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I have hard time envisioning the Wings being able to land a player at Hughes level without giving up enough to gut some other aspect of the team. You have to have some player capital to spare to make a trade like that. The Wings have some players that could draw Hughes, but they don't have the depth to replace those players if you give them up - so how does it get you anywhere? Look at Toronto for how far star players on bad teams gets you. Still I wouldn't be surprised - Yzerman always talks about wanting a superstar - how do we get a superstar - it's hard to get a superstar. It's definitely at the top of his list.

If having one good player under control for 6 yrs is good, doesn't having 3 players under control for 6 years have to be better? I don't have that much of a problem logically with the '18yrs of control' statement. To my mind the larger logical fallacy is expecting there is any chance at that all three of the guys you putatively get back in the trade make or stay in the majors for through their arb years.

"A man's got to know his limitations"

LOL - Dollars to donuts which ever of these go through, the combined entity will end up dismembered again inside 10 yrs. These Hollywood/media marriages never seem to go well.

This could all come downs to Scott Harris' self-confidence level. How persuaded is he that he is smarter than the average GM? Is he confident enough that he can pick the return targets in a Skubal trade that with those '18 yrs of control' citing by Olney, he can build a mini-dynasty. Or is he in the "We can't blow this year's chance because the future is dark" camp? In the end, management personalities are often the difference.

Interesting that he did say the vibe was that there would not be a lot of big money thrown around. But then again, every owner would still want to salt the field with that sentiment if he *was* planning to spend big on a guy.

ooops "would NOT.."

Not to take anything at all from Sieder, but by pairing him with Edvinsson, McLellan has guaranteed the imbalance between the 1st pairing and the rest would grow larger this season. But if playing them together is the only way to give them both the freedom and trust in their partner to play 200 ft then so be it.

I wonder about that. Keith should be/could become a better ground ball fielder at 1st then ST, then but when he played 1st he was very stiff receiving throws, just didn't seem to have a comfort level or even the flexibility for it. He might learn it, but he's got far enough to go I would call success a sure thing, But by far the most likely scenario for Colt is they park him at 3rd this season and by the end the season we either have a solid lineup piece for several years, or they'll be looking to off load him a la Castellanos.

not recently anyway. Grenada has been awhile, but Eisenhower had the services busy in C/S America....

It's also Putin in a nutshell. In fact, it's really Brig Gen Jack D. Ripper in a nutshell.

do we read this to mean the payout was going to be less than the cost of the trip? Or just that none of the varsity were going to show up? 🙄

the way stars moves today, I wonder how much of a factor that really is anymore - at least theoretically. The heart of the Tigers line-up has been pretty stable the last couple of years, yet I'm sure they were still quite disappointed in 2025 attendance. And of course, that alienation is coming a year later anyway. My guess if if they traded him but got out of the gate well next season the fans would forget soon enough - but of course trading him makes the odds of that a lot smaller, unless they make out very well in the trade. But leaving aside the general to consider the particular, the problem for this Tiger team is the context. When they lost a CY pitcher in Scherzer, the perception was the rotation was still pretty good. For my money the Tiger rotation after Skubal now is a potential train wreck. It's much harder to see how they can emerge in any kind of contending position if they trade him.

Achilles can be associated with PED use, so one possibility is there is stuff out there in use which is currently undetectable. The other theory is just that guys are trained to such insane levels and play so much harder in longer playoff added seasonsthat even the biggest ligament in the body can't take.

One thing both the internet and 24 hr news programming are combining to kill is any kind of concision in the use of the English language. When all you have is time to fill, clicks to generate and influencer rep to burnish, there is never any point is using less than 2 minutes to say what can be said in 15 seconds. For a long time at least, with print, there was some motivation to be concise because there is no credit for typing (or even dictation) time, but with AI available to spew unlimited ASCII, that last bastion of efficient media communication is likely doomed as well.

Everything Buster said has been covered 16 ways to Sunday in this thread already. But the key word is value. The correct analysis for the Tigers is to establish for themselves some scale upon which to rank the value to the Tigers of Skubal in 2026 vs any proposed trade on the same value system. If the return is greater, you make the deal. When I hear people argue whether the Tigers should trade him, what it usually comes to is that the people that think he should be traded think he will fetch a huge return (e.g. Olney), while the people that say 'keep him' believe no-one is going to give up enough for one year of any pitcher to make the Tigers whole in the deal. I don't imagine many disagree with the idea that "If the trade is good enough, make, if it isn't pass." But we aren't going to see what the offers are.

yeah - same Grandma that hasn't seen a lot him but knows he must be innocent. That should be a slam dunk for aquittal before the jury as well.

LOL- every programming book I've ever had just called them "curly braces" . In scripting languages like bash, they have to make things arcane enough that it takes three kinds of parenthesis [{()}] before you can get to totally unreadable code.

I once had to re-engineer an automated VB excel system that someone else (who had quit) had put together and not documented at all. It linked to into a half a dozen external applications and generated a pretty massive monthly account summary. My worst couple of months in 50 years of paid employment. I pretty much hate programming as well, but have been lucky in that most of what I had to do over the years was instrument control stuff and those are generally small, self-contained, and you mostly don't have to work with anyone else!

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remaining options?

Stock for the Hens. With Manning gone, Montero and Melton candidates for Det, there is very little starting staff depth at Toledo after SGL for injury fill-in.

think of all the good that money could have done and how little it will actually do. People are insane.

also a Randy Newman song.

What was the line from one of the early Harry Potter books? "Never trust something if you can't see where it keeps its brains"?