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Keep this one saved for when people complain about Biden losing it.

He tied it to capping his salary next year, and therefore 2026 as well.

File and trial has spread significantly the last few years. It used to be only a few teams, but others have caught on. Likely just stuck an intern on to study and found it was worth it. Throw in some front office cross-pollination, and here we are. Regardless, the discourse around this whole deal has been frustrating. So many making the assumption that they were $25K apart when the deadline hit and getting their shots off without taking the step back to understand, and no authoritative media to dig around and find that Mize changed his offer to set them straight.

It's a philosophy teams stick to in order to squeeze players, basically. It's not legally binding, but certainly kills your leverage if you cave.

File and trial doesn't rule out long term deals, which this technically is.

The world ending whenever there are media layoffs.

Gym related pet peeves peek in January. I assume the timing here is not a coincidence.

It's common down there. "Favorite to sign" is a common euphemism for agreed to a contract before eligible.

We say this like Al was in the room beyond the first pick. I will say this for Al, even if his hand was forced, the player development shift did start under his watch. Now, whether there was some lip service and if it was a half measure is a legitimate question. Player development has been a definite emphasis for Harris and company to the point where they deserve a lion's share of the credit, imo. They've gone all in, whereas Avila dipped his toe in the water enough to give the veil of an upgrade, but still made sure to tip his hat to the old school folks. There are plenty of quotes to that nature. I suspect this was a big reason for the disjointed 2022. Besides, a strong player development reputation does help in the draft. Say you get to the third day and you have a sleeper you like you want to take in the 13th round. Your area guy calls to make sure he will sign for $150K, but he says no. The Dodgers, with a strong player dev reputation, take him and sign him for $150K instead.

Badge of honor if they are going to lather Ozark in praise.

Can I solicit advice? RSS... I'm trying to ditch social media and (gulp) forums as means for news aggregation. Reason being: election year upcoming, trying to focus on news instead of hysteria around it. Does anybody have any tips for using RSS or specific apps? Just kind of curious. I've started by trying to set up Tigers RSS's (which I know is what MWG does here), but Gannett (Detroit News and Free Press) and MLive don't work with RSS.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/columns/nate-monroe/2024/01/16/after-iowa-caucus-loss-the-reckoning-for-florida-governor-ron-desantis-is-here/72237297007/

Means they have agreed to a deal but can't be signed until next Jan 15.

Be careful following Doyle. Plagiarist shiester.

My understanding is Prime takes over local streaming rights, formerly on Bally Plus. I wouldn't be able to stream Tigers games in Florida. It would also not come with normal Prime membership.

Marcelo Mayer 32

Also, the political media really needs to focus more on delegate counts as opposed to "winning" states or what place.

Back end of the top 40 or so... I'd even rank him lower because of the general lack of success of players of his profile signed at his age.

No might about it. I don't have it off hand, but in recent days came across a Randy Smith quote where he was very blunt with a veneer of passive aggression discussing it.

The pejorative use of dog gives it away.

Gonna remind people in as many spots as I can before they fly off the handle over the Tigers still staying out of the deep end of this pool despite Harris and Metzler taking over. Most of the high end deals signed today were agreed to 2-3 years ago. Even if they wanted to reverse course, that isn't happening. The new facility and ensuing upgrades in the DR are no small investment, likely exceeding a year or two of Miguel Cabrera's salary when all is said and done, which should help the churn of some of these players, but we are talking 3-4 years before that machine is up and running, and another 5+ until those guys are knocking on the big league door. There really are no fast answers down there, short of a shift in priority in the types of players signing to five-digit bonuses you want.

Is the false start call the missed HBP?

Progress isn't always linear.

I finally watch some NFL games this year after giving it up after the Pettigrew PI call was clearly phoned in by the league office, and the officials are still putting their thumb on the scale.

Yes.