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I guess with TORK, even with the struggles he's had over the last two weeks, he's just not the biggest problem this team has at the moment. And AJ, for his part, has recently been slotting him in the two-spot with regularity of late. Some of that is lack of options, but even so it stands to reason he still believes in TORK and his approach, even if the results haven't been there much of this year. I do admit having a lot of satisfaction at seeing him do what he did last night not just because he's important to this baseball team, but also because, fairly or unfairly, he bears an abnormal amount of brunt for their struggles as a team. Sure, it owes to his status as a 1-1, I get it... but he's still 23 years old with a little over 600 MLB ABs, who really didn't have a long stint in the minors. And the metrics are better this year, and unlike last year, he hasn't looked hopeless at the plate. The best version of this team going forward has Spencer Torkelson as a big contributor to their success, so he should be given every chance to succeed. Especially given that, outside of Keith and maybe Jung, I don't see many possible studs coming up behind Tork (or Greene) at the moment

Well, it's your choice to be here.....

Eat it, you insufferable whiney ass.

When Tork hit that homer I was surprised by his "easy power' and quick bat which seemed different to my unprofessional eyes. Like maybe he is starting to settle in. That was just BOOM.

If you have some time in your day you can watch the Seawolves today at noon: https://www.mlb.com/news/watch-minor-league-baseball-games-for-free?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

This remains amazing

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A certain local podcaster(Petzold's co-host) used RBI as as defense for Baez lol.

if he doesn't need to stretch out he might be back in by the end of the week? Faedo might be close as well as the fingernail fixed apparently worked well and he hasn't been out that long.

Dingler hits a 416ft bomb to CF. Btw has there been any news on Keith? Seems weird he would get 2 days off in a row particularly with a team off day sandwiched in the middle... unless he was hurt.

Today, Christie comes across as loyal to small d democracy, which is more than the rest them other than Hutchinson - or maybe Pence in his otherwise totally moronic way. But no matter what Christie looks like now, the fact that he *did* once go into the tank for Trump. and that he has also proven himself not to be above abuse of his office when he had power, argue that the level of his commitment to principle still has to be regarded as strongly suspect. In the end talk and posturing are cheap. If he wants to play the useful tool to take Trump down, I'd be glad to shake his hand for doing it, but I'm still not going to offer him my car keys.

I'm sticking with Hill being sent down.

The new Jason Isbell album Weathervanes has dropped. I haven't given it a full listen yet but am excited to do so very soon. As a huge fan of Jason's, I recognize that there will never be an album that compares to his 2012 album Southeastern. So I don't hold the expectation that he needs to record a Southeastern 2.0 type of album and don't expect this album to be that. His Southeastern album was deeply personal and was produced as he was coming out of a very dark time of his life. So I judge each album on its own merits and for their own artistic value and songwriting. And Isbell offers a lot of artistic value and always incredible song writing. I truly do believe he is the greatest songwriter of our times. The modern day John Prine, Bob Dylan, Woodie Guthrie. I can't wait to dive into Weathervanes this week. One of my favorite music blogs/websites, Saving Country Music, has a nice review up on the Weathervanes album. Saving Country Music Weathervanes Review

I would guess yes.

Torkelson was unusually aggressive in his last couple of AB. That seemed like a bit of shift for him. While I agree with Chasfh that in general there was too much pointless chatter from the three Amigos (Starburst anyone?) - there was one stretch when I think they had an interesting hitter/pitchers discussion. It started with Monroe saying he never cared much about the scouting report on a pitcher's tendencies because it didn't do him any good to know he threw pitch 'x', 'y' percent of the time, it's still no guarantee he'd get pitch 'x' if he looked for it on any particular pitch. That was fine, but it got better when Jones and Petry talked about how any good pitcher/catcher battery is changing their approach to each hitter based on what they are seeing from that hitter's swings in real time, Then even the further nuance that as a pitcher they knew that on occasion a top level hitter had 'set them up' by deliberatly telegraphing misdirection about his approach in an AB. The message I think being that in the flood of all the metrics we get (info from the past) don't forget to appreciate the games within the game going on present tense.

