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Hinch wouldn't let them pee before the game and not until they scored a run.

the tigers will win 3 games in a row and you'll all be talking playoffs again. lol.

Tigers win. A.J. Hinch lives to see another day.

Someone had a better use of their time than the WHCD! Good on you Nancy!

Credit to the LA Broadcast for using the original jersey Old English D....

I will start out by saying that overall, what I know of these players they drafted, I like. I am not smart enough nor have I watched enough film on each of the individual players drafted to truly dive in deep, evaluate what they did, and give a real, earnest, credible opinion. This is just my 1,000 foot view as a hardcore fan who watches a lot of college football, YouTube clips, and reads pages of player analysis online in the months leading up to the draft. There are times where I've been right in my amateur opinion and times I've been horribly wrong on player evaluations. The biggest thing, above all else, that I appreciate about what Brad Holmes and the front office did this year was drafted seemingly talented players with natural speed, game play speed, and athletic ability. Gone are the slow, big, unathletic guys of the past that we saw from Quinntricia. There were no unathletic, plodding players like Teez Tabor or Jahlani Tavai. Instead, even though some of these players are still a mystery to us, they bet big on athletic ability and the upside that comes with it. After a dark 3 years of Quinn and Patricia drafting the types of players they did, I really appreciate what Holmes and Co. did here in the draft by leaning heavily on athleticism and speed, things you can't teach a player. I love the Aidan Hutchinson and Jameson Williams picks a lot as individual players. I'm glad that we have a regime that finally recognizes the importance of having good pass rushers to get after the QB. When you've got to play Aaron Rodgers twice a year and (assuming he develops into a good QB) Justin Fields twice a year, you need top-tier pass rushers who can get pressure on the QB and disrupt plays. I think they've obviously got that in Hutch and possibly in Paschal as well, depending on how he develops. This regime also seems to recognize that you need explosive playmakers and gamebreakers on offense to score and win in this league. Assuming he comes back fully healthy and ends up being the top wideout in this class as some projected him to be, I think Williams will be the playmaker on offense we desperately needed. St. Brown is a very nice slot guy and #2 option at WR. If he plays like he did last year and improves upon it, he could develop into one of the better/best slot guys in the league. But Williams is the type of guy that, once you get a better QB, can really be unleashed and blow the top off defenses and help you build an elite scoring offense. This is a guy that should be 90-100+ catches, 1,100-1,200+ yards, 10+ TDs. He is a game wrecker you can build an entire scheme around. They essentially traded one of their two 3rd round picks to move up and get him. In the end, while I had some reservation on draft night, I think this was a really shrewd move by Brad Holmes and he fleeced Minnesota in the deal. If Williams develops into what we hope he can be, I'd much rather have him than anyone we could have gotten at #32 or #34. He's tall, athletic, fast, has solid hands, and is by all accounts a smart, crisp route runner. He should be our #1 WR for the next decade around Detroit. My loan disappointment was them passing on Nakobe Dean. Being fully honest, I don't know enough about Dean as a player, what scheme this coaching staff wants to truly run under Aaron Glenn, how Dean would have fit that scheme, and Dean's ability to stay healthy and on the field. After all, Dean may not have been a scheme fi, he may have been too small for what they want to do, and he may have too many red flags as far as his personal health goes. Being able to stay healthy and on the field is an important trait. Still, I would have loved for them to take the risk, address a big area of need, and draft Dean. I have the feeling the Eagles are getting a stud and a steal in Nakobe Dean. We will see. All in all though, I don't think I've ever felt this happy about a Lions draft in my entire life. I have more confidence in Brad Holmes than I did last year and this years draft, at least on paper, has only boosted my confidence. This was by my uneducated opinion and by the metrics of at least semi-reputable draft analyst a really solid draft. We addressed needs not just for the sake of picking a body to fill a hole, but with talented players, with high athletic upsides. With a roster devoid of playmaking and game changing talent. Holmes went out and potentially got 2-3 playmakers to elevate this roster. Great job Brad, great job front office, at least so far. We will see now how it translates on the field. Maybe these aren't the Same Old Lions for fucking once!

The failure of this road trip was kinda sealed in Minneapolis. They had to walk away from there with at least a couple of wins. Certainly the first game considering they had the lead. And they didn't Winning more than one game against the best team in baseball on the road wasn't gonna happen. As well as they did play last night, you cannot depend on that happening every time you face a CY candidate. Hopefully they go and take it out on the Bucs at home.

Cabrera, finally! I would like to see that become a regular event now.

**looks up 2023 MLB mock drafts for the first time in 2022…**

Property damage inside Russia is very desirable.

Good pitchers have a tendency to not get hit at any point in the game.

I looked up Perez’ numbers with the Tigers. .389/.427/.533 in 96 PAs. He’d be getting intentionally walked if he were dropped into the current lineup.

Most gangster movies don't have PGMs as part of the hit on the rival gang.

the relative drop in the importance of RB and LB probably track together.

Good pitchers have a tendency to get hit early then settle in. Avoid the big inning good things might happen.

if even 20% of his puck possession skill translates to the NHL, he'd probably still be right there with Sieder as the Wings best possession players, and there is nothing the Wings need more.

"Thib-oh-NO! first round bust comes up small on the field, while partying all night"

This guy might just get a follow from me.

Time for the Sunday lineup with Ramon Santiago at short. Put Timo Perez in left, he might run into one.

