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Law hates the Tigers so he wants us to feel the pain of three draft busts

so no more bird dogs or whatever ?

if they offer him arbitration, they are in the arb process. in the process, there will be either an agreement between the player and team, or a binding arb decision. If they decline arb, which they did, the player becomes a free agent. they could negotiate, but the player is a free agent and can make his own decisions, and he may prefer to be elsewhere.

this is correct

Micro, do you guys anticipate going back to doing the podcast?

I wonder where the Hens will play Meightonne

This made me look it up, and its crazy. In seven games with the '98 Tigers, he wore both #20 and #37. Then off to Houston.

Can either of those guys hit?

I thought it was Meightonne

eh, it'll be different come the fourth inning anyway

many nights when it is difficult for us, too

I gather that Vierling must still have a sore back

I don't know how insurance for player contracts works; i would think that, when they traded for him, the smart thing to do would be to say, we have this guy for X years, so we need a policy for X years. If they have to do it a year at a time, you're right, I wouldn't expect that the premium would be worth the coverage

I wonder if this is the type of thing insurance covers for the Tigers

Curtis Pride, too

the Topps BIG cards!

he's completing ligament replacement surgery daily

weird phrasing about players 'completing rehab daily.' If they're going back each day, rehab isn't complete.

Joumana is Watching . . . and you can watch the Tigers when you come on down to Joumana Park!

Charlie Morton vs. We'll get back to you

Merrill Kelly, 2.80 ERA in ~70 IP, vs. Lorenzen

glad he clarified that. i usually think he just wants things for himself. selfish bastard

From Law's chat the other day, for whatever it is worth: Dan: What to make about Torkelson? He’s just not gonna be a guy huh? Keith Law: I don’t know what to make of him – he does make hard contact, enough that he should at least be hitting for more average and at least occasional power. I’ll say I was thrilled to see Riley Greene fulfilling my breakout prediction until this very unfortunate injury, not just for me or even for the kid, but because the Tigers need a development success story. Here’s hoping he’s the first of many. But Torkelson … I’m not giving up on him, at all, but I keep going back to when I saw him the first time and didn’t think the tools matched the huge production. I thought he was just a guy, a solid college hitter without the huge upside you’d want at 1-1. I figured I got him wrong.

there are so many smart ass things to say. but there are american firefighters up there pitching in

I recall that, too, though I think it was when he was in a 'more cosmopolitan' city, i.e., before Detroit