The Swamp

Holy Crap. He is good but I just don't understand these long term deals. Is it just a risk/reward thing? Congrats on the sign Brian/Tigers fans. He is great. Hope that doesn't bite you in the ass. He's been remarkably injury-free (which scares me in a way), but this deal doesn't worry me as much as...

Whoa. Tigers extend Verlander for 7 years, $180M (with a vesting option for 8 years, $202M). I did not see that coming. Verlander had been saying for quite some time he might look forward to being a free agent (not saying he necessarily wanted to leave Detroit, but that he might want to experience f...

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BSF21 wrote:It's a quiet day on facebook in Hoosier country.

lolz.

Yeah, I have a few Indiana fans on Facebook and they were crowing and talking shit all season. Not so much today.

Just saw that Google Bots are listed in the users browsing the forum. Not sure why I think that's cool. I like the idea of them having their own login (and of course they don't login, but well -- whatever.)

Ricky Romero sent down to Single-A! Dunedin. Absolutely fallen off the map. Has there ever been an opening day pitcher optioned to Single-A the following year? I was just going to ask he exact same thing. Really just assumed at first that the Jays sent Romero to Triple-A Buffalo of the Internationa...

Honestly, a dig wouldn't faze me right now. It would be like mocking me because the supermodel wouldn't blow me again. Fully aware this is likely the best I'll ever see and made sure I enjoyed it. In that case...nah, I'm just kidding. I'm not going to say I was rooting for La Salle (Wichita State i...

The old Brian might have thrown a dig Mr. D's way, but I know how much that shit hurts. They had a very non-zero chance of going to the Final Four. That's once in a lifetime stuff for a mid-major. Some (most?) of you guys will never understand.

That's brutal. I've never seen Depeche Mode in concert but I have a few bootlegs of their shows. And every one of them is less than 90 minutes. A typical Depeche Mode show is around 75 minutes. Or about a third of a Springsteen show. They are very good (surprisingly good) live though. I'd probably ...

I should have probably ranted about this here instead of boring people with it on Facebook, but the venue hosting Depeche Mode in Las Vegas for their fall tour wants $160 for the cheapest seats. Cheapest seats in San Diego and LA (granted for larger venues) are $40 and $50 respectively. Gotta be fu...

Like if you would answer the door. https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/539853_413573672070139_893239551_n.jpg Oh damn, I wish someone would post that on my wall, but I cut loose all of the Jesus freaks awhile ago. Because if some guy came dressed to your door looking like that, the LAST thi...

I should have probably ranted about this here instead of boring people with it on Facebook, but the venue hosting Depeche Mode in Las Vegas for their fall tour wants $160 for the cheapest seats. Cheapest seats in San Diego and LA (granted for larger venues) are $40 and $50 respectively. Gotta be fuc...

Ah, downsizing. Yes. When we moved from one yurt to another, here in YYJ, we got rid of a ton of stuff. Furniture, mostly. But it wasn't enough. We still have to have a gigantic yard sale or something. I just don't need three sets of golf clubs. Guitars, yes. But not golf clubs. Actually, when we m...

I don't know if this is the real or Onion thread, but is this story real....or Onion

WalMart mulls letting customers deliver purchases to online shoppers

Last year's Sanchez/Infante deal most notably. I'll grant that Dombrowski has generally gotten good return when dealing prospects, with the exception of the Jair Jurrjens deal (though that was offseason), but it's frustrating to continually see the long-term mortgaged for the short term when the Tig...

You'd like to see him take that letter to another level though.

"I got my college girlfriend pregnant just by giving her an intense stare."

I like what the Tigers are doing. Keeping six quality starting pitchers is smart, given that they have absolutely nothing but hopes and prayers in the minors. They've got good relief pitchers. If no closer emerges, they can deal for another arm in July. Too, the rotation may be so strong that the n...

I'm sure I'm being Mr. Obvious here, but just make Porcello the closer. His stuff would play up something crazy in the pen. Yeah, that was discussed during spring training and the fact that Porcello pitched pretty well out of the pen in the playoffs probably added to it. It's a great idea in theory...

Sabo wrote:I just read on Twitter that Rondon has been optioned to the minors.

