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Boban would give you size.... The Piston FO problem in a nutshell. Would be nice if someone in the org would start looking at players for what they can actually do instead of what kind of wishcasting you can do based on their body conformation.

👻Ghost bowls. These games mean so close to nothing with all the guys sitting out. They put up a graphic of the FSU defensive players sitting out and it was 6 or 7 starters. Not sure why FSU bothered to show up at all (well, yes I am: $$$) Add those guys to Travis and you've got maybe a MAC team?

not a good look

That's the Spirit!!

Possible, but I don't think it's the most likely outcome!

Yeah - I retain a lot of built in "B1G doesn't play the same brand of football" bias, but objectively I have to admit that M under Harbaugh has turned a kind of corner recently - they do play bigger and better than they used to. Is it enough to close the gap, esp without an adequate replacement for Zinter? Does seem doubtful.

It wasn't just a rumor. Henry II didn't trust his brother to do anything serious. IIRC his job at FoMoCo was 'Treasurer', which is a non-policy job (and probably no direct reports) in the average org.

Yeah. Half the Dmen are decent to good against a forecheck but the other half not so much. It's borderline tragic that Edvinsson isn't a RH shot. I'd love to drop Petry and/or Holl off the roster.

I only saw the 4th - Kienholz made a couple of nice throws but he was running for his life and the OSU D pretty much collapsed on the last two Mizzou drives. I don't even think the late hit foul made much difference - it was on 1st down and Mizzou wasn't having much trouble making 1sts. Still am waiting for the story on McCord going to Syracuse. Was it about OSU/Day or Did Fran Brown just bring a big pot of NIL money to Syracuse?

Dumb stuff. Guys not looking - recognizing. O-zone pass to a covered point leads to breakaway, 2nd Dman goes behind the net with no forwards back yet. Lyon left Nyquist a ton of room on his right on the 1st goal but Gustav got the shot up enough it probably would have gotten over Lyons pad even if he had closed it on the post.

Canha is your RF. Malloy and Carpenter will be mostly DH with some OF time. Baddoo will be pushed back to Toledo to work on getting the OBP up. Riley and Meadows both hit LHP so they are going to be there 90% of the time unless Meadows doesn't hit and ends up back in Toledo. Those AB then get added to Malloy and Carpenter. If Jung makes the team, Vierling will have no regular place to play unless Riley starts the season at less than full time. That's assuming 3b is Vierlings to lose if Jung is in the minors. We are finally getting to where some guys are going to have to perform to get their PAs.

The only thing you can say in terms of this year's point total vs last year's is that they are scoring goals. Defense can be improved with scheme and discipline, but lack of goal scoring means your personnel isn't cutting it. So from that standpoint the situation has more potential upside than last year. Also pretty unimpressed with Petry tonight. Looked slow, uninterested and gave the puck away a lot.

It's one thing to lose, but 3 pts? Even with the 3rd string QB that won't go over well in Columbus. But Day has the #1 ranked class in the conference coming in - he'll probably manage.

No position discipline lately. They are getting beaten down the ice on breakaways with disgusting frequency.

Chapman is a better 3B however and I'm tired of watching balls go down the 3b line unaccosted.... Chapman is good get if he has to settle for less than what he wants. If he finds himself in a "Correa goes to Minny for one year" situation because no-one bites on his demands after an off year, I want the Tigers to be there for him. Tigs can afford a large AAV in the short term no sweat. After Prince and Cabrera and Zimmermann I don't think we need to worry about Chris Ilitch giving away big dollars long term - I doubt that will be on the Tiger radar anytime soon.

Three is probably all you get, you'll have to go at least 4 to get the 3. If someone gives him 5 or 6 you offer more AAV up front or pass. The price of keeping the core together won't start going up for a couple years so the Tigers can afford to make a front loaded offer. That might appeal - you never know until you offer.

Scouts let go in 2020 suing the Tigers. Given the system's output during their tenure that's a pretty bold move.....🫠 https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2023/12/29/fired-baseball-scouts-sue-detroit-tigers-age-discrimination/72048652007/

you left out Vierling - Steamer projection 1.1 WAR. Can he handle 3b on any regular basis? We've seen him make some good plays there, and some not so good.... They didn't seem to want to play him there much so I assume they don't think he can. Or maybe he doesn't want to.

We can hope SF is more worried about SS and OF and leaves Chapman be. Meanwhile with Keith at 2B, 3B is the perfect signing for the Tigers.

that's saying a lot since a good many NBA players have no trouble running past either Cade or Bogan......

yeah - same with Schofield. According the transaction log, they elevated him at the end of Nov, waived him after his three games and now are putting him back on the practice squad. Probably too risky to waive Badgley so they have to sign him.

Let LA have their 100 wins. Just get to the last playoff spot and hope your pitchers are peaking!

I think a thing in basketball is that once you are really bad, the game scores stop getting worse because the other team plays down to maintaining a 10-15 pt lead. So it's hard to know how bad a team is. You look at the last half last season, and you think, "Cade is back so they will be better", and here he is but they aren't. But maybe they actually are a little better but still so bad the game scores don't look any different. Of course you would have hoped that Cade would have made so much difference that it would have to show up, and maybe he could if not for Williams who, as impossible as it seems, appears to be an even worse fit for this team than Casey was.

The Giant have no shot at beating the Dodgers at their own game. Better to pour all your resources into development like the Tigers and hope to be ready for when LA implodes - and then hope they do!

We may find out what encumbrances there are when Martha passes. They say Bill Ford does do an effective job riding herd on the family - I'd be surprised if they don't have it figured out. Loose canons were more the risk in the Ilitch family, which I suppose is why Mike put the Tigers into trust.