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That's the pure uncut stuff right there.....

I wonder how self-described media critic and Fox News contributor Glenn Greenwald is taking the Dominion release? (SPOILER: crickets)

I dont know enough about each individual/ group at the national level that releases rankings and grades, but I presume that all of them approach rankings holistically. Maybe with some differences in how they weight current talent v. track record / infrastructure / etc. Nonetheless, didn't listen to the podcast, but the quote that you pulled would suggest that Law's opinion isn't just infrastructure or recent track record, some of his ranking comes down to talent and how he views it. I suspect, no different than political polling, it's probably better to just aggregate rather than throwing in with one outfit or another.

To the extent that he missed the mark, it's not so much that the Tigers lack talent generally (they are clearly a bottom third farm system right now) more than there are a handful of systems out there who appear on the surface to actually have less at the moment. The Braves, to their credit, have graduated a ton of talent into the big leagues over the past couple of years and have seen a lot of success with them (including a World Series, which is the point of all of this lol), but objectively, at this current moment, is the talent in the system actually better than the Tigers? Peoples' mileage will vary, but at least one of Keith's counterparts (Kiley McDaniel) doesn't think so, as he ranked their system dead last. In an article about the Braves' ranking, Keith did also state that "I don’t think anyone’s rankings matter – where I placed Atlanta’s system has no bearing at all on the players or the team. It’s just my highly subjective opinion." I assume the same extends to the Tigers - people place a lot of weight on Law's opinions, but other people in the profession may see things differently as well and should be taken into account.

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BEST SHAPE OF HIS LIFE

Worth noting that DSG owns a minority stake in YES...

They have screwed around with kickoffs and extra points a lot over the past 10-15 years. Moving yard lines for both, but also restrictions on how far back the kickoff team can line up as well.

Worth noting that Mize's new college buddy who is camp, Trey Wingenter, also had TJ and Back Surgery in succession as well. Something Auburn was doing with their pitchers or purely coincidental?

Even before the back injury news, it seemed like the default position was that he would be unlikely to see action this year. Especially given that Turnbull was knifed around the same time of year that Mize was and didn't make it back last year. If both surgeries can recovery any of his stock, that would be a plus at this point.

They didn't get a lot of publicity or attention, but on the development side, I am interested to see what (if anything) comes from the new coaching staff hires. Particularly on the pitching side, the fact that they have a coach on their MLB staff who is an expert in kinesiology seems like a big deal given all the injuries they have sustained over the past few years.

A solid goal for this club is to try and claw back to somewhere around where they landed in 2021.... it's not a good roster, but some movement toward the mean for some of the 2022 underperformers + adding back in some of the 2022 injured (ie. Meadows, Turnbull, possibly Rogers) + some better performances from some of the younger players with the bats gives them a decent chance to get somewhere into the 70s IMO. If they manage to do that, and in particular if both Greene and Tork more establish themselves as big leaguers, it improves their outlook beyond 2023. Obviously, all of that may not come to pass, but it's a possibility.

ZiPS has them at 71 wins.... so the average of the two seems like their baseline to me.

Bingo. The problems that the Tigers have extend beyond the owner and his indifference (perceived or otherwise) to spending money on free agents. As far as this team's outlook in 2023 is concerned, hate to beat a dead horse, but the ability to outperform expectations largely would lie with the performances of those who were on the roster in 2022.... there weren't any free agents, even big name ones, who were gonna move the preseason outlook beyond 75 wins, let alone 80. It just is what it is.... I would hope that in the future they spend more money as they get closer, but regardless of fans patience, this wasn't the offseason to do it.

100%. But the inverse is true as well..... That's the sort of aggravating thing about the discourse about this team going into 2023.... the default setting for most fans (at least online) seems to be that this team is worse than 2022 and will lose 100 games, when the band of possible outcomes is maybe a little wider than they are giving it credit for.

That matches with what I've seen as well... Most people on here would call me liberal, yet I've never liked the guy for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which that there's a natural aversion to people who command cult-like status like he does, but also that he's bombastic and projects a level of arrogance in everything he does. All traits that remind me of another figure that I've never liked as well... I don't know enough about the car industry to speak to it, but I will say that it's hard not to imagine that the bluster around GM putting a hold on advertising on Twitter has to do with them being a competitor of Elon's. He once had the EV sandbox to himself and that is no longer the case.

But I was reliably told by Joe Rogan that all liberals LOVED Elon Musk before he bought Twitter... lol

"Buttplug" is now trending on the Twitter dot com. In case we are wondering how the level of discourse is going these days on that app

At least on the freight side, railroads aren't struggling right now. Intermodal business in particular (ie. containers) is robust and they have market superiority over trucks in that sector, among others

They also didn't have roads in the 1800s to interact with... much of the danger presented today (not all, as evidenced by East Palestine, which appears to have more to do with mechanical failure on one of the axles) comes from roads interacting with rails. Not to mention the type of commodities being shipped back then... not a lot of vinyl chloride back in the 1880s. If you look at the numbers, those interactions with roads are getting safer, but that is because a lot of grade crossings that were built with the technology of the time back in the 1940s-1970s have been upgraded to signalized crossings. A lot of technology exists now that didn't as well... aside from upgrades to traditional gate arms and signals, grade crossings in higher density areas can now be designed more pedestrian friendly with gate arms and emergency exit gates to allow egress for people trapped inside a grade crossing after the signals go off. Again, a lot of the dangers are preventable and the industry needs to do more and needs oversight. But it's not like the problems didn't exist in the past, in fact they were worse.

I'm waiting for the day that he removes the ability to mute or block him... You just know it's coming...

Correct, Texas does not have a state income tax. (Property taxes are another matter, but that's a tradeoff multimillionaire athletes will make, particularly if they live somewhere else in the offseason)