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Liz killed it, too. This night is going to live on as providing some of the most memorable moments in the history of this nation.

Speaking of Kinzinger, hell of a finishing statement. Same for Luria.

Kinzinger could run for senator of Illinois and probably have a decent chance.

Cool. Now do smallpox.

Maybe we find out by asking Tampa to make an offer for him. If they do, we keep him. 😁

“Little Rick”. Play the hits.

We are just a few steps from the statement, “America is not a democratic republic, it’s a republic, period.”

Right, it’s not even a question of memory length. It’s a matter of you can’t tell me what I can or can’t do, and I can tell you what you can or can’t do.

Not a chance. Daddy paid for Miggy through 2023, and Miggy through 2023 is what we’re gonna get.

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Which also occurred under Ilitch ownership. No way we get Soto. No way we even try for Soto. Because if getting Soto is going to take, at minimum, TORK!, Greene, and Skubal—three pieces currently considered integral to the future fortunes of the team—then what exactly are we trying to accomplish here?

By the way, whatever happened to Idiot?

The Velvet Elvis Plan. Nice analogy! I think the kid might spend to support the franchise, which would mean he is incented to engage. He was willing to throw a decent chunk of money at those they thought would be key players. It's just that the jury is still out on Baez, but the rest of them are clunkers, except Chafin. That's a 1 in 4 success rate on key acquisitions from outside this winter. Ya need better than a 25% hit rate on that kind of thing if ya aim to win. But if the kid were to get the right GM in, one who knows how to lead an organization that's top of the class in talent evaluation, I would assume the money would be better spent, and with a better return, the kid might be talked into spending more if needed to win, or more exactly, it would yield better than breakeven on ROI. I'm not 100% on that opinion, but there's at least a puncher's chance he could be

God bless America.

“I’m not a f**, so what do I care?”

Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional?

The other problem with trading for Juan Soto is that to make the trade worthwhile to any degree, we would have to pony up minimum 15/450 to lock him down, and if he wasn’t willing to take that from his current team because they’re not close to competing for a ring any time soon, he won’t take it from the Tigers who would have decimated their chances just to get him on board for just this year.

It’s reasonable to hope for that.

I do see a sliver of a potential silver lining in this: I don't sense that Baby Doc is a hands-on owner to anywhere near the same degree that Papa Doc was. It wouldn't have mattered who the GM was—if Papa wanted to trade for Prince, or sign Jordan Zimmermann, or extend Miggy to enshrine his legacy as a Tiger, then gosh darn it, wasn't no one gonna stop him. In terms of fulfilling his wish to win a ring, in that specific way, Papa was his own worst enemy. But I could see a situation where Baby surprises us all by hiring a sharp, innovative, young GM out of a forward-thinking system, and then largely stays out of the way while he's gallivanting about looking for pennies-on-the-dollar real estate deals around town. If true, then worst case, Baby Doc puts his ugly thumbprint only on the Red Wings rebuild, in the belief that he knows at least as much about hockey as Stevie does.

Probably depends how knowledgeable those fans are. If all they're looking at is saves, period, those fans would probably conclude that Soto is within shouting distance of being the very best reliever in the league.

I'd be surprised to see Barnhart moved. He's not only having his worst year ever, it looks to me he's a candidate for a DFA before the season is over. Might as well give Ali Sanchez a month to show what he can do. What are the chances he would be worse than Barnhart?

The guy who plays Badger is 40. Skinny Pete actor is 50. Aaron Paul himself is 42. I''m thinking the clock has run out on sequels.

I'm not saying Soto is rotting chopped liver who's unworthy of being in the big leagues. He's a thrower with legit skills who might be moldable into something more consistent. But as things stand now, Soto is decidedly not one of the top closers in the game. In many key respects he's in the bottom third. He's a guy who platoons the seventh inning depending on who's due up. Chafin, Lange, probably Vest, even Joey J are all better this year, at least so far. Wouldn't surprise me to hear the Tigers get more calls on Lange than Soto.

My wife got $300-something from Facebook on this one. I never get anything. In fact whenever I have sent these in, I never hear back. I’m obviously doing it wrong.

They forget they’re not beat cops.