Tiger337

I would never consider a reliever to be a building block. They tend to have short primes and are more useful to contending teams than building teams. However, given how weak the central division is, I don't know if I want the Tigers to be in re-building mode. They may be able to contend this year and/or next if they can get enough pitchers healthy. They might even consider not trading but extending Rodriguez so he won't opt out. It depends on how well he pitches and how well the team plays the next two months.

Yes, They will not understand the next level of technology which they can't even imagine today.

Young people that grow up with this stuff will learn how to distinguish real images from fake. Sure people will still lie and deceive as they always have, but it won't be any worse than what we have today. Look at all the people who believe every dumb thing they see on facebook or twitter now. What about people who fall for e-mail and phone scams. It's usually older people who are not savvy with technology.

You guys jinxed with your Bradley Jr sucks talk.

It's not good enough to overcome his anemic bat, but Bradley at least has elite defense.

You don't really need a whistle blower for Trump, because he is so obviously corrupt and criminal and has been for over 40 years. It would be comical if so many didn't fall for it. I have no idea how you guys have been hoodwinked into thinking he's a poor innocent victim.

But those guys now play less often against divisional opponents, so wouldn't that lower the attendance for teams in their division?

I generally could not care less about MLB breaking an attendance record as it is of no benefit to me. However, if it's because of faster paced games and it encourages them to stay with the pitch clock as is, then it's a good thing.

You can't build a team of nine average players though, because some of them will be bad in a given year. If you have some stars, you petty much know they'll be at least good every year and you can build around them.

I would like to have both of them.

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.