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You need to fall in line and vote for who the Democrat leaders tell you to vote for. You have no choice.

And somehow we’re still in contention.

On top of bullpen woes, this is a terrible clutch hitting team.

You're the one saying you know the outcome to something that didn't happen and you're calling someone else a moron. Bold move, Cotton.

Didn't he say that in 1987 when they got off to a slow start? I am not sure, but they were were 19-21 after 40 games that year. However, they had begun to heat up by game 40 whereas this team appears to be going nowhere until they do a whole lot of healling.

that contract is looking a little less favorable for the Tigers this season.Definitely counter expectation that a player that should be developing more power at this point in his career has seen his ISO go basically to zero. Superficially, one would argue that much like Riley's shift last season to the super uppercut, Colt's shift this season to the super short approach has been an over compensation. Last season Riley did hit more HR's but became a worse hitter and is having to fight back from that now. Colt has gotten his AVG and OBP up but so far at too high a cost in ISO. Hopefully Keith can make an in season adjustment to get to a better compromise instead of this being his MO for the whole season.

As always, you're right. Once again. Amazing. BTW, Tigers lost. Our SP was pulled after 71 pitches of 1 run ball. Genius move...Hinch looks like a moron.

Listening to that audiobook from Thomas Ricks about Churchill and Orwell. Orwell was downright despondent for having been an ardent socialist, gone off to Spain to fight to see that Stalin's totalitarian secret police had taken over all the goodwill of the "Revolution" and hunted him and his fellows in the Left harder than the fought the Franco regime. He then returns to Britain and endures the idiocy of appeasement and folly of the Colonel Blimpish failures of the first 2 years of the war. He knew that Stalin was not to be trusted at all...he came to appreciate Churchill for being willing to throw away the British class system in favor of national survival. Now I bring that up because Orwell was cursed with knowledge and among those whose curse was ignorance.

Maybe if he’d play instead of pinch hitting all the time

I'd say having an alleged rapist and man who groped woman in the White House is worse, but ok. You do you. I think Slick Willie was far worse. That doesn't even get into the dozens and dozens of bad policies that Bubba supported that ravaged middle and lower income persons and families.

Game 40 tomorrow. I don't think Sparky would be impressed.

Well...Finnengan did have an ERA of under 1. Once Montero was taken out, it was the right call. A 2 inning save. Unless he was planning on using Jansen for the 9th. Madness....

Riley makes superman catches but has a noodle arm. And yes, Vierling or Zach in RF over Perez...once we find a real CF. But our real problem is our BP. Game after game...good starting pitching and late blown leads. Montero was at 71 pitches...he had a bit of a trouble in the 6th, but leave him in. The worst that could happen is we lose. How did it turn out? We lost ...Montero probably could have thrown a 95 pitch complete game. Ugh...

Bad BPs make every manager look bad - damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you are losing ballgames in your BP, blame your GM, or just bad injury luck, or both.

When you have to resort to having Zack Short on your roster - your team is not good. But we have 10 SS prospects, but none of them are ready. My whole adult life the Tigers were weak on position prospects and loaded with potential MLB pitchers. Total opposite now. Loads of position guys and few pitchers close to being ready. And the most frustrating part of it is that they wasted a VERY good start tonight. It's happened way too often already this year. But............always remember, we're in the AL Central. You could win this with 80-84 wins.

Colt has 0 HR’s and 6 RBI’s through almost 1/4 of the season.

Who pitched the 8th and didn't record an out, Hinch or Finnegan? If you can prove the Tigers win the game if Montero is left in until he hits 100 pitches, then you can blame Hinch for pulling him.

Read a bit yesterday that as a party the dems are having trouble raising money. Dem Candidates are doing fine, but the party fundraising is way off, party accounts trailing the GOP about 2:1, donors bitching about Ken Martin etc.

Whatever...Tigers lost and Hinch is totally blameless. Better?

I think I'd rather see McKinstry in the OF than Perez. Wenceel reminds me of Raburn a little bit in that there is no lack of athletic talent but he just botches too high a proportion of plays just out of the blue. It would also be nice if Riley could figure out a way throw from the OF. If wasn't a factor today but he has to be one of the worst OF arms in the AL. Do I recall there is some injury history there that makes that a lost cause maybe?

I don't think there is any kind of decision to do so, but they are getting more immediate feedback and my guess is that is having an effect on those umpires who used to be more liberal calling strikes to the outside - where I think the 'worst' strikes called out of the zone have usually been.

I am glad the Tigers focued on fudamentals in Spring training. It is really paying off.

So starters should only come out after the get knocked around? Relievers should keep pitching until they get knocked around? This game is on Finnegan, full stop!

That’s the problem. People didn’t like Terry McAulife or Biden because they were boring.

This is frustrating