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"What's this 'WNBA' I keep hearing about? Do white people have their own league now?"

It's ending in their world, anyway.

You'd think they might consider locking the doors when class starts so latecomers miss out that session, learn from it, and never sin again, but that would tick people off, which would cause people to quit, which would lead to negative social media posts, which would cost them future students and revenue, so, probably not.

Good morning: ... days until pitchers and catchers report.

Good morning: ... days until pitchers and catchers report.

I think this is probably right. I was responding to the idea, expressed here across many pages, that the new Tiger brain trust are cheap-asses playing unnecessary hardball with players, with the implication that they might drive away players in the future because players don’t want to play for a cheap-ass hardballing front office. I don’t think that will be the case, and i believe if there’s animosity between Mize and the org, it would have probably preceded this episode anyway.

I think if Harris were truly playing hardball he would not have found a way to get Mize the 840 he asked for.

I don't think so either. I think they are trying to send a message to players that this is not the administration that signed you, the front office you could roll over because they hated the business end of players. The new front office is going to pay for performance, not pay players just to avoid having to negotiate and do business stuff with them. This is only what I believe. I think this front office handled this really well. Mize has already been paid $10+ million by the Tigers, been with the organization six years, and hasn't come close to fulfilling the promise of a 1/1 pick. He hasn't pitched for the team for practically all of the last two years. He's been receiving a full paycheck without doing anything to help the Tigers win games. His whole job the past two years has been rehabbing and training and getting medical attention and the Tigers have paid for all of that, too. They must have thought it took a lot of hubris for Mize to ask for a $125,000 raise on top of that. I think it does, too. He hasn't done anything for us since at least 2021. Why should he be getting a big raise, then? In the end, though, Mize will get still his 840—it'll just come in chunks of 830 this year and 10 next year, guaranteed, should the organization decline the $3.1 million option, which they probably will if Mize keeps getting hurt. But if he gets better and pitches most of the year in the rotation, he will have earned his $3.1 million next year. And if he actually kills it this year and especially next, then he will get good and paid, and then everyone will be happy. I like it. Everyone else may disagree.

Good morning: ... days until pitchers and catchers report. (Sorry for the lag lately, I have been on vacation and out of pocket.)

No, but they did make a joke about Ben Carson working the back 40 of the White House with a mule and plow.

It’s possible that they just don’t know any of this yet. After all the deal has to be approved by the judge and details may have to change to accommodate whatever the judge decides.

Election security Republican-style.

Oops, you're right ... it's ... ... days remaining until pitchers and catchers report.

Good morning ... ... days remaining until pitchers and catchers report.

Well, if you gotta go—and we all gotta go at some point—that’s probably as quick and certain a way as any.

He can still make a pretty nice living orbiting the Taylorverse for however long that lasts.

They would have be OK with toiling in obscurity, airing their games on the Ocho or something, plus play their games during the week, probably Tuesday. I’m pretty sure the money behind the UFL wouldn’t be happy with that.

I would think the only way they could make a winter-ball-type situation happen for gridiron football is to somehow put the clamps on the more injury-yielding contact, even beyond kickoffs, and emphasize skills development, which might help preserve some bodies but might also make it such a different game that the learnings might not be well translatable to the League. I think they’d also have to limit it to a six-game season, plus two playoff games max, ending in mid-May. Twelve games of competitive football from March into June, with no weeks off and League training camps opening in July, would be too much even for skill position players. And beyond that, how do they justify trying to season their best talent in spring football only to lose them to a career-ending injury? They’d also have to make UFL rules identical to NFL rules. Can you imagine the uproar after an NFL game is lost because player couldn’t remember the rule for whatever is different in the fall versus in the spring?

That’s what I was thinking, they may give Sirianni a what-was-I-thinking mulligan and clean out the dregs under him, starting with you know who.

Wishing you a meaningful Martin Luther King Jr. Day as we honor his legacy of equality and justice for all, aka, Happy MLK Day. This is how many days until pitchers and catchers report:

Burned in the face with a hot irony

Harris did the right thing with Chafin, and it didn't ruin the relationship.

Twins are cutting payroll and Guards are staying status quo, so if we can't somehow take advantage of that ...

And then when the market didn't pan out the way Chafin wanted, he came back to the Tigers looking for a deal after all Harris told him, yeah, man, we won't pay you the second-year money, we'll offer you this instead, if you don't want it then we're good, thanks for checking in and godspeed.