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I don’t think there’s any perfect solution that equally satisfies teams, players, and fans. The reserve clause helped teams and fans but not players. Free agency helps players and some teams and their fans, but not other teams and their fans. I guess that’s the mark of a really good compromise: when it happens, no one is completely happy with it.

All due respect, yes, it does matter as long as you’re repeatedly hammering Scott Harris for ****ing up opportunities to improve the roster simply because he’s failing to, I guess, wave his magic wand and make it all better, and you can’t identify what actual opportunities he’s missing. That’s what we see emotional fans do during their knucklehead moments. Someone in your position may reply that it’s not their job to figure it out, it’s Harris’s job, we don’t have to figure it out for him, Harris is simply ****ing everything up by not figuring it out, so he better figure it out pronto or lose his job. We hear that from posters here on occasion (although I don’t recall ever hearing that from you.) But that line of rhetoric is OK only for casual fans who don’t pay even a shred of attention to the team when we’re losing. When we hear casual fans like that lash out about the team, the rest of us can smile and ignore their whinging as we might a child’s. But give the high quality of adult-level discussion about the Tigers that takes place here, there’s a certain standard of discourse posters are expected to uphold, and that includes having an idea of how to fix the things we insist is going wrong with the team. “It’s not my job to figure it out” is nothing more than a pathetic copout. This is not a demand that you come back with a solution for Harris—there’s certainly no rule requiring that.

I need to look up how many guys besides Granderson had 500+ games and 2,000+ at bats with three different franchises. I would think you could count them on your fingers.

As the game stands now, if anything, I would see the owners seeking to remove as much friction as they can between the Big Six teams and the pennant. As long as it is the team that draws fans and revenue versus the individual player, Baseball will privilege those teams as much as possible for the benefit of all. The main thing that might prevent this from happening is some rule change that would highlight the individual over the team, such as the Golden At Bat, which, I could definitely see this happening before Manfred’s tenure is sunsetted. They have to find a way to delocalize the rooting in baseball in order to flatten the interest level among teams.

Sure it does. I want to know what you’re seeing that the rest of us are missing.

I did the needful in Chicago today!

I know I’m behind and this was a while ago, but did the RWM ever call these people dressed in military uniforms “crisis actors”?

Anyone who believes it is on a self-imposed news starvation diet.

It’s because they have cleared the White House press room of all the remaining journalists. In practical terms, all that are left are right wing bloggers, podcasters, and social influencers.

Also, no Christians lost their right to vote because of anyone’s reaction to the Kirk killing.

No, I am not an atheist. Thanks for asking. Not that you care, since you are an active and eager agent of chaos and evil. And that’s the kind of thing we don’t have to ask you about, since it reflects a behavior and not a belief.

Isn’t the Babylon Bee a joke site openly trading in farce?

I think it might be time for some trailing stops on the indexes I own.

Rule of thumb: if the politicos are getting wealthy by ripping off the masses of sheep—i.e., if they know exactly what they’re doing and they’re succeeding at doing it—they’re not dip****s.

Which is why Trump’s favorite all-time president is McKinley—the last open friend of the trusts in the White House before this guy.

MAGA: “Oh, my KING! Oh, yes! Yes, my king, YES!”

Gambling in Vegas has been legal for almost 100 years. Gambling everywhere else is legal now. Might as well hammer J.B. for eating McDonalds.

I stayed at a hotel at LAX a couple weeks ago. My room had a view of downtown. Still quite smoggy, much more than Chicago, which is hardly at all.

No no no no, you’re getting this all wrong. When confronted with iniquities, whether it’s Jay Jones on the Democratic side or the hundreds and hundreds on the Republican side, you double down, double down, and then double down some more. That’s the only thing your adversaries respect. Otherwise they just roll their eyes and regard you as a 😉

Quoting bible verses in defense of cruelty to the least of our brothers just goes to show how American evangelicals have bankrupted the core message of Christianity.

Joe Davis just referred to Shohei Ohtani as “the greatest player to ever play this game.” Do you agree?

Tell us the trade you think should have happened that we didn’t make happen.

That’s because he’s a unicorn.