Sports_Freak

Brissett of the Cardinals is one of the better backup quarterbacks I've seen in a while. Beating the Packers.

We've seen this movie before. Early season success is great...better than falling way behind in the standings. Hopefully, Stevie gets another chance to bring in talent at the trade deadline.

I knew San Francisco and Atlanta were playing tonight but I saw this in the paper this morning that had me questioning reality;

Maybe Stevie was right not trading away these young prospects?

A bunch of pretty young guys who were pressing. I guess it's to be expected from the younger players and Torres was hurting with a hernia, something else we didn't find out about until the end of the season. It was a sad last month of the season but....At. Least. We. Beat. Cleveland. 😅

Touché. The Tigers started 2024 with the whole team in a hitting slump. Tork and Meadows finally demoted and then we were good the rest of the season all the way into September of '25. And then we all slumped again. I hope there's talk of improving our hitting coaches? The hitters approach was pretty pathetic.

Yeah, deplorables. Any questions?

There goes Trump's Nobel Peace Prize. He'll have to settle for a toy from a Happy Meal. 🤣🤣

In some cases, it's not just ignorance. It's a serious lack of common sense. I have a family member who is college educated, retired and extremely successful and has been a big time GOP supporter his entire life. There's absolutely nothing Trump could do that would get him to turn his back on the republican party.

I've read Tucker's name brought up a few times. While I would love to have him, I don't see the Tigers signing him for the money he would demand. Whether we extend Skubal or not. But until Tucker signs with a team, there's still a possibility...however remote.

I've heard some Tiger fans who say trade him and use that money to sign other players. The problem is, the Tigers wouldn't spend that money anyway. Heck, we're still waiting for them to use all of that money that came off the books from Cabrera. I'm starting to think maybe we should keep Skubal?

I always say the changes in bullpen usage is the biggest difference from 60+ years ago but the approach of hitters is also a huge change. Striking out used to be a much bigger deal, players were benched for striking out too much. But come on, 13 strike outs in over 650 at bats? Eye opening stat. He hit into 19 double plays..lol. Can you even imagine what kind of money he would make today?

So Skubal may get $40m per season? He started 31 games the last 2 seasons. That's almost $1.3m per start. And almost $13.000 per pitch. Rough estimates.

I looked up Harvey Kuenn's stats and found something amazing...in 1954, he had 656 at bats and struck out 13 times. That's a good week for Riley. 🤣🤣

Guesses; Colovito, Kuenn and Pudge 3 of them?

People can go position by position to compare the Tigers strengths and weaknesses against the top teams but that wouldn't turn out too good for us. This team has major weaknesses that can't be solved by signing 2 or 3 players or minor trades. It's not like we're two or three players away from being a serious championship contender. So yeah, we all have opinions. It's just my opinion is bringing in all of those horrible arms at the trade deadline did more harm than good. I really feel the Tigers would have been better off without Morton or Paddack. Would they have challenged the Dodgers? No, we're a half a dozen or so players away from competing with them. They're just in another class. Just make the playoffs and anything can happen? It sounds good but in the playoffs, weaknesses are exposed. So I repeat, at this point, it doesn't really matter.

Some people complain about how unfair the Dodgers are by spending a ton of money on all the best free agents. But in reality, they've done an outstanding job of picking the right players to sign. And a pretty good farm system. I really think they'll make a strong push for Skubal's services. The rest of the baseball teams don't stand a chance against such a well run organization that seems to have an unlimited amount of money. So yeah, we can discuss which players the Tigers should sign or trade for, but does it really matter?

Now it's only old people protesting? MAGA is desperate and I'm sure they're not looking forward to the midterms. Hopefully, democrats learned their lesson about moving at a snails pace and will quickly move to impeach every MAGA politician in sight. Deplorable traitors;

MAGA is butthurt and they've been making up lies about these rallies for over a week. Are they ignorant enough to believe somebody is paying millions of people to protest? All while keeping it secret so they can't prove it? I mean, just how stupid are the sheep who believe that nonsense?

Partially correct. If the democrats would have thrown that orange cheeto in prison, where he belongs, he would never have become the king facist. Good call. 😅😅

Keep the immigrants and deport MAGA;

If Skubal is so confident in his ability to stay healthy for 10 years, sign a 5 year contract for $200m. That way, in 5 years, he can get another 5 year contract at the going rate in 2031, It may be up to $50m or $60m per year, or more.

The announcer said Ohtani just had the best game in the history of the postseason. Ever. I mean, Reggie hit 3 home runs on consecutive swings but, well, he didn't pitch. Ohtani is...AI. 😅

They're a very good example of why a salary cap is needed. Level the playing field. Yeah, a great team on the field, a good farm system and unlimited money to buy every top free agent. Put Skubal on that team next. I know it can't happen but a fan boycott would be great.

It doesn't matter. Not even a little bit. The Dodgers appear unbeatable.