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Mauer won three batting titles and an MVP at catcher, which is a really big deal, and he had plus-plus sideburns that got him TV spots, so he fulfills the fame part. Fifty-five wins is enough when paired with that. Maybe this year, maybe not, but I think he gets in at some point. I think Sheffield has the career totals, what with 500 homers and all, but he was also a sort of generic nondescript slugger during Chicks Dig The Long Ball, so he gets a little lost in that shuffle. if he has his same numbers during the 60s and 70s, he sails in. Sheff did have a sudden vote surge on his ninth ballot, but he does have twenty points to make up as well, so I think he’s a long shot. Victor will always be in the Hall of Tiger Fan Hearts, but he and Torii don’t have a prayer for Cooperstown. Chase Utley should get in, since he has a ring and a little bit of fame through things like It’s Always Sunny, but the Utley Rule thing might cost him votes on the margin. Probably not this year, but maybe with five years he’ll be in. A-Rod should have been an inner-circle Hall of Famer on his first ballot, of course, but there are probably still enough moral scolds and douche scolds to keep him out for the next eight years. Beltre is the only lock this year.

I think he might have evolved into a Heyman-level hack.

Wasn’t Morosi also the guy who said the Tigers and Eduardo were negotiating after the season ended? He needs a win to get back on the horse.

I’m not sure abut how the backup program copies. It looks like by file to me on the interface but I don’t know what it is under the hood. The program app is called Fileback, and I’ve been using the same copy of it since the 2000s. It hasn’t even been updated since 2009 and the guy who created it might even be dead. But I know it like the back of my hand, it’s awesome, and I’m gonna use it til I die. Anyhoo: The sector sizes are different. I am moving the files from a disk that’s NTFS 4096 to one that’s ex-FAT 1024. Is that the difference right there? Should I reformat the SSD to sx-FAT 4096 to match? I probably should keep it ex-FAT because it’s an external SSD, right? Or should I change it to NTFS? Or: is there any way for me to change it without formatting so that current files are there under ex-FAT 1024 and all new files after that come in under ex-FAT 4096?

I like Maeda as a target. He's old, but he still has good strikeout and walk rates, gets a lot of swing and miss especially outside the zone, and he has a lot of playoff experience he can share with the staff. I would approve of a serious offer.

What's his public minimum demand? 😁

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Thank goodness for that. Willie Horton was (and still is) my favorite Tiger from the very beginning in 1968. He was also my first coach on my Tigers fantasy camp team in 2007, and I would—I will—be shattered should he die. He's one of the last remaining strong links to my childhood. I hope he outlives me.

Who knows things about external disk drives? I have a couple older backup drives that are 1TB HDD and I got a new, bigger drive that's 2TB SSD. I used a backup utility to copy the contents of both HDDs to the SSD. Since the SSD is equal to the total size of both HDDs, all the contents on both should fit. Got all of one HDD onto the new one, but shortly into the second HDD, a notice came up that the SDD was full. What? How could that happen? There's about 800 GB on one HDD and 750 GB on the other, that's less than 1.6 TB, which should fit easily onto a 2TB drive. I did a properties check on some of the folders and I was gobsmacked: It was showing a way, way higher number of "Size on disk" versus just "Size". Example: one folder showed 550MB in Size, but 1.15 GB on Size on disk" That's more than twice higher. None of the other HDDs I have reflect any practical difference between the two numbers, and even the SSD hard drive on my laptop is showing the same number for Size and Size on disk. Only on this new SSD external drive do I have this problem. Does anyone recognize this and know what I can do to fix it?

See, now, that's the problem! Nobody wants to work anymore! Thanks, Biden!!

Giants offered $350 mill, and got him for that number, until the deal fell apart for non-number reasons.

What was Nola's minimum demand?

Not true. In a high-profile business where everybody can see exactly what you're doing in full view, appearances not only do not mean nothing, they account for a lot. Demanding $330 and then accepting the first offer at $275 would have resulted in a serious loss of face among his peers in the business, who have an indirect stake in Correa successfully negotiating his best contract. It would also have an effect on the way his next contract negotiations go. Maybe hard to understand but true.

