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After several years of hearing the word “Inclusion” attached to every place, thing, etc., I couldn’t help but notice the word “Exclusive” being front and center when the Tigers PR rolled out the solicitations for potential buyers regarding these seats.

Feels like 32…🥶

Front & Center piece in the WSJ this morning is specific to Michigan’s economy/auto industry. https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-first-victim-of-trumps-trade-war-michigans-economy-ea6ff8b2?mod=hp_lead_pos7

We lost The Great Al Kaline five years ago on this date.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/04/04/tigers-assistant-gm-sam-menzin-resigns/82873816007/ This is the copied link. I get a paywall so I have not been able to read the piece. The title above looks pretty straight forward to me.

The MLB website is nonstop hyperbole about nothing.

The Detroit News did a piece on this yesterday but I don’t have a subscription so I can’t access the piece in its entirety. The heading of the piece in the Detroit News didn’t leave anything to speculation.

Longtime Tigers Assistant General Manager Sam Menzin resigns after over a decade with the organization It's unlikely that the Tigers will comment on Menzin's departure, whether or not it was peaceful, and it wouldn't behoove fans to speculate on his reasoning, but Menzin was a top candidate for the roleGreenberg, who worked with Harris as members of the Cubs front office, currently assumes.

That’s what they get for firing Sparky.

The Dodgers lost to the Phillies. Need more of this.

Under a Killing Moon Thrice

Bitcoin doesn’t exist in my world. Thanks for the tip though. 😉

I subscribed to Barron’s years ago. Their advice for investments ranks right up there with the MarketWatch hype in my opinion. Using the words, “Nightmare” and “Terrifying” in the heading scream, Clickbait! The writers at most of these financial sites are no more knowledgeable about the market than their audience but they’re more than willing to advise you on how to invest and react to news.

For the first time since I retired in 2017, I let last month’s distributions from one of our funds run off to a cash account rather than reinvest the money which I’d done all along. The money is still in my IRA. I’m primarily invested for dividends. With this pullback I’m seriously looking at putting this cash back into my funds. If so, averaging in. We’ll see how the market plays out. Additionally, this entire tariff fiasco may be scrapped next week. Who knows!

The DOW is down @1300 hundred points right now. Long term, any buyers out there?

I don’t even open those survey links anymore. One of the first questions that they ask is your age. Being a realist, I know they don’t give a **** what a 70 year old fan thinks.

You know, I really hadn’t thought of that. But now that you bring it up, that’ a very legitimate concern.

Grit

They both need to be with Erie when they visit Richmond the week of May 13th.

Additionally, there is a press conference scheduled for 10:00 EDT this morning where Scott Harris will announce the trade he engineered with the SF Giants. The Verlander for Cobb is a done deal.

Carson Kelly hit for the cycle in the Cub’s game.

Blowing game two in the bottom of the 10th is on the Tigers. It wasn’t the schedule makers or the payrolls. You have a two run lead and give up five runs while recording one out, it’s on you. Had Brieske closed that inning clean the trip into LA would be considered a success.

Tork Bomb!

The Rays placed Faedo on the 15 day IL with right shoulder inflammation.

I saw somewhere that it’s Flaherty followed by Olson.