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I don't know where you're getting this, but it is demonstratively untrue that Chris Ilitch has never and would never spend any real money on payroll.

Tigers have the financial resources, so that's not the issue. Right player being available is legitimately an issue. Even if we're among their top targets, which seems unlikely to me, maybe Kyle Tucker or Bo Bichette or Alex Bregman are not the answer for this team. Maybe Ha-Seong Kim or Jorge Polanco are better fits. I'm not inside the organization, so I can't know for sure. I can only speculate on what they might be thinking, which is the main thing I like to do (rather than projecting my own desires on whatever I might declare the Tigers are most definitely thinking). But from the outside, I see a bunch of possible holes they would need to fill to put a championship-level team on the diamond, mainly, right field, center field, third base, shortstop, and maybe even first base depending on which Tork shows up next year. (Even the good Tork was worth barely two wins in 155 games last year, and that's the best one we have seen so far.) We also have the larger part of an effective bullpen to construct. We wouldn't be solving all those problems by signing a single top free agent, after which there would be multiple other holes. Of course, the front office may be seeing things very differently from how I see them even as a relatively informed outsider. Heck, it is almost certain that they see things differently than I do. That's why I am wrong nearly all the time! 😁 All this said, I am not against signing Kyle Tucker or Bo Bichette or Alex Bregman. If we were to sign any of them, I'll be happy to trust that the Harris front office knows what they are doing, until they demonstrate to me that they do not.

Right, the glove certainly helps. Also, liability issues are more pressing for minors than for adults.

What’s with the hat? “America is Back”? Is that the new one? America is back to what? Back to killing foreign people indiscriminately? Back to rounding up colored folks on the street and disappearing them? Back to destroying government records and refusing to release reports on the economy? Back to the halcyon days before the terror of germ theory and internal medicine? Back to limiting government help to encouraging well-fed people to pray for others? Back to presidents threatening their political enemies with arrest and execution? Am I close?

It would seem weird to me for Ilitch to spend the millions he did on infrastructure to become one of the most modern and forward-thinking franchises in preparation for building a perennial winner, and then stop short of spending on players when the time is right so we can put a perennial winner on the field. I think it’s a combination of several things: we’re not at the point where a top-tier free agent or blockbuster trade ices the cake to make us a World Series favorite; we are still not considered a destination for top-tier free agents; other teams are demanding the very top of our prospects in return for short-term fixes because they don’t trust that anyone below McGonigle/Clark are going to be any good; or maybe they still think they can hold out and get an Avila-level lopsided trade out of this franchise.

You know, I’ve been wondering lately how Doug’s been doing.

Technical geography notwithstanding, Toronto qualifies.

I highly doubt the Tigers were hoping Torres would turn down the qualifying offer we made him. Also, that a reliable starting pitching exercised his option to stay here.

Toronto qualifies as an eastern team.

It’s going to be so entertaining seeing people roast Scott Harris any time any free agent signs with any other team. Also, any time any trade involving a major league player not coming to the Tigers occurs.

They're an Eastern team. So are the Orioles.

And perhaps I'm wrong in believing people on balance are not the educated thinkers you credit them as being.

They are an Eastern team.

That passage is specifically interpreted in evangelical circles as contemplating the danger that Christians ("the elect") will be misled by the Antichrist. Those who deny that meaning, though they profess Christianity, do not know Christianity.

East coast FTW again

That’s not how Matthew 24:24 reads.

As much as I despise Mario Rubio, we need all the help we can get in there to keep the Russified cabal from completely destroying America as we have come to know and love it.

And you are more willing to ascribe to clear-eyed cynicism in the population what I see as blithe ignorance.

I guess the constancy of what is essentially the same post over and over for months on end risks their receding into the background and thus failing to impact the conversation any more.

Isn’t one of the anti-Christ’s talents supposed to be getting unaware Christians to follow him? Isn’t that what the fable says?

Making Russia Great Again since 2017.

I’d argue the opposite. They don’t know their favorites media are slanted—they think it’s true and the other side is lies. Doesn’t get any more simple than that. You know how media are slanted because you’ve been specifically educated to ferret that out.

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The union will fight against any settlement for less money not to protect Rendon's retirement nut, per se, but to prevent that kind of precedent from affecting other clients.

I think it is facile to conclude that simply nobody cares. A lot of people care. I care and you care. We're not nobody. I think the bigger problem is that we have a factionalized mutually exclusive difference in media environments, and consumers of one don't believe environment don't believe the other. One side (RWM) actively and constantly disparaged the journalistic integrity of the other (MSM), which has allowed that side to engage in the exact kind of news fakery they accused the other of, and to get away with it, because they've developed their own version of reality. So rather than the idea that nobody cares, I think the real problem is that the factions don't trust the same sources, they don't come to an agreement on what's true, then they just retreat to their corners frustrated with the other side for their recalcitrance. How that relates to the issue of disclosure is that when it does occurs, only one faction cares about it, and the other faction whistles past it as though it didn't even happen, because they can't agree on the source of even that information.