Give me the Frolunda coach or Lane Lambert. I'm not personally interested in the same names that get cycled through bad teams year after year. Especially Tortorella, please dear god no. He would probably play Vrana 6 minutes a night and trash him in the media after every game. The young coaches in college also intrigue me, I would hope they would be more flexible than Blashill was with his shitty systems. Yzerman's last coach hire was Jon Cooper (now the longest tenured coach in the NHL) who had never coached in the NHL before getting the gig in Tampa. I hope he goes this route with the Wings.

It took Michael Fulmer 8 pitches to get 5 outs. Couldn't he have done it in 7 pitches?

Have you considered a career with NASA?

We'll all be thinking the same when we see this replay 100 years from now.

I'm sure Kevin will be criticizing her shortly because reasons....

I was shocked to see that the Dodger's broadcast was offered in 4K on directv. I didn't watch that because I generally time shift the Bally broadcast for the Detroit focus. I do wish we had more focus on delivery of quality images like that rather than further compulsory gambling information.

Semi-related to this, I tried this new hack and despite the additional moving parts, it worked out really well. I typically watch the Tigers broadcast through MLB app on Apple TV so I can implement the audio overlay. I simply cannot bear it hear Shep and rotating cast of grizzled old players for even a single second if I can avoid it. The issue for me is, I also dislike the Tigers video, or more exactly, Bally RSN’s video. They take up a ton of real estate at the bottom with not only the score box, but the 24/7 crawl underneath it, which features a distressingly high percentage of non-baseball and even promotional items. TBF, this is true for a lot of Tiger opponents, too (e.g., Guardians, Twins, Royals, etc.) But now that I’ve discovered how to easily implement the Bluetooth mode on my TV’s soundbar, I’ve figured out an effective way to overlay Tiger audio over the opponent’s video when we play a team with a cleaner screen, like the Dodgers. SNLA shows only a score box in the lower right corner and a logo in the upper right, with a crawl only maybe once an hour for a couple of minutes. The rest of the screen is clear of such obstructions. What I do is, I put the Dodger’s video on the TV, call up Dan Dickerson on my MLB app on my phone, and cast the audio to the soundbar’s BT mode. From that point, it’s only a matter of pausing the one source to let the other catch up to it, and voila: Dickerson and Petry calling the game over a clean opponent’s video. It worked great last night except for the one inning where the video was delayed and not matching up to the audio, and then I had to change it back with the next inning. I assume the Dodgers TV director paused the telecast a few seconds to allow some promotional spot to finish, then made the telecast “live” again for the next inning. But yeah, once I got there, it was like a dream telecast. No more annoying constant live crawls; in fact, no more big chunk of real estate given over to junk at the bottom of the screen leading to a compressed picture above it. It was great. And bonus: there were none of the constant cutaways to the booth or to the stands for any of those distracting interviews the Tigers telecasters like to do, I guess to take the pressure off Shep and Whoever having to pay too close attention to the game, which, I don’t know, maybe hurts their heads or something. The Dodgers TV people don’t go in for that nonsense. Gonna do it again today!

Mize and Manning both throwing. Sounds like Manning may end up on the more accelerated schedule. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2022/04/30/detroit-tigers-roster-cuts-casey-mize-matt-manning/9603425002/

Does D Hill have a death wish or something?

One pitch, 2 outs

Now Kershaw is thinking to himself: goddammit, I’m old now.

Maybe because he gets a good jump running and just tops out below average. EDIT: Dude, I was totally serious! 😅

Of all the guys not to K against Kershaw...

I freely admit to having "no one" on that list.

Raise your hand if you had Derek Hill as the first one tonight to hit a sharp extra-base hit. Now put your hand down, because you’re lying.

I love how he busted Bellinger up in the zone. Just a good ol’ country fastball. Striking out a recent MVP like that can be a wake-up moment for a brand new big leaguer: “Hey, I can hang with these guys.”

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our quarterback.

Hinch is a real good manager and we are lucky to have him. He is not the problem and hopefully will find the solution soon. But heck yes it’s fricken frustrating. Tomorrow I will travel two hours to Chavez Ravine and do my part !! I will be loud and hope we win and then hope not to assaulted going home. So I am risking bodily injury so DO SOMETHING Hinch !!

What exactly does firing AJ Hinch accomplish? I get that fans want blood, but it's not like AJ or Coolbaugh or whoever can go take Candy or Schoop's ABs or field second for them. And it's not AJ's fault that there aren't exactly a ton of alternatives to them at the moment, given that roster sizes are limited, as are the options in Toledo. And it's not AJ's fault that Ryan Kreidler broke his hand earlier this week. The situation sucks, but firing AJ over this wouldn't accomplish anything at all.

I thought they were quite boring.

Truth.

Are you really writing Candy off after three weeks? I trust you have been watching baseball for a while and know that slumps like this happen to several good hitters every year.

I looked up Rodriguez and Tavai's scouting reports, and Tavai was projected as a 5th rounder and Rodriguez a 4th rounder.

well, credit where credit is due, they have made a big hole already.

Wonderful sarcasm

The Tigers aren’t showing any urgency thus far in the 2022 season. All Tiger fans should be disgusted. A.J. Hinch and Al Avila have become too comfortable in their jobs. Avila and Hinch should both be fired if Detroit drops this series to Los Angeles. Name Ramon Santiago interim field manager.

during the late 1990s and early 2000s we were very worried that their early warning satellite network was broken so much that they wouldn't be able to discern civilian launches (which we provide ample warning of) and potential other launches of new-fangled weapons we were testing. We decided to warn, warn, warn because we didn't want to risk their broken crap causing a nuclear war.