the sequence between Astros going up and who was already there based on body size. The O rings was a failure by management and politicians rushing missions and not listening to the engineers. Great documentary on Netflix about it. The Apollo guys involved in the investigation were not happy.

My son went to Checker bar during the game, they left in the 2nd quarter to go down there, and he said it wasn't as busy as he expected. That's not really walking distance from Ford Field. I was curious how busy the bars nearby would be, like Harry's and Brass Rail, etc.

I'm surprised they let an Asian looking fella in there.

They called the Shuttle The Flying Brick. From a technical standpoint it was always an experimental test vehicle. Both accidents were not suprises when they happened.

this is what a caucus looks like:

I think the games now top them all. Saturday's game, followed by Sunday's game. The NFL is different. Especially today's NFL. I think that in terms of volume and intensity. And I say this as baseball/hockey guy over football.

Randy Smith was one of those types I call “old young people”. Nitkowski once tweeted about seeing a guy walk onto a plane with no bag, no book, no magazine, no drink, no electronic devices that he could see. Just a small opened bag of chips he was eating as he made his way to his seat. He was envious of such a carefree existence.

Is it just me or did the Rams play timid? Conceding for field goals and punting with only 4 min left and you have either zero or 1 time out? I was shocked they didn’t go for it. But I don’t watch a lot of football.

The last time they won a playoff game I was in my first year of college slacking off. Just going thru the motions. Now I have a wife and two kids and a house and good job and maybe 10 years until retirement. I know everyone has a story like that. It hits me.

I don’t think I have felt like this since game 163. (Tigers/twins reference in the Lions forum)

Jesus I am a nervous wreck. Especially knowing GB won.

Negotiations reach a stalemate and there’s an arb deadline and each side submits the figure they will think gives the the best shot at a win. I doubt they share that in negotiations otherwise you just give away your hand. Given the small amount I expect a deal beforehand. The hard feelings issue is overblown.

There was the scene in the bar when he was going over the details and Carl is about to say something and just says, paraphrasing, “ah screw it. Let’s check out that tan Sierra”. Was the $750K from Wade to cover his debt or a real deal he’d use the proceeds to cover? I use the line “you ask Stan Grossman, he’ll tell you” when trying to convince someone of a good idea I have.

“We’re not a bank Jerry” ”if I want bank interest on $750,000 I go to Midwest federal and talk to Bill Deel”

It’s something I never really thought about until now because it’s rare for our ball club to go thru arbitration. But the numbers submitted may not reflect the negotiation numbers. In arbitration the ruling is one or the other. Not a middle number. So both the club and player have to consider whether to push for their amount. It’s easy to imagine a scenario where a player says “ok I was asking for X but in front of a judge maybe I lower that in the hope of a favorable ruling. On the organization side you flip it. They offer an amount somewhere in between their number and the players number. So when we look at those and see “only $25K” it could have been a bigger gap if both sides moved.

Scarlett Johansson sued Disney over pay structure with Black Widow. Her pay was based on theater revenue. Then the pandemic hit and they did a dual release on Disney plus. They had a legal battle. After that was done she’s producing things for Disney. It’s business. They can separate the two.

sure with Mize it's a small gap but add up those small gaps among several players and you have a big gap. I'm very pro player on these kinds of things. In this case I'm just pushing back on narratives that to me are unfounded. By assuming the org should always bend to the player automatically gives the player the upper hand and puts them in a position to ask for more. If an org says X, then the player can say "Well, let's make it X plus Y" and the org should bend just to be nice? Casey Mize busted his ass and did everything the Tigers asked because they are paying his salary and he wants to recover and get a large deal down the line. Le'ts not pretend he's doing them favors by doing that. He's doing his job and got paid to do it.

and it's only $25 for Mize too. I think people over react to these things. I doubt Mize batted an eye over it. They won't go to arbitration.

just to play devil's advocate..... why is it always incumbent on the org to show loyalty to the player by giving in? He didn't play for almost 2 years. He got paid to rehab. Yes, it's contractual that he gets paid but these proposals are very close so I don't see the logic in blaming one side for not caving. It's business. It'll be forogtten in 6 months.