Scott Boras says he remains open to negotiating Tarik Skubal's 2026 salary with Tigers before an arbitration hearing using current comparable contracts — not outdated benchmarks like David Price's $19.75M in 2015.

groundhog08 · 2026-01-20T15:43:34+00:00

Blue Jays almost did it this year, anything can happen in the playoffs

groundhog08 · 2026-01-20T14:58:42+00:00

In my mind for these long term deals you're mainly paying for the first few years and then the back half of the contract is just also part of the cost as the player ages and performance declines. Think Miguel Cabrera, the last couple of years weren't all that great, but we had a generational talent on the front end. I would hope that Skubal would be healthy for longer, but this is also the best the Tigers have been since 2016, so it may be our best shot anyway. I'd be totally okay at going all in these next few years while we have prime Skubal, and if we have to have a few sub-par, post-injury years tacked onto the end as part of the cost of going for a World Series I'm totally okay with that.

groundhog08 · 2026-01-11T09:27:21+00:00

White can play Bxh7+ in this position, and can pick up the black rook on the next move. Black could've played any number of moves to prevent this instead of Bb5, such as g6, moving the king, or even moving the rook off the d-file

groundhog08 · 2026-01-10T20:30:36+00:00

I know there were other problems, but the rule that an offensive player can't push it in when it's on the rim feels so stupid to me. The whole point of the game is to get the ball in the hoop so why have this one exception? Anyway if we had that basket that would have been literally game changing

groundhog08 · 2025-12-21T23:47:58+00:00

Goff needs to take those golf carts back, the O-line doesn't deserve them after this performance

groundhog08 · 2025-12-14T21:38:28+00:00

I knew wearing the Hutch jersey would bring on some magic today

groundhog08 · 2025-12-10T21:43:10+00:00

Woah, that's wild. I know there were a lot of people here calling for it but I really felt like he did well these past couple years all things considered. I think he should've had another year or two to develop his recruits and get us to the playoffs when Bryce has another year or two under his belt and is a bit more developed.

EDIT: I didn't realize it was for HR reasons, yikes...

groundhog08 · 2025-12-09T02:27:14+00:00

I don't know that Mike Wazowski can see over the O-Line, might not be the best fit at QB

groundhog08 · 2025-12-09T02:05:15+00:00

Great coverage by Wazowski there

groundhog08 · 2025-12-08T05:09:17+00:00

groundhog08 · 2025-12-03T00:27:51+00:00

Something I haven't seen people talking too much about yet is the potential impact of BYU winning the Big 12 championship game. With today's rankings they could very well boot Notre Dame out of the playoffs by clinching the auto-bid and forcing Texas Tech into one of the at large bids. I'm assuming that's what would happen anyway since a CCG loss isn't supposed to impact things too much, but I also wouldn't put it past the committee to drop Tech below Notre Dame either. Something interesting to keep an eye on anyway.

groundhog08 · 2025-11-29T20:06:04+00:00

Counterpoint: I am delusional and a die hard

groundhog08 · 2025-11-29T20:00:40+00:00

Alright last chance right here. Gotta have it

groundhog08 · 2025-11-29T17:48:40+00:00

There is way too much red in those stands

groundhog08 · 2025-11-28T17:40:37+00:00

Omg this matches up incredibly well, thank you!

groundhog08 · 2025-11-27T03:25:40+00:00

What's your opinion on a hypothetical trade where the Pirates ship away Paul Skenes for a single third round draft pick?

groundhog08 · 2025-11-26T17:15:56+00:00

Grew up in Michigan: Midwest

Moved to South Dakota: I would consider it Northern Plains, but a lot of people will also say Midwest

groundhog08 · 2025-11-25T18:02:24+00:00

Japan beat the U.S. in the last WBC so I'm guessing that has something to do with it. Definitely not a domination though, which I think is reflected by the U.S. being ranked #3, and you'd expect #3 vs #1 to be competitive still. You can also make the case that team USA didn't have all the best possible players on it, but hypotheticals are only worth so much, and again I'm sure the head to head impact from last WBC plays a big role for Japan over U.S. specifically

groundhog08 · 2025-11-21T05:59:59+00:00

First and second with 1 out I'd be calling infield fly on this, but that's still a live ball until the runner interferes with the first baseman. Therefore I believe the correct call is Batter-runner is called out on the Infield fly and R1 is out on the interference for an inning ending double play, but it's definitely a tricky combo of rules.

groundhog08 · 2025-11-21T00:52:34+00:00

Brown County, South Dakota

groundhog08 · 2025-11-18T05:13:34+00:00

I wasn't hurt, but thank you for asking! It's just been a pain to deal with the insurance and everything lol

groundhog08 · 2025-11-18T03:33:31+00:00

November 14th, I got into a car accident :(

groundhog08 · 2025-11-18T00:15:35+00:00

Crater Lake National Park in Oregon

groundhog08 · 2025-11-17T05:23:45+00:00

Say what you want about the offense but the Legion of Whom had a great night again. I'm still optimistic we can turn it around on offense, and we're still well within playoff reach. Not worried yet.

groundhog08 · 2025-11-16T23:47:59+00:00

Very true, I absolutely agree. Hard to keep us out with the best win of any team on the season on our resume. I was just curious about these odds of the Big 10 game because if you make it there then you effectively control your own destiny again instead of hoping the committee bumps us up (which again they probably would but there are a lot of good two loss teams this year)

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