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Interesting story about Wockenfuss and a kid after he retired.

The new market inefficiency: grab players that the Tigers have ruined and revert them back to the hitter they used to be.

What I like about Parker's year is that much like Carpenter his plate discipline has gotten better as the year has gone on atleast according to his k and bb%. It's one thing to just put up better raw numbers but it makes those raw numbers more encouraging when you see the peripherals getting better as well.

BTW Grossman is 1 for his last 10 with 1 walk and 5Ks dropping his OPS for the month down to .788. That .788 would be Ruthian compared to the rest of the squad but Grossman himself just posted a .735 month of June with us so if he continues to trend downward like he has been the past week he's going to end up right around that number or even worse.

I'm not ready to say Grossman has been fixed just yet. Believe me I want another reason to bash Coolbaugh and company as much as the next person but its still a very small sample size. I thought Candy may have been fixed a few weeks ago when he was on a near month long tear only for him to revert back to his April and May form the last couple weeks.

Can we work a trade? I've been down on Rodman ever since a billboard with his likeness tied up traffic in Chicago.

I still think it's pretty obvious that AJ and Fetters have done an outstanding job putting together a decent pitching staff with almost nothing to work with this year. It is possible that their handling has contributed to the injury situation but that is speculation that has not been established yet. From where I stand AJ has clearly added major positive value since his acquisition, but I think he has made a mistake by keeping coolbaugh and/or not directing him to use advanced resources effectively. The one thing that I'm going to call bs on is this polarizing approach where Hinch supporters are supposedly stooges, and who allegedly cast blame everybody but Hinch. I have not seen this...MTS seems capable of a balanced perspective without this kind of strawmen construction. For myself, I'm capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. I have been able to view Hinch as a value added proposition for this club while also remaining objective about his apparent shortcomings and his potential shortcomings. Ive seen this from lots of other folks here too.

Can the mods reset Tiger337's password. It appears my girlfriend has hacked his account.

Got more of her backstory yesterday. She was found in Detroit in May. All the Detroit shelters were full and the finder could not foster another dog, so they called around and Washtenaw County took her in and gave her to Huron Valley. She had a fairly large mass and they removed most of it. The kind of mass it is - there is a 10% chance it could grow back and I will need to take her to the vet every 3 months. She was microchipped and her name was Lucy all along but the phone call to the number on the chip was never returned. She's been through a lot, but the folks at HSHV absolutely adored her. When I got her yesterday they got on the walkie talkie and told everyone Lucy's going home if they wanted to say goodbye and everyone on the staff came to say goodbye. She ate that up. She's housebroken, and very good about it. I'll be getting a lot more exercise with her around because she loves walks (don't all dogs?). She doesn't beg for people food and won't eat directly from my hand (yet). She's kind of picky so I got some canned chicken to mix with her food and she gobbled that up. She plays with her Moose toy by herself, she'll throw it around. She loses her mind over belly rubs and her whole body rocks when she gets them (I think it's her tail wagging her body)...........and she is very very sweet, like you can get contact Diabetes just from being around her. She seems to respond more to women than men (except me now) She has not taken long to get comfortable here and she knows she's safe with me. She jumped into the recliner with me at bedtime (I sleep in a recliner). 50 pound dog with me is a bit too much and too warm, but she got down and slept next to the chair most of the night. Follows me a lot but not as much as yesterday. I don't know how long she has, but she's gonna live happily.

I’m so happy for both of you, ❤️❤️ … and I’m also really struggling with not having a dog right now. I know it’s the right thing for my older cat to not have to get used to another dog (especially since my cat has no claws… so can’t defend himself if a new addition to the family isn’t “cat friendly “) …. But, I’m missing MY Lucy so much.

Folks, this is Lucy. We just got home so she's a little anxious and she's exploring the whole house. She's a very mellow girl

They have gone too far.

I had a boxer - adopted her at 8 yrs old, but they are “puppy-like” always. 😂 So funny… and nutty.

My dog Lucy was euthanized a couple days after I came home from the hospital (mid-May), … it’s been a sad few weeks…. But today, in the mail, I received a gift from a friend.. a framed photo of me & Lucy on a “road trip” that was just a week before. She had such a good day… so glad she got that adventure day (complete with a burger)- neither of us knew she’d be gone in a week.

I'm not on the Kreidler bandwagon. The reason? His name. Ryan Kreidler. It's not a baseball name. Now, if you showed me his stats and told me his name is Billy Stevenson I'd say "kid's got a chance". But Ryan Kreidler? Where is tiger337, he will back me up on this. My advice to him would be to spend the offseason applying to US Postal, and try to get one of those letter-carrier routes.