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I was with ya until the last two words … 😉

We are not trading prospects so we can win this year.

At the Cubs game today and there’s a recent friend of ours here.

Just trying to be funny in the moment. Doesn’t mean anything more than that.

That’s what I thought in 2020: no way Trump will debate because he doesn’t need to. But he thought he should be on camera eviscerating Sleepy Joe. Didn’t work out so great for him, as it’s being used as evidence against him for Jan 6. Now he knows better.

Depends on the return.

Krafty!

It was a hit and run joke.

Also, downtown Tampa is west of Port Huron. I could do this all day.

I don't think most people think of Atlanta as being farther west than Detroit but it sure is.

I don't disagree but I am interested in finding whether on base or slugging correlates better to run scoring, or more exactly runs created. I could make an argument for either going in.

The Tigers will get nothing for Haase, a 30-year old bat-first sorta-catcher whose bat has completely abandoned him this year. The only guys I can envision us moving and getting something decent for are Lorenzen and the back of the bullpen, and that's gonna happen or at least try to happen, and if we're lucky and/or Scott Harris is really good, we'll be able to snow someone into a giving us a return for Jose Cisnero. Milwaukee, and Arizona are probably our best bets, although Tampa needs arms, too.

Yeah, no doubt, but I remember literally every story they wrote after the signing that Boyd has never stopped being a mentor to the young starters and who has shown he's a positive mentor to younger pitchers on the staff and is a valuable presence in the clubhouse who’s eager to mentor young pitchers and stuff like that there.

I'm almost certain the Tigers do not have injury insurance on Austin Meadows, not only because it's a low-dollar contract, but also because it's only for a single year. Most insurance deals are for players on rich, multiple-year contracts where the risk of pain in having to eat the remainder of a player's deal after a career-ending injury (CEI) early on is substantial. If a player has an eight-year deal, the insurance is probably offered up in two-year chunks, and the team has to keep re-upping at higher prices as the player ages. Also, there's usually a waiting period, typically 60 or 90 days but maybe as long as a year, before payment on the policy can kick in, to ensure it is truly career-ending, and even then it covers only a percentage of the dollars on the deal, like maybe 70%. So, taking Miggy as an example of a 32-year-old guy signing an eight-year deal, it probably happened something like this, and I'm making up the numbers to illustrate: they probably signed an insurance policy for going into the first two years of the deal that covers 70% of the remaining deal in case of a CEI, and they paid maybe 3% of his total eight-year salary for that. Then, after that expires before year three, they sign another two-year policy covering 70% of his remaining six years and paid 4% of his remaining salary; in year five they sign another two-year policy, 70% of his remaining four years, 5%; and year seven, the last two-year policy, 70% of his remaining two years at maybe 7%. That might not be exact, but I think it's close directionally. But hey, why am I the guy talking about this? @Edman85, how close am I?

Exactly. I once heard or read an interview with Ernie Harwell during which he was asked, how do you stay focused and seem interested in calling a game for a terrible team that's going nowhere, not unlike the 2003 team? And his answer was something on the order of, you focus on the game in front of you today, as if it's the only thing in baseball that matters to anyone, and you put all your energy into this particular game. Every game has a story built into it that's independent of its effect on the rest of the season, so just approach it that way. I have remembered that every time the Tigers have fallen out of contention early in the season, and that's happened a lot. Carpe game.

Boyd is here for the mentoring, right? That's what usually say about old guys who get signed.

Any idea where SLG fits in? That's also a component of OPS.

Also, a radio metro map from 2021 that I cobbled together, and this is from Nielsen. I love these things. EDIT: Drat, this did not resolve nearly as nicely as I intended. 😥

Posting this because I love TV DMA maps, even if this is not directly from Nielsen.

He kinda did.

Right on. We never once had the best record in baseball during that nine-year stretch. In 2006 our record was fourth-best in in the game (and second best in our division). In 2012, they had the seventh-best record in the American League (and 11th in baseball). And in one of those years our record was 22nd in baseball. Not exactly ... how do the cool kids put it? ... dominate.

Which is why I did not make a distinction between civilian and military leadership. There are good guys and bad guys on both sides of that particular divide.

Especially if the new kid is coming into the lunchroom shouting, "you know who really sucks at this school?" 😅

I agree that he overestimated his value by signing for less guaranteed money than he would have made here. He probably thought he was going to get multiple guaranteed years.

He was to make more significant money playing for the Tigers this year.