2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[1984Echoes]

15 hours ago, papalawrence said:

Don't forget Festivus!!

I'm going to create a new holiday on the eve of the shortest day of the year and call it...

Solstice-amas.

Adorned evergreen tree, no Jesus.

Father Time (Santa if I can't let go of old custom) and Frosty the snowman are allowed however.

As is gift-giving and overall good feelings towards others...

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

I'm going to create a new holiday on the eve of the shortest day of the year and call it...

Solstice-amas.

Adorned evergreen tree, no Jesus.

Father Time (Santa if I can't let go of old custom) and Frosty the snowman are allowed however.

As is gift-giving and overall good feelings towards others...

IMO, gift giving is (by far) the worst part of the holidays.

[Motor City Sonics]

57 minutes ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

IMO, gift giving is (by far) the worst part of the holidays.

Having a birthday on the same day as Christmas is worse than that. 

[theroundsquare]

that's what jesus always says 

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

31 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Having a birthday on the same day as Christmas is worse than that. 

Mine is only six days prior.

[1984Echoes]

2 hours ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

IMO, gift giving is (by far) the worst part of the holidays.

I love the spirit of giving during these holidays...

Not even gifts...

But the giving of warmth and kindness, patience, love to family and friends, hugs and kisses...

So the gifts are just a part of that (to me) and it doesn't even have to be big things... just something small in a "thinking of you" manner. Also, I don't believe in an all-consuming everybody, only those closest... outside of that it has to be an agreed upon thing...

So...

I never want to overdo it...

But I do enjoy a few small gifts, giving and receiving, with closest friends and family.

More than anything else... I enjoy all the smiles and happy spirits/ times...

[Edman85]

1 hour ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Mine is only six days prior.

Happy belated 

[casimir]

15 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

I love the spirit of giving during these holidays...

Not even gifts...

But the giving of warmth and kindness, patience, love to family and friends, hugs and kisses...

So the gifts are just a part of that (to me) and it doesn't even have to be big things... just something small in a "thinking of you" manner. Also, I don't believe in an all-consuming everybody, only those closest... outside of that it has to be an agreed upon thing...

So...

I never want to overdo it...

But I do enjoy a few small gifts, giving and receiving, with closest friends and family.

More than anything else... I enjoy all the smiles and happy spirits/ times...

Oh, stuff it.

[1984Echoes]

2 hours ago, casimir said:

Oh, stuff it.

Under my pagan evergreen tree?

[Edman85]

Mattison back an an NRI. Not a big surprise. 

[Tenacious D]

1 hour ago, Edman85 said:

Mattison back an an NRI. Not a big surprise. 

Hope a year post-surgery helps—was on a nice trajectory 

[IdahoBert]

One of my best friends is born on December 7, “a day that will live…“ 

[Edman85]

I came across a fanblog article on Mattison using it as a jumping off point for how cheap the Tigers are. This is no such example. In every case of the non-tender and re-sign, the player is brought back for more on the Major League and minor league split than they would have gotten if tendered. It is why they usually accept. This is not a case of the team being cheap.

[casimir]

10 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

Under my pagan evergreen tree?

Don’t pagans have their own shrubbery to decorate?  Like a maple tree or hydrangea or something like that?

[gehringer_2]

6 minutes ago, casimir said:

Don’t pagans have their own shrubbery to decorate?  Like a maple tree or hydrangea or something like that?

Pagans were already into pine trees in the OT. 

[Tiger337]

Let's get this thread back on track:

[1984Echoes]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

Don’t pagans have their own shrubbery to decorate?  Like a maple tree or hydrangea or something like that?

Annual Winter Solstice festival.

Celebration of... from going into the darkness (shortest day of the year...) to earth being reborn (days get longer after the winter solstice/ more sun = earth has renewed itself...)

Evergreen pine or spruce because they never die, they are green all year round. What better way of defeating darkness than a green-all-year-round tree?

A festival that is approximately 3000 years old.

Christians were smart, in order to coopt paganism they needed to usurp all pagan holidays with religious ones...

Hence, at the biggest pagan feast/ celebration of the year, Christians would need to find a substitute big enough to usurp... so, they decided Jesus was born on December 25th. The bible says the animals came in from the fields I believe? That would be springtime, or later, not December 25th.

