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Salary cap talk. Players dont want it and billionaire owners wanna protect their billions. Otherwise, they may run outta money. Lol

A lockout would be better than having to watch this. the tigers with skubal are a little bit above .500. the tigers without skubal have a bottom 5 record in the league. how long do we expect the tigers to have one of the top starters in baseball? not long... baseball is a long season and lots of things can turn around in that time, but it sure doesnt look good for the current management crew.

With 2 strikes, agreed, you need to protect the plate. Not looking for a fastball and getting it makes you look very foolish. Getting fooled on a breaking ball is understandable but a fastball? Ugh...poor piece of hitting. But again, there's plenty of blame to go around. As a great man once said...it is what it is. 🥺

Oh my! I'm sorry I asked. The pigmen are happy once again. This is nuts. From my Debbie downer side, these IPO's are chasing the bubble before it blows the **** up. For those who don't follow, from Investopedia a primer on stock float; Understanding a Company's Float: Key Facts for Investors Float's only a part of this but helps understand. There is all kind of stuff going on here. Once again, proud of the pigmen; the swine crook swindlers and criminals they are. But hey, they run the world. It's good to be the king. Then I had to look. The question - who is the bank behind this? The usual suspects!!!!! That's ****in funny right there. Who could have possibly saw that coming?

Why are people talking about a lockout next year like it's a foregone conclusion? Every time the labor contract ends, there is lots of negativity and acrimony, but there hasn't been a season destroying work stoppage in 32 years.

But it's not really fair to say that about this Tiger team. Take the same amount of players that we have injured off of any team in baseball and they would struggle, maybe even worse. We have an entire pitching staff injured. Starting CF, a possible starting SS, starting 2nd baseman and AAA players filling in. No team has the depth to cover all of those injuries

seems like a guy destined to end up on the lakers in their quiotic pursuit of a last lebron championship.

I think Riley was sitting on a yakker from a wild pitcher on a 1-2 count, which is reasonable, but yeah, you could also argue he should have been still ready enough for the heat enough to at least foul it off.

i think most teams have AAAA defensemen on their roster. and they would have to keep him in the nhl all year. he might be a throw in for a trade.

I guess I would qualify what I mean, there are bad teams that just don't have talent and there have been worse teams in the league than this one (at least we hope that will be proven true by the end of the season) but there are teams that have enough talent to do better that can't get out of their own way. When I say this team is inept, the latter is what I mean - can't execute.

Are you being serious? Think about trades Harris has made. He doesn't make significant trades, never has. Mize and Skubal are both gonna be free agents, maybe Chris will sign them, that money isn't on Harris, it's above his pay grade.

I wrote this during the bottom of the ninth.

also true. The running game all around has turned to dross. This season so far we are losing too much on the bases.

They have a couple more weeks before you have to look at guys who will be here after the lockout. Even with the expectations, sometimes it doesn't work out. You need to be prepared to pivot.

I would argue the 2025 Rockies, 2024 White Sox, 2019 Tigers, and probably at least several dozen other teams are more inept than this team is. This is a bad stretch, not a death knell.

Actually 74-88. But trending the wrong way.

“It’s pretty ****ty right now.” It sure is, A.J.

that's all fair.

That's is certainly something that has always been arguable with Hinch - he does not seem to believe in short term trends at all. He's a long 'track record' guy all the way. I don't know if there is a mathematical right or wrong on the issue because different players have different kinds of performance/consistency arcs.

The Dark Cloud is that this will leave a bitter taste for all of us - and we wont have a season in 2027 to rinse it out The Silver Lining is - now they don't have to fret about keeping or trading Skubal. The question now is - Can Harris get a better haul than Avila did for J.D. and J.V. ?

Riley taking strike 3 was horrible. And so was Hinch's use of his better arms in the BP. And McKinstry getting picked off 2nd base. Inexcusable, all of them. I wouldn't just lay the blame on Riley. Like I said, IMO, it should never even have come down to a bottom of the 9th situation.

Pass. He will be 35 when the playoffs start. Coming off of a major knee injury and already had a shaky injury history before that. I did get a good laugh looking up his age on Basketball Reference. They list one of his nicknames World B. Flat.

I’m done trying to analyze this team. They’re just garbage. Make a move. Do something. We are a 100 loss organization in the last 162 games.

And Dingler is slumping so hit him in front of our hottest hitter the ladt 2 games? Make it make sense.

you could, and the BP has certainly been less than stellar overall, but OTOH, on more general principle I'm not going to knock a pitching staff that give up one run to Cleveland in 9 innings.