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Never stop not making sense.

Yeah, Chris Ilitch deserves to have it stuck to him for being such a meanie to that nice Al Avila. 😁

This, I agree with.

I re-read this just now, and continue to stand behind every word of it. The key part within contains the reason why we will not trade Tarik Skubal, unless we get a package which makes us better this year, which is impossible, because what team would ever trade away more wins to us to get a single year of Skubal in return?

Harris isn't going anywhere unless he publicly squeezes Kelle Ilitch's ass and then drops a deuce on Chris's desk.

Noted. Asshole. 😉

WJBK has more than just an agreement with the FOX Network. They are in fact owned and operated by the FOX network, so it's not as though this would be case of a franchisee dickering with corporate. I won't argue that there's no way the Tigers end up on 20, 50, 38, or anywhere else instead. I'll even agree in the interest of maintaining comity that it might even be more likely they end up on channel 20. All I would maintain is that if FOX were to agree to air the Tigers on their O&O again in 2026, as they did last season, they would not relegate the broadcast to a dot-two.

All due respect, I think using real numbers would show they would make far more money on 2.1 than 2.not 1.

If that were to happened, this town would go bonkers, in part because he would be gone, and in part because whatever we would get back wouldn't be enough to justify it.

I would bet that the Tigers have heard a lot of offers that they could refuse, so I don't know what an offer they can't refuse would even look like. All I am pretty sure of is that a single year of Skubal isn't not going to lead any team to completely empty out the top of their farm system for him. He ain't going anywhere. I see much of the national media are trying to make the Tigers look like jackwagons for spending $38.5MM per year for Valdez while blanching at paying $32MM for Skubal. At least one story I read is, in fact, specifically trying to rile up us Tiger fans over this idea. But I promise you the Tigers would have been pleased to pay $50MM for three years, or even four years, for Skubal to stick around. The Valdez signing has me pretty much resigned to this being Skubal's final year here.

I get what Mister Salad means. We can bemoan having to do it even as we do it, exactly because it's terrible but we can't unilaterally disarm in the face of it.

Right. We can't protest killings by outlaws because they are already lawless. But we can and should protest murder by government-sanctioned police. They are not supposed to be lawless.

Job cuts help the economy, and it's not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein.

I should never have dropped out of that Evelyn Wood course.

All my trailing stop loss orders for my tech stocks are kicking in. I'm set with living expenses for a few months now.

If Fox 2 were to put the Tigers on one of their dot-twos, I will eat the hat of your choice.

It gets a lot better, too.

During the summer when there is no first-run programming available? I think so. Even the first-run programs clock sub-one ratings these days. Tiger games would blow that out of the water.

If you're so frightened of Chicago, stay away, then. I don't see how this is any worse than government agents executing people in their car, anyway.

Harris is not declaring for the White House, and even if she is, this party will absolutely not nominate her.

I've been saying this exact thing for years, and I've been getting roasted, not likes, for saying it. The guy knows exactly what he's doing and what he's trying to accomplish. It may not work out the way he wants, but that's because reactions to actions are unpredictable, not because he is dumb as a rock.

Remember "pitching chaos"?

I don't see why FOX 2 would carry the Tigers on their dot-two. It's premium programming, not an infomercial. If they win the rights, they're running it on the main channel.

Boras is Satan. He reps everybody.

The Tigers are not going to trade themselves out of being clear division favorites now by dumping Skubal just because they're big mad at him and money. Not talking about you, but I am just knocked out by how bad some people just don't want Skubal on this team anymore.