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9 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

They still have a good foundation of mostly young players with a lot of upside—Anthony, Mayer, Campbell, Casas, Duran and Crochet.  Starting pitching looks like their weakness—don’t know much about the guys they got from SF.

Will be interesting to see if they sell off Bregman at the deadline (if healthy) or if he opts out after the season.

I wonder whether trading off Devers makes it more likely they re-sign Bregman?

10 hours ago, holygoat said:

Awesome. Those rings taste awesome. Think of the most delicious thing you've ever tasted, then imagine having something that tastes even better. That's what those four rings taste like.

Then STFU! 😁

11 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

The Dodgers are so hard up for pitching, they didn't even send him out for a rehab start. Pretty arrogant (and ignorant.)

But yeah, anything that guy does no longer surprises me. He's a.....freak. 😆

They still needed his bat in the lineup.

17 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Ohtani is pitching tonight for the Dodgers. They're not even sending him out for a rehab start. He'll prolly only pitch 2 innings max....

As a Tiger fan, I would want no part of Devers. The Tigers have a flexible roster of guys willing to play wherever asked...Keith plays 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Riley play any OF position. Even Javy will play anywhere he's asked to play. Devers? He's a prima donna who will only play where he wants to play. No thank you.

Devers is an extreme case, but I am under the impression there are quite a lot of veterans who would not be a fit on this version of the Tigers for similar reasons.

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

Got to meet the quotas.

 

The only replacement I can imagine for cheap farm work is prison labor.

BTW, I wanted to find a Bluesky post for this one above, but this is what i get while searching for everything, even the most common topic. It hasn't been for just a few minutes, either—it's been days.

This is a huge break for this Boelter guy, because now it puts him in line for a pardon. 

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

That was an unforced error.  If they didn't want to pay for him, they should not have given him the contract.  Then they compounded the problem by signing another player at the same position.  If they didn't want to spend money, they could have gotten a lot more in return for Devers a couple of years ago.  

Yup. Sucks to be a Red Sox fan knowing they keep shooting themselves in the foot so much. How do those four rings taste now, guys?

11 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Just because somebody is half assed by nature does not mean they can't do something whole-assed.  

fixed

3 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

The grifts are non stop

As will be the surveillance on these tattletale devices.

5 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

As usual every Trump does is half assed. 

If by "half-assed" you mean poorly thought out, then I would argue that Trump's deportation strategy is actually whole-assed, i.e., well thought out, because the entire point of the strategy is the overt performative cruelty, lack of which apparently made Obama and Biden look weak. To Trump and the red hats, it's not about the numbers—it's about the anecdotes.

6 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

Many of the people being arrested have final orders of deportation.  That means they had their day in court and still people on the left freak out when they get taken away.   I don't get it, does the USA not have the right to enforce any immigration laws at all?  

Are we sure that means they had their day in court? Because we have seen innumerable examples of people shipped off to El Salvador without any day in court.

6 hours ago, romad1 said:

context.  The stands were not filled and the crowds did not match expectations.  America knew this was a Trump birthday party and a show of force by the regime which appropriated US troops and cost $45m.  Meanwhile, much more sizable crowds turned out to protest Trump in all 50 states.   

I guess context must be it, because as I read through the tweet:

• Planes roared over D.C.: check
• Tanks rolled along the national mall: check
• Brass bands resounded: check
• Thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds: check and check
• Largest show of military might in the capital in more than three decades: check

Seems as though the story hit all the points truthfully, so I didn't see the problem, especially since a substantial part of the story itself was devoted to the protests, starting with paragraph #2.

If the problem is that they reported on it with taking a clear and firm position against it, or that they reported on it at all, then that's a discussion of a different stripe. Speaking only for myself, I don't hold mainstream media to that standard.

6 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

as usual, no one gets out of Boston alive, and the tear down of Devers has begun

the trade return of Betts, Sale and Devers would embarrass even Al Avila

One of the key aspects of the return was getting out from under every single remaining dollar of Devers' contract. That's definitely not nothing.

1 hour ago, RatkoVarda said:

interesting part of this, what is lesson for Scott Harris?

His former co-workers (Team Zaidi) in the SF front office all got canned, and they would have never made a trade like this. Too risky. Posey is like DD, roll the dice and see what happens. The prospect cost was minimal; hard to believe Boston could not have gotten more.

I suspect ex-player GMs are way more likely to bet on their hunch about players in deals than GMs with academic pedigrees would be.

10 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Maybe something good will come out of this Trump horror story and the world will finally understand how terrible narcissists are.

The world already understands. The difficult part has been getting Americans to understand. 

12 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

So, 80% of the people booked into ICE jails committed no actual crimes? Yeah, that tracks.

On 6/14/2025 at 7:51 PM, CMRivdogs said:

When you turn over your reporting of news to AI

Also why I stopped subscribing to the Washington Post

What part of what they say is inaccurate?

9 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

*should?

can

4 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Fear of failure is not a good quality for a GM!

I don’t disagree but it’s pretty prevalent in baseball. Besides, baseball men know that failure can get them fired faster than inaction, so why walk into one if they can avoid it?

57 minutes ago, Klondike said:

Devers must be toxic as hell for the Sox to get rid of him for a bucket of prospects ... Plus, the Giants are picking up the rest of his 313 million dollar contract.

That’s why the Sox took a “bucket of prospects”.

I like the idea of AUSL, highlighting the best women’s softball players in a league and all that. It’s just the idea of making the league, which has a regular schedule and playoffs and everything, basically a traveling softball show with single nickname teams like  Bandits, Blaze, Talons, and Volts, and no home city for any of them. So what am I rooting for? There’s no civic connection for any team, so I have no stake in any of them. Am I rooting for individual players? I suppose I would if I knew who they already were. But if I’m just coming into watching the league with players I don’t know playing on teams I don’t follow because they’re not based here, then why do I care?

Ice Cube’s Big3 basketball league had the exact same problem before they got a clue and started naming teams after a city, so people who don’t know anybody in the league have a reason to care about it.

Despite the horrific way by which the Tigers have lost some recent ballgames, a glance through their games to date reveals that they do not have a losing record in any ten-game stretch so far this season. But, also, they’ve been as good as 8-2 in any ten-game stretch only a couple of times. So the whole season so far has been a steady diet of 5-5, 6-4, and 7-3 records in any given ten-game stretch. That’s a very good kind of consistency. 

13 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I've never really understood the idea of not making a trade within your division.  If you think it's a good trade, then do it.  If you think it will come back to haunt you, don't do it.  

I think it has to do with fear of failure. It’s fine if the trade you make works well if you and even works well for them at the same time, but if it ever boomerangs back on you—if the guy you trade to Cleveland beats you in a late September game and affects your playoff positioning as a result—everyone is going to focus on that and hammer you ten times as hard for it.