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I don't want Tarik Skubal tearing anything lol

This started off about Herschel Walker having a son he didn't acknowledge and became what about Joe Biden who didn't put out a stocking for a grandchild he may or may not have. You seriously going to go there?

tiger bats will keep things cool

They've had plenty of embarrassing results this year, but getting your ass kicked and needing to use three position players takes the cake. Whatever it's about, it's probably about time

So, do they let Miggy pitch the 8th?

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On a similar note I just came across this tidbit.

My wife the lawyer says: "If your mother says Lauren Boebert is a ho, better check it out before you believe anything that cray"

RIP Philip Baker Hall, great character actor. Memorable rolls

What has Hinch done outside of Houston, who continues to be a contender without him, that would make teams fall over themselves to hire him?

I don't think there's any way Hinch will leave after this season because (1) I think there might be a succession plan in place in which Hinch eventually gets the GM chair, which is something he's been on record throughout his career as being a goal of his; and (2) if he leaves after managing the team to 100 losses and literally one of the worst offense in baseball history, who's going to be falling all over themselves to put him in the manager's chair somewhere else?

Effective teaching isn't just presenting material you know to someone else. It can be, but will usually have an unacceptably low success rate on those terms. We spend a lot of time of this even at the college level where the students are supposed to be mature enough to understand and cope with their own learning styles. Even at 18 many are not. The truth is that people do not teach other people things, everyone learns everything themselves. Teaching is figuring out how to facilitate the connection between the student and the material so the student teaches it to themselves. Some people have certain levels of emotional intelligence that guide them to do this well without specific training, but most do not.

Or Schoop. Or Candelario. Or Haase. Or Wil…. Ok, that one is a bit much.

Wanting to win is the bare minimum requirement for owning or running a sports team. No one doesn't want to win. Winning is nice, and it beats the alternative. The issue at hand is, how motivated someone in their position is to move heaven and earth to make that winning happen, and damn the cost. I think there's a fair case to be made that Chris Ilitch, at least, does not score at the top of the chain on that attribute.

It’s not Hinch’s fault but I’ve got no issue firing him since he’s going to leave on his own this off-season.

Reading all of this analytical/what should the team do stuff from you guys is nice...but you're all forgetting the owner of the team may very well be functionally brain dead. This is the same guy that STILL hasnt fullfilled his big promises about District Detroit. Chris Illitch may very well either be a grifter, or a lucky idiot who was borm on homeplate. None of these things you guys are pondering will happen....Chris is an out of touch, clueless, barnacle on the balls of Detroit and the sports teams he owns, and barnacles dont go away, or dont actually think.

How's the District Detroit coming along?

Exactly:

This should be close to a league average offense (maybe a little less) instead of the worst offense in 80 years. I don't know whether that has anything to with him, but if Ausmus or Gardenhire were the manager, they'd be getting blamed for it.

if you want new leadership but want to preserve some of the organizational reforms Al has done you bump him to team President and put a player acquisition specialist into the GM role while Al worries about resources, marketing and finances.

Meanwhile in Texas…more infrastructure failure.

It’s this bad: I would rather watch your grandson’s little league team and i don’t know you or what town you live in.

Think about it............ The team who might win their 3rd straight Stanley Cup was largely built by Steve Yzerman. Makes you feel good. There's hope. It's taking longer than we'd like but you see the potential there. I trust Yzerman. He gets five more years before I start wondering. The Pistons were in quicksand for years and Troy Weaver has come in and made a bunch of moves and most of them are working, he's got the skeleton of a good team and he's got the budding superstar. A good draft pick and a above average free agent gets them into the playoff chase. I think he's done wonders very quickly, even thought it isn't showing in the record (part of that was by design) The Lions seem to have hired a sensible GM that doesn't say a bunch of stupid shit and doesn't act holier than thou. So far I think Brad Holmes has had 2 pretty good drafts, but we won't know. The coach? A bit of a buffoon, but far better than the arrogant ass we had before. The players LOVE the guy and they'll fight like hell for him. There's hope, not this year, but even national pundits are talking about the Lions. And then there's Al.

carlos correa: 307/376/460 javy baez: 188/232/288 just in case anyone wants to argue again that we got the better deal with javy...

i thought he should have been fired after the jd martinez trade.

I hope you looked at the post I made last night during an angry outburst. You saw what 20 years of drafting has brought, as far as position players. You couldn't even put a full respectable lineup for 20 years of drafting. I'm not giving up on Spence, I'm not giving up on Greene, but this idea that Colt Keith or Ryan Kreidler or Roberto Campos will come to the rescue is ridiculous. Right now our development guys are busy screwing them up somehow, probably tweaking the things that are working to the point where they don't work anymore. I don't know, I just know every single person involved in scouting, drafting and developing players needs to be fired at the end of the season. I shudder at the thought of them having their hands on another draft but you can't really cut everyone loose in mid-season. I know it won't happen. I know Chris doesn't care, so here we are 1988-2005 all over again, and with that as the standard of suck, we're only in 1996. Gonna be a great fuckin' decade.

Can we skip ahead to the part where Dan and Jim go against corporate?

I like how Dan and Jim have now basically resorted to saying that, offensively, nobody is worth keeping on this team, without actually, directly saying it...yet.

The big conversation today is Parkinson's Disease in loo of baseball. I was diagnosed with Parkinson's several years ago, I don't want to watch baseball and listen to that shit. But there isn't much baseball to talk about with the Tigers playing.

