Tiger337

The one consistent strength on this team the last three years has been the bullpen. If they can keep doing that when they actually have a good team, That will help a lot.

I always assumed the FBI knew Trump was a big problem long before 2016 and didn't need any prodding from Clinton or any other politician to be aware of the danger of his gaining influence.

Big-time projection.

$340 million which comes out to $24 million per year. I'd take him though.

There really isn't anybody there that will do any better. They have no starting pitchers ready to step in. We can hope that Skubal and Manning come back strong.

There were greater players than him, but if greatest means great player who was also led a great life outside the game, then you can certainly argue that he was the greatest tiger.

I don't follow hockey at all, but I have a couple of questions. (1) I know the Bruins had one of the best regular seasons in history and then they lost in the first round to some botton feeder from Florida. Is the NHL regular season always that pointless? (2) Why do you hate Bruins fans. I know very well that the Red Sox fans are entitled cry babies who think the whole sport is about them and that Patriots fans are pompous assholes who are still living vicariously through Tom Brady. I know that fans from other cities are still mad at the Bird era Celtics. But Bruins fans seem to be the best of the bunch. I mean they aint no rocket scientists, but they seem to be loyal and somewhat down to earth people.

Remember when DeSantis was going to be the smart version of Trump?

They also need to figure out whether Ibanez will hit enough where they would worry about him being permanent. He had a nice little stretch, but I don't really expect him to be a major factor in their future

You can not talk to them about politics and still be friends. I have friendships like that. If they turn out to be horrible people, then that's another story.

I'm not talking about running the same nine guys out there every day. I am talking about having 13 useful players with whom to mix and match. I would argue that, on a team that mixes and matches a lot, it's even more difficult to carry Cabrera.

OK. I'd prefer they start getting serious now. I don't think any team in the division is going to run away this year. I don't expect the Tigers to contend all year, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

I have always assumed that greed ALWAYS plays at least a minor role in inflation.

How far into the season would they need to be within striking distance of first place before you considered them a contender?

Yeah, Griffey was pretty bad. Not quite as bad, but fairly close.

Not too many elite players have had this many bad years at the end of their careers? Pujols came close before surprisingly going out with a bang his final season. Pete Rose ended poorly, but not this bad.

I don't hate Cabrera or expect him to retire. Management should have figured out a way to get him off the team. I don't really get why fans want a retirement tour,but apparently some do. Watching him be terrible is not good for his legacy. It only hurts his legacy and hurts the team. And it's not like it's just one bad year. This has been going on for a long time.

What other teams have players as bad as Cabrera who they continue to play on a regular basis? He's not some role player which a team carries because of his defense or versatilty. He is useless in every phase of the game. He is only playing for non-baseball reasons. There is no baseball reason which can justify his being on the roster.

I am glad I live in a state where that is illegal.

Or a young black man standing there with an AR-15.

That sounds like a weak excuse for using a sub-par player. They are 3 1/2 games out of first place and should to be trying to win all the time.

I'm taking early bets for dates in the Skenes career ending injury pool.

Yeah, it was 2005. They were right around .500 most of the year until they collapsed in September. Many fans kept saying it was a mental thing where they would get up to .500 over and over and then fall back. I just figured they weren't that good.

Avila did not seem to be a GM motivated by panic. If anything, he seemed to have the opposite problem of moving too slowly.

I'll just add that I think his big SLG year was an outlier rather than his standard year and that the next year was not really a decline. We will never really know though since he is now messed up and may never even play again.