Thye keep going back to the documents Biden had in his garage. What they don't say is he found them and gave them back. I don't initially fault any POTUS, VPOTUS, or other high level official who's primary job is dealing with this info if they inadvertently have some of these in their possession. There's thousands of documents and things are over classified anyway. The whole point is when you find out or are told by Archives.... then you give it back. Like Biden and Pence did.

I'll bet there are a lot of Trumpies on grindr

in hollywood women age faster! Right?

Yes. And its not exactly his fault he was probably promoted too early and had to learn part of his craft on the fly with insufficient coworkers surrounding him.

On Murder She Wrote she would cast a lot of her old acting friends so that they could obtain better SAG benefits as they got older. Genius.

man when I was a kid racquetball was king. You had those clubs popping up with a bar in it. As I got older it evolved to Wallyball, Volleyball in a racquetball court. Before any of us had kids we'd do that twice a week. Play a few games then drink cheap beer out of pitchers and eat pizza in their bar area. Do those places still exist? The few I can think of closed down.

worth the minute it will take to glance at for a capsule of absurd thought about Trump's arrest

Im always happy when a non coastal team wins a championship(aside from Chi and Ohio teams of course). Its nice to see "the fly over states" beat the smug fans on the coast.

Cool to see Denver win its first NBA title. They were the top team in the West, so there's a satisfying aspect to finishing up the playoffs as the champion after the regular season that they had, at least for me who didn't have a significant rooting interest in it.

Really happy for Malone. He got screwed in Sacramento. Started his second year like 9-2. Cousins gets mono and misses a bunch of games. They lose something like 10 in a row and he gets fired.

Former Pistons castoffs Bruce Brown and KCP have taken over for Denver in the last 50 seconds of a championship closing game scoring their last 6 points and coming up with clutch rebounds and steals!

Sometimes that's all you need to do. We remember Miguel for all the homers and hits, but he also made a living hitting fly balls to get that runner home from third. If Spencer wants to hit his potential, he's gonna have to hit those long flyouts in that situation more consistently as well.

very happy for tork hope this is what we can look back on as the turning point in his young career

Thanks for the giant plate of crow Tork!

The tork game?

I actually like the broadcast without Shep. Just some friends hanging out. I mean it.

Not to get too off topic, but... VPNs aren't nearly nearly as big a deal as they make them out to be on the commercials. There are definitely some advantages to VPNs, but not quite to the extent that they say. As I mentioned above my example was super simplistic to illustrate how the VPN would have behaved in the case of betting online. Rather than try to explain it in my own words, just watch Tom Scott's video here. He does a very good job of explaining this:

Things were on the rise two weeks ago, then two starting pitchers and three outfielders went down and the team is in a tailspin. Jonathan Davis's opt out was... poorly timed.

I think as people went into their bubbles in 2020, they came out really prioritizing it. I mean... I won't date someone if I suspect they are antivax, so I'm a bit guilty. But when there are four prompts and somebody uses one of them on TRUMP!!!!! or BLM! that's all I need to know, IMO.

There is a happy medium between win-now and what this is. Maybe it would be more palatable if they had healthy and productive young players. When they choose not to improve and then let the product die the first week of June, that screams indifference. It's visceral for me not necessarily logical. That's what a fan is.

A little over 20 years ago, Dave Dombrowski uncorked his "you try and trade him" rant. Granted there are younger fans who don't remember that, but certainly almost everyone here remembers it one would imagine. I dont know that the situation now is as dire as it was in 2002, but it certainly isn't that much different either. They don't have a lot of tradable assets and, to the extent that free agency isn't all about $$$$$$$$$, it's one of the least marketable products going in the sport. Harris will get grief because it is part of the job, but I dont have a great understanding of how people can sit and complain about Avila set the Tigers behind by years and how they have no chance at competing until 2026, and yet complain about Harris not being in a "win-now" posture. Just doesn't make a lot of sense to me

you know, when I was a young anti-Vietnam and thus also anti-military-industrial complex guy, I though it was sort of quaint that organizations like the USMC spent so much time in their recruiting talking about honor, loyalty, and other virtues when the core reality of their purpose was to break things and kill people. What was the point? But in today's Russia we see all too clearly what an Army unmoored from honor and fidelity brings to the world -- and though all War may be Hell, this Russian Army's brand is something else altogether.

