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That article of column isn’t really sourced with new info though. He’s making a judgement call that because those are the only names publicly speculated on by members of the media then that must mean those are the only considerations. We don’t know who they are talking to and neither does he or Henning or McCosky or Cody. He’s basically concluding they suck at if because of speculation. I am not saying they won’t screen it up. Just we haven’t seen a reason to assume that yet

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We don’t know that he’s “relying on Hinch”. Hinch is the only guy who speaks to reporters. So what he says gets magnified. I’m sure he has input because why wouldn’t he? My “criticism” is more about the article itself trying to position itself to some inside authority or knowledge when in fact it’s just as credible as whatever we all know here. It’s just a guy, or fan, writing. From what I have seen from media outlets no candidate has been confirmed to have been interviewed or to even be considered. Basically the writers looked at guys just below the GM level around the league and said “this is someone they could be after”. Well yeah…. That’s how it works. They will hire someone who is not yet a GM from another org or will hire someone who was a GM but not anymore. There’s only so many of those out there. They will not pull a Matt Millen from the TV booth move. And anybodys opinion on whether the move is good or not will be an uninformed one.

Do they still employ "special assistants," such as Jim Leyland, Willie Horton and formally Al Kaline? Shouldn't this group be a heavy influence on who to hire?

Syracuse would have been smart to onside kick this. Worst case it's still likely inside or around the 25, which is all that happened when they kicked it to the 30th row of the end zone seats.

I don't understand why people assume CI's motivation or his interest level in the Tigers. MI was the owner through some awfully bad seasons before he finally got rid of Randy Smith, yet for whatever reason, that gets ignored when some folks talk about CI not being the passionate owner that MI was. Heck, I think there was a stretch during MI's ownership where the Tigers had its worst length of time (per winning percentage) for some accumulated seasons in a row. But it clearly goes without saying, CI is going to have hit a home run with this next hire. Worst team in baseball over the last 7 seasons and all of the spoils that come with that through the draft haven't been realized in terms of a farm system that's bursting with talent. If they want to use Hinch's network of baseball relationships, that's fine. Who does he know from the Dodgers, Astros, Cardinals, Braves that can get this team in the right direction? And not just from the capacity of the GM. Take a look at scouting, analytics, and development.

I use betMGM just cause I always seem to get the fastest payouts with them. I mostly play table games though and only bet on sports casually so I don't know how their odds differ from other sites. I imagine though that @Deleterious will give the best answer for you.

I like days like today with no games worth watching at noon. I can bank some gf time and be left alone for the afternoon and night games.

Hook (th)'em whore(n)s?

Since he was in town for the game, one wonders if there's any chance that JK Simmons is interested in Shep's chair? Lol

Hinch brought up a good point about that play with Javy getting thrown at home. He said that Tork should've taken off for 1st there and if he did maybe out of instinct the catcher leaves the plate to retrieve the ball to throw to first. Edit: Actually come to think of it if Tork takes off for first would he be rewarded 1st base even with Javy being tagged out?

yes, but franklin perez will be the foundation of the rebuild.

FH Haase and/or TORK! as well. Pollock had turned toward second and the umpire was ready to call the out, and all they had to do was handle it cleanly and it would inning over right now.

The Tigers should have told AFL they can't have the Magno.

Walt Schaub does that these days. This book is awesome https://www.amazon.com/Throw-Them-All-Out-Politicians/dp/0547573146/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=throw+them+all+out+peter+schweitzer&qid=1663374078&sr=8-1

News clippings ? 😂

Never forget that Mastriano is a dangerous anti-semite.

Here's the park overlayed on some others... I never realized the RF fence goes out at a slight >90 degree angle before it juts out even further. That's how it appears to me. https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/select-home-run-park-factors-visualized/

Stole this from Facebook

Oh thank goodness the Pope has finally spoken up, I was a nervous wreck waiting to find out if he approved of supporting Ukraine.

Immigrants are fucking awesome