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Nobody with a brain is surprised. Racists aren't surprised. Anybody that acts surprised is playing dumb. In a country run by normal people with morals and backbones, this would end their administration. But neither of those things describe JD Vance so he'll just laugh at it.

He parlayed that year where he "hit .300, 30 HR's, and drove in 100" into a big deal. If he hit .299, 29 HR, and had 99 RBI, would Randy have given it out? Press likes nice round numbers. Learned that in The Right Stuff when Scott Crossfield hit Mach 2.

And you know they follow up that reference with "but he's cool though...."

For them losing that series was probably a similar feeling the Wings and their fans had in losing in 2009. You win the year before, had won a few years before that, want to confirm something of a Dynasty legacy. Then you lose game 7 at home. And there's a hook to it. In '68 it was Mickey's performance. In the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals it was Sidney Crosby getting his first Cup. Crosby is a national treasure in Canada, right below the likes of Gordie, Wayne, and Mario, but not below anybody else in Canadian hockey lore.

Jesus Christ that’s awesome

Typical reaction by cowards. They start a fight and cry like a bitch when you hit back. Just like the “tread on me” crowd.

The key difference is what would have happened if he said he didn’t have it This isn’t complicated for those willing to pay attention

Fox 2 has aired Tiger games before. And they run Wings games sometimes.

I think it's fair to assume that having Boras as an agent and being a player rep that we do have some inisght. He's talked about the business side and having a responsibility. This arbitration hearing doesn't affect what he'll get as a free agent. The Tigers offer to him and to Valdez have nothing to do with each other, other than general budgetary reasons. But they aren't making a statement about what they value or think they are "worth".

I don't think so. Skubal is not a free agent. Arbitration doesn't answer the question that Valdez's situation as a free agent asks.

The story is that Boras insisted on taking this to arbitration. Why should they give an arb number $1 higher than they think they can win the case with? The can't force him to sign a contract.

Thank you. Arbitration is a process. Skubal knows this. Boras knows this. Nobody is going to be "pissed" when the result is known. Skubal might be "bummed" for the lost money but he knows the game.

The issues everybody brings up in a way points to the reason why we are in this mess. There's so many ways to consume our media that there isn't the constant payment a network like Ballys or FanDuel would get from every single cable provider out there. Our choices are removing the cash cow they were used to. Any solution is going to leave some people out. And it could be the best choice financially leaves the most people out of luck.

Why won't Repubs do that?

They're not going to trade Skubal unless they tank it this year and are way out of it by the deadline.

Yes. There's no way the team would not do that. There's a lot to consider.... you have the entity that produces the games. The camera people, the truck people, the announcers (except Benetti who works for the Tigers), etc. That's what MLB would be doing. Then the question is what "channel". It could be an over the air like Channel 20 or it could be an existing slot on local providers. They could even put them on whatever your current FanDuel channel is by renting the space instead of them showing some gambling program. Back in the day the Pistons would produce their own games through Palace Sports and Entertainment, then lease/rent the space on the Fox Sports Detroit Network or Channel 50 or whatever. So in essence it was an infomercial. The Tigers get very high local ratings and they'd be fools to ignore that. It was to be on something that fans can 'flip' to. If they go with an app based system like Apple or Peacock then they lose a lot. That's still too much of a hurdle for a lot of people. I'm sure they've been gaming this out for 2 or 3 years now.

Waiting for Mike Duggan to chime in that republicans and democrats are 'the same'.

Rocket Mortgage is the same concept as Amazon. Just milk the employees.

the trump bible just has pictures of naked girls in it. Young ones.

generic ID mailboxes by suppliers so that "everyone can see it and it gets channeled to a central location for support". Which just means everybody ignores because they thought someone else was going to do it. Get to have that conversation today with someone. Last year they were gung ho about introducing it to "streamline" for a particular process.

It’s the old adage, updated for inflation…. Billionaires have convinced people making $75-$100K that the problems are caused by people making $35-$75K. And that group is convinced the problems are immigrants. Everyone below you is a mooch.

That’s a conspiracy I can get behind. He’s a snake and at some point people might see Trump is of no use to them anymore. The high powered tech folks will move on to JD as their puppet and hope for the best.

Love it when right wing maga-jobs pretend to care about others.

MTG is the person on facebook complaining about the garbage collections and all of that then gets elected to council and realizes it's not easy. She specifically referred to her kids losing coverage for health care. Yeah. It's easy being "small government" until you need something.

Jeimer....