Detroit drew the most intentional walks this season with 51, against 5,630 at bats. The IBB is so rare that shortening it isn't going to make any meaningful difference in the length of games.

At least one third of the men in this town first used the word "fuck" within earshot of their father while they were watching a Lions game together.

Why? You're conflating two different topics.

Citizens of Detroit and Police Officers aren't necessarily separate categories across the board.

I'm perfectly happy to sit at home (where I don't have a three-car garage or a Lexus or BMW or even, as a Detroiter, their domestic equivalent) and exercise my Second Amendment rights by owning a Remington 870 with double-ought buck rounds up the tube.

Let's be honest. When it comes to self-defense, my gun kicks the…

As with many things in life...just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Richard Florida, what hast thou wrought?

What kind of odds could you have gotten two years ago on "Packard Plant purchased, back taxes paid, redevelopment starting" by this date?

I can't help thinking that Palazuelo is throwing money down a hole but man, what if he succeeds? He said he wants to have a DSO concert there next year, I'd be there in a hot second.

IIRC, the State Police recommended raising the speed limit on at least I-94 on the east side and M-DOT said that the road wasn't constructed to allow safe driving at those speeds.

Which, given the Death Star Trench driving that occurs on that road at the best of times, is kinda amusing.

Stipulated, public financing of stadiums sucks and is one of the more egregious examples of crony capitalism. But you're missing a big point on how the DDA's financing works — the capture is only on additional tax revenues created by rising property values in the district, which will be driven by turning empty gravel…

I, for one, welcome our new drinking-age-of-19 and fully-nude strippers overlords.

Small biz will save* the neighborhoods if the city government gets the fuck out of the way and lets them do their thing. I know that's something that Duggan's said he wants to do, but from having talked to some people within his administration it's quietly one of the biggest pain points so far in terms of changing the…

The important stuff's in the neighborhood city services. Cops, EMS, DFD, lights, trash, etc. One other interesting data point is that I saw the Mower Gang have to ask in social media for suggestions of places to mow because the city had already mowed all the parks they were planning on hitting this past weekend.

Every luxury brand needs a distinctive styling cue. If Lincoln brought back suicide doors, I'd ditch my Buick and buy one in a heartbeat.

I blame US Soccer and their obsession with "Growing The Game." The places in America where soccer's successful, it's usually because somebody decided to grow a club, instead of the game. The fans come out to support their team, and if somebody new shows up wearing the right colors then they're welcomed as fellow…

Honestly, I feel like the power structure (including the cops) of the Grosse Pointes are lagging behind the majority of the people who live there. There's certainly stereotypical unrepentant genteel racism in parts of the community (usually among the older folks) but in the schools and in the neighborhoods, I don't…

I'm a PR guy by trade, and it's incredibly rare to find legitimate media outlets that don't have this kind of limitation so we usually don't try. Bloggers who don't have corporate HR or legal departments, however, will usually line up for anything.

This isn't unique to East Coast prep schools at all. In the more upscale areas of Detroit's suburbs, parents have increasingly been sending their kids to a "young fives" year in between preschool and kindergarten, and while many of them do it for academic or social development reasons there's a cohort who've picked…

Detroit was one of the first puck possession teams (think Russian Five) and has stayed with that model to some extent ever since. Since 2007-08, they've led the league in Corsi for percentage three times, came in second twice and were fifth last season. They've finally fallen down to ninth this season, but that's tied…

A $30M/yr contract in 2020 isn't the same thing as a $30M/yr contract in 2014. In 1998, Kevin Brown was the highest-paid player in baseball at $15M/yr. By 2013, the top 125 MLB players averaged just over $14M/yr and the best-paid pitcher was making $25.7M.

Hell, if you just assume 2.5 percent inflation, $31M/yr will be…