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On the downside, Ben Verlander tweets now...

None of the guys added since August 15 can be outrighted until March 6. That includes Cruz, Liranzo, Valencia. Somebody (probably Olsen) to the 60.

Still don't know CBT number for Verlander or Valdez until we know the deferral schedule.

Old takes exposed my Verlander and Valdez takes please.

I don't think the totallytigers woman is a real person. That site has all the makings of AI Slop.

Hulu Live/ESPN/Disney bundle for main cable. Netflix Prime HBO Max Peacock (MLB, Big Ten, and some golf) MLB.TV Paramount+ (close to cancelling but it is cheap) Apple TV (good shows and MLB games) Big Ten Plus (for my Big Ten volleyball and baseball) I get everything except local Bally channels, but those are going away. I might subscribe to the Rays/Marlins plans for a month to catch the Tigers when they play. I resisted before because I did not want to support Bally/FanDuel. Gambling sucks. My credit card (Amex Blue Preferred) gives me 6% cash back on all of the above, and an additional $10/month on the Disney Bundle, so that lightens the cost somewhat.

Unless you have been getting cable for free, sports has always been behind a paywall except for OTA broadcasts...

Thanks for the insight. May I ask why? The pendulum does appear to have swung too far in the other direction. There are some risks that were unknown before, and not nearly enough safeguards in place. Throw in the medicinal boondoggle (one of many such scams in the "wellness" industry), and there does need to be some reining in, even if people should be free to let loose as they desire.

My bad, it is a monthly fee... I would pay that in market. It looks like in past years it comes with a discounted MLB.TV bundle. Not sure how it will work with ESPN getting their mitts in everything.

Season, I believe.

Looking around, and this may not be complete, here's how other teams have handled this since they got taken over by MLB. Across MLB, it looks pretty universal. Each Team has its own app, somebody in market can pay $19.99 to watch the games in a year. A portion of the games are simulcast on local TV. Don't forget some teams lost their RSN in 2023, several more last year. The only thing groud-breaking about this is MLB is subsidizing the Red Wings too. I don't see how this helps the Tigers' bottom line relative to their past FSD deal.

This, from the NYT Opinion Board, was good. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/regulate-legalized-marijuana.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K1A.l9ob.i9J3fa_X2ye2&smid=url-share

The only thing I hate more than the "Give 100% of the credit for player's success to the person in charge of baseball ops at the time" take is arguing the same thing over and over again. Actually I hate several things more than both: seafood for one.

I don't want to link it here, but somebody sent me a link to a "TotallyTigers" blog post about Skubal. It totally read like an AI Slop blog regurgitating Rosenthal. Am I off base there?

Re: gerrymandering... At first I hated all of this. Then I realized that this doesn't necessarily mean that the districts are less competitive... That's what I want. It could make more competitive districts. It could make fewer.

40 man crunch is real, unless Olson's injury is going to keep him out into June. Also, taking on $1.625M might not be wise with the potential cap situation...

No surprise on Olson... The latest injury report said he was rehabbing... as in not ramping up his throwing at all.

He's a good dude, and I know he lurks here even if he doesn't post. Maybe this will drive him out of the shadows!

I don't think that is true. He can only compare to other 3 year guys, unless you found a clause I didn't.

I've liked this guy's (Geoffrey Fowler) columns of late... Helpful, practical tech and privacy advice. For example, one recent one talked about comparison shopping uber and lyft and some studies he did on that to get a good deal. He was among the Laid Off. Here's one of his columns from October. I'm guessing this was not a coincidence.

Rosters still rolling out, but this is what I've got from the Tigers system so far: Tiger Team Carlos Lequerica Israel Kenley Jansen Netherlands Duque Hebbert Nicaragua Hao-Yu Lee Taiwan Tarik Skubal USA George Lombard USA (Coach) Keider Montero Venezuela Enmanuel De Jesus Venezuela Gleyber Torres Venezuela

I just searched Cook's name in the Epstein dump, and it looks like Epstein kept trying to use intermediaries to get in touch with him, and Cook kept saying no and delaying.

Hao-Yu Lee on Team Taiwan (I refuse to call it Chinese Taipei) in the WBC.