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FanDuel would not have even offered up the prop.

I remember at Tigers Camp with some players and other campers a discussion of the best pitchers of the 80s. Rozema was extolling the virtues of jack morris, and I said he was good but he wasn’t the best. Rozema asked, who was better? I said Dave Stieb. Rozema thought for a second and said, yeah, you got a point.

Pro tip: claims of receipts work better when your name is attached to them. 😉

Another Skubal game I will be on the road for or otherwise have a scheduled conflict with and will be unavailable to watch. That will make four straight Skubal starts, and six of the last seven, I will have had no opportunity to see him pitch, outside of stolen looks at snippets on MLB.tv. At least it will be a nice birthday treat to see him starting on July 11th.

We signed eight free agents on that list. Six of them spent 1989 as the last year of their career here, and one didn’t even make the team.

Beautifully put. This Tigers organization is like no other Tigers org in my lifetime. It is everything I have wanted to see in this team for at least the least quarter century. I’m glad I’ve lived long enough to see it.

Among other issues … 😏

Trumbull is gone because of Harris.

SportingNews has been a zombie site for a few years now. It’s a shame they have a great legacy name that they are soiling. Same with Newsweek and now Sports Illustrated.

YES! Exactly the plan!

Almost certainly not, but honestly, I hope so. I want to see players or teams caught throwing plays or games for gambling interests. How else do we have any chance to get this scourge out of the game, short of a player or his family being murdered by a disgruntled degenerate?

He’s an only child, so that’s probably part of it.

But can he romance a prop bet line?

I’m thinking about using the major AI bots to plan out a Route 66 driving trip for us. I want to hew as closely to the original road as I can possibly get. I’ve looked at a couple Route 66 websites and they are surprisingly incomplete when it comes to route planning.

Teams basically need three good starters to get through the playoffs, right? Given all the off days then, I think most teams going deep spread the vast majority of their starts among their top three. Our top two are Skubal and Flaherty. Yeah, Flaherty is not particularly good lately, or even this whole year, but unless he has an abject collapse, he’s pitching Game 2 of the ALDS. So, after Skubal and Flaherty, it comes down to Olson and Mize to fill the #3 and spot starter roles, depending on how each do in September. Only if one of them gets hurt or falls off a cliff after August 1 will we be in serious trouble in the rotation. So, unless either Olson or Mize come up lame at the end of this month, we’re not trading for starting pitching, either.

The Tigers are not trading for Ke’Bryan Hayes, Alex Bregman, or any other third baseman. We are #10 in the majors in WAR at third base. If we’re trading for a position player at all, it’s a shortstop, and with Javy having his resurgence, getting most of the starts at shortstop now and coming off his best month of the season so far, we’re not trading for a shortstop, either. We are set for position players. We are obviously going after shutdown relief help, and whether we go for a starter is going to depend in large part how Reese Olson is doing in three or so weeks. He’s back in the next week and should have three starts before we have to start thinking about burning up the phone lines for a starter. If he’s back and strong, we probably won’t feel the need to trade for starting pitching.

We do come out a little ahead although nothing like this. I don’t want to come out ahead in that way. I would give it all back to at least go back to how it was.

****ing dunce with a finger on the trigger. Bad combo.

That’s it? A little swag? That’s all it took? No riches, no money, no payoffs of any actual value? I think this helps confirm the theory that a lot of these running dogs really are true believers.

Except eventually whiteness alone is not going to save anyone.

The other thing is that red hats are going to get all indignant when people express disapproval of this by saying, “Well, duhhhh, it’s a ****ing prison! ****ing libtard scumbag, what the **** else did you think was gonna happen? No wonder you ****ers lost.”

Red hats will soil themselves laughing when they hear this. They think **** like this is hilarious. This is exactly what they voted for.

Kahnle kahllapsed.

They’re going to put these concentration camps all over the country, not just the Everglades. And each one is going to be worse than the one that came before it. Pretty soon most of America is going to know exactly where these camps are and they’re going to just become part of the background. And some of your friends and neighbors—or at least the people who live in the modest income section of town—are going to staff it, get paid really good money, and love what they do, ‘cos they’ll be making America great again.

Well, where do people think these congresspeople come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do, folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders, and term limits ain't going to do any good—you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. h/t George