Edman85

The 84 Tigers had platoons. Dave Bergman and Darrell Evans weren't allowed in the ballpark when a lefty pitcher was on the mound.

I saw this ad on here, thought it was funny if you dig enough.

By the way, the "Are you better than you were four years ago?" answer changes pretty significantly over the course of this week. March 12, 2020, at this very moment I was at the first round of The Players Championship with my parents and my phone was blowing up with everything being cancelled. The uncertainty of the next few days wasn't awful. Hell, the next month or so with social time on Zoom wasn't awful either. It's around May when people started doing things socially and left responsible people behind when things went to ****.

10 hours ago, casimir said:

Didn't he end up with the highest WAR after that trade was made?  Or maybe it was Francisco Cordero?  Ugh, good times....

By bWAR

Cordero: 16.4

Catalanotto: 13.6

Zaun: 12.8

Gonzalez: 8.6

Kapler: 7.0

Patterson: 2.4

Haselman: 1.5

Thompson: -0.2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2019/03/18/did-trump-executive-orders-further-weaken-faa-oversight/?sh=4c25d743ca78

On 3/9/2024 at 10:43 PM, romad1 said:

 

Quick search of Trump's EO's and searching "Aero" "aviation" doesn't really yield much. I'm not saying I didn't miss it, and far be it from me to doubt this, but it'd be better if this had a little more meet behind it and validation before being shared.

Wasn't sure what thread to put this in, but I saw some buzz about a panel the founders of BP are doing and decided to find their first article posted on their website. At least the first one available on the website today. The founders "founded" the company the year before, and the author in this case wasn't among the five. Having said that, it has several ties to long-running inside jokes and topics here. Let me share:

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/3/interview-with-frank-catalanotto/

Here we have...

• Keith Law pumping up a Tigers prospect.
• A Tigers prospect
• Keith Law calling it the Rule V draft.

Anyways, 27+ years ago, I thought that was funny.

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

Disgraceful, but not surprising at all...

No disrespect to Jonathan Katz, but used to be the kind of story that, say, the NYT would dig up.

It made WAPO, but still cites Katz.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/09/fact-check-katie-britt-sex-trafficking/

2 hours ago, oblong said:

Regarding 2016… I believe that enough voters in the 3 swing seats sat out because they couldn’t vote for Hillary, didn’t want Trump, and figured she would win.  If that election were held again a week later after knowing what happened I think it wakes people up.  There won’t be any “I don’t want Trump to win but I’m not voting for the democrat” votes this time.  That’s a mistake that won’t be made again. 

There will be some, but there will be fewer.

My brothers and I are going to put the full court press on our dad to join the Biden train instead of writing in Haley/Kasich.

I came across this obit.

3 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Uday and Qusay aren't Presidential material, it ain't happening.

Neither was Saddam, but he still slipped through

3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Some of it may just be getting older and being more guarded in discussing politics, but the Trump years (especially post-COVID) has kinda made discussing anything political with parts of my family similar to walking on nails.

I don't have too much of an issue avoiding those topics, I just don't care enough to engage anymore.... but it becomes difficult when it comes up organically with another family member and you have to diplomatically manage it in a way that doesn't cause anything to escalate or anything like that.

I just wish it could go back to the days when it wasn't like that.... when politics was a lower stakes topic that you chatted about for a few minutes before moving off onto football or baseball. And while we can all try to be the change we want to be in our own lives, in the bigger picture, I don't see it happening anytime soon.

My immediate family hasn't been splintered. I have cousins/aunt/uncle that live close to me that have been splintered by it, particularly COVID, but we are mending those fences ever-so-slowly.

I've noticed it quite a bit when trying to put a golf foursome together. Granted, some people are just tougher to get on the course due to growing families, but there's 1-2 people in my former group who kinda took my place when I wasn't too willing to venture out in those times and they don't want to play with me, so I'm not really invited along, and when I initiate it's tough. Stuff like that...

This comment was from March 5, 2020.

My next seven weekends at this point were filled with trips, multiple social gatherings. That was the norm from roughly 2010 until 2020. It's kiiiiinda true now, actually, but the reason one of those weeks was shot was my grandmother's 100th birthday. She's gone now. I have another family member potentially dealing with dementia likely accelerated by shutdowns. Life isn't better now than it was four years ago, but it is better than three years ago.