So the PAGAN evergreen tree, is now Christianity's.

Smart move.

But the "Christmas tree" is PURE, and still, pagan.

Sorry.

[1984Echoes]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Pagans were already into pine trees in the OT. 

Errr... yeah, this.

Short version.

[Cruzer1]

5 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Let's get this thread back on track:

What did Jesus make?

[casimir]

9 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

Annual Winter Solstice festival.

Celebration of... from going into the darkness (shortest day of the year...) to earth being reborn (days get longer after the winter solstice/ more sun = earth has renewed itself...)

Evergreen pine or spruce because they never die, they are green all year round. What better way of defeating darkness than a green-all-year-round tree?

A festival that is approximately 3000 years old.

Christians were smart, in order to coopt paganism they needed to usurp all pagan holidays with religious ones...

Hence, at the biggest pagan feast/ celebration of the year, Christians would need to find a substitute big enough to usurp... so, they decided Jesus was born on December 25th. The bible says the animals came in from the fields I believe? That would be springtime, or later, not December 25th.

So the PAGAN evergreen tree, is now Christianity's.

Smart move.

But the "Christmas tree" is PURE, and still, pagan.

Sorry.

Sigh.... I'm just trying for a little light hearted and terrible humor.  I'm not here to learn nothing.

But while we're at it, I hate the application of the tree.  I hate dropping the money on it.  I hate decorating it, I hate undecorating it, I hate taking it out afterwards, I hate cleaning up all of the damn needles afterwards.  I kind of like the lights.  But essentially since the woman to whom I'm related by marriage wants a live tree, I'm forking over $100 to be annoyed.

And think about it from the tree's perspective.  If they're getting chopped down, you know damn good and well they would prefer to sacrifice themselves to become a baseball bat over anything else.

[casimir]

4 hours ago, Cruzer1 said:

What did Jesus make?

Hello, water into wine.  And he took a stale half loaf of bread and some fish sticks and turned it into a Long John Silver's.  Am I the only one that remembers these teachings from Catholic school?

[casimir]

9 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Let's get this thread back on track:

Bless you, Lee.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

Sigh.... I'm just trying for a little light hearted and terrible humor.  I'm not here to learn nothing.

But while we're at it, I hate the application of the tree.  I hate dropping the money on it.  I hate decorating it, I hate undecorating it, I hate taking it out afterwards, I hate cleaning up all of the damn needles afterwards.  I kind of like the lights.  But essentially since the woman to whom I'm related by marriage wants a live tree, I'm forking over $100 to be annoyed.

And think about it from the tree's perspective.  If they're getting chopped down, you know damn good and well they would prefer to sacrifice themselves to become a baseball bat over anything else.

My dad was a nurseryman, we spent many of years with a tree "borrowed from the farm" so to speak and replanted for later sale. I dislike cut trees and falling needles, no matter how well you keep them watered. We've gone the artificial route a few times, just too much work for a short period of time and with just the two of us at home if we don't travel around Christmas it's not wort the hassle now that our son is grown.

I do have a wooden tree, it works well and gives me the same symbolism.

[casimir]

24 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

My dad was a nurseryman, we spent many of years with a tree "borrowed from the farm" so to speak and replanted for later sale. I dislike cut trees and falling needles, no matter how well you keep them watered. We've gone the artificial route a few times, just too much work for a short period of time and with just the two of us at home if we don't travel around Christmas it's not wort the hassle now that our son is grown.

I do have a wooden tree, it works well and gives me the same symbolism.

I remember the artificial tree my parents had.  It was stored in these humungous heavy/compressed cardboard barrels.  These things were humongous to me as a small kid, they were probably similar in size to a 55 gallon barrel.  And they seemed like a hassle to haul up and down the basement steps, but maybe they were just awkward rather than heavy.  There was the base, the trunk/"spine", and then the limbs.  The limbs were all color coded on the thick wire attachment part to set into the same color coded holes in the base.

[CMRivdogs]

Did it have the spinning disc with different colors that would shine on the tree? The ones we've had usually had the lights attached. We just needed to add whatever other ornaments. Just hauling the box in and out of storage became a hassle, and after a couple of years it would be brelagated to a giant garbage type plastic bag. 

My major seasonal decoration these days are single candles in the windows