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Doesn't look like Finnegan and Anderson are official in the transactions logs, so I guess the Tigers could technically participate in the Major League phase today. I also wonder if the reason they have been slow to jump in the minor league free agent market including some of the nontenders I thought would be quickly re-signed is that they were having a hard time protecting players from the minor league phase or wanted to keep some roster space available to be very active in that phase.

Molly Knight, who was fired from the Athletic for going overboard on Bauer coverage... She's lost some journalistic credibility, but is probably right here.

Ah insomnia... Multi year pitchers are not a sure bet past year one. I am okay waiting to reinforce to avoid having bad rotation contracts bogging things down.

I don't agree with this notion to "go all in" this year because of this supposed window. If you sacrifice 2027-on, you are dooming yourself to be hurt even more if he walks. The team should be a in a good spot to return to the postseason this year, and have the best position player prospect they have had in my lifetime knocking on the door.

Trump freeing up NVIDIA to go hog wild selling chips to China is a much much much bigger deal than the back story news it has been.

Kinda sad that is such a big deal... Last I checked, all my legislative spots were unopposed next year. Florida Dems need to follow suit.

I would argue free agency isn't a place to patch a bullpen, and that the 2025 Dodgers are Example A in that regard.

Why is "college boy" being used as a pejorative?

What does he know about breasts? I've been binging his wife's sitcom, and hers got noticeably more synthetic in the later seasons after they got married.

That is spoken for (Drew Anderson).

I doubt the Tigers dabble in the Rule 5.

Yes, Trammel was on this panel. I know Jayson Stark and Tyler Kepner were too. I forget the whole list off hand. A few years ago I stopped caring about the Hall of Fame. There's too much to get upset about, why waste emotion on who does and doesn't get in?

Thought I had earlier today... If you had to rank the worst or five worst things Trump or his admin has done this term, what would they be?

The reveal at the end was the kicker for me. Using the supposed safety risk of abuse by trans athletes as the reason to go after them was effective, but she was silent on her coach's actual rape scandal. There is an actual safety problem, given the thousands of predators in this databse: https://cdd.uscenterforsafesport.org/ If she was serious about female athlete safety, she would speak out there. This reminds me a lot of the autism deal. Attention and funding is being driven from autism toward antivaccine crackpot theories.

I missed the postscript to this story. Worth a listen. Here it is in written form: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/riley-gaines-anti-trans-lia-thomas-ncaa-trump/

I am just going to make a note and remember that contributions for players acquired after December 1 don't count.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Dirty little secret about pitchers is that signing one to a multi year deal doesn't guarantee they will capably fill the role you signed them for through the duration of the contract.

Major league deal means he gets a 40 man spot and if he is out of options (I haven't confirmed yet), he would have to clear waivers to go to Toledo. Also, he would have the right to declare free agency if he is outrighted. Some of these deals, like Margot, last year have an automatic consent deal in it where they don't exercise that right. I haven't seen the terms, but "split contract" means he gets a lower salary in the minors, so if we see that it may signal that is the plan.

I have looked into prompt engineering as a way to learn how to better use AI. I still don't really use it because I just don't trust it. I have a feeling society at large will misuse it and there will be catastrophic consequences.

Act Blue does more harm than good, imo. The ads that show up on Twitter by Act Blue cause me to block the candidates in them.

This should go about as well as HawkTuah Coin.