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I don’t think that was a serious offer.

Indeed, but how long has it been since we have been mentioned like this, as a potential suitor for a top talent? Its a really nice step forward for us.

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Or they might have not been fine with it for reasons fans can understand. No way to know.

Everyone by now knows how Speaker Johnson shepherded the release of 40,000 hours of footage of the Jan 6 incident so the right wingers can gaslight us that those people breaching the Cpitol really were just tourists in DC there to pay homage to the seat of our government, and they can show us footage of people hugging Capitol cops and all that. Liz Cheney has a reminder for us.

I don’t see how they can keep Trump off the ballot before he is actually convicted of insurrection.

I dont know if that’s true. There was a famous political commercial from I think one of the third party candidates, maybe in the 1980s, that used the word close to “bullshirt” and the stations had to take the spot, or at least there was a controversy about it? I remember the story was on the network news.

That’s because you are a broadcast station, not a cable network, which as you know operates under completely different and looser rules.

I wouldn’t agree that players are ciphers who don’t pay attention to what’s going on with teammates around them, keeping their heads down and focusing only on the baseball and nothing else. These are fully-formed adults with thoughts and opinions just like the rest of us, and who work in close proximity to one another seven or eight months during the year (well, except when they are ghosting, for reasons). I would be really surprised to learn they weren’t paying much attention to what was going on with Eduardo last season, or while he was jerking the team around at the deadline this past July, and had zero opinion about any of it, especially since it all definitely affected them as teammates. I don’t know what that opinion would be, exactly, but I would be surprised to learn it was no opinion at all. As for Turnbull, I’m sure most of those guys don’t have zero opinion about him and his deal, either, since his antics cost them a Turnbull start for his so-called cracked toenail “injury”. Just because we the fans don’t have the first clue what’s going on in their heads doesn’t mean their teammates don’t as well, and while I don’t know any better than you what their opinion of it all would be, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the other Tigers thought of Turnbull as flaky and unreliable as well. We don’t know what really goes on in clubhouses behind closed doors, except perhaps what we learn from tell-all books after the fact, but I’m as sure as I can be that it’s not 26 guys existing in their own bubbles shutting everyone else out and knowing nothing about what’s going except with themselves alone.

I made the comment to be humorous, although I also don't think Harris's goal was to show the players who's boss as much as his actions have the effect of reminding players that they're not dealing with the Al Avila regime anymore.

Maybe non-difficult players wouldn't think Harris such a jerk if he chooses to not bring back players who ghost their teammates for months at a time, or who malinger with "injuries" like cracked toenails even in an attempt to manipulate service time for personal gain.

Probably not among the kind of talent that likes ****ing with general managers.

I’m pretty sure Boras isn’t taking Spencer Trumbull’s calls anymore. The intern from the GLIAC school is totally available to talk, though. 😁 If Spencer Turnbull actually wanted to leave the Tigers as a free agent, then I’m thinking Boras did not level with him about the state of his market.

Yeah, that is a bit of a head-scratcher. Maybe he was willing to let Turnbull try but there was some encounter with him or Boras that moved Harris of that. Or maybe Harris was ****ing with Spencer Turnbull right back at him. Either way, I can assure you that we will not miss Spencer Turnbull.

Spencer Turnbull learned the same lesson that Eduardo Rodriguez did, and that every player who is in the organization now and in the future will now understand completely: no matter how talented you might be, when you **** with Scott Harris, it is a career move.

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That’s part of it, yeah.

And not only that it happens elsewhere, but if people living elsewhere get shot, it’s their own damn fault for being whatever it is they are that got them shot. If they would just stop smoking crack and rioting and wearing their pants way too low, they wouldn’t get shot.

They say it is a mental health issue, which is why they voted against studying it. Study the source, not the outcome, I guess.

Too bad we have to put up with Bally for even one more year. I was hoping MLB would take over the production of Tigers games this season. I’m pretty sure they’re not going to go the YES/Marquee route and start their own Tigers network, since those channels are money losers outside of baseball, plus the RSN is crumbling anyway—as we can see, obvs.

There we go. All fixed. 😉

Yeah, they were never gonna not. Leaving all that free money on the table would make no sense.

How does Justin Steele end up fifth?

Yeah, that's not gonna keep Santos out of the joint. He doesn't have enough juice and, in fact, everyone hates him so much that they'll be more than happy to see him take one for the team that's kicking him off the team.

"This is a time and this is a place. Let's go, man! Bernie, hold me back, I'm about to go after him!"