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Thank god for PLTR.

We are—from 2027 on. At the moment, they could use a better second banana than Dillon Dingler.

We already it’s not going to happen for that and other reasons. I’m looking for logical flaws if you have them.

OK, here is a completely wild contract idea that I’m sure no one’s thinking about and would never be offered. But tell me whether do you think this doesn’t make sense, and then tell me why not. Offer Bregman 6/180. Front-load it to be 40 in each of the first two years, and 25 in each of the last four. Give him a player option after the first year, and give us a team option after the second year. If Bregman declines the option after year one and the Tigers exercise the option after year two, the last four years become guaranteed. This gives Bregman a super high salary for this season, and if he slays, he can opt out and try his luck on the market again. We will have gotten a tremendous season, and we can keep our current prospects in the wings to try again in 2026. If Bregman does poorly enough to not exercise his player option, he could come back for another year, and if he slays, we can then pick up the rest of the contract guaranteed, and if he doesn’t, we can let him go. It would have to be basically an All-Star season in year two for us to pick it up. Then I feel like we could get close to pretty good value from him for his remaining years here at the price of 4/100. I doubt he’s going to have a Javy drop off because his skill set is much more solid than Javy’s was when he came here. This won’t happen, of course, but tell me why this won’t work.

Also, the outright rooting for Russia and against America by lurkerholic is just bonkers.

No way is this going to get by the Trump people. It's going to get strangled in the crib.

MRGA

It wasn't a player currently in the major leagues, so baseball had no incentive to shield the guy.

no promises ...

Between this and stopping payment of all federal grants and loans as duly appropriated by Congress, if SCOMAGA were to undermine the principles of separation of powers as explicitly delineated in the US Constitution by upholding each of these, then there is no other way to put it: we will have become a monarchy. Full stop.

PECOTA hates the Tigers.

Congratulations to 2025 All-Star starter Alex Faedo.

Yeah, I’ve been hearing a lot about that system the last couple weeks and I kept thinking there’s no way Trump is going to allow that to stay operational.

Stop trying to make me hope! It won't work! 😂 We won without him. We can do it again. And if we don't win, then we can lose with him as well. That's the way it goes with replacement-level pitchers. They add nothing. I will believe he will help when he actually comes in and helps.

I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, he might as well be Austin Bergner. 🤷‍♀️

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Manning who?

I taught myself a fair amount of French some years ago and refreshed a bit before going to Quebec. The first and only time I tried to stumble through an exchange in French with someone, they replied in rapid-fire French and ended their reply with what obviously was a question. At that point I had to give up the ghost on the whole thing, admit I was just trying but was not good in French, and he smiled slyly and continued on in English. It was embarrassing, but I wasn't mad. I deserved that.

I was in Sydney (Australia, not Nova Scotia) some years ago and walked into a store apparently run by an Asian lady. I took something to the counter to buy and tried to make light jokey conversation with her. She seemed somewhat nonplussed—she clearly wasn't used to that kind of thing from customers. Then she asked, "You American?" Because really, who else but an American would be so bold and brazen? And I could sense in a microsecond that it would be suboptimal if she thought I were, so thinking fast for a change, I replied, "ah, Canadian actually." And she smiled and said, "ahhh, Canadian, good!" It wasn't complete cosplaying on my part. I did grow up in north Windsor, and I did take a Canada History course at Michigan State as an elective. Got a 3.0, too.

My experience in small town Quebec and Quebec City was that if I asked people parlez-vous anglaIs and they could, they would. I remember only one time going into some small store and the clerk claimed no English. I also learned that being an American in Quebec was an advantage over being a Canadian anglophone.

Nobody talks to people. That's why everybody has come to hate everybody else.

I could see Bregman signing a very similar contract now. Whatever it is—two, three, four years, whatever—I think it will have an opt-out after each year.

I'm practically on the complete opposite end of this: Mize is not factoring into my thinking about the 2025 Tigers even a little. It's like he's not even on the team to me.

I agree. We can’t proactively forgive them when they don’t even want it and then beg them to accept it and join us.