To be clear, I quibble with Harris just rolling the majority of the 2022 offense into 2023. During that process, Harris told anyone who would listen that vets wouldn't block young players. They are letting useless vets continue to play and do nothing. They're not even changing the argument right now. It's the same corpses(aside from Cabrera) who continue to get at-bats. The pitching is injury luck and lack of development. You can't do much about it.

I will never buy Bird Dog shorts.

Players only broadcast means never-ending verbal manure.

I don't believe they are tanking now, in the way it can be argued the Avila regime tanked for a few years. The team we have today is the by-product of the talent level available to us, both as left to us by the prior regime, and as put together by the current regime under the limitations inadvertently set by the prior regime. Given the change of the draft to a lottery system, there is far less certainty to obtain the 1-1 pick in the way that it could previously be "earned", so there's much less incentive to tank. There has been spirited discussion here about whether "tanking' even took place, i.e., whether the Tigers actively tried to lose under Al Avila to secure 1-1 picks in the draft. Absent any statements in the affirmative from Al and his front office team we can't know for sure, but there can be no debate that the Tigers fielded arguably the least-talented team in the majors for years, and which led to the losing that got us the high draft picks. I happen to believe it was by design, and that obtaining high draft picks was part of the calculation leading them to do it. But I do not believe the same thing is happening now as happened under Avila. I believe that they simply do not have the leverage to field a playoff-level team at this moment. They don't have the assets in the system because of botched drafting and development by the prior regime; they can't trade their way to a winner because they do not have the assets to make such trades; and impact All-Star-level free agents don't choose to go to teams that have no prayer of winning, despite money, which they also can get from contending teams. Most of all, I believe that the new regime is savvy enough to understand that given the state of our franchise and the assets within, now is not the time to make a full-court press toward winning now, that building the infrastructure to put us in a position to win more effectively is the main goal, and that ownership is on board with this plan. It sucks to realize that the losing is going to go on for a while longer, but I think we are finally pulling in a logical and right direction.

I vaguely recall really wanting to see the Tigers get guys like Jo Adell and Keston Hiura in deadline deals a few years ago. Florial seemed like an impossible ask. It really is a crapshoot...isn't it?

That's a great illustration of why no organization in baseball loses intentionally in order to improve their draft position. The draft picks don't have anywhere near the value that they do in basketball for example where your 1-1 pick is 20% of your starting lineup.

what a wonderful self-fulfilling prophecy: this team sucks bad, so it makes sense that we spent no money on free agents to improve it. how is that not the same argument that can be made this winter? we are not ready to spend because - you guessed it - the team sucks bad, in part because we spent no money on free agents to improve it. Harris has a 2023 payroll less than the major league average and is $13M less than last year when they had a historically bad offense. as a a fan, it is NOT my job to correctly identify the players that can help this team in free agency, the draft, through trades, Rule 5 draft or any other way. Harris and Co. are paid - literally - millions of dollars to do that. what would this team look like with Jean Segura, Wil Myers and Brian Anderson? I have no effing clue! solutions are NOT coming from the farm. Through 2024, Keith might be up as a major league starter. but everyone else (Malloy, Meadows, Jung, ...) looks like more of what we have a lot of (outside of Green and maybe Baez): 1-2 WAR bench, platoon, and complimentary guys. I also see you stopped referencing the Rangers pointless FA spending spree in the winter of 2021, now that they are in 1st place.

Ish Smith is also on the Nuggets roster. I always liked him. The ultimate journeyman. I believe his second year with us was the first time he started a season with the same team he ended the previous season with. Dude still made $40M in his career.

Can Native Americans run for President?