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I think this needs more oxygen. Other things are drowning it out. If this aspect of things: a threat to a person in the succession (Pence) and his successor in that chain (Pelosi) are both targeted by the person trying to overthrow the US Government (Trump) is proven true...why is Trump still walking around in the free air?

Huron Valley called me and asked if I could foster Lucy while she goes through her medical crisis. I said yes. If am a foster I won't have to pay for the medical issues but I can give her a home with a yard and a companion. I could adopt her after that if her health allows it. I know I am setting myself up for another heartbreak, but going through what she is, and as sweet as she is, she needs some comfort in her life. If things work out she could survive for a long time. I am going to get her on Saturday morning. I don't think I would experience the kind of heartbreak I had with Diego. He was my best friend for 15 years. If I can make her last months or years happy, why wouldn't I? In honor of Diego.

Also, I finished this up yesterday. My list of the resume's of every MLB Baseball Ops front office person in several categories. Current GM's who aren't the heads of baseball ops, former GM's employed, former GM's unemployed, current day Assistant GM's or Vice Presidents trying to break them up into buckets (analytics, international/amateur scouting, player development, pro scouting, jack-of-all-trades/executive/misc) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1us36qGEI-_eNObAK6YHNn3VKxR3X-y2Oi_TSaD4R_hQ/edit# I think I am going to add the current heads of baseball ops just to have a baseline.

However, the 'Retread' issue is not comparable between field managers and general managers. As has been beaten to death for years here, a field manager has very limited upward influence on his team's win total. A bad manager can make it worse, but even the best is completely constrained on the upside but the absolute talent level of his players, and he has little or no control over that. So many of field managers may be perfectly capable of winning but never do until they fall into the right situation. A general manager is directly responsible for that talent level so team performance is much more directly his responsibility. I suppose a bad manager can mishandle a good team that a GM assembles, but in that case firing that bad manager is still part of that GM's job. The only thing that limits a GM is stingy ownership, but that is often pretty obvious to see from the outside. In fact, those are probably some of the guys you want to be looking at, guys from orgs with poor resourcing who show promise of being able to do more if they had better resourcing. Tl,DR version. I mind a 'retread' manager who may not have won a lot less than a 'retread' GM. The 'win' burden for a GM hire is higher.

Another pitcher injury?!

Kids come up and can't even hit the cutoff man but can flip the bat all over the place. In my day, we hit the cutoff man and we liked it!

Goff was a different QB when Campbell and Johnson took over the offense and they signed Reynolds. I think Goff will have a Kirk Cousins type season. He'll have the numbers, he won't lose any games, maybe even win a game or two, and create serious debate if he's the future QB or not.

I think sooner rather than later.

look, whatever we get out of okudah is gravy. dude hasnt played for a year and was bad when he did play. i still expect cb to be high on the draft list next year.

Erie playing two today, Dingler with a HR to tie it up 1-1

by then washington will be in the big ten too.

Manning has thrown like 100 middling innings in an injury riddled career. The only pitchers I see having much value right now are Soto (someone will pay for saves) and Eduardo Rodriguez at next year's deadline if he has a good first half next season. Everyone else is injured, bad, or a middle reliever or minor leaguer

I’ve predicted 7-10 wins. I think I’m higher on the Lions than others for two reasons: (1) my valuation of last year, and (2) my valuation of the offense this year. With respect to (1), the Lions had only two really bad losses last season- the Bengals and the Eagles. I’m not counting the Broncos because of the COVID backdrop to that game. Every other game they were reasonably competitive, even when they shouldn’t have been (see Rams). They beat a good Cardinals team soundly. They were in position to beat the Ravens, Vikings, Steelers, Browns, and Bears, had a few breaks gone their way. Even with just two of those games going their way, you’re talking about a 5 win team that got healthy and better in the offseason. With respect to (2), offense is what wins games and championships in the NFL nowadays. I’m sure some will call me crazy, but with our offensive line and the addition of JaMo around the halfway point, I think our offense has the ability (if healthy) to be a top ten scoring offense in the NFL. I think there will be games this year where we plain outscored our opponents. It may not be pretty but it will get the job done. I’m not saying that they’re going to compete for the NFC crown, but if this coaching staff is as good as we think they are, I don’t think being on the graphic come December is an unreasonable ask.

This is supposed to be Brad Holmes specialty right? Finding late round gems? He's certainly looked good on Hard Knocks and the coaches seem to love him, so here's hoping!

