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I don't know if you can lose what you never really had. Teamsters have leaned GOP since Nixon.

Well at least it's a blow against the 'stubble' look.

Complicated since the players are still mostly American, or Latin, so who knows the degree to which their sympathies are or are not with their 'home' city?

actually let me correct this. These are reports - the Tigers have not announced anything.

Max Anderson leading the AFL with a 517 BA in 42 PA https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/arizona-fall-league-early-statcast-standouts https://www.mlb.com/arizona-fall-league/stats/batting-average

LOL - OK, you got me there.

The comparison isn't even fair to Marie. She was probably pretty clueless - these folks know exactly what they are doing.

These announcements dribbling out day/weeks apart instead of all at once are probably great for staff morale.

Have you seen the UM endowment? $20 billion - so maybe half of that is appreciation - that $10 billion in non-football giving. If you think university donors are all and only about sport you need to wake up and smell the rest of the green. And that's what crap like $20M NCAA fines and ridiculous coach buyouts help put at risk.

Not the point at all. It's the the opportunity cost to the overall higher education enterprise in the US. Just another case of something that used to be useful becoming another bread and circuses immateriality. Higher ed is just about the last thing in this world we are still good at in the US. Once we **** that up we will can get in line round about the level of Venezuela.

LOL - they are all whistling past the graveyard on inflation.

It was an odd decision by Gleyber to demand to stay at 2b because if he had shown he could play 3rd he'd have increased his FA value big time. Everyone needs 3Bs, but most teams have a glut of IF prospects that can hit but have to move off 3B or SS for lack of arm strength and so have a log jam of 2Bs (like the Tigers). Gleyber came up as a SS, so at least at one point he had a arm that probably could have handled 3rd. Maybe it's gone and he knows it.

I don't think it's a slam dunk either way. I doubt he will be offered a multiyear at near the AAV of the QO and if he likes it here he might decide getting more dollars assured up front is a conservative strategy. Or not.

At the time I though it was a mistake for Roberts to leave Ohtani in the game so long last night if they wanted him to pitch today - especially once it was plain Schnieder would not pitch to him anyway.

The Evangelicals are used to watching their pastors get rich (on their backs). 🙄 They love it, proof of God's favor.

Tarkington had a few big years but even when they had Tarkington I remember them as a defense first team. Page and Eller, the purple people eaters.

It's an iffy thing. There is no way to know if a playoff bound team with the money will also find themselves critically pitching short (i.e. an injury) enough to be willing to overpay that also has something you want/need. It's a narrow set of circumstances that all have to line up. You might get to the deadline and no good deal is there. So then I guess you are no worse off than if you had just decided to keep him going into the season.

Yeah, that could certainly be true. Depends on how it ended. Was the deal just an 'honest' fail because Detroit wouldn't match Boston's last offer or did either side feel like trust had been violated or that they couldn't believe one another?

Denver did that for number of years, results were mixed but it's a totally different game now. It would at least probably be the most entertaining game this team could play. I suppose the downside risk is that you expend a lot of energy playing fast offense and tough D against a team that walks it up the court and basically rests for the 4th while using 20 seconds per possession. Are your athletes up do doing that for 80 games? That and you can't throw away the ball on half your breaks. 🙄

Plus he's ignorant, which is one thing you could never say about Bill Clinton. Despite whatever character failings he had, he had a firm command of both facts and policy.

May favorite "hidden perk" was for a while when I had to fly back and forth regularly from DTW to MSP early in the morning. For whatever reason at that time Delta just had open boarding on that first flight. Just walk to the gate and right onto the plane. Maybe because the plane was already there in the morning pre-prepped and ready to go? Don't know why but it was a real throw back to 30yrs earlier when flying was still something to look forward to.

If they don't pursue Torres they could sign Bregman without blocking McGongle (assuming they think he's going to be here in '26) because Baez can finish his contract in CF. Also have to wonder if Anderson is considered a serious prospect or not, '26 is probably now or never for him.

That's kind of a fun idea - the devil would be in the performance metrics. Could destroy team cohesion if done wrong.

Still, even with Kiner-Falefa not doing much with the bat I'd take his chances over the quality of that send.

It's just such a stupid system where Team B ends up paying for the performance a guy already booked with Team A because Team A was able to vastly underpay him when he was performing. Nothing will make sense until they change it, and they probably won't.