Mr.TaterSalad

Some of these young men simply come from bad, broken environments that were high crime, high poverty areas with poor education systems. Some of them have had as many or more bad influences in their lives as they have had positive ones. You combine all of that with sudden stardom, fame, and a lot of money and it is a bad combination. I don't know if this is the case for Arnold or not, but it is for too many young men.

Does anyone in their lifetime as a Tigers fan remember a better debut than what McGonigle had today?

On the surface, she looks great, but a woman's got to have more real estate woman than just her looks. That said, I'd park on her lot for $50 if you get what I mean. She's definitely in my district as far as looks go.

Great at bat for the kid it sounds like. I am listening, not watching it, at work today.

Has Kevin McGonigle gotten a single out yet in his entire major league career? Can anyone name another MLB player who doesn't have a single out yet in their entire career? In all seriousness, right from the first at bat, this kid looks like he gets it and belongs in the Show.

Even better! He's going to be soooooo good that he makes Ohtani look like Geronimo Berroa.

Kevin McGonigle is batting 1.000 with a 1.000 OPS. He's also on pace for 320 RBIs if you figure he plays every game and averages 2 RBIs per game. Anyone who criticized him coming up doesn't know baseball. LOL! Great start kid.

It is Yzerman's job to know when this team is ready to start competing and when it is not. He got criticized by a lot of fans for not being more aggressive in the 2024 offseason. Myself included in that at times. I think one argument that some fans have made is that Yzerman, while dealt an all time bad hand by Kenny Holland, could have tanked for longer and drawn out this rebuild to attempt to get more high end talent. Specifically, I think you could make the argument that the Wings shouldn't have wasted money adding Copp, Compher, and Chiarot in the 22 and 23 offseasons. That would then both save on cap space and allow them tank for another year or two to get more high end prospects in the pipeline. Either to get a Shane Wright or Logan Cooley in 2022 or Connor Bedard, Leo Carlsson, or Adam Fantilli in 2023. As painfully slow as this rebuild has been, you could have slowed it down earlier in the process, to accelerate it later. Think about where this team would be now with Anyone of Bedard, Carlsson, Cooley, Fantilli, or Wright as a center on this team as opposed to Copp on line two. Now, where is no guarantee we'd be top 3 in the lottery given our wretched lottery luck. But the attempt was never even made to get us there. For me personally, I did want Yzerman to be more aggressive. Once it was clear in 2022 that he wasn't going to tank for another season, I wanted more moves to be made. I liked the Copp signing at the time and I wanted Yzerman to take a swing at a big trade like a Matthew Tkachuk or the late Johnny Gaudreau. Not trying to revise history when I say this, but I would have rather they tanked and given themselves a shot at a Wright, Cooley, Bedard, etc. versus trying to make improvements when they did.

I wouldn't compare Trump to Hans Solo. He's more a combination of President Skroob and Pizza The Hut from Spaceballs.

I get it, even if I don't love it. They want 3 down defensive lineman who can set the edge and play stout run defense. They want guys with rotational value who can slide inside and out. I would venture to guess that Faulk is probably more the type of defensive lineman/edge player they like versus a Cashius Howell or Rueben Bain Jr.

We don't need the Hormuz Strait? We are not effected by this? Um, has this dolt looked at gas prices lately?

To tell with what working-class people and families are paying for gas prices. I want my statue and I want it now!

This is what PFF said about Keldric Faulk . . . EDGE Keldric Faulk, Auburn Faulk is blessed with a freakish build and potentially untapped athleticism. He’s also proven himself to be an excellent run defender, posting a near-elite 89.2 PFF run-defense grade over the past two seasons. That part of his game will never be in question, but there should be concerns about his ability to rush the passer at the next level. Faulk’s immense size and play style are more suited for a classic 3-4 defensive end who plays directly over offensive tackles. Those fronts are used less often now than they were in prior decades. However, that alignment isn’t ideal for rushing the passer, and Faulk has yet to show he can do so at an elite level. He set a career high with a 72.5 PFF pass-rush grade in 2024 before ranking outside the top 200 qualified edge defenders with his 66.0 pass-rush grade in 2025. Over the past two seasons, Faulk tallied 75 pressures — 37 of which were charted as either unblocked or clean-up pressures. That leaves his pass-rush win rate, 11.5%, in the range of 2025 first-rounders Mykel Williams and Shemar Stewart, both of whom carried pass-rush concerns heading into last year’s draft. Similar faults in Faulk’s game could see him fall out of the first round.

I like most of your first round shortlist with the exception of Faulk. I don't hate Faulk, but his lack of pass rush concerns me. There are more productive pass rushers, like Bain, that I would put above him. Really, I would swap Faulk out for Cashius Howell the DE from Texas A&M. I also like Akheem Mesidor based on production, but his age at 24 scares me.