Tiger337

The only thing that Trump did was give DOGE the name DOGE because he thought it was funny. He doesn't know **** about efficiency. He calls himself the king of debt.

The idea that Trump should be disqualified from the Presidency seems pretty centric to me. Trying to do so at this point is probably fruitless and may just make matters worse, but it's hardly a radical opinion.

Yes, it's not really "hard" to get away from, but sometimes they switch it to "for you" automatically and that's where they feed me right wing propaganda. You would think that "for me" would be baseball or sports people that I am not following, but their algoithm does not work that way. Their "what's happening side bar" always suggests either Alex Bregman or some right wing conspiracy theory. At least they got the Bregman part right. Blue Sky is much cleaner. The problem with it so far is that there are a lot of people who are on both twitter and bluesky who still mostly post on twitter (probably because they have more followers over there).

So? The Tigers forum here does not allow political talk - left or right - and that's a good thing. When I go on social media, it is mostly for baseball, so I only follow baseball people. My choice. I don't want to see ANY political talk and it is set up so that I can limit it. The problem with twitter is that it is actively trying push right wing propaganda on me all the time and it's hard to get away from it even if I only follow basebal people.

How is Joe Dickson a Latin American signee? 😃

RIP Charlie Maxwell. I have always been fascinated by his Sunday home runs. 40 of his 148 career home runs came on Sunday.

It has gone from something that seemed like a logical fit but probably wouldn't happen to a very realistic possibility.

I have joked before that humanities courses were good for boosting my GPA...and they were! However, in retrospect, I am also glad that I took some of them. Philosophy courses, in particular, have been valuable to my thinking and understanding of the world.

RIP Gary Sutherland. I have many fond memories of that period. Veryzer was dubbed "six pack" by a Boston sportswriter. I am not sure if it caught on elsewhere. He didn't look like a major league player and he wasn't. Sutherland wasn't either, but he at least looked respectable. He was nicknamed Suds. I didn't realize it at the time, but that might have had the same meaning as Veryzer's nickname, although I think it was just a play on his name.

Maybe. He could be headed for Toledo.

Torres is getting one year 15 million according to Petzold, so that makes the deal a bargain and shouldn't prevent them from making other moves. That makes me like the deal more.

I am sure Hinch has the infield plans all mapped out and it's probably not going to be as simple as putting Torres at 2B and moving Keith to 3B. There will likely be a lot of moving parts. Ultimately, they have improved their offense, but their infield defense is poor.

At least they didn't have to give up Boyd to get him! I am neither excited nor unhappy with this move. He has a career 112 OPS+ as a middle infielder and crushes lefties and he's just 27, but his fielding numbers are bad. It will be interesting to see where everyone plays in the infield.

I agree with most of what Ramaswamy said in that article. Unfortunately, Trump is the antitheses of everything he says that he wants to see happen. That is because Ramaswarmy is a hypocrite who really just wants money and power.

If a team is involved in extra inning games all year and then wins by one-run in regulation, it's still a small margin even though it's cleaner than an extra inning victory. 49.9% of voters voted for Trump. 48.4% voted for Harris. It is more decisive than winning the electoral and losing the popular vote, but it is not a big margin.

There is always going to be a lot of risk and uncertainty when you sign a good free agent. If you ever want to sign a top free agent, you'll have to take that risk. A lot if is timing. Some people think the Tigers aren't ready to take that risk because they aren't yet in a position where one one player is necessearily going to make the difference. On the other hand, they have two more years of the best pitcher in baseball, so maybe now is the time.

One more starter, one reliever and one right handed hitter is exactly what I expect the Tigers to get the rest of the off-season and they don't have to be free agent signings. They won't necessarily be as good as Bregman, Sasaki and Yates. In fact, that seems like an unlikely scenario.

I don't think Bregman would be a disaster in Comerica. He'll lose a few homers, but might get more hits. As long as he gets his walk rate back up, he'll be fine. I would count on Harris and his team to have a good theory as to why he was swinging more last year and use that in deciding whether ot not to pursue him.

I don't think it's very credible. I don't doubt they are interested in all three, but I don't know how anyone would know the details about how many teams are in on these guys. Bregman trends 24/7 on Twitter and there are all kinds of rumors about the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets and Tigers still being interested. Harris plays very close to the vest, so he's not going to let things leak. Pretty much every move he has made as Tigers GM has comeout of nowhere.

Nothing says Merry Christmas like telling people to go to hell.

Yes, for exmple I still put up the family Christmas creche every year even though neither I nor my remaining family members are religious. It has been displayed in my family home every year of my life and the feeling of continuity is comforting.

I'll take that too! I think the Tigers are ready to win now in a winnable division and I don't think they need to wait two years for the next wave of prospects to be ready (which is no guarantee).

The greatest capitalist holiday of all.

At least he kept you readng to the 11th paragraph. That's pretty impressive.😃