Well, there you go. Maybe the Tigers traded Porcello for the some other third-tier closer.

Ravens be stealing their logo from SeaWorld, yo!

Please, just read this. Sums up this thread to a T.

I guess we'll just have to take your word for it.

I'm still shaking my head over all of the hand-wringing about the Tigers closer situation. Latest reports are that the Tigers offered Rick Porcello to the Padres for Huston Street, who if the reports are believed turned them down. I'm not sure what's crazier -- the Tigers offering that deal or the P...

Like many of you, I love living in a multi-cultural city. Though it's kind of a secret to tourists (which is the way many of the locals like it), we have a very awesome, active Chinatown in Las Vegas with some incredible restaurants and shops. So I'm checking out the website of one such place I was ...

Yes. It worked as advertised. Same. There are other companies that do the same thing and are cheaper too, so make sure to shop around. I used these guys for my move out to Las Vegas and was incredibly satisfied with the service. (The dude dropping off even helped me unload it, which he absolutely d...

I wonder if Shaka Smart is concerned about his style working at the highest levels? It's works well now when he's getting second-tier recruits and coaching them up. They buy in and get good at what they do, so when they play the big boys who aren't used to that pressure, VCU is able to run them rag...

The Sybian wrote:
It'd be a shame if you misremembered something in repeating it.

"It's absolutely impossible to get herpes from an infected partner. Go ahead and have unprotected sex."

Sabo wrote:Oct. 12. Central Michigan Chippewas vs. Ohio Bobcats in Athens (Homecoming weekend).

Mulligan and I will be there. We hope you'll join us, brian.

It's a lot more likelier that it was a couple of weeks ago since my girlfriend's Mom is coming into town that weekend for a visit. I'm going to try.

Ryan wrote:September 7th. Good fucking luck.

Saw that on the schedule a couple of weeks ago and thought of you actually. Unfortunately, should be a good game. CMU tends to sleepwalk against FCS teams. We play Michigan the week before that one, so I don't know whether that's good or bad.

Now looking like a sure thing Eric Fisher will be the highest drafted MAC player in history. He even had a private workout with the KC Chiefs (first pick overall) in Mount Pleasant yesterday. Would be pretty mind-blowing to have a Chippewa drafted first overall in the NFL Draft.

Picked my best three: I ended up going with the unders on Miami (64.5), CWS (80.5), and NYM (74.5). Also took Pedro Alvarez at 50:1 to lead MLB in homers. Brian, you put any change down on over/unders yet? I did get down on Baltimore under 79.5 at basically even money. Mulling over some other ones....

Shirley wrote:I'm trying to set up a custom object in SalesForce and have a few questions. I won't bore the board with the deets. Anybody here know their way around this monster?

If you need some awesome custom reports, I'm your guy. But (thankfully) I don't have to deal with the administration of that shizz.

Gak. I always thought Buzz was a bit of horse's ass. I had no idea that he was highlighting his own horse's ass. One can't really get away with the shaved chest, that bizarre full body shave, look if one has moobs and that gut. And is in such denied reality terrible shape. Honestly, though. That's ...

Awww...does it get sucky? I hope it doesn't get sucky. Charlie finally died so I was looking forward not having to be annoyed by him every episode. I thought the third season was the worst and seasons four through six were quite good. There are a lot of varying opinions on Lost though so your milea...

That's just dumb. Are there people outside of Minnesota who actually think the Gophers should regularly be better than Tubby got them? I thought he did a pretty damn good job. Not top-tier elite, but still pretty damn good. I'm willing to bet that Minnesota won't be getting any better with the new ...

I know...I'm not sure how I feel about it. Apparently, you can watch them in any order you'd like and people will get completely different stories but they'll all make sense. Of course, that show is funny enough where you can have no idea what's going on and you'd have to be dead to not find it fun...

I hadn't realized this, but apparently the upcoming Season Four on Netflix is supposed to interactive (well, sorta).

You gotta hand it to Mitchell Hurwitz. That's either going to be genius or....well, at worst it'll probably still be better than 90 percent of the crap on TV.

Loving Ohio State and Marquette with those numbers.

La Salle's coach always looks like he's grinding out a dookie.

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