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the two meijer execs are armed and they told manning and mize that, if they know what's good for them, they better smile and make it look good. the one guy is holding a gun to mize's back; the other just put his behind him. somehow i know that duece is getting his cut

The Tigers got so lucky that the 2021 draft fell the way it did and Mayer was there for the taking. The Jobe pick (and at such a giant salary bonus) was representative of lots of issues in the organization and its decision making.

she's got a lot of nerve

Miggy and Ibanez are just being good teammates trying to make Schoop look good.

Absolutely. In order for true justice to be done, Trump needs to have to answer** to ALL that occurred before, during, and after Jan 6th. (** and by “answer to”, I mean in a court of law)

Imagine how messed up you have to be to defend Putin

Very important Nor yet enough

Made me chuckle.

Thank you for putting "pennant race" in quotes. I want to win and play in the playoffs as much as the next guy, but despite that we are in second place and only 2-1/2 games out, we are still just 22-25. That's substantially below .500. Not only that, but our pythag record, an estimated winning percentage based on runs scored versus runs allowed, is 18-29. That's equivalent to a .383 winning percentage. We are 29th in runs scored, and that's not due to being unlucky, because we are also 27th in on base, 29th in slugging, 29th in wOBA, 27th in wRC+, and 29th in base-running runs. We come by our offensive futility honestly. Our run prevention is only marginally better. We are 20th in ERA, 21st in FIP, 22nd in xFIP. We can't strike guys out (25th) and we can't keep the ball in the ballpark (24th in HR/9). The one thing we can do is pound the zone (9th among teams in that) and not walk guys (4th lowest rate), but that mainly tells me how much worse the run prevention would be if our walk rates were even league average. In short, we are not ready to be a playoff team. Not close. I'm frustrated with the past seven years, too, just like everyone else. But what would frustrate me more is if this front office were to make moves now to trade future assets for marginal players as rentals in a quixotic bid to squeeze into the playoffs with a barely .500 record as the third division-winner, only to get smoked in the wild card round. (I get that the playoffs are a crapshoot yada yada, but come on, let's be real: we would get smoked by the AL East 3rd-place team in the wild card round.) And the the rental leaves in the winter and we are out not only him, but also whatever prospects we would have traded to get him. I do not want to mortgage the best of what little future we currently have in-house in order to Dombrowski our way into the postseason at all costs. That's partly what got us where we are in the first place! I won't speak for anyone else here, but I am happier with our situation knowing that we are not yet a playoff team, despite our current relative standing in the division. We are a still a rebuilding team—in fact, a rebuilding organization. If we can make the playoffs by sticking with the Harris-Hinch plan and without making any trades to get there, I would be beyond thrilled. But that's so unlikely that I'm not even hoping for it, and that's OK. It's a beautiful dream, but that's not the goal for this team this year, which is why I am not all in on winning this year. It's simply not our time yet. In the meantime, I'm not going to get too attached to the Kreidlers and the Wentzes and the Nevins and the Workmans and the Lipciuses and the Shorts and all those guys similar to them that are littering our system today. Most of them will be gone in 2024, perhaps all of them in 2025. This organization is going to look vastly different by the time 2026 rolls around, and by then our top prospects will be names we don't even know today. That's the day I'm really looking forward to. And if Harris does it right, we'll be looking back at 2023, remembering how much faith we put in guys like those I listed above, and we'll be asking ourselves, "Jesus, what was I on?"

Its fun to be in a "pennant race". But I'm not interested in rushing players up before they're ready. I'd rather complain about Nevin/Ibanez/Schoop/Maton/Cabrera this season than complain this/next/nextnext year that Malloy/Keith/whoever were rushed up too soon. The AL Central is usually up for grabs for any decent team historically. Allow the Tigers to build up the few prospects they have to be decent players in the future so that maybe they can be integral pieces of the next playoff team.

Disagree... Malloy has struggled of late, but having Keith jump two levels is Tigers Twitter fever dream stuff.

Taliban? Trump invited them to camp David on 911, negotiated to free 5000 of the in Afghanistan, and negotiated an agreement to leave them in power. Trumpers sure are some historical revisionists.

RIP Tina Turner

Man, Giolito is a mess right now

BADDOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Tigers threaten and then Miggy is batting.

MAGA is so predictable it’s honestly kinda boring.

I don't think that there is any difference in attendance when he plays. I can't imagine that there are people sitting at home waiting for the lineups to be announced before deciding whether or not to attend.

I don't hate it. Could be worse, could be online gambling.

Yeah I know that's the argument. When you look at the 2019 draft, only 11 players had their 5th year option picked up and a 12th, Jordan Love, signed an extension for less than the 5th year option. Less than half of the players taken project to be with the team after 5 years. If Gibbs can play at a high level for 5 years, this team will likely look a lot different by then. It's probably 50/50 Goff isn't even here in 5 years.

