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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

On top of this in the 3 biggest trades they've made in the past decade in terms of getting back potentially a top 50 prospect that could be an impact bat they instead chose or atleast settled on a pitcher the centerpiece instead. I'm talking about Norris in the Price trade, Fulmer in the Cespedes trade and Franklin Perez in the JV trade.

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.

OTOH, he certainly does score high enough that the Tigers should not be where they are. IIRC the Tigers ponied up the 3rd most off-season money in the majors, they've hired a top line manager, they've spent freely on equipment and technology through their system. I haven't got a clue what's in the water in the Tiger clubhouse that's turned all the bats to noodles, but it's not for lack of an owner willing to provide at least reasonable resourcing. That's a much easier argument to make than to support objectively. I'd certainly entertain arguments about whether or not it's sufficient to win a WS, but not that it's not sufficient to put a respectable team on the field. I don't find arguments attempting to draw inferences between the Sports teams and City of Detroit development persuasive. Hard to imagine two more different worlds. I don't have any particular affinity for Chris Ilitch but when a team under-performs the projections made by every unbiased statistical forecasting service, laying that at the owner's door seems illogical.

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.

Still waiting for you to backtrack gracelessly on this one, chump.

Take a walk around the District Detroit at night and whistle, you'll hear your whistle echo off the buildings and the parking structures because there is nobody else there to absorb the sound. I love that they guy won't give in on selling the house. Good for him. To hell with Chris. I miss Dad.

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.

There is one undeniably great thing going on right now........................This board lets us fucking swear. If ever there was a year to need that..................

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.

good point, though a stance doesn't matter that much IF you get out of it early enough in the cycle. I think as big an issue is to get your head to it's stable point quickly. If your eyes are still moving once you are trying to track the pitch you are toast. Just as comparison, I used to think this was Alex Avila's big Achilles heel, but for him it was because he started too upright and his head was still always moving down while he was already in his swing. But in general, it seems logical you want to start with your eyes as close to the path of the ball as possible and execute your swing with as little translation of your head as possible, what movement there is needs to happen early in the load so your eyes can be set during your swing.

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...

Anthony Fenech is seen on the right of the first image

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.

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.

You can't say GD on the air....

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

Clean house? F*ck it, turn Comerica into a parking lot.

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.

Have you heard some of the crap he has said? I'm not saying this isn't bad, but it's lower on the list of reasons why I don't want him in DC.

Seems to me, this overall is low on the scale of reasons why he would be a bad choice.

The Yankees series was my last straw in having any hope for a turnaround. This dumpster fire of a franchise is the new Lions and Chris Illitch is the new William Clay Ford.

I have literally given up on this franchise as long as Illitch and Avila are a part of the picture. I believe, and have for quite some time, that Avila isn’t a MLB GM. Illitch doesn’t give a crap about this team. I still believe Avila has Chris believing that the sun will rise any day now so he rolls along unconcerned. It’s. All. Bad.

I did a search for this and it was all tabloid/Murdoch/daily caller/Washington examiner sources, fwiw.

A corpse doesn't move.

You might want to sit down. You are going to be waiting a while.

Just wait 'til it warms up.

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

andrew vaughn was really bad last year. this year he's pretty good! i expect a similar trajectory from tork.

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.........

What are the odds Smyly gives up four runs if he pitches the inning? Just stupid to have a bunch of guys come in to pitch with a four run lead. Just have Smyly pitch the inning and you'll get to the 9th with the lead.

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.

Duck Norris