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It's not the MiLB signings per se, it's the fact that's the only place anything is happening. So each MiLB signing hightens the contrast to the silence on the MLB side. That's what is being mocked (at least in my case, as I definitely poked fun at the Smith signing. But there is also a bit of information in Edman's post that I don't take as so rosy, which is that the Tigers seem to have an excess of MiLB pitchers that reached minor league FA without ever sniffing the majors.

yeah - unless they messed something up and left him with a slight misalignment of his ankle or some weird thing, otherwise there aren't may injuries you would expect a more complete recovery from than a broken fibula.

I will be seriously surprised if both the DetNews and DetFreePress are both still in business in 5yrs.

I find it depressing there are enough evil people in this country to populate any agency with the number killlers and abettors of killers that something like this can take place. This is rapidly becoming the same kind of morally bankrupt, ethically exhausted population that mid war Germany was and we are seeing and will keep seeing the same symptoms. What is the dynamic that turns a society from one with a strong internal sense of morality into one so cravenly willing to lie, steal and murder? What ever it is, we are in the middle of it.

If there is a route to wining a WS by being the team to sign the most MiLB pitching, the Tigers are going to be in fantastic shape.

I think this is true, but not because of the way she was nominated per se, but because she didn't have the benefit all the things she would have learned and the support she would have developed as a candidate running a primary campaign. And of course you never know, a stronger candidate might have emerged, defeated her and then been stronger against Trump. The reason the parties started doing primaries was to make sure the people they nominated actually had voter appeal. Of course the primary process today is pretty screwed up in term of the ability to actually do that, but it was the theory. For the Dems the die was cast in 2019/2020 when Biden picked a candidate for VP who had not been a very successful campaigner and then compounded it by never setting her up as a virtual co-president so she could easily succeed him after one term.

The question I go back and forth on with Ivey is how much better will/can he get? On the one hand in terms of calendar time he's been around long enough to be pretty close to a finished product, on the other hand he has missed significant injury time and all the young players were probably wasting development time under Monty. And given that question how much more of him do we want/need to see to decide?

Note that Walz himself is NOT accused of grifting anything , he is accused of running a poorly administered program. There is an ocean of ethical distance between the two situations.

I think the losses in the two previous trips to the WS also make fans more attuned to the idea that when you get a chance to get there, don't scrimp. As we've discussed on the forum many times, it's doubtful how much you can improve your odds of winning a WS once in the playoffs no matter what you do, but it's also doubtful the majority of fans, being less statistically immersed, think that way. My own preference to build a WS team would be HR power and pitching depth, but that's the best way to build any playoff team.

Tiffany network has gone to Jared's.

They wanted both SVG's and Monty Williams' heads pretty badly, and they were right!

the only question is how bad can it get before it has to start getting better?

This is the crap that frosts me. We let them operate dirty because they pay everyone off out of current profits, then walk away, off load the depleted asset into an empty shell, declare bankruptcy and leave the public holding the bill for the cleanup. Americans have been suckers for big oil from the word go.

and the 'new' Lightening is still going to be semi electric. It sounds like it's going to have an IC powered generator that can be run either coupled or uncoupled from the drive train. It the sane way to get extended range in place of over a ton of battery. I never thought the battery size designed for the Lightening made any sense. The energy penalty for carrying all that weight around all the time when you seldom needed it makes little sense.

but did they replay the last 10 seconds 3 times like in the movie?

optics, photo-ops. Don't expect it to make sense. It just some donors with gulf coast operations getting paid off.

Granted, from year to year you never know what guys with thin resumes *might* do, but from almost any angle, Jones gives you a better probability of value than Malloy. Malloy did improve his OBP in 25 over 24, but it came with the nearly complete disappearance of power. No question the crazy high MiLB walk rate made Malloy intriguing enough to take a look at, but MLB pitchers are going to make you hit your way on so there was no chance that was going to hold, and there was not enough behind his OPS once the walk rate came down to earth. If he can turn it around for Tampa good on him. Teams with enough talent to be pushing the 90 win and up level should have less room on their rosters for project players.

I would think autonomy over his staff choices becomes a matter of principle with any experienced head coach.

you know the other difference here? Tim Walz is taking the fall for what went wrong on his watch. When was the last time Trump or any of his people took responsibility for anything they ****ed up?

LOL - I looked at this pick and thought "Buium is supposed to be bigger than the guy in this pic!" Then realized he was probably standing next to Cossa.

hard to see how they keep him and Jones, and Jones had hit better, can play the field, and runs better. You keep JHM on the hope he hasn't hit his ceiling but the Tigers no longer have the luxury to do that to the degree Tamps does.

You don't mind as much if a guy shows up, proves he isn't ready, but shows you flashes of what he can be (e.g.ASP). Didn't see much of that either.

JHM could have had a good career as an umpire. He can see pitches, he just can't hit them. Jahmai Jones's spot got a little safer.

Santana was 21, Micheal Shrieve was 20. 🤯

LOL had to check this one out, esp since Eau Claire is so close to Minneapolis I was wondering if the StarTrib was all that was left.... So in Eau Claire with have the Leader Telegram, (circ 14K!) and LaCrosse we have the La Crosse Tribune (circ 19K) and they aren't even owned by the same conglomerate.