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47 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

We want a pitcher...not a belly itcher.

I want to keep Clark and McGonigle...after that..let's talk

Scott? Is that you?

I can’t see Harris giving up either Clark or McGonigle, both Top 12 MLB prospects according to Pipeline, for a reliever with control problems who’s having a down year.

FWIW, I also can’t see Harris adding a close-to-the-end-of-the-line veteran with an injury history and who’s due another $90 or so million into a clubhouse that relies partially on the bonhomie of scrappy kids playing to make a career for themselves, especially when deGrom would cost us at least two top 5 prospects. That’s going to be the starting bid to get deGrom from the Rangers, a team who recently won a pennant and is still within view of the playoffs this year.

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

Why even use Vest here?  Wouldn't you want to keep him fresh for tomorrow?

Vest hadn’t pitched for three days so he needed the work. Gotta get him trigger time at some point and there’s no guarantee it’s going to be close and late tomorrow, either. 

Just when I thought I was out on this game, they pull me back in and break my heart. 

Parker Meadows singles home a run! Men on first and third, one out, score is 9-6.

Now Baez drives in a run on the ground out to third, so score is now 9-7, two out, still one on, and tying run still at the plate.

12 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

This comeback is gonna be epic.

You might be right! Eighth inning, two on, one out, Tigers down 9-5.  Stay tuned …

5 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

It's Fox Lies that the weak eat up, believe and spread on their Facebook page. I just block these brain damaged idiots every time I come across them. Because of this;

 

All due respect, if you don’t mind, I’d like to hear from the guy making the claim. If you as a third party step in to answer requests like mine with responses like this, it lets the claimant off the hook to back up his claim. 

8 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Here's the actual court filing where it is mentioned.  This is the same document where they admit to screwing up.  

 

https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/reported-salvadoran-man-granted-withholding-mistakenly-deported-to-el-salvador-due-to-administrative-error/#/tab-policy-documents

I’m not sure what I am looking at in this link. Can you lead me to the part that confirms that there was a final order of deportation for Garcia? Because that’s not on the page anywhere that I can see.

42 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

The police bodycam was made public.  It is blatantly obvious what's going on in it. 

I saw a video from CNN in which Garcia was being interviewed by the cop, then cut to the cop making a claim to a camera that some unnamed “he” is “running” eight people in the van, and then he speculates about finding toothbrushes on them.

What’s missing from the video is an arrest, or at least the cop confronting Garcia about the people. if this is such a smoking, hot gun, why aren’t those elements included in the video?

The video also states that the Tennessee state police flagged this stop to federal law-enforcement, who did not follow up to arrest Garcia.

I don’t see any evidence of a crime being committed here on the video. What are we missing here?

39 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Again, he had a final order of deportation.  Take everything else out of the equation and he still wasn't supposed to be here. 

I’ve been googling “did garcia have a final deportation order” and I’m coming up dry. Can you share a source with us?

45 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Even people with good insurance will feel the effects of this. Hospitals will be losing so much money, they'll be forced to shut down. MAGA doesn't realize that people won't be going to a primary doctor so their problems will get worse and worse.

No worries, a regimen of ivermectin will get those red hats back on their hooves in no time. 

54 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Based on the evidence,  Garcia was running illegals into the country for his boss so I guess I'm just lost as to why I'm supposed to give a crap about him. 

Show us this evidence. 

They have voodoo dolls of us. We’re done here. 

When you order an appetizer first and then your meal, and they bring them all out at the same time.

This runs a close second to, you order a drink, they never bring it, toward the end of the meal you tell them that’s fine go ahead and kill the drink, they apologize for spacing out on it, and it shows up on the bill anyway. That one’s happened to me twice in the last month.

25 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I guess Skubal is pitching on Sunday now. I musta miscounted. Stupid fingers...😅😅

Well, then, that means I can actually watch the game. Cool.

That also means he pitchers next Saturday the 12th, only two days off before the All-Star Game. Hopefully, though, they re-do the rotation so he comes back and pitches again next Friday, Saturday at the latest, instead of sticking to the next slot in the rotation, which would delay his next start until a week from Tuesday, minimum.

Just now, Tiger337 said:

I am too young to remember pre-70s TSN, but it was still great in the 70s.  They did start covering every sport at some point in the 70s, but they still covered every MLB team every week and still had all the box scores and stats every week which was a big deal at the time.  It really started to go downhill in the 80s.    

