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The cost certainty is huge, particularly if you can buy out a couple more years. If you are talking about the aggregate, I disagree. If you are talking about the Tigers, accelerating AAV when you are currently $5M under the Tax is tough. The time to strike was a couple years ago.

I think it's easy enough to send Wenceel Perez to Toledo to start the year and let McKinstry/Vierling/Baez play a bit more outfield than they would otherwise.

I don't know if anybody saw my Tweet, it went a bit viral though. Kevin McGonigle getting an extension signed before the year could cost the Tigers up to four first round picks next year. Between a potential lost pick for his PPI (which is pretty high likelihood right now, I would say), and the AAV of such a deal very likely pushing the Tigers over the CBT. That would mean any compensation picks for QO Free Agents would be after the fourth round instead of the first round. Skubal is a damn near certainty to net one of those picks, but don't rule out Mize or Flaherty. Just FYI.

For college basketball fans, he was on Robbie Hummel's podcast this week, and confirmed they will be working college hoops games on Peacock together next year. They were a great team on ESPN, then Benetti went to Fox. Then Hummel left ESPN for Fox and they teamed up again, only for Hummel to leave Fox this year and Benetti to follow him to NBC/Peacock the next year. For the purposes of this thread, college basketball and baseball only really overlap in Spring Training. Also, worth pointing out NBC has the first round of MLB playoffs, so we could get Benetti those games. I am really curious who they get for the other three crews.

Good riddance to this canicidal battleaxe. Melt in hell.

Taiwan being called Chinese Taipei in international sports competition.

... which is to say I don't limit adversaries to only hostile state actors. Organized crime counts too

Southeast Asia Organized Crime too... Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand...

Just bringing this up again that this thread should be deleted...

A little easier to pull off if an AI agent is able to piece together your health problems, no? https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA250627

Maybe my profession has given me some experience and training on cyber attacks (Shout out, Jeff... iykyk)... Maybe the alarm bell has been ringing extra hard to the point where it was advised to alert friends and family. Maybe I see bad habits all over the internet that are leading people to get hit. Maybe even if somebody isn't worried about the effect on them, the mere fact that so many people fall for them empowers and funds the scammers and leads to new scams. If you don't think foreign adversaries aren't behind many scams that are exploiting people and potentially bringing down systems, you aren't paying attention.

I will just say I can't get into specifics, but have seen ample warnings from people in the know they they are planning cyber attacks and to be extra vigilant for scams right now because Iran is going to try. Phishing links, chain copy and paste posts on Facebook, clone accounts, etc. 2FA with an authenticator where you can, no repeat passwords, etc. Also. For the love of God, purge the Health Thread please. Adversaries having health data on people if they are able to connect dots can lead to them using AI to impersonate doctors, for example.

Everybody put 2fa on everything you can and make as much social media as you can private. Be extra vigilant for scams/phishing. Putting this in the Iran thread on purpose.

It wasn't, but you were still paying for stuff you didn't watch as part of the bundles.

En****tification at its finest. But on the plus side, these games are available now. When I grew up outside of Michigan in the 90's, I could maybe watch two Tigers games a year. Now I can watch 153. You were already paying for the Tigers games, it was just baked into your cable package.