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Signing Verlander won’t bring 2011 back to us, but if we could get him for a single year, and it wasn’t so much money that it prevents us from signing anyone else, like another 1/15, I could allow it, because that would mean the pitching team sees something in JV they might be able to work with.

Maybe we sign Bregman to the same one-year pillow contract we signed Gleyber to. Bregman’s market would have to completely collapse and he would have to be committed to short-terming it in Detroit only for this to happen. I’m wondering why I’m not hearing much about Bregman going to the Cubs? They need a 3B and have nothing in their system coming up to play there tat’s worth much.

He's stalling for time waiting for Trump's court to bail him out.

It's a Catch-22. It's a bad look for cities, facilities, etc., to turn down Trump's bid to rent their facilities because it would portrayed as a leftist partisan move and they would be filleted by the RWM for doing so. Then they get stiffed and the local taxpayers have to absorb the cost.

I sometimes quote trolls, but usually I do so to build off what they're saying in order to address everyone else.

"Fully" sounds a bit interpretative, which has a tinge of subjectivity to it. Or maybe I'm wrong there. I want him in there if he's 100%. Will he be 100% healed in a smidge less than four months? Do these kind of severe fractures heal that quickly for guys in their mid-20s? Especially two in the same general area?

I don't feel bad for any other team in the NFL, or for their fans, and I won't for a long time yet. SOL is too near in the rear-view for me to be so magnanimous.

Would you risk Hutch on the Super Bowl? Remember, he will not have played since early mid-October, nearly four months since live game action, so he may be less than sharp. And, of course, his newly-healed bones would be more at risk in February than starting next July. And we'll have Anzalone and Montgomery and probably Barnes back. So, stronger than we are now. If you're HC, do you risk Hutch coming back green for the Super Bowl? Bpnus question: if you're a Lions' fan, do you believe the chances Gamblin' Dan starts Hutch in the Super Bowl is any less than 100%?

**** those guys for being so reasonable about it. 😏

I hope not. They need down time to heal and get mentally reset as well. Light workouts only starting Wednesday and into the weekend.

You hoped they’d be better? You might be all alone on that one …

It's not about your puny truth. It's about how they feel.

How can you not believe a guy in a country beard wearing a snapback truckers cap backwards?

From the Department of Hey Man, I Gotta Live In This Town: TBF, literally everybody here is also predicting a Lions win.

Sure it makes sense. The more connected we are in one way (digitally), the less connected we seem in others (IRL). I am lucky in that a few of the people I’ve met over the past few years, I’ve stayed connected with IRL. I’m seeing a buddy I played softball with for years in the 15-20-year-ago range for lunch on Thursday. There’s another guy who was the captain of a hardball team I was on, we get together once a quarter for dinner and a play, and we double date with our wives occasionally. But it has been since college since I’ve had a group of people I’d hang around with most every day. Of course, at my age, a lot of people don’t even want to see their spouse every day, so … 😏

I remember my checkmate line in the 80s being, “Jesus founded my religion—who founded yours?” That was back when I actually cared about such minor points of difference.

I think what’s potentially more alarming is the “let’s see how this plays out” part. What the hell could he mean by that??

And as such cannot be relied upon to adhere to the well-established ethics of journalism, such as avoiding slander and libel; attempting to identify mis- an disinformation; maintaining standards of good taste and decency; maintaining respect for accountability; and elevating truthfulness, accuracy, and facts—specifically because they are not journalists.

I’m gonna go with “more an admission”. Otherwise, they would be defending his actual qualifications and record, and that’s what pointedly is not happening here.

The “social on our terms” part has occurred to me before, and I have contemplated my own a situation in terms of that. Social media has been a huge boon for me because it has allowed me to connect, and reconnect, with people who probably would have permanently receded into my dim and distant past. People I went to school with, I used to work with, I used to play ball with, I belong to the same clubs as—it’s so easy now to connect online just to connect. Drop a line, they (probably) drop one back, you’ve caught up. On the other hand, it’s so easy to do so online that doing more seems like a huge pain. It’s easy to write a couple texts saying hey how ya doin’ for a couple minutes—it’s much harder to get together someplace for an hour, or hour and a half, and have deep conversations with people about every topic on your mind. Plus, working at conversing for 60 or 90 minutes running just sounds daunting, and borderline exhausting. You almost relish bathroom breaks so you can catch your breath for a couple minutes before going back to the table or bar and diving back into it. So on the one hand, I’m connected to, and on friendly terms with, more people than I have ever been, which astounds me because I was such a reclusive loner as a kid and young adult. On the other hand, I wouldn’t count any of the people I’ve met online as actual friends, people I could reliably call at an odd hour of the morning to help me through a big problem. I do have a beautiful wife and a good brother close-by I could rely on, but beyond that, if they were gone and something were to go upside down, despite my dozens and dozens of “friends”, I’d really be all alone. I’m in an online community, but I don’t live within an actual community. That’s sad because we have this ideal of a community that I don’t have in my own life. But then, it’s also great because even though I can fulfill my social itch by connecting with people online, I don’t have a whole community of people close by hovering over my business and then gossiping about it all the time. In the end, I’m not sure whether I’d change anything about it. It’s not perfect, but I’m happy with it, I guess.

Also, I’d never heard Tork referred to as Spenser, or even as Spencer, which his why it didn’t land with me right away.

Who's Spenser? EDIT: NM, I now see you meant Tork.

I think I might have learned that once but forgot it. Totally not surprised. Evangelicalism has long been wrapped up in American exceptionalism, such that something invented by an American evangelical preacher would of course given at least the same weight as scripture itself.

My reply would be of course not. This is not a seat-of-the-pants operation. That was the previous regime. Some will disagree.