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I don't know if this can't be done, necessarily—the Cubs did this in 2015—but it definitely could not be done by the Avila cabal.

Yes, this, because after seven years of dog-paddling in place, we need to start putting some Ws on the board already. I don't require playoffs this year, but I simply can't take yet another deferred-gratification season of 100-plus losses.

Because you've given up on TORK! already? 😉 Even if, Josh Bell is all bat and nothing else. We had an entire team of that drive us into the rocks for years on end. Pass.

Oh, good God almighty ... If by any stretch the corrupt influence of the fascists is finally sufficiently on the wane, can we please do something to stop this already!

It’s a trap. Trump et al will use this as proof of concept that Section 230 must be repealed, since Democrats will be on board with prosecuting Twitter, i.e. “an interactive computer service”, for content posted by a Twitter user, i.e. “another information content provider”.

Since 1954 lol

It appears that his #1 qualification for Senate will be his ability to murder Democratic colleagues with whisper quiet.

Also:

Says him.

I've been a huge fan of The Crown. It's easily been one of my top five shows of all time. However, Season 5, which just started, made a critical error in hiring Dominic West to play Prince Charles. Besides the fact that West looks nothing like him, every time I see him on screen, I can't not think of The Wire. It's completely distracting. And the casting of Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip isn't much better.

I’m not sure James Click is going to end up here because I’m not sure Scott Harris is even going to hire a GM for the first year. He might want to go through his first year as PBO/GM so he has can get the feel of what needs to change, and exactly how, between the old way and the new.

Exactly.

I just have no idea how people can’t just see right through the ridiculousness of that stuff the second they see it. I blame schools and parents.

Not enough.

LOLOLOL ... stop, Marco, you're killing me!

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Just what we need: up to three more tossers who can't strike hitters out. I thought it was important to control the strike zone? Or maybe what we mean by that is pitchers who won't walk guys, which, these guys didn't last year. We'll see, if we end up signing any of these guys. Profar definitely takes walks and puts the ball in play—just not very hard when he does, and thus he's up and down from year to year. Plus, if we're going to hire more guys who can't strike hitters out, we should probably get someone out there who can defend. He's basically Curaçao Robbie Grossman.

I understand. The Baseball marketing machine thrives on home runs and strikeouts, and the increase of both is a direct result of the live ball. I'm just saying, if Baseball cared—I mean really cared—about protecting pitchers from injuries, instead of just letting it happen since it happily maintains the fungibility and thus cost control of the pitcher pool, I'm certain deadening the ball would accomplish that.

Deaden the ball, remove the fear of all nine guys in the order being able take you out of the park, and pitchers won't have to throw so hard with so much torque to get swing-and-miss. They can just heave it up there and say here you go, hit it and get yourself out. I don't understand why no one ever contemplates that idea except me.

It's been only a couple weeks since the moves on the training staff. It's only mid-November! I believe this is another hangover from the Avila era: the implicit assumption that any move the Tigers front office makes to address anything either won't make any difference, or is at best 50/50 due only to luck. I would agree that was true under the Avila regime, who simply didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Fans can believe going in that this will also be true under Harris because plus ça change and all that, and be as skeptical of him as they were of the former guy. And maybe that's totally fair to expect until he documents some success, I don't know. Perhaps I'm blindly checking my skepticism at the door and huffing some hopium, but as for me, I'm going to give Harris the benefit of the doubt that it will be fixed until we see that it isn't, because I trust his process based on his background and interviews. As for injuries throughout Baseball: I'm starting to wonder whether the Drivelining of the game in general—wherein the quest to add even a single tick and a little late movement to fastballs, in order to induce more swing-and-miss, leads to maxing out the stress on shoulders and elbows while training for it—isn't a factor leading to the injuries.

They've taken steps to address that.

This is how traumatized over the years we Tiger fans have become—we regard sub-replacement players we've seen losing games for us for years as acceptable pieces for the team going forward. I am so glad a new day has dawned when this kind of thinking will soon be relegated to the garbage can of low expectations.