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That was speculative specific to the question you had ask, not a declarative statement by me.

Move Paredes to second and put Bregman at third (although it would certainly be better for them to put Bregman at second instead), and Altuve sucks at second now. His idea, not mine.

I agree with this, although I doubt that would entail Harris and Baby Doc hamstring the team in years 3-5 just so we can win in years 1 and 2. That would be more of a Dombrowski/Papa Doc move. Plus, Harris is already on record as not wanting to block Jace Jung. If Bregman wants to come here on a one-year prove-it pillow deal, I'd guess Harris/Ilitch would be all over that.

So does Altuve, who has said he will move to left field specifically if the Astros sign Bregman, and now that the Astros have traded both Tucker and Pressly, they have the payroll flexibility to sign him. My not-so-bold prediction now is that Bregman ends up back in Houston.

How do I know what, exactly? I can answer when I know what you're asking.

lol slamming Harris for manipulating the fan base into thinking we actually wanted to trade for Pressly when all Harris really wants to do is work with Baby Doc to drive the payroll down to zero and destroy the franchise for good. 😉 I've read multiple stories about this and I see nothing indicating the Pressly wanted to go to only the Cubs and not to any of the other 29 teams. I saw where the Blue Jays had interest but a lot of players don't want to go to Toronto, either. So yeah, I agree we're not being singled out, but the fact is he didn't want to come to Detroit, and that's all the headline says.

I don't understand what's so misleading in the headline. The Astros and the Tigers talked trade, Pressly rejected it, as is his right. What are you seeing that I'm not? In any event, I'm not hanging my hat on some writer's "bold prediction" which, practically by definition, has nothing of substance to validate it.

Only because there is literally nothing else from anyone else they would sign for? That's especially true of a right-handed hitter in Comerica.

What, you missed Trump's proclamation that the country must now be spelled with a "u"?

Honestly, I can't tell how those literacy scores stack up against the rest of the world! I can't suss out any context! 😂

When it comes to signing Bregman or any other elite talent for that matter, I imagine this kind of thing hurts us. If a guy can block a trade to us just so he can go to a Big Six team, that really limits our chances to get good via free agency, at least for the time being: Some players, maybe most players, just want nothing to do with Detroit. And we're not alone: there are probably a dozen or so other teams in the same boat as we. In light of this, the whole idea that Juan Soto might have ever signed with Detroit because we kicked in a couple more bucks seems beyond absurd. So, I would be really surprised to learn that either Scott Harris wants to sign Bregman for five years, and that Bregman would want to sign for Detroit for five years. If he does come to Detroit—and that's looking increasingly unlikely—I can't imagine it would be for any more than a one-year prove-it pillow contract. And you know what? That might be exactly what Harris would be looking for from him as well, given that we have a guy in the system we hope will be ready for third base no later than 2026.

I'm usuaklly of the mind that I want the team that beat me to win the whole thing—you know, it took the champs to beat us, and all.

Hey, @smr-nj, why the sad face? is your county in the lowest tier? Looks to me like Jersey is cleaning up in the literacy sweepstakes.

Anybody else kind of sort of rooting for Washington to go all the way?

I hear ya. I have almost completely stopped talking politics with people IRL, especially strangers, and even with my family. There's one guy I talk with where it comes up and we're of the same mind, but I get weary even then of my own doom-spiraling, and I usually end up telling him, OK, that's enough of that. Probably because he's still pretending things are completely normal and the mid-terms will offer Trump a rebuke in a free and fair election. We'll see, but if it doesn't, I don't think it will because the voters will gladly put them right back in, let's put it that way. This area is basically my only outlet, because I get to articulate my thoughts far more precisely than I can otherwise.

Yes, the infamous aluminum block.

He doesn't have Dombrowski's or Avila's MO, that's for sure.

He's clearly become an operative. Why are people giving him so much air?

Check out how your county ranks: https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-and-lowest-adult-literacy-rates/

I think everyone understands that today's Republicans are yesteryear's Dixiecrats.

@Dan Gilmore Still cost me a quart of oil every 100 miles either way.

Sounds like when they said Internet service would be too cheap to meter. They're partly right: it is too cheap a commodity for them to charge based on usage, but that doesn't mean they don't charge a high price as the market rate for you to get it in the first place. Andreessen obviously knows this and thus couldn't possibly be more disingenuous than he is striving to be here.

I also don't respect when anyone vaingloriously guilts people into thanking them for their service and/or shutting the hell up about whatever by highlighting sacrifices they say they endured so other people don't have to do it. There's a passage in Matthew about this very thing, which you'll hear in Ash Wednesday services: "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full." Ex-mils who guilt others about their own stint are receiving their reward in full whenever they do that.

You gotta admit Mariners are a kind of darling of the baseball media, perhaps partly because of its location in the beautiful PNW, perhaps also because they had so many great Hall of Famers pass through (A-Rod, Edgar Martinez, Randy Johnson, KGJr, Ichiro, and King Felix might should be). Also, many people think they are way overdue for a pennant so they are a sentimental favorite, like the Lions were this year. Therefore, they get talked about in the national baseball media a lot, so I would definitely count them among the Next Six franchises.