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Was Purdue named for those Purdues?

Fun fact: Musk did not take an oath to uphold the Constitution. So, who knows how that's going to come out in the judicial wash.

Just like we did with Miggy and like we did with Zimmermann and like we're doing with Javy. At least we (barely) escaped doing it with Prince.

I suspect they either pulled the 6/156 off the table, or it wasn't on the table in the first place. Maybe we can get something in place that hooks us for no more than two years, if that. I can't help but believe he'd much rather go to Boston and play second, though.

More making America great.

She has the look of a person who would throw the switch, or yell "Ready ... aim ..."

Maybe they are big fans of haggis and mushy peas.

I was going to step into the thread to remind everyone that Musk’s control of the US government is illegal only when the Supreme Court says it is. At which point, to Ratko’s point, Musk can simply say, “Yeah? Who’s gonna stop me? You, you puny old people in your faggoty robes? I got the president and his military behind me. Who’s behind you?”

I wouldn't want an owner that spent like Mike did.

You're overthinking it.

A step toward authorizing civilian militias to round up citizen political dissenters.

Even half joking is too much. 😉 Really, if Harris re-signed Zack Short to give him hundreds of innings at SS, even as a stopgap, I would seriously question whether he's actually trying to win this year.

Baseball had no incentive to protect Hoberg's job, since he's not a marketable player*, although they do have an incentive to cover his betting on baseball itself, since all revealing that would accomplish is to raise questions about other umpires, then players, then baseball's association with gambling itself. I have no idea whether Hoberg actually did gamble on baseball—all I am opining on here is what the incentives for Baseball are. * - It could also be argued that Hoberg, as a relatively unknown person in the game, makes a useful object lesson for others in the game when it comes to their own gambling on baseball, and the lesson is, "cover your tracks better than this guy did."

Why Zack Short? He's on the verge of washing out of baseball entirely. Or are you saying so because he's the one devil you know?

If by this you are saying we will be great pitching and poor hitting, I don't think we know that yet. If you mean merely that our pitching will rank better than our hitting, I think there's a good chance of that.

Top export trading partner for each U.S. state.

Color the writers at Yahoo unimpressed with the Tigers' offseason. https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-offseason-grades-grading-every-teams-winter-from-an-a-for-the-dodgers-to-fs-for-the-mariners-and-padres-221333389.html Detroit Tigers: C+ Signed 2B Gleyber Torres to a 1-year deal Signed SP Alex Cobb to a 1-year deal Signed RP Tommy Kahnle to a 1-year deal Signed SP Jack Flaherty to a 2-year deal As with Kansas City, Detroit’s surprise run to the playoffs dramatically shifted our perception of where the franchise sits in its competitive cycle. In turn, there were expectations for the Tigers to ratchet up their spending this winter in hopes of bolstering an ultra-young roster that proved its mettle against Houston and Cleveland in October and appears eager to take the next step. Instead, the Tigers have run a similar playbook to recent offseasons: little to no trade activity and short-term free-agent contracts for veterans trying to reestablish their value. Strangely enough, the team’s first two additions cost the same: 1 year, $15M to Torres and Cobb. Torres should provide much-needed reliable production to a troublingly thin lineup. I quite like his addition, even if it prompts some uncomfortable questions about the future of former No. 1 pick Spencer Torkelson, with Colt Keith expected to move to first in deference to Torres. Kahnle should be a nice veteran complement to the bevy of younger arms who shined in various bullpen roles in 2024. Cobb, though, is more of a head-scratcher. Yes, he was an All-Star as recently as 2023, but he has had hip surgery since then, and that rehab plus myriad nail and blister issues limited him to five total starts in 2024. How the 37-year-old Cobb performs relative to Charlie Morton and Justin Verlander — who also received 1-year, $15M pacts this winter — will be one of the more interesting subplots this season. The Tigers clearly needed rotation reinforcements beyond Tarik Skubal. I’m not sure Cobb will provide such support, but the February return of Flaherty should help in that department. Free agent Alex Bregman looms as the most obvious opportunity remaining for Detroit to make a big splash, given his relationship with manager AJ Hinch and clear positional fit on a Tigers roster that has a lot of intriguing young infielders but nothing resembling a cornerstone. Bregman would seem to check a lot of boxes for the kind of veteran star a team in Detroit’s position could build around, but the Tigers have thus far been unwilling to meet his hefty contract demands. If that changes and they spend big to land him, the whole narrative about their winter will shift. If not, this offseason could end up feeling like a fairly big missed opportunity. Of course, the writers (who are the Cespedes Family BBQ guys with their hyperfan cred) are grading the Tigers on the same criteria as those fans who believe all the Tigers have to do is stop going to the Hyundai player dealer for their free agents and start shopping at the Rolls Royce player dealer and simply pick a player off the shelf from there. They also stop just short of explicitly stating that they'll give the Tigers a good grade only if they sign Bregman.

I think it’s more they believe the Twins are the clear favorites in the Central. But they do have us at 80-82, same as the Guardians.

Thank god for PLTR.

We are—from 2027 on. At the moment, they could use a better second banana than Dillon Dingler.

We already it’s not going to happen for that and other reasons. I’m looking for logical flaws if you have them.

OK, here is a completely wild contract idea that I’m sure no one’s thinking about and would never be offered. But tell me whether do you think this doesn’t make sense, and then tell me why not. Offer Bregman 6/180. Front-load it to be 40 in each of the first two years, and 25 in each of the last four. Give him a player option after the first year, and give us a team option after the second year. If Bregman declines the option after year one and the Tigers exercise the option after year two, the last four years become guaranteed. This gives Bregman a super high salary for this season, and if he slays, he can opt out and try his luck on the market again. We will have gotten a tremendous season, and we can keep our current prospects in the wings to try again in 2026. If Bregman does poorly enough to not exercise his player option, he could come back for another year, and if he slays, we can then pick up the rest of the contract guaranteed, and if he doesn’t, we can let him go. It would have to be basically an All-Star season in year two for us to pick it up. Then I feel like we could get close to pretty good value from him for his remaining years here at the price of 4/100. I doubt he’s going to have a Javy drop off because his skill set is much more solid than Javy’s was when he came here. This won’t happen, of course, but tell me why this won’t work.

Also, the outright rooting for Russia and against America by lurkerholic is just bonkers.