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He got notes.

I hate these marketing segments MLB does during these games as much as the next guy, but this in-stadium Hank Aaron segment is super cool.

Yeah I don't think we're ever going to see a repeat of Rose-Fosse. There's too much bonhomie among players, and also, they are acutely aware that they have to preserve themselves for championship play during the second half. Not only is no one going balls out against another guy, they're going to let up where they feel they need to so they can preserve themselves

Wow, what a terrible game for Tigers.

Who'd'a thunk Mitch McConnell would ever be on the side of the angels.

They basically told us they were going to weaponize the government by falsely accusing prior administrations of weaponizing the government.

It's a factiod.

In all fairness, he didn't call it a "factoid". 😉

Including the arb clock? I thought that was depending on days spent in the majors. I mean, I know that clock advances by at least a single day in my scenario, but is there something more that makes it much more significant as a consideration? I know it's true that an option gets burned in my scenario in year one, and that would cost the team a year on the back end. Is there anything else I'm not thinking of attached to this? As for the 40-man, I am 80% sure that the team would have to pass the player through waivers to get him off the 40 again, but are there any further machinations the team can undertake to get the young player off the 40 without losing him to someone else through waivers? Anything else I'm not thinking of here?

In Tampa, says the new owner. I think that market would be happier with that.

I hope any state that does this starts bleeding corporate headquarters and their employees, including Florida.

Again, this is an all or nothing position that suggests that we must either support immigration laws as the Trump regime is implementing them, or we must support zero immigration laws at all. I don’t believe anybody else here supports either, because there is just so much in between them that we would rather see instead.

@Edman85?

The question as posed presupposes I support these operations in the first place, and I definitely do not. But what the data do tell us that undocumented immigrants from only certain countries are being targeted for not only rounding up, but for the kind of government-sanctioned brutal treatment not seen in this country since the southern states during the Jim Crow era.

Question for @Edman85 Given how the Angels like to fast track their guys in the minors and they just picked the youngest 1/1 since Junior, we have a chance of seeing the first 17-year-old playing major league baseball since Jay Dahl in 1963. Nawwww, not really—but let's pretend for a second that the Angels do play Eli Willits before the end of the year, like, for a single game, just for jollies I guess, then they decide to put him back on a normal development track that sees his next big league game in 2029 or 2030 or whatever. In such a scenario, would some clock start ticking for Willits in some way? Would he become Rule 5-eligible sooner, or something else different I'm not thinking of, if all they were to do different is play him in a major league game this year?

Sinner. https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-enticing-sin-of-empathy

Cool story. What does the data say?

Flip side, it's jail, and being crammed into a cell with 60 other men and sleeping on the floor with aluminum blankets and not getting enough food and not being allowed to shower and losing 26 pounds in 23 days and being told "you don't have rights to anything" is totally normal, and what did he endure that's any different from anyone who is sent to jail

Putting aside the rough end to the first half ... as we go into the All-Star break, let's take a moment to really appreciate what the Tigers are. They are, in my opinion, the most special Tigers team of my lifetime. Yes, the 1968 and 1984 teams won 100+ games and rings. The 2006 and 2012 teams went to the Series. And the run from 2010 to 2014 was like nothing else any of us had lived to see up to that point. But this team is so different from those teams. Not only do the 2025 Detroit Tigers have the best record in the majors. Not only do our underlying metrics show we are the among the best teams in baseball. Not only that we are completely running away with the division. But, also, our future is still so, so bright. Sure, we thought that about 1968, and about 1984, and about 2006. But as we've already learned, those teams were run by stand-pat front offices who did not respond effectively to the needs we had so we could continue winning, and as such, they were essentially one-offs. But I think all of us know already that this front office will not, will never, just stand pat. That's the gift of having a PBO who is young and brilliant and hungry. He knows how to put the right people in the right spots, both on and off the field, to maximize our chances for success both now and later, and we know that the farm system will continue to bear fruit this year, next year, and for years to come. But perhaps most special of all is this particular team, this active roster, right here. It is filled with young, hungry kids with the talent to play well, which a lot of teams have, but also, the aptitude and flexibility to learn how to win, which so many teams do not have. And the majority of these kids are under team control for years to come. We won't have to worry this winter about a blood-letting of players peeling off and scattering about to other teams. The team we see now is essentially the team we are going to see next year, the year after, and (perhaps with one notable exception) the year after that. Plus, there are no prima donna superstars on this team. We might have reasonably thought the highest paid, longest-contracted player would become that guy, and maybe under any number of different regimes he might have. But this player has been brought into the fold by this brilliant front office and field management team, and is just as on board with the mission of the Tigers as all the guys who are making close to minimum and are still trying to establish their careers. They are playing together, truly, as a team, with a plan and the inclination to work together to win, and not merely a collection of individuals all trying their best on their own and hoping it pays off in wins. As we saw 10-15 years ago, you don't have to be a bunch of stand-up good guys to get fans on board as long as you're winning, but boy, is it ever sweet icing on the cake. This organization has become, in much shorter order than we could ever have imagined, the envy of baseball, and I am glad I got to see a team like this playing under the Olde English D before it got too late for me. You young guys here, try to savor this moment as the special moment it is. Decades from now, you will look back on the mid-2020s and remember it fondly as that special moment the Detroit Tigers went from black-and-white to technicolor.

Almost no matter what Scott Harris does, someone is going to be mad over it.

OOOOOO-K, I think we’re pretty much done here.

A.J. Hinch is out, both of the dugout and of patience with Kahnle.

Oh for ****’s sake …

You got a point

No, thank you.