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Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but he also hit a missile for a double last night to drive in a run.... nearly left the yard. He's gonna have his ups and downs, but he's better than the alternatives and it doesn't seem like his confidence is hurt or anything, so no issue with him learning in the bigs

Wrong thread...

Tork has been worth his weight just in the number of bad throws he has already saved. I've only seen him lose one so far and Jeimer and Javy have both had him working hard most of the time. I don't know what kind of glove Pete Alonso had with the Mets last season but with the Cubs Javy had Rizzo at 1st. If he threw in Chi like he throws here, Rizzo must have saved him a lot of errors as well. Javy's not uncatchable wild, and clearly the arm is a cannon, but he almost never makes a straight at the chest throw to 1st either.

I think Willi Castro is a major leaguer. He's just not a starter, but if you have a guy who can put the ball in play and play 6-7 positions at least adequately, you're doing alright. We just have too many of those guys and one or two might have to go.

im thinking of putting up a shrine to chris fetter, the man is obviously a miracle worker.

It's a small sample size, but in the grand scheme of things, Daz has actually been better than most of the Tigers at the plate since his call up and has made some pretty dynamic plays defensively (though his play in center today was not ideal).... they should find a way to keep him here.

On a further sidenote, javy baeze is the f*cking suckiest f*cking f*uckity f*cky sucky suck suckiest hitter I've ever seen...again...

Browns gonna Brown.

Can you believe this fucking nerve. Incredible

screw 'em. There should be no special security for anyone in gov. Let them live with exactly what the rest of us get.

I'm sorry, I don't care how much you pay him, but if he is lunging at the ball and ends up with one hand on the bat, he doesn't need to be playing , or he could be batting 8th or 9th if he is going to do that. Just ugly.

Haase has to go.

I don't know. I feel like trying to watch this team every night can be tiresome, but a road trip is a road trip. I get to see a different city and a different park and the outcome is not as important to me.

McCarthy wouldn't even be a thing. He's now the mainstream GOP. Ike would have been called a RINO. In '52 there was a real divide in the party when Ike announced he was a republican and would run. Taft was the America First candidate, sound familiar? He was strong in the midwest and south. Sound familiar? Ike was the preferred candidate by the establishment liberal NE wing of the party. Sound familiar? Overall Taft got more votes in the primary. Nixon was the concession add on to appease the hard cores.

She wears that white hood a little tight around her head sometimes and it clearly cuts off the oxygen.

The Tigers are finally learning how to get on base. The baserunning will come next. Be patient.

Good thing they're playing the Pirates.

Maybe the Pirates will like what they see of Willi and offer us Ke’Bryan Hayes for him.

Four oh five? That’s it? It looked like it was pushing four fifty.

"Tigers settle for 3." love it when 3 is "settling".

Tucker with an early Christmas present.

Baez has barrelled two pitches...one at 75.6 MPH and one at 78.9.

Skubal is the first Tiger pitcher with that "it" factor since Verlander.

He should know. He was once a Pirate. Kinda.

Quintana forgot the scouting report and his time as Javy’s teammate to failed to keep that pitch out of the strike zone.

He should be here Friday:

Is this on a Tshirt in the merch store?

That's like $200 M each for a pitcher and hitter.

Willi has to go when Grossman or Greene comes up, right? right?

I've been singing it since Cade Gaspar and Kenny Baugh and Kyle Sleeth.

As much as the Mize news sucks, there is more net good than bad here in the short term at least.

