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Nothing to do with ridiculousness. Everything to do with shaking things up.

This, along with the substantial changes in management and coaching, might be the kind of data point that could pique the interest of a halfway decent free agent, if that’s the direction Scott wants to go in.

Roseanne Barr?

Maybe they haven't done so by now because they haven't been attacked on their soil by the U.S. military yet.

Speaking as a folk on the left, I might have some concern if the MAGA Republicans who are behind most of the anti-immigration effort would provide good data in support of their arguments. Instead I just see histrionics about wide open borders and bringing drugs and bringing crime and rapists and some I assume are good people. It's a lot of scary words but no facts that I have seen so far. If you have any data to share, something that would perhaps bottom-line the scope of the problem, I'd love to review and consider it.

How can they see anything with their heads so far up Donald Trump's ass?

I wonder whether the reason Hinch ran Maton out there for so long night have been that Maton was showing flashes of "getting it", maybe during games or drills or something, and he was getting every chance to finally make it click until it became apparent that he just wasn't, at least not this year he wasn't. Hitting .173 sure didn't help, either. The one thing Maton can do is work counts and draw walks, but no one is going to make a career on a skill set with that in the center of it. He hasn't played much third since going to Toledo, and I'm wondering what they see as his future here, if any. I think they'll give him one more hack next spring, if they can't package him in some trade. I'd be a little surprised if they just cut bait on him.

I see a lot of criticism of the Smartest Guy in the Room moving players around from position to position on a game to game basis. I didn’t say fans hated the person for that, and maybe it doesn’t even reflect actual hatred for the tactic itself, but it does suggest to me they believe the Guy should be doing something different than that with the players he has.

This Mr. Smith character wanted really, really, really badly to say "Biden crime family" instead of just "Biden family" or just " ... the family". Thank god good taste prevailed ... 😏

I saw "Max Green" and my eyes got wide and I clutched my chest for half a second before saying, "oh ..."

I think both he and McKinstry might return for the very reason so many fans hate: they have the flexibility to play multiple positions. I think that's important for rebuilding teams that don't have a surplus of everyday players, but that still needs to try to win games in the meantime. I do think once we get solid everyday guys to play either second or third, one of them may be released. Maybe that's next year, maybe that's 2025. Fun fact: Ibanez and McKinstry rank 3-4 along Tigers position players this year in WAR, behind only Carpenter and Greene, and ahead of Tork, Baez, Jake, and everyone else.

They’ve seen that once a country lets the American military into the house, it can be super difficult to get them out.

It really does give you a clear sense of how way out there people can get.

I can see Ibanez sticking around. I don’t know that they will try to pass Kelly through waivers so they can stash him away in Toledo. I think the front office is gonna give him a chance to hook on for a starting job someplace else. I don’t think McKinstry or Maton are going anywhere. I also don’t think we keep Joey Wentz so we can lose Will Vest.

If Miggy can manage to jack two more bombs, then he would have the most career home runs of anyone who has ever played for the Tigers.

At least she's not going to end up on OnlyFans like some Congressional representatives we can name.

Dred Scott might like to have a word with you about this. 😏 Notwithstanding this, I totally cosign onto your post.

Then Parker can move to left when future face-of-the-franchise Max Clark comes up.

Exactly—I’ve been using the word “reform” in the sense of blowing up the makeup for the current judiciary, then forming it anew with all new appointments. I did not mean it in the sense of re-educating current judges. I’d been thinking he would do it as way to tap into the whole anti-deep-state sentiment in general, and as a way to consolidate even more power unto himself, but now that they’ve basically closed down his core New York business down, I could see it being more of a personal grudge now. He would talk about that part, although I would think his surrogates would focus more on something like outrageous woke rulings.

It might make more of a difference by activating latent 2nd Amendment people waiting for a case to become electorally active over. Taxing the heck out of guns and ammunition might do that. Maybe some bold lawyer even brings a lawsuit challenging the very right of government to tax a constitutionally-protected product, one which, theoretically, people should be able to purchase most freely.

I wonder whether this might be the point where Trump starts running on reforming the judiciary.

Holton’s Statcast card is a sea of red, not unlike Skubal’s. Holton may not be as untouchable this winter as Skubal is, but I gotta believe it’s gonna take a lot to pry him from our warm, awakening hands.

"You know how I describe the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the **** out of the middle class ... keep 'em showing up at those jobs!"

Meanwhile, in Erie, Pennsylvania …