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Point taken.

Randy Johnson

I mean, it's OK to talk about when the Trump regime loses and falls out of power, and that they will be brought up on Nuremberg-like charges and there will be trials and convictions and punishments and all that. Nothing wrong with talking about it. Just remember that they already know that's a possibility, if not probability, and they can hear us talking about it, and if we think they have no choice but to allow themselves to lose a free and fair election so we can set those events in motion, we're delulu.

Didn't Auschwitz hold 100,000 people, too?

So much for ICE efforts in Minneapolis winding up ...

From the Department of No Sh*t, Sherlock:

Ewwww.

I did not realize that many northern Michigan counties are more than 50% Amish!

Which city would be named most for the US?

Yes, it is all about the money for the MAGA elite and their executive class running dogs, and it's all about a skewed interperetation of Christianity for the people supporting them with their votes and wallets.

Unfortunately, there is a far longer tradition of hate toward minorities in America than practically anywhere else in the world.

Just another data point as proof that once all the immigrants have been rounded up and emptied out of the prison camps one way or another, and they need dissidents and apostates to fill them back up, your whiteness will not save you.

Hope he saved up some money. He's gonna need it.

Sop making sense, you're ruining the piling on. 😁 I don't believe many position players were convinced the Tigers are a franchise on a serious comeback earlier this offseason, not would they believe we would spend the money when it comes time to. (Heck, most posters here didn't believe Chris Ilitch/Scott Harris would ever spend any money.) Players are probably more open to the idea of coming here now after our having signed Valdez and Verlander. I think it's going to take at least another year of proving it, and moving on to at least the ALCS, before the best of them seriously consider agreeing to commit their remaining prime production years here. As for the city itself, anyone without interest in winning an argument would agree that it's clear that as a destination place to live, Detroit is nowhere on a par with New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, or Boston. We can probably add to that Miami (especially for Latin players), Anaheim (proximity to LA, mainstream cultural center), Seattle (team history, coolness factor), or Phoenix or Atlanta (close to home). Vegas will be up there, too, once they have their team. Other things like years and money being equal, a young player with lots of money, especially if he's single, would simply not choose Detroit as a place to live over any of these other cities. I have no evidence to present the court on this. I'm just leaning on my experience having lived a life in the United States.

You posted "'ever' was the wrong word" as I was crafting the follow-on response, which is why I didn't see that before posting. Also, to be clear, we had been talking largely about position players like Bregman and Bichette and, in prior years, Soto (!) and Ohtani (!!), which I thought at the time to be true, and still believe it would have been true had Harris pursued any of those top position player free agents, which I believe he did not do. I have said it's always going to be more challenging to sign top position players than top pitchers, partially because we have a known, proven pitcher whisperer heading up that staff, and also because of the perception that Comerica is harder on hitters, particularly RHH, than most parks. I still believe this to be true. Yes, dramatically overpaying players like Victor and Prince and Justin Upton may get certain of them to want to come to Detroit or stay in Detroit (Miggy). Dombrowski /Mike Ilitch did that, with mixed success and a negative impact on the franchise's fortunes over the following decade. But you know what else will get players to want to come here? Being a proven, consistent playoff team, winning a pennant, winning a ring. Once we establish ourselves as that team, then the Tigers will become a destination more top free agent hitters will consider on a par with other elite teams.

No, I'm being serious: who said no one who's any good would ever want to sign with the Tigers ever again? Because that wasn't me. I made a qualified statement that no one want to sign with a team with a recent-memory history of blowing it up and tanking, which is definitely true, and which applied to us. We did break a seal with Valdez, but he was also a distressed asset who, apparently, had to make a choice between us and the Pirates, which is a no-brainer for roughly ten out of ten players. However, breaking that seal, and then signing Verlander, was pretty important and, assuming we make the playoffs again and perhaps go even deeper, should help during the next normal offseason.

Who said that?

So to be clear, Trump is raking Thomas Massie for "fighting ... against a hopeless agenda of Hate and Stupidity ..." Got it.

We already had fascism in America: the Jim Crow South.

Their Orange Jesus telling them "don't worry about it" is all a third of the population needs to hear to be comfortable with it.

It occurs to me that if, miracle of miracles, Perot had become President, we'd've seen a similar kind of pro-oligarchy, anti-labor, deregulating regime we are seeing now.

I can see why people were so doom and gloom about the franchise, given the decade that preceded the 2024 playoffs, which they seemed to treat as a one-off (and maybe still do, who knows). Some people are simply the type who like to say they're just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I think part of it is, nobody wants to be disappointed, so they prevent themselves from developing expectations, or even from hoping. What I hope is that we're past all that and we can see the Tigers for what they are: a franchise on the rise, with a chance to step in among the elite of teams for a little while, rather than a team that simply got lucky with a bunch of nobodies for a couple of years and is destined to go splat any day now due to operator error.

We were ranked 7th in runs scored before stumbling down the stretch. I don't think the problem was that the offense sucked. I think the problem was that a good offense stumbled down the stretch. I am not tearing my hair out over lack of All-Star bat added the offense. To all appearances, Harris is counting on improvement from hitters we already have on board. He's got us to within one game of the ALCS two years in a row. I know I'm on an island here, but if he does not add an All-Star bat to the offense, then I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Interesting how he said when he went to Houston in 2017 he had his "mind blown" by the analytics.