Get your hands on SNs from the 30s through the 60s, especially, and you will see what I mean.

8 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

Yes, HRC was 100% correct about there being a basket of deplorables. 

Welcome to 2025, where you and I are the new deplorables.

1 hour ago, ewsieg said:

As a fiscal conservative, I have never been against a bill that might cause pain, if it could provide a clear path to helping set up the next generation for success.  This is the exact opposite of that.  I purposefully tried to find conservative media's take on this and for the ones that talked about the nuts and bolts of this bill and not just the republican talking points, none of them liked this.  Absolutely horrid.

 

All due respect, most of the rest of us could see very clearly that it was always coming to this, that it was only about the super rich getting the money and the rest of us getting the shaft. How many recent “respectable” Republican presidents (and Clinton) provided the uber-rich generous tax cuts while ballooning the deficit at the same time? It’s true—you can easily look it up. Here, I’ll even get you started on the first one: https://www.cbpp.org/research/the-legacy-of-the-2001-and-2003-bush-tax-cuts.

The main thing that makes the Trump tax cuts different is that added feature of cruelty to poor people for sport.

6 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I remember when TSN started to suck a few decades ago and I decided to stop my long-time subsciption.  They kept sending mail to me and offering discounts begging me to come back.  I finally wrote to them telling them to stop sending mail.  I said that I used to look forward to their publication each week and it was a big part of my life.  I told them that they needed to go back to the way they used to be and stop trying to imitate the USA Today.  To their credit, the mails stopped after that.  

It’s true, whenever I do research that leans heavily on SN, I notice a huge drop of in quality right around the time they started focusing on other sports in the 70s.

7 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Mize has outpitched Flaherty, who I believe is our 4th SP (if Olsen is healthy).

And I do see the Tigers upgrading from Jones, if not cost-prohibitive.  Getting a proven RH outfielder would be a nice hedge for injuries and complement to our LH hitters.

Bullpen is going to be the focus, though.

They shouldn’t have to give up much for a lefty-killer on the bench.

I gotta believe as a World Series champ from just last season, and especially since his underlying numbers are better than his results, Flaherty has a very wide berth before he gets knocked out of the #2 spot for October.

15 minutes ago, romad1 said:

its got to be right under the surface.  If I were thinking it about my own team it would be...why do they lose one out of three games in a weekend series so consistently? 

I want to believe OBT are so young and pure of heart and full of competitive adrenaline that they would never dream of giving up even a single play to a prop bet.

6 hours ago, RandyMarsh said:

I wonder at the start of the year what the odds would've been on Javy being the starting OF in the All Star Game?

FanDuel would not have even offered up the prop.

On 7/1/2025 at 3:38 PM, tiger2022 said:

Stieb and Key were both better than Morris, and I don't even think it's close.

I remember at Tigers Camp with some players and other campers a discussion of the best pitchers of the 80s. Rozema was extolling the virtues of jack morris, and I said he was good but he wasn’t the best. Rozema asked, who was better?  I said Dave Stieb. Rozema thought for a second and said, yeah, you got a point.

On 7/1/2025 at 6:18 AM, Edman85 said:

I... have receipts.

 

Pro tip: claims of receipts work better when your name is attached to them. 😉

On 6/30/2025 at 10:35 AM, Sports_Freak said:

So Skubal put on quite a show for the ESPN Sunday Night telecast, 13 strikeouts. And his next start is Saturday, July 5th in Cleveland. It's the Fox game of the week. Another chance for the Tigers to show off just how good this team is. 😁😁

Another Skubal game I will be on the road for or otherwise have a scheduled conflict with and will be unavailable to watch. That will make four straight Skubal starts, and six of the last seven, I will have had no opportunity to see him pitch, outside of stolen looks at snippets on MLB.tv. At least it will be a nice birthday treat to see him starting on July 11th.

On 6/29/2025 at 11:26 AM, romad1 said:

Stupid management got what it deserved.  And we all suffered.   Imagine that team adding some FA pitching.  Looking at BR I see the following: 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/1988-free-agents.shtml

I don't see some of those as likely to come to Detroit but... not having a reputation for miserly behavior would help.  

We signed eight free agents on that list. Six of them spent 1989 as the last year of their career here, and one didn’t even make the team.