It's true, which I can attest to from professional experience. The difference here is that one side had established, in public, a minimum amount he would sign for, $330 million, and the other side made the first offer of any team, an offer that was $55 million short of the public minimum demand. The only reasonable response from the one side to the other side would have been, you need to bring it up to $330 million, because other teams were going to make an offer that hadn't yet, so why would the one side accept the lowball out of the gate? If that Tigers would have responded by raising it up to $330MM, that would have been serious. But even had they raised it to $329MM before another team made an offer, Correa still could not have accepted it until getting other offers. So, if anything, $275MM might have been a bet that Correa had no market beyond that, and I don't recall anyone believing that at the time—although, if we recall, there was no "at the time" at all. As it was, we didn't even hear about the offer until after Javier Baez was already safely signed and in-house, so in the end, the Tigers never had to put their 10/275 money where our mouth was. The only way $275 million would have ended up being serious is if no other team matched that with their offer, or even made an offer. That's basically what happened with Pudge back in 2003-04: he'd made a public demand of $40 million at minimum, and the Tigers were the only team to offer that much, so Pudge had to take the deal. He almost certainly didn't want to have to sign with a 119-loss team, but he was on record and the Tigers matched it, so he was duty-bound to take the offer. Turned out OK, after all.

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Anyone else experience this? Around one in four people sneeze when they see a bright light I used to sneeze at the sun or bright lights a lot when I was a kid—in fact, when I felt like I needed to goose a sneeze, I would seek out a bright light or the sun to help it along. I haven’t had that in a long time, though.

This. Now a team can’t sign Turnbull and freely assign him to their minor leagues without rostering and waiver implications. Plus he creates distractions in the clubhouse with his me-first jerking around. He was more trouble than he was worth, and Harris couldn’t find another team to take him in trade. The Tigers are trying to remake their culture and that kind of guy, like Eduardo before him, doesn’t fit into that. Maybe there’s a team somewhere that will put up with that kind of thing from a slight talent like Turnbull, or is too clueless to know about it. That team might be in Asia, and maybe not even Japan. Turnbull won the battle, but he’s probably going to lose the war.

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Oh my god, I still have nightmares from 2018 from when I was stuck on the PA Turnpike after making the first stop on it to get some McDonald’s, the only restaurant there, and which was closed for renovations. I thought it would be like Michigan—there’s another exit in a couple or three miles. Nope.I was on that damn thing for almost 100 miles before the next exit came up. I was practically starving and my kidneys were swimming so much it was literally painful. I don’t know how I made it from the car to the can without leaking! 💀

It happens to all the right people in that party.

I think it probably would, but hey, he won the battle, didn’t he? Isn’t that the most important thing? Seems like he believes it is. Maybe Ed can tell us what the practical implications along the lines you suggest are?

Also, FWIW, nothing we say here, no matter what side of the coin any of us are on, matters to the Tigers, or Correa, or MLB, even if what we say agrees with them. We are all here talking to each other, in a nonprofessional capacity, sharing thoughts, having fun, and sometimes we have strong debates with strong opinions. As long as the debates stick to the subject at hand and things don't get personal, I think that's great!

I'm sorry that sticking to my opinion and not changing my mind is upsetting you. I just feel very strongly about it, is all. If it makes you feel any better, the guys on the other side of the debate also feel very strongly about it, are also sticking to their opinion. and are not changing their minds, either!

Dan, I am not sure how you got the idea that I am making assumptions about what conclusion you or anyone else should or should not arrive at, but I have said nothing along those lines. All I am doing is sticking to my position in the face of unanimous opposition, and I believe I am presenting my case persistently without prejudice or malice toward anyone, unless you show me otherwise?

Correa didn't demand a billion dollars. He set his floor as 330 million, and the Tigers as the first team to make an offer lowballed him by 55 million. Either they made the offer knowing upfront Correa was going to reject it—which makes sense because everyone knew he would—or they made the offer dreaming that he would accept it without fielding another offer, which would happen only in a fantasy. Either way, theirs was an unserious approach.