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Big hopes for Jace. The boy got a foul ball off of Jaces bat. Caught up with him after the game and got him to sign it.

No offense, but I take an internet poster’s opinion of ERod’s “loyalty and teamsmanship” with a huge grain of salt. It may be very accurate, but is still just an opinion.

Some would argue Jon isn’t either

Hinch made it happen.

So, basically, what’s being derided as Hinch playing “chess” was moving players in and out of lineups and situations was apparently to figure out who could do what where, as he did the first several weeks of the season to a chorus of complaints, and when he’s found someone who could do a job consistently, he has stuck with them, such as Ibanez starting at third base three of the last four games. Innnnnteresting …

Scott - you get a mulligan this time. Next year you better come with something better than $10 for someone like Matthew Boyd. Minor leaguers would tee off on him.

Schoop handcuffed pn a hot grounder. Hinch should try handcuffing him to the locker room radiator...

I can see how that would be a big peeve. (I was annoyed just reading it. 😁)

It's also no coincidence that Johnny Barbato was the last Tiger to pull this off:

Happy birthday Sweet Lou Whitaker.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/37603717/how-phoenix-suns-reshape-their-roster-kevin-durant-devin-booker Don't do it weaver.

He rode to california with a Don Bajojo on his knee

LOL

i'll have what MC is having. 🙂

I feel the same way! I am not sure if it is just me trying to cope but it makes me feel better about passing on them. Too many of those guys on a team and it is tough to win imo, but I'm no expert.

Long as we're talking about MLB media and how much it can suck, here's something else new this year that I hate. Let's start with the setup: One of the things I have liked about watching MLB feeds from other cities is when they run local (actually RSN) commercials. A lot of them might be for national or even regional brands, but sometimes they will be for a local car dealer or law firm or some advertiser you can't see anywhere else. I find that somewhat charming. I see that on Extra Innings on D*TV. Even better when it's a Blue Jays and you get Canadian commercials. Yeah, I know, you Detroiters are like, big whoop, because you can see that on channel 9 every day. But for we folks who are removed geographically from that possibility, it's pretty neat. You don't get that on MLB.tv games, since the League sells out all that commercial time to national advertisers—or, more exactly, they bonus their top sponsors spots during all the breaks on MLB.tv games. That's why you see the same commercials over and over, like the Scotts lawn spot with the stupid bagpipes, or the Range Rover spots with the ridiculously over-the-top orchestral music. No advertiser would ever pay for that kind of relentless, non-stop, punch-you-in-the-face-repeatedly frequency because it actually hurts brand perception, and pretty quickly at that. I'm a little surprised Scotts and the other sponsors don't request frequency caps on a per game basis or something. Maybe it's such a tiny deal to them that they don't even know, or else don't give a sh*t. On the radio side, on MLB At Bat, you would hear the commercials that run on the flagship station, and it was great, because radio spots during baseball games are far more local, much less slick, and thus more charming than even local TV spots. Sometimes you might even hear spots for a single restaurant or one lone insurance agency. That's pretty cool. You might hear local spots during some breaks on the radio broadcasts on the Sirius app, although you're just as likely to hear Sirius pound you with promo spots for their other channels, especially channels devoted to sports you might hate. (Or, to be honest, sports I might hate.) OK, now for the peeve: As of this season, MLB At Bat no longer allows local radio spots to run during game breaks. They bonus that time out as well, and to sponsors of your local team. So no matter what feed I'm listening to, whether it's Tigers', Cubs', White Sox', Guardians', Dodgers', doesn't matter, they play local Chicago spots. And for me, it's always Cubs-oriented spots for Sloan toilets or Binny's Beverage Depot or North Shore Hospital or whatever. (Never a White Sox-oriented spot, though. I'm not sure quite yet why that is.) Now here's the worst part, in my estimation: no matter where I am—whether I'm in Chicago, or I go to Milwaukee, or Green Bay, or Detroit, or anyplace else in the country, maybe even the world—I hear the exact same Chicago Cubs-oriented spots run on At Bat. I don't even get the spots that are local to the cities I am physically in. MLB has determined, for whatever reason, that since I am a Chicagoan—and, in their estimation, a Cubs fan—they are going to present to me the same spots for Sloan, or Binny's, or North Shore Hospital over ... and over ... and over ... and over ... and over ... you get the idea. And of course, 40% of all the spots I hear feature the putatively dulcet tones of accidental Hall of Famer Pat Hughes, the sound, tone, and smarmy delivery of whose voice I absolutely despise. My only recourse is listen to the Sirius feed for the sometimes local spots, although the down side of that is that they are literally several minutes behind live action. But that's a trade-off I don't mind making to avoid the crushing sameness of the commercial during breaks.

