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The story is that Boras insisted on taking this to arbitration. Why should they give an arb number $1 higher than they think they can win the case with? The can't force him to sign a contract.

Thank you. Arbitration is a process. Skubal knows this. Boras knows this. Nobody is going to be "pissed" when the result is known. Skubal might be "bummed" for the lost money but he knows the game.

The issues everybody brings up in a way points to the reason why we are in this mess. There's so many ways to consume our media that there isn't the constant payment a network like Ballys or FanDuel would get from every single cable provider out there. Our choices are removing the cash cow they were used to. Any solution is going to leave some people out. And it could be the best choice financially leaves the most people out of luck.

Why won't Repubs do that?

They're not going to trade Skubal unless they tank it this year and are way out of it by the deadline.

Yes. There's no way the team would not do that. There's a lot to consider.... you have the entity that produces the games. The camera people, the truck people, the announcers (except Benetti who works for the Tigers), etc. That's what MLB would be doing. Then the question is what "channel". It could be an over the air like Channel 20 or it could be an existing slot on local providers. They could even put them on whatever your current FanDuel channel is by renting the space instead of them showing some gambling program. Back in the day the Pistons would produce their own games through Palace Sports and Entertainment, then lease/rent the space on the Fox Sports Detroit Network or Channel 50 or whatever. So in essence it was an infomercial. The Tigers get very high local ratings and they'd be fools to ignore that. It was to be on something that fans can 'flip' to. If they go with an app based system like Apple or Peacock then they lose a lot. That's still too much of a hurdle for a lot of people. I'm sure they've been gaming this out for 2 or 3 years now.

Waiting for Mike Duggan to chime in that republicans and democrats are 'the same'.

Rocket Mortgage is the same concept as Amazon. Just milk the employees.

the trump bible just has pictures of naked girls in it. Young ones.

generic ID mailboxes by suppliers so that "everyone can see it and it gets channeled to a central location for support". Which just means everybody ignores because they thought someone else was going to do it. Get to have that conversation today with someone. Last year they were gung ho about introducing it to "streamline" for a particular process.

It’s the old adage, updated for inflation…. Billionaires have convinced people making $75-$100K that the problems are caused by people making $35-$75K. And that group is convinced the problems are immigrants. Everyone below you is a mooch.

That’s a conspiracy I can get behind. He’s a snake and at some point people might see Trump is of no use to them anymore. The high powered tech folks will move on to JD as their puppet and hope for the best.

Love it when right wing maga-jobs pretend to care about others.

MTG is the person on facebook complaining about the garbage collections and all of that then gets elected to council and realizes it's not easy. She specifically referred to her kids losing coverage for health care. Yeah. It's easy being "small government" until you need something.

Jeimer....

That's very good to know. I have to cancel my Athletic as the latest promo expires. I would use it more but it never remembers who I am and having to log in again is just enough to make me not care to read it.

Tigers do well in ratings so I think they'll do right, if they can.

Did Bob Ryan give him that nickname? I can hear him saying it. I was in New Orleans once when the Super Bowl was there. I saw Bob leaving a bar at like 2 pm, looked pretty lit. By himself. In my defense i had just arrived and was meeting co workers who were already there. Our work was already done. I arrived a day early to party.

Wow. I had no idea. I could have been a bowler? My ring, middle, and index finger were caught in a door in fifth grade. Next to last day of school. 1984. Door closed. 30+ stitches. The tip of my middle finger is gone. My ring finger is slightly deformed and I broke the index finger. First few weeks of summer vacation sucked. Certain songs of that era make me think of soaking my hand in some kind of solution while watching MTV. That middle finger was he’ll playing baseball on cold days if I got jammed. It was numb for 2 innings.

A friend in the industry tells me that the Detroit incarnation hasn’t paid their truck fees all month and that Channel 20 is something that the Ilitches have had their eye on for awhile.

I don’t know the current arrangement but tbeir original MLB advanced media group and its later entities ran a lot of NHL and nascar and other things. NHL network was run out of MLB studios. Maybe it still is? I haven’t paid attention lately but their web and streaming services had a wide net.

Because of an injury as a kid to my middle finger I can’t grip a bowling ball in the holes without it being painful. So I just always gripped the ball and chucked it. I’d hit about 150 regularly. When I was 13 a friend needed me for his league one weekend. I got on some Larry bird 3 point contest groove and had 6 or 7 strikes in a row. 230+. I shanked the 10th.

I’ve been voting since 1992 and have done nothing other than fill in a circle on a paper ballot.

THere was an awesome photo going around of them holding a young Dan Levy as a young toddler.