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Harris wants the top prospects to be ready for the majors when they are promoted to the majors, and the Tigers have a process to prepare them, and especially after the Tork debacle of a few years back, I respect that.

In this case, it’s just logic. The price tag for Correa going into free agency was publicly reported to be $300 million. The Tigers were the first team to offer him a contract, and it was below that number. Therefore, the chances that Correa was going to take that deal before anyone else could make him an offer was zero. If there’s anything to debate further on that, it’s whether Avila knew Correa would never accept the deal, or whether he was too stupid to know Correa would never accept the deal. Personally, I think Avila was smart enough to know Correa would turn down the deal, but taking the other side of that proposition is defensible.

“Does this look exciting and thrilling to you? Do you have something to prove? Then come join us. We’ll be your new family …”

Sure I do. So do you.

It wasn’t an actual try.

Great, now they’re within a slam. Let them make a game of it. 😩

Avila did get credit for a zero-chance thing, so, that’s a good thing, I guess.

Are you trying to tell me that a gambling company with its own regional sports network hired away a TV personality from Las Vegas to do pre- and post-games out here in the sticks? Quel choc.

Just as Al Avila did all he could when he offered Carlos Correa 10/275 even as everyone knew Correa’s floor at the time was $300MM. So everyone, including Avila, knew Correa was going to turn down the offer. But you are 100% correct that Avila was given full credit for making the offer by the fans, who ignored—or, more likely, didn’t even recognize—the cynical nature of the offer in the first place. As a result, Correa got raked, here and elsewhere, for having the temerity to turn down the offer. That would probably happen, too, if Harris offered $300MM to Skubal out of the gate knowing full well that the expectation would be Skubal shooting for $400MM. Harris would be praised, Skubal would get raked, world would keep turning.

Yes. Yes, we are.

I hope Dan Dickerson is still doing Tiger games when I am on my deathbed.

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I don't like reels because I don't like portrait videos, and that goes double for baseball action offered to me in portrait mode. Or at least I haven't gotten used to them.

As far as RSNs are concerned ... yeah. 😁

If it's known that the market is going to bear 10/400, then I would rather Harris not even bother with an 8/300 offer. Maintain your dignity, Scott.

It's not going to **** me over—unless they pass a law forcing a conversion of all our dollars to crypto. Then it's definitely going to **** me over.

That they keep recycling the same music hall tune is itself a hilariously sly joke.

Maybe it's because the London billionaires make their money in rubles and not pounds ...

May?

fire harris

I don't get this even a little.

As much as I can agree with this, I don't think Dan Dickerson would ever get hired as the primary PxP guy on TV. For one thing, he's too old; for another, he's too serious about the game. They want Millennials and Gen Zs who, sure, have at least a passing familiarity with the game, but who also can confidently riff on pop culture, confortably joke around with miked up players during the game—which is a lot harder when there's a span of two or more generations—and can unironically provide prop bet gambling odds in the moment. Something else I've noticed: he does not do sponsor reads with much relish. I'm sure employers notice this, too.

I love winning games after reading that people are on the verge of bailing on the team.

Fine by me as long as Dan does TV.