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Not uncommon in baseball. Despite the myth among some fans that players start slacking off or malingering once they start making any money, almost all players are hardwired to be warrior competitors who are driven to excel on nothing more than its own terms. That competitiveness and drive were how players were able to rise through the ranks to the majors over lesser players in the first place. So playing through injury with an eye toward prevailing over adversity is a pretty common thing in the game, particularly among players who are one bad streak from seeing their careers end, which, if you think about it, is most players at any given moment. It may be worth noting that Foley was an undrafted free agent who bloomed after college, so I hypothesize he might be more susceptible to simply losing it than those who had elite skills since childhood. Remember, too, that he is already 28 years old and that’s about when baseball aging starts calling for many.

I agree, and you may not be saying this, but just because he’s not the permanent solution to help us contend for the next half decade doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have brought him on board to help us be more competitive right now.

And yet you continue to make whoever the **** this Crump is the point.

US and Israel against the world!

Does it make any difference that he's dot and not feather? 😉

Especially when DeSantis weighs in on it, thus giving state approval to the shooting.

I like complaining better. 😁

I've dealt with the Mouse in my job as media buyer, giving them money on behalf of clients, so I'm hoping I have some juice left to save me. 😁

I got a sawbuck saying otherwise. Fun fact: McKinstry has never had better than 79 OPS+ in any season, and his number is at its worst this year; plus, he has played only 15% of his total defensive innings at shortstop, the equivalent of thirty big league games, at sub-DRS levels. Have we already forgotten how he's butchered third base and second base already this year? I get that people are frustrated and want Javy Baez out of there RIGHT ****ING NOW!, but I promise you that you will be just as unhappy with McKinstry playing shortstop even most days. Same with Urshela: hitting poorly this year, fewer than 10% of his big league innings at shortstop, also sub-DRS, older than Javy and playing hurt. You would hate seeing him there game after game. Seems as though fans might have reached the fling-it-against-the-wall-and-see-whether-it-sticks stage. Next up: the fire-Harris-now-because-he-can't-find-shortstops stage.

You misspelled Tiger's in the thread title. 😉

The 1901, 1902, and 1903 Tigers would definitely like a word with you and your AI. 😁 Speaking of which, why does every AI song or poem read like it was written by a Disney studio fugitive?

I believe a key reason Avila got such a long leash from Tigers fans, and Harris is getting a way shorter one, is that Avila failed using tried and true baseball methods of scouting and drafting and roster construction, the kind we all grew up reading and learning about, which traditional fans are far more likely to forgive; whereas Harris is the first guy bringing what is considered newfangled new age thinking to Detroit, even though the better organizations started moving to such thinking as long ago as a couple of decades. This isn't anyone here in particular, but a substantial percentage of fans are still holding out for Harris/Hinch to get ****canned and Doombrowski/Leyland to make their triumphant returns.

I don't see how any narrative can make it any worse than a cop broke in and shot an innocent guy dead in his own house. Although I do agree that even reporting the story empowers "copoligists" when it comes to public discourse, and that relates to Oblong's police state grooming theory, but I don't agree with your attempt to shift the focus of the story to some civil rights attorney.

Here’s a great YouTube map showing locations of the top thirty restaurant chains. Even many of the national chains have a regional emphasis, notably Dunkin’.

You may not be implying this, but speaking for myself, I don’t think the bar has to be as high as “went looking to kill a young black man” before the book can be thrown at the cop. This was a criminal act by him, and he needs to pay with a criminal conviction.

On Javy: i do think we are close to an inflection point, although we need for Ryan Kreidler to get healthy after finger surgery. We’re probably looking at All-Star break, which is two months, although depending on the nature of the surgery, maybe sooner. On the City Connects: the jerseys isn’t the worst, although the font for Motor City is pretty hideous. As for the hat, I might have been happier if, instead of Detroit in blah italic font, they found a way to put the skyline view from home plate on the hat, with the Ren Cen near the center, and the building with the whales off to the right side.

This may be too far even for Trump—although I do chuckle as I write that—but can they now make the claim in court that the sex never happened, the payoff never happened, the meeting never happened, and that everything is being made up and all the documents are forgeries in the service of a leftist communist Deep State globalist conspiracy to Get Trump? Or are they already claiming all this? I know they already say the sex never happened, I just wonder about the rest of it.

This guy is being interviewed seemingly everywhere, and he is definitely comfortable with a mike on his lapel.

I think less than two years is just way too early to have Harris on the hot seat.

I don’t even think Harris should be on the hot seat. After less than two years of being able to do little more than clean out the rot in the system, and he should be on the hot seat for not having us in a position to contend for a ring? That seems harsh. I would not expect our offense to improve until he can get the players in the system that are actually capable of providing good big-league-level offense, and that’s gonna take more than another year. Although I do expect to have at least a couple more positive contributors on the team next year, whether via trade, FA signing, promotion, or working a miracle on one of Avila’s leftovers. And if Wenceel keeps it up into next year, I will count him as one, because I think it’s premature to consider him a surefire All-Star hitter already.

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"Mister Horwhickle, this is not the first time you have been before this court on such a charge, and we must make sure that you do not appear here again. Bailiff—whack his pee pee!"

According to my crystal ball, Trump will be found guilty, he will be released on his own recognizance pending sentencing, he will immediately high-tail it to Florida, and DeSantis will refuse to extradite him to New York state. After that Trump will appear only in friendly states that will refuse to extradite him. The Great Chasnac has spoken.

I don't think it should take five years from now, or even from August 2022, for us to finally become competitive. My original thought was that if we are not competing for a playoff spot, if not Central title, by 2025, something is going wrong, and I will stick with that.

True, although while a team is waiting for the young core hitters to mature in the coming years, they still have to put good hitters in the lineup this year.