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I came across a fanblog article on Mattison using it as a jumping off point for how cheap the Tigers are. This is no such example. In every case of the non-tender and re-sign, the player is brought back for more on the Major League and minor league split than they would have gotten if tendered. It is why they usually accept. This is not a case of the team being cheap.

Hi. Purdue alum here. Brohm is the only successful coach we had in the years since Tiller retired. I can go on an on about the good and the bad. Some stray thoughts. A supermajority of the blue chip recruits we have ever gotten happened under him. Guys like Moore, Bell, Karlaftis were huge recruiting wins. I don't know where the knock on recruiting comes from. My understanding is he has done well at the portal at Louisville. The team had major discipline issues, a rash of personal fouls after third down. Brohm himself was flagged way too often for going after the refs. The Syracuse game his last year at Purdue was bad. I don't know where this reputation that he is a quarterback whisperer comes from. I believe the most successful NFL QB he has worked with is David Blough. I am betting Louisville would hire Brian in the wake, which will make this palatable to his family that begged him to take that job. That may also shield you from his toxic other brother Greg on the administrative side. The 30 point win over Ohio State in 2018 was the greatest day of my life.

Mattison back an an NRI. Not a big surprise.

I wasn't sure where Ben Sasse having Stage 4 terminal Pancreatic Cancer went... He offered some resistance to Trump1 and deserves some credit there, but folded like a wet paper plate much of the time. Also appeared to have done so drifting and embezzlement as UF President.

4 year old Nephew just saw Trump on TV and said he is on the naughty list. Case closed.

Happy belated

One of the three was a drive thru PCR...

Do tests catch that variant? I tested negative three times.

Malloy's DFA limbo is super long, since the DFA window doesn't count the days between Christmas and New Year's. I bet he is traded for a low level lottery ticket...

I had a very very extreme respiratory illness this week, the worst I can remember. Sore throat that made it tough to eat or sleep. Deep chest pains Tuesday I had to get checked for pneumonia. Intense fever and chills nightly. Could only sleep about 2 hours at a time. And unlike normal colds, this has lingered for almost a week, as I am finally somewhat normal on Day 6. Negative for COVID, Flu (vaxxed against both) and Strep. No signs of Mono. Anyways, the thought I had over and over again this week is a CDC that wasn't sold for parts earlier this year probably would have named this and alerted us about this beast.

I mean Baz has three years of control so this isn't a full comparison, but wow if that is the package he netted, I'm not sure any team has what Skubal could command.

You spoke some trades into existence...

I mean I am sure some of the files have pictures of naked/raped 12 year old girls. Nobody wants them all to be released. Nobody should at least.

I grew up yards from a municipal airport runway. In hindsight it was a miracle we never got clipped. My brother says he remembers seeing airplane wreckage in the woods we used to hike in. The NTSB does have a database of plane crashes. So many are single seaters as a result of pilot error/hubris. https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQueryv2.aspx

The one I've gone after most is Sakowski, because he straight up got caught red-handed plagiarizing Tigstown and faced zero consequences and was granted legitimacy by legit outlets.

This is kinda where the Emily's of the world blowing smoke up people's butts about Dixon Machado or Brock Deathrage leads people to think all prospects fail. McGonigle is generational and the best Tigers position prospect of my lifetime. Could he fail? Yes. But lumping him in because others before him took some lumps is overly simplistic. McGonigle is on another level, and I don't think that is emphasized enough.

I see three regular position players (Lux, Busch, Ruiz), two back end rotation guys (with injury issues: Gonsolin, May), and an 8th inning guy for several years (Graterol). Not sure where that assessment comes from.

I mean, the same is true of me, and we are about the same age, but Harris's gray hair situation has really accelerated. There's a common thread between him saying that the same players doesn't mean the same team, and me pushing back on the lazy "who acquired them" analysis in the Avila arguments last week, though. I just don't think people fully grasp, for whatever reason, the role that development plays on today's game. If you want to take a shot at the staff, you can point to how the offense regressed down the stretch.

I think that was an error. The transaction logs have had weird things all year. I do wonder if this is a clue that he may be the DFA for Finnegan. In other words, whoever enters them had the DFA all ready and quickly just listed him as active. But he was already active.

Why is that a yikes?

Sommers cannot be outrighted until March because he was added to the 40-man after August 15. It won't be him.

I forget where I saw it and lost the tab, but Tyler Mattison said he is re-signing with the Tigers "after the Rule 5 Draft." I'm still waiting on those transactions (Darnell and Little too), as well as the Anderson/Finnegan/Jansen signings going official.

If Trump doesn't make you deranged, that says something more about the person not deranged.

Anybody else, when really looking forward to something ever count backward to find something that happened the same amount of time in the past as that event in the future you are looking forward to? Anyways... November 11, 2022.

Headed out the door... it was something I passively saw on my timeline and surprised it came from the Atlantic. Might have just been a bad headline. I think it was the Sheerer piece a month or so ago at a glance.