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Going after an established third baseman for a number of years is basically the Tigers admitting that they believe none of the internal options they have for future third basemen will be adequate enough, and I'm not sure they have reached that conclusion yet with Jace Jung. Maybe they have, but I think I would be surprised if they have already. No, I am not recommending foregoing Alex Bregman for Jace Jung.

I wouldn't mind seeing us take a run at Christian Walker. He can hit and draw a walk, is a gold glove defender, and has World Series experience. He's 34 next year so it probably won't take six solid years to sign him, but he might take 3/55 or 4/70 with team options tacked onto the end. He's from Pennsylvania so he probably won't have the same reticence to come to a city like Detroit that a sun belt or west coast kid might, although he may balk at playing in a ballpark perceived to be death to right-handed home run hitters.

Alonso has the same problem Yandy Diaz has: can't defend at first. If we move on from Tork, I believe we'll want a guy who can save our infielders as well as hit.

I'm not saying they wouldn't benefit from going after a guy like Bregman. They would, at least next year. Most teams would. I'm saying I'd be surprised if this version of the Tigers made that move. I'd also be surprised to see him leave Houston.

I see this and I think, this is the kind of sales pitch you get from preachers selling you the prosperity gospel. Which makes sense, because it's the exact same target audience.

I would be very surprised if we went for a guy in Bregman's class, which would probably necessitate something like a six-year commitment. We are not in the position where we can use one big guy to put us over the top, because we are just now starting to scale up the mountain. At the point we finish in first place with a seasoned team, meaning, not a team half of whose roster is rookies who played competitively in the minors earlier that season, then someone at the level of Bregman makes sense. Not before.

Maybe Detroit can suck my **** wasn't such a solid campaign message after all. EDIT: Posted before I saw you all debunk it.

Looks like you and I are the only ones not voting for Trump. And I'm not so sure about you. 😉

Does anyone know whether I missed a critical change to the Zillow app? I like it when I see an interesting house somewhere and I want to know what the house value is, and I would use the Zillow app for that. But when I tried to do that today I could access only properties that were for sale, for rent, or recently sold, and not any property I wanted to assess. Anyone know anything about this?

I normally wouldn’t think the Rays would play at a minor league stadium long term, given the low capacity and lack of big league amenities, but seeing how the A’s will willingly play at a minor league ballpark for at least the next three years, I guess it’s fully on the table.

They would have been in dereliction of their responsibility to taxpayers had they not had an insurance policy on the Trop.

Actually, there were a lot of empty seats all over the stadium, based on the crowd shots on foul balls. Yankees fans are such dilettantes. As an America's Team™, the Yankees draw the most casual fans in the country. Most people who say they are Yankee fans are basically front runners who only show up for the big win, and judging from the stadium we saw last night, maybe not even then. This is not to disparage Yankee fans who grew up in the tri-state area and came by their fandom honestly. They're as good as fans as anyone around the country. It just annoys me when people are dilettantes about it. I cheerfully acknowledge that’s a me problem.

Pays to be lucky!

Any idea what they’re hiking prices by for next year? It’s got to be double digits after this surprise run, right? Make hay while the sun’s shining and all that.

People who can assemble cars out of a box like a child can? They won’t care about it being characterized like that. They’re just happy to be off the dole or out of the mine or off the Walmart payroll.

I wonder whether DJT is basically a money laundering operation, anyway. I would imagine there’s a lot of foreign oligarch money flowing into it. Same as with his crypto scam. They’re not primarily about bilking retail investors, although that’s a nice little bonus.

That’s as clear a signal as I can imagine that Trump wants to put autoworkers out of work as punishment for some of them voting Democratic.

Thank you for using “coincidentally” correctly instead of “ironically” incorrectly.

I have always refused to vote for unopposed candidates. That’s not democracy. That’s autocracy.

I watched John Oliver from Sunday night. His long form story was about the 2024 election, and it profoundly bummed me out.

So they halted trading because the Trump stock was up +13% but then was down -6%, a 19 point differential? Is this what normally happens to stocks when they fluctuate like that? Because I seem to recall countless instances in which I saw a stock go down more than 20% in a day without something or someone stepping in to protect it.

Almost as though it were performative rather than existential.

I really think the whole club seat business model has resulted in really bad optics on home plate shots during games. This is an ALCS game and half the seats behind home plate are empty. It’s just a bad look.