IdahoBert

Yesterday Sports Illustrated reported that the Tigers had a four year $200 million offer to Bregman. I hope this isn’t an article that AI made up. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/detroit-tigers/news/tigers-reportedly-have-four-year-offer-200-million-all-star/7c3d2cd2d8121b48b3bc0c6b

This is his third year writing about baseball…. I hope he doesn’t confuse a home run with a goal.

True, but he walked about half as much as usual this last season while his K total stayed consistent. I wonder if he was less discriminating so he was walked about 40 times less than normal or pitchers stayed in the zone often enough that he knew he had to swing and take his chances.

Thank you. I wish he was like Magglio and able to follow his advice to “let the ball come to you.“ I just get the feeling he psychs himself out.

Just wondering about Torkelson. I guess they keep stuff like this under wraps, but if the club was happy with his progress I think they might’ve said something about it, if only to enhance his trade value.

There is that old saying that you don’t want to know how either sausages or laws are made, and I guess you can add negotiations of free agents to that list.

When the Tigers win 112 games in 2025 Bregman will be really sorry he wasn’t a part of it since they could’ve won 114 if he’d signed.

This is starting to feel like the Tigers are an average looking girl competing with college bound cheerleaders for some jock. Of course I’ll forget all about this unenviable comparison if he joins the club and does what we hope he can do.

Maybe deep down the Tigers don’t really want Bregman. Hinch did the right thing and had his devil‘s tail docked after the scandal. But but there’s a lot of sub-reddits where it’s discussed that Bregman never had his devil’s tail docked and since he doesn’t wear his socks high, the Tigers are worried it’ll stick out from under the hem of his pants when he gets excited and be a bad example for the rest of the team on the field and especially in the clubhouse.

I’m rooting for Kellen Moore.

I’m not celebrating prematurely, but so far I like the way this game is going.

I disagree. In a White Sox-Seattle game it means at least one of these two teams has to lose and to me that’s a plus because one way or the other I win by seeing one of them lose - which is great. I rarely feel like a winner at the end of a Super Bowl. As it is, I’ve lived in the Northwest for almost 40 years and I’m an elitist about my own team having a 124-year track record. So to me the Mariners are not a real team while my team was pretty much formed on the sixth day by God, as far as I’m concerned. As for the White Sox the enmity I feel for them does not need to be explained.

I am yelling at the same cloud you are

I don’t know.

I am stuck watching the Super Bowl today. If I stayed at home by myself I wouldn’t watch it, but my best friend invited me over and he does make good food so I’m going. Second year in a row. I’m not against football per se. It just doesn’t move me. There’s not enough meat on the bones for me. We’re just another a society of group-bonding spectacles anyway, and I’m just doing my part to act normal even though my heart isn’t in it. If it were the Lions, I could piggyback off my affection for the Tigers and my concern for people I like whose happiness in this regard is important to me. But that’s not the case.

But of course we have the NHL and NBA going almost into July. So people who think baseball is too boring or complicated will have something else to do.

I almost hope Bregman signs with whomever tomorrow during the Super Bowl and the story is snowed under by its relative insignificance compared to the game. I’m tired of thinking about this guy.

Englert

This makes a lot of sense.

I read that article about the divorce and was surprised at how the Red Wings are more highly valued as a property than the Tigers.

Aside from Star Trek Strange New Worlds I’ve never been much interested in the many other iterations of the franchise after TOS. But I’ve recently started DS9 thirty two years after the fact due to a tip from a friend and I really like it even though the first season has some stinkers in it. I tired of the first season of Next Generation, although I understand the writing picked up in the third season. Never got off the ground with Picard. I also stopped watching Discovery in the second season. But DS9 is now my welcome escape from reality. I really like Sisco and Odo and Dax and even Quark. I wish the Disney+ picture didn’t look like a dupe of a bad VHS tape but I guess that’s all there is. I hope later years provide a better picture.

I presume this means they’re predicting a seismic regression.

They appear not to think so

A catcher for Faedo. I guess you can never have too many catchers.