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Watching this one now, and surprised it missed the cancelled sketch montage.

Gotta think Justin Turner signing with the Cubs may increase the chance of Mr. Workman's return.

Gonna go on a limb and say that episode is not shown in its entirety on The Cock.

I was surprised (or I missed it?) not to see It's Pat on that montage.

I ripped the damn band aid off flying into Reagan last week.

Nathan Lane's Hakuna Matata parody was great. Eddie Murphy doing Tracy Morgan also. I thought it was enjoyable, and wonder how many other people will join me on my slow burn binge. Just started S3 yesterday.

Cody, McCosky, and Beck all are. Just need the Evans to make the move.

It's been 10 years, but I regularly did that from roughly 2010-2015. The facilities have changed significantly, but really you just walk back there. There used to be a guy in an orange hat who power tripped and kept people from going back there, but it's just free seating, get up close and personal, and don't be an autograph hound. Enter by the area behind the right field of the stadium, walk the path below and sit in the bleachers between the two fields. Once games get going, there's usually two games going at once.

Me too... well, not always... I didn't really get into the sabermetric/second-guessy part of things until around the turn of the century.

Tigers Non-tenders back to 1990... I found this on my hard drive and figured I'd share: Year Player 2024 Ricky Vanasco 2024 Brendan White 2024 Wilmer Flores 2024 Eddys Leonard 2023 Garrett Hill 2023 Spencer Turnbull 2023 Austin Meadows 2023 Brenan Hanifee 2023 Freddy Pacheco 2022 Jeimer Candelario 2022 Harold Castro 2022 Willi Castro 2022 Brendon Davis 2022 Miguel Diaz 2022 Kyle Funkhouser 2022 Michael Papierski 2021 Matthew Boyd 2021 Grayson Greiner 2018 Alex Wilson 2018 James McCann 2017 Bruce Rondon 2015 Neftali Feliz 2015 Al Alburquerque 2012 Daniel Schlereth 2011 Will Rhymes 2010 Zach Miner 2008 Aquilino Lopez 2007 Chad Durbin 2006 Alexis Gomez 2004 Eric Munson 2003 Ben Petrick 2003 Andy Van Hekken 2002 Robert Fick 2002 Julio Santana 2001 Deivi Cruz 1997 Bob Hamelin 1997 Fernando Hernandez 1995 Alan Trammell 1994 Junior Felix 1994 Gene Harris 1994 Mike Gardiner 1994 Chad Kreuter 1993 Bob MacDonald 1993 Gary Thurman 1992 Mark Carreon 1992 Dan Gakeler 1992 Steve Cummings 1991 Andy Allanson 1991 Johnny Paredes 1991 Jeff Kaiser 1990 Lance McCullers Tram's name being on there 1995 is a quirk of how technically all free agents could be offered arbitration, and I need to go back and refresh myself with the 1990's rules on this.

We had huge budget slashes as part of the 2013 reconciliation, and that led to falling way behind our work and a massive massive hiring spree 2014-2019 or so.

I've mentioned my mom's dementia, or maybe I haven't. I don't know. But the charity that I've donated to and have gotten some help from sent out a blast that they are losing significant funding as a result of recent actions, funding that will stop research in its tracks.

The audits are all mandated by some law or directive. A colleague of mine just participated in an audit of a sister site; they get to return the favor later this year. There's other professional accreditation type audits, ISO and the bunch. All to make sure things are up to code. Honestly, there are some things that are inefficient, but I'm not sure how slashing the budget will help address those inefficiencies.

Audits happen all the time in the government anyways.

Those companies took off 2020. Scam central. Anticipate them taking off again here soon with the FTC likely getting defanged (if it hasn't already)

The internet has turned this profession into influencer central.

Let alone the cost of office space for federal workers. Nobody above me on the food chain has gotten any work done the last three weeks.

Correct on the contract. Note 6M from each year is deferred way into the future. If acquired now:

I will say on Arenado, the Rockies are covering a good chunk of his contract, and there are some deferals in there. The contract isn't too prohibitive, but the CBT number would balloon in 2027 (first year of Skubal under a free agent contract) due to the fact that the Rockies aren't covering any of that contract.

Includes health benefits (total divided by 30 with some weird adjustments, roughly 17.5M last year), 16.7M for the pre arb bonus pool. Players on multi-year deals are generally on the AAV of the deal, but there are some adjustments. For example, they valley charge on Flaherty.

Second by percentage increase.

FYI, as of now, the Tigers have the third highest CBT number increase from last season.

Putting a pin for this... I am not necessarily saying this was a reason not to sign him, but in terms of something to track going forward, if the Tigers hit on their second rounder this year or hit on a pick taken with under slot money saved on the second rounder, remember that wouldn't have happened if Bregman signed.

If they are making a $120M investment based on a 98 PA sample, that is a mistake.

bsky vs. twitter. I wish more people would make the move. Enough Tigers beat guys have that I can get what I need in the special group of them I've created. Still waiting on the Evans. Bluesky is 100% chronological and user chosen. No algorithm pushing stuff. I'm keeping my Twitter for the stragglers, but if you see, almost every tweet I have posted since 1/20 has included a jab at its piece of **** owner. I suspect the blue checkmarks don't want to move and lose that paycheck. My golf follows, understandably, are slow to move.