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Good morning ... ... days remaining until pitchers and catchers report.

Well, if you gotta go—and we all gotta go at some point—that’s probably as quick and certain a way as any.

He can still make a pretty nice living orbiting the Taylorverse for however long that lasts.

They would have be OK with toiling in obscurity, airing their games on the Ocho or something, plus play their games during the week, probably Tuesday. I’m pretty sure the money behind the UFL wouldn’t be happy with that.

I would think the only way they could make a winter-ball-type situation happen for gridiron football is to somehow put the clamps on the more injury-yielding contact, even beyond kickoffs, and emphasize skills development, which might help preserve some bodies but might also make it such a different game that the learnings might not be well translatable to the League. I think they’d also have to limit it to a six-game season, plus two playoff games max, ending in mid-May. Twelve games of competitive football from March into June, with no weeks off and League training camps opening in July, would be too much even for skill position players. And beyond that, how do they justify trying to season their best talent in spring football only to lose them to a career-ending injury? They’d also have to make UFL rules identical to NFL rules. Can you imagine the uproar after an NFL game is lost because player couldn’t remember the rule for whatever is different in the fall versus in the spring?

That’s what I was thinking, they may give Sirianni a what-was-I-thinking mulligan and clean out the dregs under him, starting with you know who.

Wishing you a meaningful Martin Luther King Jr. Day as we honor his legacy of equality and justice for all, aka, Happy MLK Day. This is how many days until pitchers and catchers report:

Burned in the face with a hot irony

Harris did the right thing with Chafin, and it didn't ruin the relationship.

Twins are cutting payroll and Guards are staying status quo, so if we can't somehow take advantage of that ...

And then when the market didn't pan out the way Chafin wanted, he came back to the Tigers looking for a deal after all Harris told him, yeah, man, we won't pay you the second-year money, we'll offer you this instead, if you don't want it then we're good, thanks for checking in and godspeed.

Their wombs have already dried up and they are thisclose to meeting Presbyterian Jesus.

"That's good, that's three, right? I think you said you [were going to do three] ..." Side whisper to producer: [Emmeffer], if you book this [c-word] on this show again, you're getting fired with extreme prejudice, you clear?"

I'm mildly surprised they simply didn't lie that he would stay on topic and then he just goes off, creates the news bite, and ignores the fine for contempt.

That likely will not cost Trump even a single vote.

The rest of us will know for sure.

We'll know for sure you're right on if the Tigers end up signing Mize to the 840 so they can both avoid the process.

I have a feeling letting Candelario go was not a Harris decision. I'm guessing Chafin was a Harris decision, though, and the relationship between the two was so ruined by it that Chafin came right back for less money and couldn't have been happier about it.

I think you might be right. They might land on 827.5.

You misspelled both "one" and "month".

I get it. What's Mize done for us besides cash an $8 million draft bonus check and pitch one year of average-ish ball? If he performs this year to even 85% of his draft day expectations, he'll get plenty good and paid in 2025.

I really do think that once we start winning, we'll get decent free agents interested in coming to Detroit.

At the end of my working life, I noticed an increasing bifurcation in comp between directors and associates. It went from making maybe double what your direct reports did to 4x or 5x. Basically, to paraphrase Rush, the principals want one person to talk to and the rest to sweep the floors, because it's cheaper. I can't imagine the gap has closed any since.

Also, baseball doesn’t pay basic analysts well since they bring in people right out of college for it. These are stepping-stone jobs with a lot of turnover. I would not be surprised to learn they make less than $50K.