Willi Castro Today, Willi Castro Tomorrow, Willi Castro Forever

I go to this one sweet-treat confectionery here in the city pretty regularly during the summers. Their product is delicious. I talk a lot to the man and the woman who own it, just chit-chatting about this and that, frequently about their business which, honestly, is about the only thing the man is interested in talking about. I'd always suspected the guy is a little Trumpy, based on comments here and there the past few years, but I hadn't thought much about it. Until yesterday, anyway. Yesterday, I asked him how's his business going this year, and was he thinking about opening a second location? Yes indeed, he said, he was actually looking down south and out west, because they have to close shop here during the winter months, and they want a 12-month-a-year business, which makes all kinds of sense, of course. One of the places he mentioned was California, specifically San Francisco and Malibu. I replied, wow, sounds expensive, and he said, yeah, especially with "everything that's going on now", like with all the food processing plants exploding. Yeah, I hear y ... ... wait, what? Oh, yeah, he says. Google it. Someone with an agenda is blowing up food processing plants in this country. They want to create an artificial food shortage for whatever their agenda is wink wink. Oh. OK. I backed out of that conversation soon as I could and went home with my sweet treat. I hadn't heard anything like this before, so once I got home, I DuckDuckGoed this idea. (I don't want Google knowing I search for stuff like that.) Predictably, it was a bunch of websites I'd never heard of: 100PercentFedUp.com. FoodStorageMoms.com. USSAnews.com. StillnessInTheStorm.com. ConsPatriots.com. (That last one is especially rich, and aptly-named.) Garbage sites, one and all. The only mainstream site I saw even mention it was Reuters, who did a fact-check article on this topic. So I checked that out, and they basically reported that processing plant fires and explosions are already fairly common; that there's no evidence of an increase in processing plant mishaps; that many of the plants are small mom-and-pops which don't affect the food supply hardly at all; and that there's no evidence that any of the mishaps were premeditated or planned. BUT: there was definitely an increase in social media chatter about food processing plant fires and explosions. Lately, whenever I hear about any new conspiracy like this one, I have taken to asking myself: How does this conspiracy story help Russia? You know, because we've learned through our own national intelligence services that they are behind so many of these stories. We know, of course, that Russia wants to promote chaos in America in general. That's a given. But it's not as though they themselves approach it chaotically and throw random shit on whatever wall just to see what sticks. They're pretty good about picking their spots and creating a plausible (or at least plausible-enough) story to deflect from their own malfeasance. In this case, this one was really easy to figure out. Both Russia and Ukraine are among the top exporters of wheat, corn, and barley in the world. UKR is top five in all these; RUS is #10 in corn but #1 in wheat. Point is, both countries have contributed a lot to the world's basic food supply in recent years. But now Russia is in the process of basically destroying Ukraine, which is putting a virtual halt to UKR's grain exports, Plus, since RUS is spending so much time and treasure to destroy UKR, their own exports of grain are dramatically decreasing as well. This is what's creating a shortage in the world food supply, with its increasing prices and diminished access. But no way is Russia is just going to sit back and take the (rightful) blame for all this. So I think it's very likely that the made-up stories about deliberate destruction of American food processing plants by [Biden/Democrats/socialists/communists/Antifa/BLM/etc.] is their attempt to shift blame for the food shortages from themselves, where it rightly belongs, to their biggest enemies and detractors, which is basically the rest of us. Does it make sense that [Biden/Democrats/socialists/communists/Antifa/BLM/etc.] would destroy American food processing just to choke off the food supply to the world? Not to you and me, it doesn't. But to the right-wing people of the United States who hate what America has become, hate even more where they imagine it is going, and hate most of all the people in America who are not them, it makes all the sense in the world. If you remember even one thing from this post, let it be this: Whenever you hear any new conspiracy story, ask yourself: How does this conspiracy story help Russia? Once you ask this, it probably won't take very long for you to get to your answer.

This is a nice site. 2022 NBA Draft Consensus Big Board

Went to a Yankees - Blue Jays game in 2002ish in Toronto. Kids went down to Yankees bullpen pregame and both came back with a Roger Clemens autograph. To say I was shocked is an understatement. Went from hating the guy to rooting for him from then on.

Killing a few prairie dogs is more important than saving human lives according to the pro life party...

https://v.redd.it/yk4675t2c2491 Up in the Tri Cities, possibly the worst baserunning I've ever seen

Tigers' DSL1 team started their season today and won. https://www.milb.com/gameday/dsl-tigers-1-vs-dsl-brewers-2/2022/06/06/712112#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=712112 Tigers' FCL team is in process. https://www.milb.com/florida-complex/scores DSL2 starts tomorrow.

These blowouts go hand in hand with the proliferation of the three ball. One team gets hot, the other gets cold and all of a sudden you have a 20+ point game since you're not allowed to play the type of defense that can keep you in the game in those situations anymore. Ironic that the downside of trying to make the game more exciting by reducing defense and increasing perimeter scoring has resulted in more blowouts that people don't want to watch.

Great ad.

I’d almost rather have one of the Castros be the every day SS now unless he decides to finally make an adjustment.