1984Echoes

Funk & Faedo shut down indefinitely. Cisnero to the bereavement list.

I expected this. The "line" you mentioned is the Dnieper River. Those would be the Russian ammo dumps and command centers that are exploding. The HIMARS we gave them are working.

I really don't want to hear (I have actively avoided) any whining, crying, bitching, or anything of the sort... I want DFA's and house-clearing trades. No trade available for a guy? DFA. I can make a list if the Tigers FO needs one.

Sans bat.

Of course not... That was a big if I put in there... Maybe I should have ALL-Capped it...?

We can't have nice things...

I agree 100%

Lots of people who give a damn. Just... NOT... Republicans.

Fire them. Clean out their ranks. Anyone who ended up on Trump's detail was a loyal foot soldier of the Police State. They are Co-Conspirators to Trump's Coup Attempt.

My guess (if we actually get Klingberg): The pairings start out as: Chiaret (L) - Seider (R) Edvinsson (L) - Klingberg (R) Pair each of these two with a vet until Simon shows he belongs on the top line. I don't think it will just be given to him; he'll have to earn it and my best guess is he'll have to eliminate rookie defensive mistakes before Lalonde makes that move. Simon might even have to beat out Maata to get that 2nd pairing (he'll be playing in Grand Rapids until he can do that... no sense in having him in the NHL until he can at least do that...); but once he does, Maata drops to the 3rd pairing. Just guessing. Bold prediction: The first one who sneezes between Hronek and Lindstrom gets traded.

Shush... Republicans don't want anyone to know that this is the true cause of the current strength of inflation, not "IT's ALL the DEMOCRATS FAULT!!!"

I'm not interested in this philosophy. At all.

SIX 1st round picks ? !!!!!!

And I really don't want Susac, a catcher who isn't a very good catcher but has a decent bat. Not the profile I'm looking for...

I like Crawford too... which is why I tossed him in with that group... I'm thinking 3, maybe 4 of those guys are available to us when we pick. I also like Cole Young quite a bit...

How do you guys rank the following? : Justin Crawford Cole Young Brock Porter Connor Prielipp Gavin Cross Jace Jung

Not if you use a flash drive.

I'm starting to think that. I wasn't before... and I'm not thinking that because of the age thing... I just think the electorate will be looking for exciting and Biden isn't that. I was going to say "fresh face" or "energizing candidate" but I don't mean it as a slam on Biden, again the age perspective, I mean that from the nation is looking for some kind of inspiration. It would be real awkward if Harris or Buttigieg went after the Primary. But I definitely think he gets primaried. I don't know who my early favorite is... Buttigieg, Newsom, Pritzker?

Even better if he throws multiple Toddler Temper TantrumsTM along the way...

Yeah I'm not thinking playoffs just yet. This team is young. There's going to be growing pains.

If we're going to actually be a draft and development team, which I think every one of us in here, and hopefully in the Tigers Org, top-to-bottom, wants, then... We're drafting both pitchers and position players. There may be a preference for position players in the 1st and pitchers outside the 1st... or vice verse... But, it doesn't matter. If we only select pitchers in the 1st; we still have to develop more than just 1st rounders, which includes a couple position players outside the 1st. And if we are SUPPOSED to be a D&D team, them we HAVE to be able to do that. So I'll go back to my BPA mantra for the 1st, and not care so much (I AM weighted more towards position players but am flexible enough for either) whether it is position versus pitcher. By the same token, if we draft only position players in the 1st, we STILL have to be able to develop a couple pitchers outside the 1st... which we appear to be capable of doing. I think we can do the same with position players (develop some outside of 1st rounders...); but those guys are still percolating up through the minors so we haven't seen the MLB results of that yet... Just my 2 cents.

We actually signed Wilmer Flores and some other undrafted pitchers after the short 5-round draft that year. So technically, in the draft, yes; but effectively, no.

So lets draft ZERO pitchers and have minor league teams with no pitchers at all, just hitters. That could be interesting, right?

He shouldn't have said that for the Tigers and I hope he doesn't for the Wings. What he should have said is: "When we make the playoffs, the rebuild is over. Until then, we're still working on putting the right team together to achieve that."

I think what I just said; in addition to what MCS just said...