That c- legal team knew they had to keep the random noise generator off the stand. He's already incriminated himself enough.

Saved it to my "Active Pop" YT playlist. Thanks for the tip.

Hinch made them suck. 😅

Trump was given a chance to testify, in fact he was given several chances but opted to go on vacation to a golf course in Scotland. If Trump was going to blame someone maybe it should be one of his vast team of law school dropouts.

What about the previous 7 months?

Detroit Lions Over/under: 9.5 Mike Clay's projection: 8 Prediction: Under 9.5 wins. I know people are excited about the trajectory of this team, and it is justified. The Lions have a lot of young talent on this team; however, they are still the Lions -- a franchise that has little experience or success realizing its potential over the years. Should they really be the division favorites? I'm not so sure. Their draft process was flawed. WR Jameson Williams is suspended the first six games of the season. I will not be betting into the narrative that this team is the best in the division. -- Fulghum

He may be good at bullpen management. That is one area where I think a manager can have an impact and the Tigers bullpen has been consistently good during his tenure. The offense, on the other hand...

Hinch has a real talent for batting practice management? My, that doesn't sound like a very efficient use of his energies. 😉

If you like hard rock with a bit of a punk rock edge, this is my friend's band.

Again, my thing is that he knows enough to adjust when a particular player isn't doing well or when a particular lineup configuration isn't working. There are a lot of managers out there you cannot say that about. He isn't perfect, he does make mistakes, but the Tigers are still lucky to have him in the grand scheme of things.

For the second year in a row, a chubby white dude has ended the sun's season.

This shows how it went last Spring/Summer

Wasn't Hubie Brown like 80 years old during the Bad Boys era?

All my friends who are following every possible event over there are losing their minds waiting for the big push. Its coming. Russia is terrible in all phases of combat. Imagine how terribly they will do trying to have an orderly withdrawal under fire. Fugutaboutit. They don't have anywhere near enough troops to control the territory they have. Once the partisans start setting off IEDs on the lines of withdrawal...

Next few weeks in Ukraine will get very interesting. So far AFU seem to be pushing back around Bakhmut, possisibly threatening the RU forces three with encirclement. Since this would be such a huge embarrassment for Putin, MOD, and Wagner, it could also be that it is the perfect feint to draw RU strength away from where the real blow lands...

You are right. I do live in a very dark place. It hasn’t been that way for long, only since corrupt dementia Joe Biden took over. What is sad is that the policies and actions of Biden and his party have jeopardized the safety of my family and every American in the US. I stopped by a gun shop today to get ammunition. It was so busy that people had to wait outside. One good thing and probably the only good thing about Biden is he is a great gun salesman.

I am surprised that the writer of that puff piece mentioned the game when Ibanez started in right field, that almost caused a loss. And without looking it up I think that since then he has started every game at third base, which is what should happen whether the pitcher is lefthanded or righthanded. Not a chess piece in other words. The difference this year is that he isn't playing chess with Harold, Willi, Reyes and Barnhart.

I think he missed that he was given a chance. But not showing up in person, giving his own defense of sexual assault if done by celebrities, and telling in his deposition that he wouldn't rape the defense counsel because she wasn't his type might have hurt his chances, no?

If he does have a good season and stays, some of it could be a reflection of the team improving, but also AJ will have to get some credit for really building that relationship in the offseason and building that trust with him.... think about where we were a month ago when he ****ed up on the bases and got benched and where we are now. A different manager who didn't put in the work to understand their star player may have ended up with a different result. Honestly, ERod would need to be extended for sure just because the AAV of his current deal is too low for how he's pitching, but maybe the same could be said for him in that the org did stand behind him last year when he was away and when the fan base was agitated by whatever personal problems were going on in his life. Not sure that's a guarantee in other orgs.

Hinch was the manager the first four weeks too. So, if you are going give him credit for the last two weeks, then you need to blame him for the first four. It's 2021 all over again.

obviously it is not that easy; the Phillies were a deeply flawed 7th seed and then a month later, won 2 of the first 3 WS games. NYY have won 1 WS is the last 23 years because playoffs are a crapshoot. I think they need to do something - move him or extend him; but I get the feeling Harris won't do either anytime soon

Start the new gig tomorrow. Program Director/Afternoon Host on 107one in Ann Arbor.

Re: Antivirus software... Since I was already subscribing to NYT and The Athletic, I just bundled it all together and got Wirecutter so was able to see this: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/online-security-built-in-antivirus-software/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/best-antivirus/

were going to spend all our cap space on draymond and dillon brooks, arent we?

What about the draft and taking someone like Marcelo Mayer, I hear he's pretty good . . . Oh wait!!!