At this point the fanbase should be in full revolt. A struggling team with a near 80-yaer old manager, who doesn't seem to know what he's doing just came in to your house and pissed all over your rug and laughed. This has very little to do with injuries, the injuries have been mainly pitchers and the pitching staff has held up remarkably well. You have one kid who had a remarkable start to his career on the mound and has only 1 win to show for it becuase of your horrible lineup. Kid had a bad day today, he ain't perfect. Boycott this team. Don't spend a dime on merch, don't buy tickets, don't give them your money anymore. This is repulsive. This aggression can not stand, man.

He has been on for an hour ? Crazy and so unprofessional. Is it a talk show or a baseball game ?

I watched the video clip and the Trump supporter/January Sixer says "We're coming to take you out. We're coming to pull you by your hairs. You're gonna need a shine up on top of that bald head when I get done with you." I remember when a deranged individual who was a Bernie Sanders supporter and campaign volunteer shot up a Congressional baseball game and wounded Congressman Steve Scalise. Bernie Sanders was quick to condemn the man and his action in the strongest possible terms. He then continued to condemn the man on the Sunday Shows after the situation happened. I remember when January Sixers assaulted Capitol Police and attempted a coup to overthrow the government on January 6th 2020. Kevin McCarthy was quick and swift to condemn their actions and those of President Trump. Two weeks later, he was quick and swift to be a bootlicking, partisan hack and walk back almost all of his prior condemnation.

Is this another ‘What About’ venture? This started out with a specific article about a specific topic. That didn’t last long. Any comment on the Biden piece? Have you read either link posted, including the CNN link?

Hunter had a child with a stripper and denied the baby she had was his. A paternity test proved otherwise. Joe Biden has made references to his grandchildren and consistently the count is one less than he really has. Last year they had stockings up for all but that same granddaughter as well at the White House.

Iin college sports? Not likely again in our lifetimes. College sports is on a firm track along the road to perdition.

On a side personal note, I am going packpacking in the appalachians this sunday 19th through next sunday 26th. I will not have access to a pc. If someone would like to take the reigns of game threads that would be much appreciated.

Knowing that most of that scene was improvised makes it even better. You can see Jerry trying to keep from breaking character.

Can't wait for it, probably will be my go to guide when it gets published.

Yeah we don't need a scout to tell us whether Kerry Carpenter is actually somebody to get legit excited about, the fact that he hasn't got injured yet is all the confirmation I need to realize that he probably is destined to just be an organizational guy, if he was destined for more he'd already be hurt by now.

Jim Campbell said that his big regret was letting the '68 team get old. We have often remarked on how wonderful 1976 was with a team that was so entertaining to watch in spite of its losing record, thanks to Fidrych, Leflore, and Staub. Still on that team though, incredibly, were Freehan, Horton, and Stanley, 8 years after 1968. To give Horton his due his OPS+ was 117, but only once since 1969 had he played more than 119 games. To be fair to Campbell what was he going to do with Freehan and Horton, trade them or release them? They were gods, and in Freehan's case he was still the best in the organization at his position (although Bruce Kimm caught Fidrych). Campbell did trade Horton the following year, but not before giving him a curtain call...on opening day in 1977 he started in left field for the first time in years, to thunderous applause. After the game he was traded in order to open a spot for Steve Kemp. Clearly Campbell had that deal already made in spring training, but he brought Willie back one more time, for Willie and the fans. That was a big time class move by Campbell, who does not get credit for very many of those.

sure, but after 5 years of drafting we had a couple guys in the top 10 prospect lists! rebuild. over.

Yeah, and it seems to be decent enough quality video to boot. I didn’t think video of it existed.

I know, I was watching all the footage in Chicago on one TV and the Tigers on the other. Storm Porn. We got very very lucky.........

Not saying this is you, but a lot of fans ask what good a hitting coach is, since major league position players already know how to hit, duh, so what can a hitting coach teach them? There may be little new that a major league hitting coach can teach a major league hitter, but the coach should be able to get to know his players well enough to see when a guy is out of sync, and should be able to suggest tweaks to fix whatever the problem may be. As for this particular situation, I don’t know whether Scott Coolbaugh doesn’t know enough about Javy to fix his issue, or whether Javy is resistant to whatever input Coolbaugh is offering up to him, but either way, it doesn’t reflect well on Scott Coolbaugh. Add to this that there are multiple qualified batters on this team who are having terrible years, and that almost none of them have been doing well all season, or in the last month, or in the last two weeks, or during just about any period this season, and, coupled with the fact that the Tigers are having a historically terrible year scoring runs, it looks to me like Scott Coolbaugh is going to have to stand tall before the Man to answer for it. But wait—wasn’t Scott Coolbaugh the Tigers’ hitting coach last year? Sure he was. So why wasn’t I calling for his head last season? Because we were not this terrible last season. We were merely a slightly-below-average-hitting team. It is this season our hitting has completely collapsed. Just because the Tigers weren’t this bad hitting last year doesn’t mean Coolbaugh bears no responsibility for the hitting collapse of this season. We have no proof positive that this team’s relationship with Scott Coolbaugh is the same or different, whether players are listening to him more or less this season than last, whether there were broad coaching changes he implemented leading to the scoring outage or whether players are getting worse on their own and ignoring his input. What we see are the results, and the results show that the 2022 Tigers are in the 1st percentile in history for run-scoring through 57 games. Shouldn’t that be considered unacceptable? Unless there is dramatic improvement in run-scoring starting today, Scott Coolbaugh will be fired really soon, and I would agree with that.