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Are there teams besides the Lions whose fanbase has to be put on suicide watch after a road win? Just asking for some friends.......

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4-2 should do it.

One thing in the Tigers' favor is that it take more dollars later for the player to recoup what he loses in his arb yrs. If the Tiger offer him A big AAV for 25/26 that should carry a certain level of incentive. And if it's going to take 8 yr or so in the deal, you'd rather give that to him at 28 than 30 - well at 30 they certainly wouldn't even offer it. Or the Tigers could figure if they let him walk at 30 they've had his best years. Of course, a lot of people thought that about Verlander at 34 and he put up another 23 WAR.

as expected, Johnson has caved. Now the only question is whether his conference will vacate him for his effort, or not.. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/us/congress-spending-deal-johnson.html

MLB showed Tigers have announced starters for Tampa series and no Casey Mize. (Skubal, Monterro, Olson)

The cap doesn't help you keep players though - it means if you sign one player big you just have to let other players you'd rather keep, go. Hockey teams lose a lot of players because of cap constraints. Football teams as well, but FB is weird because there a team only has to keep their maybe QB and and a couple of other high profile players and the fans don't really care/notice if the O line or other positions get brutally purged to stay under the cap.

that's what I said.

Goff finished the game with a 113.6 RTG on only 23 attempts. It was less that the passing game wasn't sharp or available than that they chose not to use it more. They almost hit an exactly 50/50 yds passing/yds rushing total.

It's not as much the cap as the nationalization of revenue share. Green Bay had a successful NFL franchise before the salary cap, it's even more stable now probably with the cap but it could never have an MLB team under the current MLB income system with or without a cap. The NHL has a pretty hard cap, small market teams still fail or can't qualify to get a team to have a chance to fail in the NHL.

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Final 9-3. Tigers control their own destiny

The Democratic campaign has to find ways to make this point without sounding too maudlin, because it is an important one. Pence was an ideological nut job, but he was at least sane and has some institutional ethics. Vance is an arrested development wanna-be who is being played by his oligarchy donors but is too dumb to know it or maybe just too morally bankrupt to care.

I think the Beantowners got this.

that was fairly low stress for an NFL road win.

You won't have **** Nixon to kick around anymore. -RMN, 1962

Ignoring the possibilities of trade/FA signing, I see Vest and Brieske as the two closer options next season. Brieske would have to get his walk rate down, but of the available options he has the velo the strike-out potential for the role. Vest's numbers are actually better, but I'm not sure anyone really trusts Vest ....yet. Foley is Foley. Very nice piece, not optimal in the 9th - esp against teams that are willing to shorten up and play small ball.

yeah - I don't know where Qualcomm was going either. I think for Intel it was just good PR to talk about someone being interested. Intel's big foundry investments will be coming on line over in the next couple/three years. If they execute on those, the foundry business will be fine, if not, not so much of course. They are still "all in" with the plan so to speak other than one plant 'delayed' (read canceled?) in Germany, and this is the lull before the win or loss gets tallied. At this point Wall street doesn't like the bet - of course it doesn't like many bets that far over the horizon! But Intel's balance sheet is strong enough they won't be in serious danger before they get to see if their investments pay off or not. They have also triangulated themselves into status politically as the strategic national defense supplier in US Gov reshoring efforts away from TSMC so its a good chance they are now on Uncle Sam's "won't be allowed to fail" list if any lifelines are ever required. Company still may make more sense in 2 pieces, but I get the impression they are just making noises of due diligence in that direction for the street without being serious about wanting to do it - but I'm just spit balling there - we'll see how it shakes out in maybe a year or so.

ironically, that is an area they have plenty of solid competition.

If Minny collapses and KC and Det both get in Quatraro wins it. If the Tigers miss Quartraro wins it. If KC collapses and Minny and Det make it, Hinch wins it.

Hinch had to have hoped to get more out of Hanifee but he was a mistake waiting to happen.

Hanifee digging himself a hole.

man that was one flat slider.

we have a ball game again.

nothing in human history is ever settled. Every generation not willing to stand up for the good things they have gained will lose them. Not many of the cultures that have moved human history have understood this long enough to endure as long as the US already has. Tired is not a viable choice.