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They scored enough runs to win at least one game today. The pitching and defense was brutal....especailly in game 1.

Don't you mean "other random bozos"?

Now I understand why he robbed that pension fund.

I actually saw a couple out rollerblading the other day, much to my surprise though they were wearing airpods and not a Sony Walkman like I would've expected.

Miggy with a ground rule double!

One key change they made a few years ago was to remove the functionality where you could run a query, then run a second query based on the results of the first query. For example, one run on all the players who played on the Tigers from, say, 2014-2022, and then a second run against the resulting list to see how they are all doing this season. I’ve been working on a research piece where I could use that capability, so I wrote to Sean and asked if I could get that kind of custom query. One of his staff replies, sure we can. Cost: $1,500. That’s fifteen hundred dollars. For a single, small custom query. You know, as though I am ESPN and I’m going to be trading off that information. I’ll see him at the Palmer House next month and make nice, but I’m a little sore that he’s taken the business in that direction.

Couple other things: Beard reporting that part of the deal was a private jet that would be made available anytime Monty needed it for his wife to fly back to Phoenix for medical reasons. Also, they set up a fund to handle any medical needs that aren't covered by insurance for her cancer treatment. Cool stuff that continues to demonstrate how they're trying to build a family oriented organization with good character and relationships. This is probably part of the "out of the box" thinking that Troy was talking about with Gores approach to landing Monty. Looks like Dan Burke ("defensive guru"), Jarrett Jack, and Mark Bryant ("big man savant") are joining the coaching roster as well. I think they were on site yesterday as well. This is shaping up to be a pretty impressive and experienced coaching staff. You don't get this kind of team if you hire Ollie. You get them because you landed Monty.

An aside, I found this fascinating in 2023, the camera in courtroom fight has been going on for at least 40 years now.

He did jump the shark a bit for me when he started doing spots, especially the horse races..

Why are we watching Todd Jones interviewing random bozos while the game is going on???

This country needs to stop overvalidating Kornacki

the difference between whitmore and stanley is that whitmore is an elite nba athlete right now and stanley was never an elite nba athlete. whitmore's an elite finisher now and stanley was not. the iq thing is probably an issue, but he's very young still. if anyone reminds me of stanley its walker. a tweener who is strong and doesnt have great shooting fundamentals. a guy who could be too slow to guard 3s and too small to guard 4s in a way that stanley was too slow to guard 2s and too unathletic to guard 3s.

I don't subscribe to any of it because I figure all of you will do the work and I can just read about it and stand on the shoulders of geniuses.

Holy **** the box score says Miggy homered, did all the Braves players run into each other causing a mass KO and inside the parker or did Miggy actually hit one over the fence?

I'm happy with the Meijer patch the Tigers have now that I see the Quikrete abomination Atlanta has.

ToRkElSoN! He hit the ass out of that baseball.

just to make it more fun, they trade back into round 1 by getting pittsburgh's #14 pick in exchange for taking on mikael granlund's contract and #31. they then take sammy honzek. that would be just about a perfect draft scenario.

I'm with you on Hendricks being the best day 1 fit. People question the ceiling since he doesn't create, but he does the 2 things this team needs most: High level shooting around Cade and Ivey and excellent defense and rim protection. If they don't have the guts to draft him at #5 I'd love to see them move down, get some assets, and grab him at 7 or 9. He's not falling to 10. For Walker, I guess it all depends upon your belief in the shot. I don't recall the exact stat, but it's extremely rare for a guy with a 66% FT percentage to become a good three point shooter. He wasn't a good three point shooter even though they were all assisted, easy shots. He also had very bad looking misses (looking at misses rather than makes is something a lot of scouts believe in). He's afraid of contact, can't create, and can't shoot midrange either. On offense, he's a train wreck to me unless you have a ton of elite shooters around him and just need him to Draymond-lite. That's not us. We need to surround Cade and Ivey with guys who can space the floor and make their lives easier. And although his defense is versatile, it's not as good as Hendricks, so I don't see the appeal here on any front over other guys in this range.. As for Whitmore: -Super high finishing stats - 65% at the rim -Explosive leaper/athlete (40.5" vertical) to go along with strong frame. Not just trying to muscle guys (Bey, Stuckey) because he also has the athleticism to get by and go over them (Anthony Edwards, Miles Bridges). -Excellent cutter and finisher off of cuts and lobs -Explosive first step, solid handle, can create for himself and finish through contact -Great rebounder for his position -40% on Catch and Shoot threes even though he started the season slow (thumb injury to shooting hand) -Excellent in transition -Good on-ball defender with quick hands and good lateral movement to cut off drives -Potential to switch up and down on defense due to the combo of strength and athleticism -Very young - will be 18 on draft night He has some issues as well. Obviously the assist rate is a red flag and he needs to get better at his off-ball awareness on defense. Some have pointed to the new coach in Villanova and the fact that the team itself was abysmal at passing to say he's a product of their system - I'm not so sure that's the reason. However, he's super young and I only need to teach him first level reads to unleash him. At the end of the day, the ball is going to be in Cade and Ivey's hands most of the time and Whitmore is going to be a play finisher. At that he's excellent. His potential is sky high on offense and defensively he has all the tools to be lock down.

