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Don’t most if not all LLM agents provide sources? I know ChatGPT has links.

mlb.tv is owned by Baseball and its owners. Just sayin’.

I don't expect the Tigers to leave it all on the table this year to maximize Skubal's year here, but it wouldn't surprise me to see them not trade numbered prospects for established veterans. We did get pretty far the past two years without doing so.

I continue to be knocked out by the idea that so many Tiger fans will be disappointed to see Tarik Skubal suit up in a Tigers uniform on March 26.

Yeah, stupid libtard tourists, wanting to come here with their snowflake EUtrash ideology trying to groom our children with their suspicious smiling and politeness. Who needs their dirty woke money anyway. This is another step toward banning foreign travel by ordinary everyday Americans, or at least implementing similar ideological purity tests, exit visas, and spending limits, each of which would act as bureaucratic inhibitors to ordinary Americans (i.e., those without connections to the MAGA elite, or without documented business or governmental reasons to travel) leaving US soil for whatever reason. After all, wouldn't want to allow Americans take too much Trumpcash with them to give to hostile foreign powers like Canada or the EU, right? Hopefully he doesn't do anything that like before May. I have plans.

Good lord, transforming us from a franchise that averaged 101 games a year for six straight years under the former guy into a franchise that wins playoffs series just two years later is not much evidence to you that Scott Harris is having an impact at the MLB level?? I have no words.

Now this one is more interesting. According to this, Macomb County is in the North East, Downriver is in the Mid Eas (along with Birmingham, and I don't mean Michigan), and the city of Detroit is smack on the black line dividing them.

Seriously, mother**** this ****ing guy. Trump wants the rest of us to ration our purchases to help him get a personal W in his so-called trade war. Meanwhile, he has never, ever denied himself anything he ever wanted, ever, and he is angling to become a trillionaire while stepping on our heads and backs. He wants this to be his world while we all support and praise him. Again: mother**** this ****ing guy.

Yes, big point well stated.

No, I am not sure of that.

This makes sense if all development is a random crapshoot and past performance is zero indication of actual ability. But based on the track record available to us, it is safe to assume that when it comes to developing players, Al Avila did not know what he was doing, and Scott Harris does.

I do poopoo about what Avila. He gave us plenty to poopoo. Maybe that's why he spent so much time under Dave Dombrowski as a number two. 😉

I would have to work hard to make a good GM look bad, but I don't think I have to work much at all to make Avila look bad. I don't believe Carpenter and Skubal were anything like "great picks". They were lucky picks, seen by him as the best available at nineteen and nine that just happened to work out, the latter of which only because he had the presence of mind to go outside the system to fix himself. If Avila knew something everyone else didn't about either of these guys—if he knew they were All-Star or Cy Young or Hall of Fame caliber—he absolutely would have taken them a lot earlier than nineteen and nine. And OK, I will go ahead and concede Avila was a genius for following the consensus and picking Riley Greene at 1/5 and allowing Scott Harris to turn him into a 2-win player and 2x All-Star.

And I said how little Avila had to do with being a genius on those acquisitions and with developing them into good players. Where was I wrong? As for Hinch—you will dismiss this idea out of hand, and I grant it's a difficult hypothesis for Avila fans to entertain, but I wouldn't doubt that Avila thought that with Hinch he was getting damaged goods who also happened to win a ring, so I think Avila might have thought Hinch would be grateful for any managing job and be easy to control. I'd bet if Avila had any idea how mentally strong Hinch is, he would never have made that hire. I also believe Hinch was instrumental in pushing Avila out the door. Again, reject all this as you see fit.

I mean, yeah, they are being assholes in general, but that doesn't mean that's the only reason they're doing it. They do have an interest in keeping as many people as possible from seeing what they are doing—witness their blocking of government reports on jobs and inflation—so I think my little hypothesis holds water.

So, no areas you can provide in which he routinely excelled that that I am overlooking?

I'm out of reactions at the moment, but Haha.

Meaning Tork? He was the consensus 1/1 pick all 29 other teams would have made at the time, and he's not performing up to that standard yet. Meaning Casey? He was also the consensus 1/1 pick all 29 other teams would have made at the time, and I don't think anyone would confuse him with being a star. Meaning Riley? He was the consensus 1/5 pick all 29 other teams would have made at the time, and he is not performing at the consistent All-star-level quality people expect from a fifth overall pick. Meaning Carpernter? No 19th-round pick is a genius GM move, and he's a flawed hitter who can't field, either. Meaning Skubal? No 9th-round pick is a genius GM move, and besides, he helped him become great. The Al Avila Tigers had nothing to do with that. Anyone I'm missing? In any event, the issue people have with Al Avila is not his ability to draft amateur players. The guy was a head scout, for crying out loud. If he can't draft decent talent, he wouldn't have that job in the first place. It is every other facet of general management he fell short on, unless you can provide an area in which he routinely excelled that that I am overlooking.

And what? This is a problem?

Because the font was changed to help people with accessibility deficits read government documents, my guess is that they are trying to keep as many people from being able to read what it is they are putting out as much as possible.

True Christian values.

What did he do in San Francisco and on the north side that leads you to believe this? Honest question.

If Baseball's commissioner were to ever try to force owners to do this, they would immediately have him removed and replaced with another Manfred.