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Literally no one is deciding Kevin McGonigle’s future today. The front office has a plan for the future, and nothing that happens this year short of a career-ending incident involving one of the principles will change it, even if McGonigle gets Gold Glove votes at short.

Ugh, I cannot watch the commercial spot for Tigers tickets even one more time on DSN. They must not be selling enough commercial time to actual advertisers because they run the tickets spot literally every break, there are only two executions in rotation, and I think they’re 60 seconds long. As soon as I hear the horn intro for the spot, off the audio goes. I feel I‘m watching a streaming service instead of a cable/satellite service.

Not a fan of Perez batting 2nd. In fact, not a fan of Perez batting.....period. Prove me wrong Wenceel.

I think Jake as the backup is more the Sunday/getaway day catcher.

Goes back to her father.

Since when is Parker a major league hitter?

Highlights from Augustine’s debut last night. Looks like GR was not very good in front of him. Had to make a number of massive saves to avoid a 6 goal thrashing.

So how/who do we organize to get something like this on a Michigan ballot: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/08/07/transparent-election-initiative/ https://dailymontanan.com/2026/04/01/montana-supreme-court-dismisses-constitutionality-challenge-to-the-montana-plan-initiative/

I'd love to know Maxwell's real story. She was in the middle of everything with Epstein and Brunel.

The other risk is that relatively little loss of alignment in that area can result in reduced range if motion of the joint. Generally a pretty trivial issue for a civilian but maybe not so much for a major league hitter.

I am not sure those guys will stop making too many outs, but I am confident that all three with start hitting for more power.

yeah - it's basically Greene and Carpenter who are making too many outs. Torkelson a more mixed bag - His OBP is OK because he is walking and he has been a bit BABip'd. He's already got a handful of warning track shots over 100 EV.

This is how I've felt since the Rangers game

This is what the Free Press said; "Meadows will be evaluated by a specialist to determine the extent of the broken arm, diagnosed as a left radius fracture near his wrist."

Award eligibility watch: Ausar now has 63 games over 20 minutes. You can also include a maximum of 2 games in the 15-20 minute range and he has those as well. He now qualifies for awards. Cade has 62 qualifying games (soon to be 63). He has zero games between 15-20 minutes, so he can't use that rule. There's an exception for players who suffer a "Season Ending Injury" that takes them out through May 31st. Cade also wouldn't qualify for that, which is silly because it shouldn't matter when the significant injury occurred. You can file a "Grievance" if the eligibility for awards could affect your next contract and you can prove the team stopped you from playing to save money. Obviously that doesn't apply to Cade. There's also an "Extraordinary Circumstances Challenge". From what I've read online it sounds like the "circumstances" aren't defined in the contract and it's left open, so this is the angle the team will likely try to take. I doubt it will work for an injury, but it's worth a shot. This is also the angle Luka will go for due to his child being born.

Fair point. Maybe I'd have been more accurate to say that the difference today is that there seems to be no cost to be caught lying. We lost that somewhere after Nixon, but may be it's unclear exactly where.

Maybe not. I broke my forearm much more severely than parker just about this time of year and had unrestricted use back before the season was over. But it depends how close it is to the wrist - the closer you get to the wrist and that little knot of bones sometimes the more complex it can be to get it to heal. I broke mine just about in the middle.

Understood. I was using the 2nd person 'impersonal' "you" there (a glaring deficiency in English un-addressed for a millenia!)

He and Trey Sweeney are going to end up in the “hey remember this guy?” threads.

every system has slick fielding SS prospects. Few of them ever hit. I'm sure the Tigers (and we!) will be overjoyed if Ranier or Peck turn out to have an MLB bat that bumps McGonigle to 3b, but the probability of that isn't bankable for deciding anything about KM today.

“I love it when a plan comes together.”

this was posted in the middle of the afternoon. I've pretty much assumed he posts the ones from the middle of the night himself, middle of the day seems more doubtful.

Kind of surprised that Dingler is catching today.

I broke my left arm years ago and it became uncomfortable to wear a watch but it didn't take long before I realized I really didn't miss it, then the cell phone appeared. The only time I carry watch any more is if we are going to a wilderness area for a long enough period a phone might end up dead.