Edman85

I think the Tigers caught some pitch design lightning in a bottle in 2024 and the league caught up a bit in 2025. So when they added some flawed pitchers in hope of a fix, they ended up throwing meat because the league was ready.

Yep, why that was interesting.

Funny thing is I thought the same thing about another ginger who was in movies around the same time: Jeffrey Jones.

On the topic of TV people being creeps, the NYT had a story on the Frugal Gourmet and a documentary that came out detailing his accusers today. I went to his wikipedia and noticed it was very sanitized. There are several people working on his behalf in the edit discussion trying to keep the allegations off the page. It was interesting to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jeff_Smith_(chef)

I always got creep vibes from him for some reason. Ah, I see he had an incident in 1994, pre-internet.

Additionally, just looking at raw stats, it takes like 1,000 PA vs. LHP for any split to be meaningful. With swing path analysis now, teams may be able to detect something faster now vs. different pitch shapes or use Kinetrax or something similar to help a player learn to hit the opposite hand. But you can do that in the cage, not in the game.

Mlb and NHL likely have different rules for arbitration.

Bryan Sammons back on a minor league deal. Which is surely going to upset some idiots...

Fargo Season 6 could be interesting if it ever happens...

Wait, renovating a Government building is illegal?

My brother had a similar story about a friend.

Why is it that it is generally accepted that chiropractors are legitimate doctors and not pseudoscientific quacks?

There ya go. Half the schedule is in a state where there isn't much benefit, perhaps a net negative, to the athlete to defer.

Michigan's jock tax must not be that extreme, especially at the salaries the Tigers are paying. It is an income tax and luxury tax dodge, so there hasn't been much need.

I do feel like criticizing a move because the one doing the criticizing hasn't heard of the player signed is more of a self own than a legit criticism of the move. I don't mean that to call out MCS, but it's been something that has perturbed me for 30 or so years at this point, and a very common talk radio/talking head talking point that has never made sense to me. Notoriety isn't correlated with ability, and it is an admission of some degree of ignorance, which in a rational world would weaken the argument.

If they offer a fair offer, the player won't say no because of a reputation of being cheap. It will be because the offer itself is cheap.

Best comps I could find the last five offseasons of SP with 5-5.171 years of service traded roughly on Mize's value tier were Chris Bassitt and Steven Matz. Both got decent packages of guys who were names at the time, but didn't work out (one of the prospects was the brother of a former swiping app match I never met up with, but every time I see this name it reminds me of that. Can you guess whose sister I matched with? 😄 ). I think it would be foolish to trade Mize right now, given need and upside. Just pointing out he's got a bit more value than one third tier prospect.

I would imagine MSNBC/MSNOW is exact opposite of the one on the left?

As a golf fan, I for one am glad Scottie Scheffler wasn't shot dead in a situation where a power tripping cop got his feelings hurt a couple years ago.

Unless you are storming the Capitol...

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/ym4cb2/south-park-strong-christian-woman https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/3xtsmx/south-park-jesus-double-date

It tells you a bit where the Tigers stand in TV eyes that all their Sunday Night games are in the Peacock part of the season (i.e., when NBC has Sunday Night NBA) and not the NBC stretch that resembles the recent ESPN Sunday Night big market games.

I'm trying to dig up the articles, but the studies out there have not really shown any hurt feeling effect for players who went through arbitration. They really just take the best deal they can. Some re-sign, but not any less than those who don't get their feelings hurt in arbitration. It's water under the bridge by the time free agency rolls around. In this case, the arguments will be less hurtful, more trying to establish precedent anyways. If the Tigers go in saying "He should make what David Price and Jacob DeGrom made," that's not exactly a slap in the face. Anybody expecting an elite Boras client to re-sign before free agency is fooling themselves anyways.

Also teams trying to maximize their depth and not DFA players may be waiting until they can 60-day some guys when pitchers and catchers report in a month.

I turned 11 Randy Smith's first season, so maybe that's why this doesn't include me? 😄