@Tiger337's favorite pole vaulter getting a workout in in Full Swing.. 

13 minutes ago, pfife said:

Not for me.  I make over 50% more now annually than I did in 2020.  Portfolio is ridiculous in a good way, now compared to then too.    

OTOH, My family is much more fractured than it was then though and it's directly related to politics so that sucks.    And I really wish Biden would have fixed the Trump Dam Breakages that happened in mid-Michigan in May 2020 and destroyed my hometown. 

I mean, the same is true for me in the first paragraph, but the fractured family and social circles are something I would pay all that money to amend.

1 hour ago, oblong said:

I went back to my sent items folder for that week.  Looks like we went home on the 13th.  I have an email to my boss on the 16th, a Monday, asking if we could get into the building b/c I wanted my docking station and I was able to "snag" a couple of monitors.  Officially people were allowed 1, but you know......

I remember a few weeks later we were told to go get the office chairs if we wanted them and all of the desks had markings on them to indicate they were "deep cleaned", as if we would be back in a few weeks.  Then in July we were told to clear out all of our personal belongings we had left.

Now the building is being demolished.  

 

I got a text from a colleague on March 16 reaming me for telling an employee of his who shared a supervisor with  me that we were good to go home. You will never believe that colleague's vaccination status.

44 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

I will say life was better for us March 6, 2020. That answer will change if you move forward a couple weeks.

15 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Sawyer Gipson Long at #11.... Al's last two deadline deals may have been his best after all lol

Two of his last three...

Kris Anglin is out of baseball after being acquired for Grossman.

Actually, @chasfh

I'm having a hard time interpreting this. "Actual Club Payroll" is effectively the CBT payroll.

Actually, now that I re-read... Cash considerations in lieu of a PTBNL if announced that way counts toward the CBT. Trades like Lipcius (or Leonard) do not.

44 minutes ago, chasfh said:

@Edman85: is there a technical and practical difference between "cash considerations" and just plain cash? I would guess if there's any, it would have to do with what kind of budgeting they report to Baseball for luxury tax purposes. Or is "cash considerations" really just a schmancy way to say "cash"?

I don't know in that regard, but when it comes to the CBT, cash exchanged in deals only counts when it is covering salaries, not being used to effectively purchase the player.

I had meetings all afternoon. What did people think of Benetti? And was he able to get more out of Monroe?

It reminds me of Norm MacDonald's joke about cancer. You don't beat cancer or lose your battle with cancer. At worst it is a tie.

As with COVID, the strong mutations of the virus died with the people it killed, or their symptoms were so severe they quarantined. As it evolved, the minor variants that are out there, that people may be more likely to spread by being out in public, effectively act as vaccines.

I hate to bring back the term covidiot, but I will...

The victory lap they are taking in light of the updated CDC guidance is definitely something. No, they weren't right all along. Our immunity has strengthened, and the virus has evolved to become weaker.

On 2/29/2024 at 9:18 AM, casimir said:

Really?  I didn't realize international cap space was part of the equation as well.

Ah, I was wrong... Just double checked the CBA. The Tigers, assuming they remain a revenue sharing payee, would not lose international cap space.

On 2/28/2024 at 11:21 PM, mtutiger said:

Not that it's amounted to a ton to-date, but Jobe did sign underslot iirc, which I'm guessing helped getting Ty Madden and Izaac Pacheco signed (Pacheco not looking so hot these days). Same with Max Clark, who deferred some earnings which likely helped bring in Kevin McGonigle.

These debates where we hone in on one player (Marcelo Mayer and Wyatt Langford in particular) all miss that nuance IMO. Maybe we all would have had different preferences if we were the ones drafting, but it shouldn't be that hard to see the logic in why they did what they did either.

I misremembered that. For some reason I thought he went over slot. He did get more than Mayer, though there's no guarantees Mayer would have signed for his number.

The 2021 draft hasn't produced a big leaguer yet, but it has been a pretty impressive crop rising through the ranks. I believe that Mike Rothenberg (retired) is the only player who has been cut. Holub was traded for Canha.

What's up with the necks in Milville?