Verlander says no contract talk during the season

[turok]

Ilitch is an increasingly frail billionaire who can afford to have the paid help wipe his ass with old Benjamins every day and maybe to help hold him steady while aiming & avoid missing the toilet when he takes a leak...lol. All he really still needs to be able to do, is to use his head. Every other physical whim that he might have can be performed for him or w/only their assistance if he wants or needs it done.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Lol.

 

[tonyballs]

Llitch looks 96 now..

I thought he was a 106.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I don't like making fun of anyone but this wig is hilarious:

 

[Thumb]

The thing that scares me about Mr. I is not how he looks, but how he sounds and acts.

Seems very likely that soon he may no longer be in a mental state to make decisions, or even recognize what he's worked so hard to build with the Tigers.

We need to win now, for him.

 

[turok]

I thought he was a 106.

106 huh?...haha...So maybe the younger that you are...then the older that Ilitch @ age 83 probably looks. But then, the oldest man who has ever lived, and who has verifiable proof of his birthdate is apparently still alive to this day @ age 115 years, 339 days.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura

He also happens to be the only man still alive who was born in the 19th century.

 

[turok]

I don't like making fun of anyone but this wig is hilarious:

Some crazy people think that they are Napoleon. Ilitch may well fancy himself as being like Alexander The Great, who was a legendary Macedonian king & conqueror. Wonder if his wife Marian helped him pick out that wig, since it is a bit similar to her own hairstyle? ('cept the length & reddish hue..heh!!)

 

[byco42]

lol. Ive senn numerous threads over the years to trade guys like Verlander, Yzerman, Suh, Stafford, Miggy.......even CJ out of Detroit. Its pathetic...

Tell me im wrong

A handful of people on a message board being stupid does not add up to an entire fanbase turning on a cities best players. And trade suggestions are not the same as "running them out of town."

 

[byco42]

I hope he's here for a long time, Ilitch, but he looks like death.

And he's paying a lot of money to the doctors who are killing him.

 

[Mitchrapp]

And he's paying a lot of money to the doctors who are killing him.

Can't argue with that..

 

[Mitchrapp]

The thing that scares me about Mr. I is not how he looks, but how he sounds and acts.

Seems very likely that soon he may no longer be in a mental state to make decisions, or even recognize what he's worked so hard to build with the Tigers.

We need to win now, for him.

I don't think he has Alzheimer so what else might it be..?

 

[Thumb]

I don't think he has Alzheimer so what else might it be..?

Different people age differently.

I knew a farmer who lived near me who died at 96, still getting up at 5 am to collect eggs every morning and cutting his own wood, he was as sharp as a tack too. Then my dad had a friend who was frail and broken down at 77, who did not have Alzheimers, but was often not all there either.

Luck of the draw I guess.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Yeah. I agree with all that..

 

[biggunsbob]

I say trade him for 5-10 guys.

 

[turok]

I say trade him for 5-10 guys.

5-10 Guys?!?

What one team has or could readily give up that many players beyond a few who could help the Tigers short or long-term, and who they would really need? They don't have an immediate need for anyone in CF, in RF, @ 3B, @ 1B, DH, or @ starting C. They could use a better SS,and maybe a LFer (but with Nick and Avi waiting in the wings, probably not) and maybe 2B, and IMO, a young stud LH SP prospect, and perhaps a very good proven veteran closer. Their bench is sucky overall, so replacing all of 'em would be sweet. Their BP itself could always be improved. But they obviously couldn't get all that from just one team in exchange for just one Cy and MVP-winning ace SP in his prime.

 

[tonyballs]

A handful of people on a message board being stupid does not add up to an entire fanbase turning on a cities best players. And trade suggestions are not the same as "running them out of town."

Whatever you say, bud. I was only voicing my opinion...chill out.

 

[Thumb]

And he's paying a lot of money to the doctors who are killing him.

Link please???

 

[mhughes0021]

I wouldn't trade him now, he's the best. But let say next July, no contract is done - would you be willing at that time? Things can change quickly, I mean who would think about trading Miggy yet it happened.

my view on this is very different in baseball than it is for football. Heck with the lions im already thinking about when we can move Suh. In baseball with no cap....I have a different mindset and it goes like this.....spend a shit ton of money and win championships. Its not my money....I don't care. Verlander isn't ever going to just lose it...not anytime soon. Pay him...a lot.

 

[turok]

my view on this is very different in baseball than it is for football. Heck with the lions im already thinking about when we can move Suh. In baseball with no cap....I have a different mindset and it goes like this.....spend a shit ton of money and win championships. Its not my money....I don't care. Verlander isn't ever going to just lose it...not anytime soon. Pay him...a lot.

Uhh..yeah, there is no "hard" payroll cap in MLB....however there is that pesky Luxury Tax penalty that has forced one of the most notoriously free-spending franchises in the major leagues, being the NY Yankees, to clench their collective buttholes beginning this year. Although it hasn't (as yet) caused the now cash-flush LA Dodgers' new ownership to blink an eye.

 

[Thumb]

my view on this is very different in baseball than it is for football. Heck with the lions im already thinking about when we can move Suh. In baseball with no cap....I have a different mindset and it goes like this.....spend a shit ton of money and win championships. Its not my money....I don't care. Verlander isn't ever going to just lose it...not anytime soon. Pay him...a lot.

Naive thinking.

It's not your money, but the guy who spends it runs a business, and at some point there is a limit on what can be spent, Mr. I (or whoever comes after) is not going to take a loss.

People who keep saying MLB has no cap so owners can spend at will really have no financial sense at all. Aside from playing players, and coaches, and staff, the organization still has to pay for other costs, all those airline tickets and hotel rooms, the grounds crews, security, electricity, etc.

Money comes in from the games, and TV contracts, and advertising, but this is not New York or LA, whether people choose to believe it or not, there is a hard cap, and it's probably significantly less then the operating expenses of the ballclub, after all, the owners are in business to make money.