Griffin

Follower of Christ. Husband and step dad. Coach cross country, wrestling (8x state champs!) at Richmond. Michigan and Detroit sports fan!

[Griffin @gfraley05]

Quoting so I can pin it. #StateChamps https://t.co/rLiP7knbEV

[MIPrepZone Macomb @MIPrepZoneMD]

This will never get old. Congrats to @WRESTLINGRHS for winning an eighth wrestling TEAM state championship.

[Tigers Data @TigersData]

Three Tigers position players are selected for the MLB All-Star Game

Dillon Dingler
Riley Greene
Kevin McGonigle

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

Another first for the kid from Philly in his rookie season 🤩

Kevin is heading home for his first All-Star Game!

[Griffin @gfraley05]

@Gr33n247 @sbell021 And yet, it's Michigan who won a ring and MSU is still watching VHS highlights of theirs

[Griffin @gfraley05]

@jmthrivept you know how Jaylen Brown was accused of being the smartest guy in the room and he said the bar is super low in sports? All these other athletes are proving that right

[Griffin @gfraley05]

One of my absolute favorite role players. Love that they’re keeping him

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Free agent forward Javonte Green has agreed to a one-year, $3.95 million deal to return to the Detroit Pistons, sources tell ESPN. Green played all 82 games for the Pistons a season ago, averaging 6.9 points, 17.6 minutes and 38.1% 3-point shooting.

[Thomas Nestico @TJStats]

My Rookie of the Year Award Rankings

[Thomas Nestico @TJStats]

WAR Leaders - Catcher

[Griffin @gfraley05]

Cutting Duncan never made sense to me. You pick up Isaiah Joe and then just cut Duncan? Then you're in the same spot as last year. One sharpshooter. Now they have two. Plus whatever they can get from Huerter. Plus they signed John Collins. Lots of shooting now

[Chris Haynes @ChrisBHaynes]

Contrary to speculation, the Detroit Pistons will not be waiving marksman Duncan Robinson, league sources tell me.

[𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐭 @Notorious_Det]

I'm this old

[Griffin @gfraley05]

@PistonsThoughts I think we will be fine as long as we have Cade as our offensive engine and Ausar as our defensive ace.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

⛽ HERE'S THE PART NOBODY EXPLAINS TO YOU ABOUT GAS PRICES!

Trump is right: Oil companies are playing both ends against the middle!

A gas station owner does not set his own fuel cost. He buys his gasoline wholesale from a refiner or distributor, often locked into a supply contract with a major oil company brand.

That wholesale price is set upstream. By the refiners. By the majors. Not by the guy running the register.

So why is wholesale still high when crude is sitting at $68 a barrel.

The industry's answer is inventory lag. Refiners are still selling fuel made from oil they bought weeks ago at higher prices. Chevron's own CFO has said publicly that lower crude prices take time to work through the supply chain before drivers see real savings.

Fine. But here is the question that breaks that excuse wide open.

If stations are selling old inventory bought at yesterday's price, why does the pump price jump the second crude spikes, before that expensive new oil has even been delivered.

You cannot have it both ways. Slow to fall because of old cheap inventory, but instant to rise before the new expensive inventory even arrives.

The real answer is something called replacement cost pricing. Retailers price gas based on what it will cost to refill the tank tomorrow, not what they paid for the gas sitting in the ground today. That is why prices jump like lightning when crude rises.

But somehow that same forward looking logic disappears the moment crude falls. Suddenly everybody remembers the inventory they are still working through.

That is not a supply chain mystery. That is a choice.

Economists call the pattern rockets and feathers. Prices shoot up like rockets the second crude spikes. They drift down like feathers when crude falls. The same companies pricing forward on the way up are mysteriously pricing backward on the way down.

Trump named the companies directly. ExxonMobil. Chevron. Shell. BP. He said it plainly in the Oval Office, that they are the ones not passing along the savings they should already be passing along.

California gets singled out too. Gas there averages over five dollars a gallon, with state taxes piling on top of everything else.

This is not Trump bullying small business. This is Trump asking the companies holding the lever why the logic only runs in one direction.

Lower oil should mean lower gas, with the same speed it took to raise it.

[Griffin @gfraley05]

Two problems with this: 1. You build zero equity from renting. 2. Rent is guaranteed to go up over time and your home that you own is locked in

[MapleStax Trades @MapleStax]

I don’t care what anyone says

Renting is cheaper than owning a home

[Griffin @gfraley05]

@Yooper_IA They can trade all three and still go into the offseason with Valdez, Montero, Melton, Jobe, and Olson as a base to build off of. Then go find another 1-2 guys in free agency as contingency against injury and I think they still have a strong rotation next year.

[Griffin @gfraley05]

@FrenchResponse @IfindRetards

[Griffin @gfraley05]

@sean_corp @Halbridious If anything, I would think Detroit learned a lesson about not having enough shooters. Why would they get one and then dump one? That puts them in the same spot as before

[Griffin @gfraley05]

I think that's a great pickup for the Pistons

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Just in: The Oklahoma City Thunder are trading sharpshooter Isaiah Joe to the Detroit Pistons for two future second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.

[Brice Marich @BriceMarich]

#Michigan hockey has the No. 1 overall player coming to Ann Arbor in Landon DuPont.

If you haven't see him play, enjoy.

[Griffin @gfraley05]

Michigan has 3 players picked in the first 12 picks. And that is why we won the national championship

[Griffin @gfraley05]

Lol, Michigan has the trump card. A national title. Illinois has NEVER won one

[𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖔𝖗 𝕻𝖎𝖑𝖘 @TheConnorPils]

Michigan vs Illinois, this decade:

Final 4s: TIED (1)
Elite 8s: TIED (2)
Tournament appearances: Illinois 6, Michigan 4
Big 10 Championships: TIED (3)

Michigan has also lost 9 of its last 10 games against the Illini, and hasn’t beat them in football since 2022. Sit down.