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Immediately after the election, with his legislative majority gone, there was talk he would pivot away from Hindu Nationalism. Be nice if that turns out to be true, but how often does a guy change his spots? And of course if he's hanging out with Putin that's another whole movement in a bad direction.

If a guy has a big league arm and you can only have 100 IP in a season, you give him 10 5 inning starts and then move him to the pen, or vice versa. Teams have done it in the past - it's not a novel approach. You get some performance, he gets big league experieance, learns hitters, etc. Win-Win. the only down side becomes service time issues, but as a fan I don't particularly care about that. if the kid is good and you eventually have to pay him its going to cost ~20-30M one season earlier. BFD.

lol - I was going to ask if you meant Fred. Thompson did have an interesting career all together though. I don't imagine too many people remember him from the Watergate hearings, where he was probably the third "star" right after Sam Ervin and Sam Dash. I also liked his turn as a murderous televangelist in WiseGuy - which he did before he went to the Senate.

IDK - I could easily believe she may say nothing, but be sure to be photographed regularly wearing Harris or coconut meme tee shirts.

they are already trying to get to court to challenge the xfer of campaign funds.

good call.

I liked Dingler's 1st HR. They threw him a thigh high sinker a little to the outer third on 0-0 and instead of playing Hamlet looking for something that might be better later he just hammered to right.

slow start but he is adjusting to the need to be more aggressive in the K zone - really I think the whole team is. I amd going to guess the brain trust has digested the game's recent trends and made its adjustment as well.

Once he was out of the race he went back to being a little more normal (which in the US means less newsworthy) - buried the hatchett with Disney and went back to trying to keep his state above water. (pun intended!)

Should we bank on that ever happening? And is it a long term problem? Vierling is going to be candidate to move after 2025 anyway and Malloy is probably your DH. Or maybe Perez fizzles out. But I think you have to give guys like Wenceel a more serious shot to build their value than the Tigers have been prone to do in the past if the Rays are going to be your template.

the Trick for the Rays has been success developing guys from their drafts and INT signings like Austin Meadows that performed well enought to trade for some thing younger and cheaper to keep the wheel turning. You can say they've done exactly the opposite of the Tigers in recent years. Instead of letting Suarez, Paredes, Adames, develop in Detroit, get close to expensive and then trade them to get younger, Detroit traded those guys when their value was low to get *older*. Not the way to run a low cost team, though we know Dombrowski wasn't necessarily interested in running a low cost team! But to bring this back to Perez, he looks to me exactly like the kind of guy a Tampa Bay would hold onto until he has established himself, his value was higher and his cost was about to go up. And that all comes down to being right about both your own players and the players you scout to pursue.

Jake hit 235 in AA and 220 in AAA - he made it the majors on his ISO (and his D of course) but he has never showed as much with the bat in the minors as Dingler is showing now - but SSS arg's apply.

I don't know what their chances of signing Flaherty themselves are, maybe nil, but if they are going to contend in the next three years they are going to need more arms to add to Skubal, Reese, and Casey-Maybe-Mize than just Jackson Jobe and crossed fingers on Gipson-Long. To my view we are just a far from having a sustainable rotation as we are from having a sustainable starting 8 in the field so I don't see any particular advantage in a pitching trade other than in Flaherty's case if he's unsignable or if the Tigers med staff doesn't believe in Skubal's health future.

If the Tigers didn't have bad luck tonight they wouldn't have any at all.

Sure - I can believe that, though to me you have left yourself with more risk than you needed to if you move Kelly before you ever see Dingler against MLB pitching. Seems like on a developing team those are exactly the kind of roster moves that are in your interest to make to stay ahead of your evaluation needs.

I don't get the constant drive to swap away every player that starts producing. Isn't the whole point to develop players who produce so you can have them on *your* team? In baseball the grass is almost never actually greener on the other side.

McStinky with a sweet 'theft' of home.

and Tork followed up with 2 Ks. his BA is sort of hanging at 230. That contact skill level isn't going to get him back the majors. Dingler on the other hand with 2 more hits after the HR. He's sitting at 299/360/890. What does he have to do get an audition?

why do you even pitch to Jose once you are behind 2-0? The art of pitching around guys is one thing this team has lost.

You knew once Faedo hit a RHB that he’d not be effective

Tesla profit announcement today down 45%. Money is thicker than politics. A GOP tax cut might be nice but maybe he's starting to figure out that EV buyers are on the blue side of the spectrum?

One thing with Dan Dickerson that really drives me crazy is when he goes totally OCD on a guy's pitch count like he is right now. You can talk about something else. Once you mention it five times we can follow along for ourselves....

Does that mean he left the team so he wouldn't have to listen to them tell him he was cut?

Good luck with that. Not only do they cost more, half empty arena's are a bad look

Apparently the greatest aspiration of GOP House members is to be counted as a child of Logan Roy.