Edman85

A lot of hyperbole in here this morning... It does strike me as penny wise, pound foolish though, but there's no tangible evidence out there that going to arbitration has any effect on performance or relations with a player going forward. I just wonder if preparing for and attending the hearing comes close to exceeding the salary gap. It's also possible Mize's camp was pushing for a higher number during negotiations, or the negotiated contract was a deal with some kind of incentive structure, and then filed with a much lower number than he was asking for originally.

I did not know the new front office was "File and Trial"

The Trump Organization criminal trial had a jury. Tough to keep them all straight...

Experience helps from the "you don't know what you don't know" stand point, but man, in a production support job where speed and efficiency is of the essence, coding skills and the willingness to use computer tools as opposed to taking 20X the time doing by hand because that's what they did thirty years ago...

One job the Tigers posted this year, "principal analyst," required a PhD. Most of their analytics hires do tend to be recent grads, converted interns. I will say in my job, we have had more success molding younger folks than taking on people with experience.

At least one of his civil trials had a jury, no? And the grand juries all went off without a hitch.

I've met Jordan, and like Jordan. He's mentioned in there because he took Brian's place after the Tigstown guys got him ousted at BYB for the plagiarism. Mark got pissy at me dating back 20+ years on here and over the years on twitter, I got tired of his poor logic and hot takey logic and ended up blocking him. That crew is really defensive of Sakowski for some reason, and while I admit I take the bashing too far sometimes, it is only because so many have swept a cardinal sin under the rug.

Woah. I didn't know the arbitration avoidance deadline got moved up to today at 1PM.

I... um... replied to that tweet as only I would.

If I was sure it was a $200K a year job, I would have sent Menzin my resume already...

I've got a chart of analytics positions I'm putting together, and that department has grown from two in the late Dombrowski era to at least 37 (that I know of) analytics or analytics adjacent staffers.

Is Judge Pan on Biden's SCOTUS short list? I see she has risen quickly through the ranks and backfilled KBJ.

Anything to gum up the works and delay.

I had the same thought.

I still have my card. 3/1/21, 3/22/21, 10/26/21, 5/26/22, 11/3/22, 9/22/23

Rudy Pemberton was actually the first signed, but Bautista made it sooner. Jose Lima second.

TRIVIA! Who was the first player signed by the Tigers out of the Dominican Republic to play in the major leagues? They were the 24th of 26 teams to produce a big leaguer out of the DR. The Mariners' first debut was right after the Tiger's guy. The Cubs weren't until three years later.

How many Trump voters died in 2021-22 after refusing the vaccine? It's got to be at least a sizeable drop in the bucket.

Awesome!!!! (Also, I didn't realize I gave write privileges. Don't be offended if I take those away. I fear accidental deletions)

By the way, the end goal is a comprehensive transaction and team personnel database, something that isn't really out there. Step 1 is attempting to put an index of every Tigers amateur international signing together.

Also, the 1992 one on Ebay had a title "Just like Ernie used!" Think about that for a second...

Thanks guys. A bunch did just come from Ebay and reek of cigarette smoke to the point I'm not sure they are usable.

Rodgers deserves jokes about his COVID stances. He among others who spout his line of thinking have gotten people killed.

So it hasn't baked in ZIPS yet. Not sure how apples to apples the original tweet is. Not sure why they include Boyd, unless they think he is re-signing. I could see that happening in February when he can go straight to the 60-day.

Oh, here's a link of digital ones I've found: Media Guides