Yep even Dave Birkett said they looked good.

More than just the polls, this is a reason why the Senate picture doesn't look great for the Rs. Have to imagine McConnell didn't think he'd have to spend significant cheddar in Ohio.

Whoever coined the phrase “ we can’t have nice things” sure hit it on the head.

Thought about for a second. Not going to do it.

Gotta love projecting SoS before teams even hit training camp.

Still can't get over that 8th inning, The Indians hit 1 ball over 90mph, didn't have any walks, didnt reach on any errors, struck out 4 times, yes 4 times yet somehow still scored 6 runs in the inning. I couldn't even fathom to come up with the odds of doing that is but it happened. That's the 2022 Tigers season for you.

I have almost posted on this before but didn’t. Now that you bring this tragedy to light.., Before I retired I was a production supervisor in a facility that, like others, hired temporary workers to fill out positions in production that did not warrant a full time hire. One of the temporary employees hired at our plant was the player that hit the foul ball that killed Mike Coolbaugh. Another supervisor, and a good friend of mine, was from Puerto Rico. He knew the player and his family personally. We had like a nine game pack for the Durham Bulls around 2016-2017?…not exactly sure. As it ended up, myself, my supervisor friend, and the ballplayer discussed attended a Bulls game together. The players name is Tito for short. He had his cousins, brother, and father at the game. Those boys could put away some beer. Every time they made a beer run they would buy me a beer because I provided all the tickets to get in. I actually spoke to Tito for a good part of the game we were attending about his life in the minor leagues. Never did the issue of Coolbaugh’s tragic death come up. He was a nice guy and his stories were very entertaining regarding his minor league career. Pretty sure he was a catcher. He was a genuinely nice guy. I’m sure everyone knows that this is where the mandate for batting helmets originated for base coaches.

He’s got an opinion that he won’t back down even an inch and continues hammering the same point at every opportunity for years. I thought you of all people would have found that admirable.

In general, whenever this conversation comes up, it seems like a baked in assumption that there is zero cost in terms of other selections had the Tigers switched out Jobe for Mayer. Believing that Mayer or Lawlar would have been better selections is completely a legit view... I wouldn't have preferred Jobe there either. But we also can't say that, had they gone with Mayer, they would have also gotten Pacheco and/or Madden. Maybe that's a risk or sacrifice worth taking for some folks, but that context should at least be acknowledged when this conversation comes up.

Buck Reyes cementing his 2023 roster spot.

this will be the time when we all complain about them ruining their lottery odds.

I was watching the final episode of season 1 of Lost during the bad inning. Many of the words in the preceding sentence can be rearranged to describe the Tiger's season.

Baddoo....what the.....

Not sure if Victor gets there or not but that damn ball boy didn't help matters, seemed like Victor slowed up cause the kid was in the way. He certainly prevented him from diving or laying out for the ball if he wanted to.

F this ump

Pretty cool

Podcasts.

did you hear he had 6 K in his 1st 8 AB?

Carpenter with two fly outs today. Seems to put the ball in the air a lot when he makes contact which is a very good sign. That was a really nice piece of hitting on that sac fly.

Having Verlander and Scherzer together all these years would have been so much fun. It's hard to be be a bad team with two aces, but even if they were bad some years, it still would have been fun.

I'm all for bridging the gap to the next 2Bman, but I'd like to see them take a flier on someone younger who at least has some chance to turn into a long-term solution or perhaps a backup. Andrus (or anyone else in baseball for that matter) might be better than Schoop might be for the balance of this year and next, but he has exactly zero chance to be a good player of any kind again. We have to use our options wisely, and Andrus ain't it IMO.

Baseball players popping up from a slide after getting called out IMMEDIATELY looking over and doing the ear phone thing to have the dugout look...especially when it was obvious they were out. Baez does it a ton and I hate it. Do you think the coach is not looking at it? It is like "no way I did something wrong here or got caught...you better check that!" It makes me cringe every time I see a player do it.

the board needs more guys like 84. all the rest of us just bitch about how much the tigers suck.

It really hurt that starting maybe 20 yrs ago or more they started removing all the double track between here and Chicago. That has made scheduling passenger trains around the freights is way more difficult than it was in the post WWII era when trains were still the major inter-city connector. But then probably all the train routes between NYC and Chi had double track.