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Nor I. But many casual Tiger fans consider him an integral part of the recent teams, and so his departure surprises them. Someone here (who's not at all a casual fan) expressed surprise.

I don't care how long it's been going on. That doesn't legitimize it. It's never the wrong time to put a stop to it. Maybe the door to do so is starting to crack open.

I get where you're coming from, but he started almost 300 games for the Tigers under Avila and at one time was actually considered one of the pieces of a future resurgent Tigers team, so to Tiger fans, that is a big deal!

I don't know if this can't be done, necessarily—the Cubs did this in 2015—but it definitely could not be done by the Avila cabal.

Yes, this, because after seven years of dog-paddling in place, we need to start putting some Ws on the board already. I don't require playoffs this year, but I simply can't take yet another deferred-gratification season of 100-plus losses.

Because you've given up on TORK! already? 😉 Even if, Josh Bell is all bat and nothing else. We had an entire team of that drive us into the rocks for years on end. Pass.

Oh, good God almighty ... If by any stretch the corrupt influence of the fascists is finally sufficiently on the wane, can we please do something to stop this already!

It’s a trap. Trump et al will use this as proof of concept that Section 230 must be repealed, since Democrats will be on board with prosecuting Twitter, i.e. “an interactive computer service”, for content posted by a Twitter user, i.e. “another information content provider”.

Since 1954 lol

It appears that his #1 qualification for Senate will be his ability to murder Democratic colleagues with whisper quiet.

Also:

Says him.

I've been a huge fan of The Crown. It's easily been one of my top five shows of all time. However, Season 5, which just started, made a critical error in hiring Dominic West to play Prince Charles. Besides the fact that West looks nothing like him, every time I see him on screen, I can't not think of The Wire. It's completely distracting. And the casting of Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip isn't much better.

I’m not sure James Click is going to end up here because I’m not sure Scott Harris is even going to hire a GM for the first year. He might want to go through his first year as PBO/GM so he has can get the feel of what needs to change, and exactly how, between the old way and the new.

Exactly.

I just have no idea how people can’t just see right through the ridiculousness of that stuff the second they see it. I blame schools and parents.

Not enough.

LOLOLOL ... stop, Marco, you're killing me!

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Just what we need: up to three more tossers who can't strike hitters out. I thought it was important to control the strike zone? Or maybe what we mean by that is pitchers who won't walk guys, which, these guys didn't last year. We'll see, if we end up signing any of these guys. Profar definitely takes walks and puts the ball in play—just not very hard when he does, and thus he's up and down from year to year. Plus, if we're going to hire more guys who can't strike hitters out, we should probably get someone out there who can defend. He's basically Curaçao Robbie Grossman.

I understand. The Baseball marketing machine thrives on home runs and strikeouts, and the increase of both is a direct result of the live ball. I'm just saying, if Baseball cared—I mean really cared—about protecting pitchers from injuries, instead of just letting it happen since it happily maintains the fungibility and thus cost control of the pitcher pool, I'm certain deadening the ball would accomplish that.

Deaden the ball, remove the fear of all nine guys in the order being able take you out of the park, and pitchers won't have to throw so hard with so much torque to get swing-and-miss. They can just heave it up there and say here you go, hit it and get yourself out. I don't understand why no one ever contemplates that idea except me.