Givony has his latest mock out and he still has us taking Whitmore. The thing that caught my though was this closing statement "Some trade scenarios could be in play for the Pistons with the No. 31 pick as well, for example, packaging Bojan Bogdanovic for Tim Hardaway Jr. and the No. 10 pick, sources tell ESPN." Id be down for that since we then could take my boy **** at 10!

I believe this is the first update on Jobe since his injury.

Weaver spent five days at Gores house? That explains why he looked and acted like that. He was detoxing from all the coke.

We can be a bad team with Lorenzen or we can be a worse team without Lorenzen and maybe get a diamond in the rough...

I'll be honest, I don't see a scenario outside of terrible results/injury that Lorenzen is a Tiger after the deadline. They would probably bring up Bergner or Hurter to fill the spot if they had to or stretch out Alexander again.

If we don’t get at least two of Skubal, Manning, Turnbull and ERod back, we might not have the luxury of trading Lorenzen. No depth at Toledo, as we’ve already stretched that.

Its the kernel of truth that makes the ones that work stick. In this case there may be some generational effect. Voters old enough have watched and remembered the WhiteWater hearings (and esp GOP voters) would recall that Hillary was the stocking horse for some of that good-old-boy graft in Arkansas that funneled money to the Guv'ner. The one in particular that I still remember was that payoffs from Tyson (as in Chicken) were laundered through an options account held by Hillary rather than Bill. Now she maybe have been a semi-unwitting 'victim' of Bill having put her up to it, much like Warren was of what her family had told her - but those are the kinds of things that bite in the asz years later if you get to where the lights are brigher. I still maintain the if Hillary had really been the total political mercenary and all in on wanting to be President, she should have jettisoned Bill. It would have allowed her to walk away from a lot of political baggage.

yeah he's more of a Tonto....

It most likely was. As sophomoric as it is, I actually think it's a little too sophisticated for Trump. I don't think the name Pocahontas would be something he'd come up with on his own.

not sure I'm a fan of this.....

They dodge responsibility for this stuff by claiming that all the stuff after the 6pm news hour is "entertainment" but if this isn't shouting fire in a crowded theater, i don't know what is.

tiktok? Rick Beato did an interview with a music critic who touched on this. It was a great chat.

She didn’t make it up. She grew up being told her family has Cherokee in their background, and like all children would, she believed it. She didn’t just fabricate it for woke points while running for office—she contributed to an American Indian cookbook in the 80s, so this has been part of her life all her life. If anything, her sin was to lean into that early in her career for apparent advantage, which is disputed but still smells funny; and for the wrong-headed and ham-fisted decision to utilize DNA testing to try to prove her bona fides, and the Nation told her so at the time. To her credit, she saw her error pretty quickly and apologized, and the Nation accepted that apology. I don’t think any right-wingers can be expected to move on from this, because of Tiger337’s implication that they got nothing else on her, but I think it’s pretty certain that she is in the clear on this issue because she isn’t trying to gaslight everybody about it.

nice

I questioned Walker's shooting ratios before. Seems to me to be a pass at 5.

That’s exactly what I was saying to my daughter. In 1997 for example, with 2 minutes to go my legs literally started shaking. I couldn’t believe it was happening. oh what a night! Do you realize how many people will have heart attacks from being overwhelmed if Goff ever goes into victory formation for the Lions in a Super Bowl?,

Wow! What a fun team.

Vegas, a huge NHL success story. Bettman bet on the market and won.

It's the hidden variable problem. If a system is complex, you don't really know for sure if there is a hidden variable you don't know about that causes the predictive value of two things that normally correlate to fail. The longer the correlation continues to fails, the more the probability that there is a hidden variable you don't know about rises.

Pretty much the type of post Betrayer was talking about in the offseason thread.

Very well spoken and easy to listen to. Unlike Weaver.

he wouldn't of

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

BABIP is an indicator of future performance. It was always true that some players would be higher or lower based on speed, power and other hitting attributes. I think what surprises people is that periods of unexplained statistical variability are larger and longer than they expect, and they consistently overreact to smaller samples.

Now this is super cool.

He's kind of old to be developing into a regular contributor. Id say it's small sample size.

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.

Oh so you're saying in 2022 Jackson was not better than Goff despite you're proclamation that Jackson was one of the best QBs in the league? And before you get to, he was hurt, on a per game basis, Goff averaged more combined yards than Jackson, more TDs than Jackson, more 1st downs than Jackson, and was a more accurate and efficient passer than Jackson. I also noticed you bring up Jackson's record at age 21 but ignore Goff playing in a Super Bowl at age 24. Have to hand it to you, that was some incredible goal post moving.