Trump was the leading conspirator So, go get him.

Trump won't be able to pardon anyone from prison. So, there is the solution.

He is taking up a spot that could be used for someone who might not be playing any more than Cabrera, but had the felxibility to play different roles and contribute something useful.

It sounds like Carpenter is "hitting lasers all over the field" according to what I heard on the radio but he still can't throw which is why he hasn't been called back up. This is where having Miggy hurts us cause we'd have no problem just using him as the full time DH until he was healthy enough to play the field but with Miggy already taking up that spot it makes it hard to roster two guys that literally can't play defense at all.

yeah - though the truth is that this would be a non-story if we had even a marginally functional Congress. All Scotus really says here is that the Congress wrote a very poorly drafted, ambiguous piece of legislation (which it did) and that it wasn't up the court to allow EPA to advance the most expansive possible reading of that ambiguity, it was up to Congress the clarify what they meant to regulate. In a normal world this is exactly the decision reasonable people should agree upon. There is/should be a working tension between how much we want SCOTUS to 'just fix' what Congress does badly vs having Congress repair it properly. The former is convenient, at least for the people looking for a particular result, but it's also long term corrosive to keep bailing Congress out of its incompetence and in the end cedes too much power to the judiciary. I think that to a certain degree at least - 'believeing the courts will fix it' has been a historical factor in liberal voter apathy.

I think Harris will stay the course and trade Rodriguez and possibly Lange at the deadline and if not then this off season. I trust his judgment and that’s the biggest improvement over last year for me.

The wildcard round is best of three. The Tigers would probably have about a 45% chance to win that series. It's pretty much a crap shoot. I do agree they are not good and probably won't make the playoffs. If they did make the playoffs with, let's say, a 80-82 record and proceeded to win the World Series, it would be entertaining but it would be a hollow championship. There would be no comparison to 1984 or 1968. I'd rather see them be a good team for 162 games and lose the World Series than win that way. I don't want to see them trading young players for a one-year run at the playoffs and I don't see anyone suggesting that. They are in a weak division though, so they don't need to go on another five-year plan. I would not mind if they traded young prospects for young about to get expensive young players in the majors with some cheap team that doesn't want to pay them. Another possibility, If Rodriguez is still strong in late July would be to extend enough to get him to not opt out.

In my ideal world, Miggy goes to the DL, Carpenter is back at DH, Schoop goes away and Nevin is given another shot, with Kreidler an option when he’s healthy. Keith and Malloy get more time in the minors and benefit from it. Miggy gets a chance to return later for a send off. No, I don’t expect that to all happen. 😕

Imagine defending Putin's regime.

If Haase were hitting and he could be deployed full time as an OF/DH and have Knapp/Rogers be a workable C platoon, I think it makes some sense. But Haase isn't hitting, Rogers isn't hitting, and Knapp is Knapp.

The other thing with Malloy/Keith is they probably have a certain trade value as prospects right now. If they are called up prematurely and it shows, they might lose that trade value. Considering they both primarily play the same position, it isn't out of the question that they may ultimately have to trade one of them. They're both at levels where they are successful and age appropriate or advanced. It isn't a situation where they're running out of time and they need to sink or swim at the MLB level.

There is nothing at all wrong with spending an entire year at one level in the minor leagues.

Nice crowd.

Haven’t we recently seen the effects of rushing minor leaguers before they are ready and trying to force them to learn at the big league level?

Interesting that after the last few humiliations from Elon, the buddy I have who was in his cult (also a NeverTrump) has left his cult and is sharing comedic memes about Musk with me. So, there is hope in the World. [Queue the Samwise Gamgee speech from the end of The Two Towers].

She’s like a really bad substitute teacher. 😂

Shades is sister Mary Elephant at our lady of 116th street.

Maybe Malloy and Keith will just spend the year in the minors..or until September call ups just to work on their defense.

I actually think Keith would get a call up first.

Dan Dickerson’s call of final out. Tigers beat Royals May 24.m4a

Its been almost 20 years now.

I expect they'll try to get it in. The Tigers only go to KC once more, for a 4-game series during a 17-day stretch with no days off in July following the All-Star break (thanks to making up a game against San Francisco on a previously-scheduled off day) so I'd bet the Tigers would not be keen on having to play a double-header in the middle of that.

I want to hear him say "moose and squirrel"

The USS Gerald R. Ford is on its first deployment. It arrived in Oslo and will take part in drills/exercises before heading to the Arctic. This is the first ship in the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers and will be replacing the Nimitz class carriers. Someone posted some pics of it sailing into Oslofjord.

People mock the hypocrites who follow bizonkers White Christo fascism - of Franklin Graham while supporting the least christian politician this country ever elected in Donald Trump

You got some great taste in music, Tater.

1969. Two of my favorites. Man oh man. Take me back.