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Man I totally forgot Daniel Norris was a top 20 overall prospect. Man, did the Tigers ever **** that one up.

The Tigers would sign Skubal for 7/210 to 7/245 every say of the week and twice on Sunday. The fly in that ointment is that Skubal would never take that because it would be the worst offer on the table by a mile and a half.

Totally agree and that’s what I left unsaid in my post—it’s the ability to gamble as easily as simply unlocking your phone. I assume betting apps have lockscreen alerts people can do one-touch bet rights from. People might reply, well, you can’t stop people from betting if they want to. And that’s true, you can’t, if they really want to. It’s the enticing people who never thought about betting in the first place that I think is terrible. People with genetically addictive personalities getting sucked into it and then never getting out of it. I think if people really want to bet, they should have to seek it out and then have to put some work into placing the bet. If it were a lot harder to do, I … ahem … bet that at least 80% of all people who have gambling problems today would have never even started doing it, or even thought about it.

Not that I’m defending Paramount, but prior presidents didn’t try to bleed tens of millions out of them tying them up in court cases like this guy is planning to do. It’s next level harassment that really kicks them in the pocketbook, so I can see why some would blink in the face of that. With any luck, the Harvard thing will somehow inspire Paramount to dig in and fight in the trenches.

The best thing he did was appoint the **** out of that Cardinal College. Like 80% of those guys are his.

I don’t care if I have to eat gray salmon as long as the taste and texture are the same.

Face, meet leopard.

I don't know, I'm having trouble seeing where the where is for that. I don't get any sense of the same kind of hate for Catholics these people have for Muslims or Jews.

The administration’s strategy might be to flood the news with so many disappearances in such a short period of time that the media can’t keep up, it becomes less newsy, they turn their attention elsewhere, the people eventually stop paying attention, and then the regime they can really ramp up the operation to numbers we can’t imagine yet.

I believe it’s one thing to have informal bets with your buddies, or even visit a sportsook to lay a bet, but it’s completely different for leagues to partner with gambling companies to try to get as many people betting as much money on games as they possibly can.

Man, i wish the Atletic would ask this of baseball players, because I sure would liek to know how they feel about gambling aprtnerships. I would bet that because of baseball's history, the "No" side would be more in the 50s than the 40s, although I don't know, maybe I'm off base on this. There's an entire article on The Athletic ($) about this: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6298159/2025/04/22/nba-player-poll-gambling-partnerships/

It doesn't matter whether you love 60 Minutes or hate it, or even whether or not you even watch it—this is bad.

Will Vest! And Brant Hurter! Although I'm wondering whether this is only a one day thing and not a whole season thing.

San Francisco has long been understood to be good for pitchers. Seattle is probably the best pitchers' park, but it would be a surprise in today terms for them to win the Skubal sweepstakes.

It's probably more likely that he signs a deal with substantial deferred money, assuming the new CBA is similar in business feel to the current one. So, I would think a Big Six franchise (NYY, NYM, LAD, SFG, BOS, CHC), or an adjacent franchise like Atlanta or Philadelphia, would be the top suitors for him.

I sense that Skubal would like to re-sign with Detroit, but he is not going to pass up a huge payday with rest-of-career security just to do so, and it's easy to understand why.

Kahnle and Holton should be available for this game; Vest, Hanifee, and Hurter probably won't be. We might get another Maeda sighting if it's later in the game with a three-plus run margin either way. We may also see Bailey Horn. Someone said in another thread that we need Jack Flaherty to go at least seven. That sure would help some.

I can't remember whether I read this at the time, but even in a feature sympathetic to its subject, Mario still comes off as the problem in that pairing.

I prefer a TV guy who adds to the broadcast, but a guy like Mario who adds nothing to a broadcast is preferable to a guy like John Schriffen who subtracts from the broadcast.

Benetti got a lot of social media viral with his pairing with Bill Walton a few years ago, but if you can find it, dig up the game he did with Mike Schur, aka Ken Tremendous, during the same White Sox road trip to Anaheim. It is an absolute gem of a broadcast.

I bet there will be a visible shunning of him by at least one other leader of a NATO country.

The blacker and whiter it gets, the closer we get to openly rounding up and disappearing entire groups of people in plain view of everyone else, who will comment about what’s happening before their eyes at their peril.

I don’t know about a Catholics purge, other than to the degree they could use it as a way to wipe out Latinos. But the vice president himself is Catholic; six of the nine SCJs are Catholic, including five of the six conservatives; and a new kind of retrograde Catholic-infused political ideology that aligns really strongly with MAGA has really come to the fore. Catholics may never be truly embraced as a full brother-in-arms by the hardcore evangelical red hats and MAGA leadership, but I’m having a hard time envisioning them lumping Catholics in with Muslims, Jews, atheists, and anyone else they might try to genocide off the planet during the late stages of MAGA rule. I’d be surprised if MTG’s bid to amp up hate against Catholics gain any traction here. She might be getting talking points from the Kremlin on this one.

I wouldn’t mind a rekindling of the Tigers-Blue Jays rivalry of the mid-80s. Especially if it’s Cleveland, the nearest major league city to us, and one we have so little rivalry history with that last year was one of few times ever we went head-to-head with them for pennant stakes.

I have not done much baseball roadwork in the part of the country (Virginian, North Carolina, South Carolina), and that has got to go on the list at some point. I’ll make sure to make Spartanburg a stop along the way.