Tiger337

"I drive down the road and I see a pickup Truck with a MAGA flag on it. -- and no offensive to that driver -- I just don't like him"

My original response was about upper versus lower prospects because others were saying that lower level prospects were preferable. I believe that proven player for prospect trades are won by the team getting the proven player more often than not. It's better to get something than nothing though.

How does it compare to MTG?

There are a lot more examples of prospects that failed. I don't think it's lower level versus upper level. It's hoping that the Tigers are smarter than the team that they are dealing with and can identify the right players.

A reliever is off the market - David Robertson traded to Marlins for Macro Vargas and Rolando Hernandez.

Still unlikely though. When you trade a rental, you'll almost always get a player with flaws which the other team sees as expendable.

Nobody should ever be "showing off" their off their fire arms. Owning guns is serious business. And if anybody has a history with illegal drugs, they should lose their right to own a gun.

"Hes naked" is trending on twitter. There is a 50/50 chance it involves Trump. Not opening!

Trump would have not called him regardless of party. He would have tweeted something like: "I disagreed with him on everything and he was very bad for this country and he never thanked for everything I did. I wish him well."

That is a title the Tigers can win.

My mother froze while walking one day and has not walked since. They thought it was a stroke, but found no indication of it. They then said it was demential related which priobably means they don't know what happened. I believe it was a mini stroke.

That was eery. I don't want to see that happen to anyone.

When I was a kid, we had no internet. I had to wait until Friday to get all the stats in The Sporting News.

SIERA is more predictive than FIP and presumably XERA and XWOBA. I remember there was criticism of it when it first came out, the main one being that the formula is so complicated that it is difficult to separate the different elements when you want to closely examine the results for a given pitcher. Someone at Baseball Prospectus outright rejected it on that basis, but then later BP developed the DRA statistic which is way more complex.

Yeah, that would be my guess. The decision to use him was probably made before the game.

FIP is more predictive than ERA. I always thought there should be a FIP-like stat that included hits because pitchers do have more control over hits than originally theorized. xERA and xWOBA add quality of contact to the equation. It seems they aren't more predictive that FIP, but they might be for some pitchers. I'd like to see more analysis on that.

Poor White Sox. Lynn will pitch like Cy Young the rest of the way and the Pale Hose will get nothing.

Mistakes were made behind him, but he was also hit hard. He wasn't as sharp as he has been in other games.

Apparently.

They did take the vaccine, but the vaccine was designed by Fauci and Gates to harm Republicans.

I turned it on at 6:46, saw a commercial and thought it was a quick first inning for Rodriguez. Unfortunately, no.

Not a good start. Hopefully, he doesn't kick us in the nuts tonight.

Very few trade rumor predictions come true. It's the nature of the beast. His prediction here is pretty general though and seems plausible.

Wow, what a night! I had one of the most memorable nights of my baseball fandom just watching TV. It must have been amazing to actually be there. The beginning of summer vacation enhances everything. I had just finished 8th grade and 8th grade sucked, so I'm sure that added to it.

So, are the Tigers going to finally get a break?