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Heading out to the game. Go Tigers

Maybe playing third every day was a distraction. Anyway, Nick Maton is a better hitter than he's shown this year. I really believe that. I think he fell into a hole and started thinking too much. Not saying he's an All Star, but he's not a .160 hitter either. I think the manager was foolish to keep putting him in the 5 spot, I think it just made everything worse. Maybe the Tony Packo diet let him take a breather. It doesn't matter if someone bats left or right if they don't hit at all. Putting at 7 or 8 in the lineup could help too. Don't give up on him. I think he's at least a decent utility guy.

Wasn’t sure were to post this. Amazing how these stats line up.

Who is the backup 1Bdude when Torkleson is at DH? Or do they roll with two 2Bdudes and they rotate as middle 2Bdude and foul line 2Bdude? Maybe they start standing next two each other and one of them rolls over to 1B while the pitcher goes in motion, almost like a man in motion in football? Talk about chess level chess. Come on AJ, we knew you read the forums. Let’s see it! And stop staring at me when I’m at the yard.

Love the pitch clock on the west coast games. Finished at a decent time.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/munsoth01.shtml That's Thurman Munson. All star in 7 of 10 full time seasons behind the plate. He averaged .292/.346/.410, good for a 116 OPS+ and 5.2 WAR over his tragically short life. Add on a ROY season and MVP season. The HOF committee never inducted him through 15 ballots. He never had double digit percentages with the exception of 15.5% on his first ballot. People use Don Mattingly as the exception to the New York bias, but I think Munson is the better example. The HOF museum is a fantastic place to visit. HOF enshrinement is an absolute head scratcher sometimes. If/when Buster Posey is inducted into the hall, baseball historians and media darlings absolutely need to bring up cases for Munson & Freehan.

This would be good;

You mean the thing Russia’s American stooges accuse Teh Left of doing? Are you saying they’re projecting? Heaven forfend.

Hello guys, long time lurker decided to register to talk Tigers with you!

We know Hamm is under slot. I'd bet the others are as well. As a said, get your under slot guys signed first so you know how much you have to work with, and in case everybody is hit by a bus so you aren't over 105%.

Crazy part is that it was about cat grooming.

Mayton!

Yawn. My dad and I are tied with 0. What’s more, my son (which I do not have any offspring of the male variety) is also tied with us at 0. Three generations tied with the same number of home runs. Go ahead, top that.

“Ok boys, this is should be pretty easy, we’ll go through this one at a time taking turns. Javy, take this bucket of balls with you out to SS and let’s see how this goes.”

So I wonder what he saw from his angle. I bet he thought Torkelson had it as his initial movement was to field the ball which put him in a reasonably good throwing position to deliver the ball home. For all of his fielding question marks, Torkleson has shown a pretty strong and accurate arm. So, we benefit from multiple TV angles, but I wonder if Pollock’s angle (and possibly the base coach) reads significantly different than what we saw.

I see Ryan Kreidler's rehab assignment is starting up today.

That's a tough listen...he's a nutter. And he's got people funding him so he can drag Biden enough. F' him and all who sail in him.

There was a scramble at the State Farm offices to find a worthy person in khakis.

Headlines....Blind squirrel finally finds nut!

Went to bed and woke up with a steaming plate of Maton crow in my face, thats nice

Something happened the first week of June. He hasn't been the same since. His walk rate more than doubled. It wouldn't surprise me if he's hurt and doesn't want to say anything because he finally got the closer role. He's been their worst pitcher since that second appearance in Chicago on June 4.

If I were the Tigers I try to get Lange throwing a 4 seamer against the curve instead of the sinker as he can't control the run on the sinker and you don't want to throw the chase pitch (the curve) in the zone. He needs to have a pitch he can throw for a strike when a hitter is taking.

Neither can we !! 😊

Dontrelle Lange

Crew chief review. Not sure how appropriate it is for an ump to put hiss thumb on the scale at that point in a game.

Sure, I think it was interesting and glad you posted it. I, and I think others, was simply giving reasons why it should be discounted a bit as probably not as positive as it would seem at first glance. I don’t want to discourage anyone from finding and posting tidbits like that though.

Why wasn’t AJ questioning them getting a second challenge after losing their first? I’m so confused.

Holy Toledo, what a play at the plate. Too bad it’s gonna be overturned. Dan says he thinks Julio might have hurt himself at third, but I think he hurt himself as the batter-runner crossing first. He was running funny after crossing it.

I wouldn’t mind seeing here guys on it …

Not a fan of ph Short for Carpenter regardless the situation.

Also gone. Fact is, Maton is practically the best choice for his slot on the roster at this point in time. We have nothing better than he, and there’s nothing better that’s available to pluck off the free agent tree, or else Harris would be bringing them in.

they're going to have to regrade the warning track by the time this one is over.

I have to keep reminding myself this is only SL.

Matt Shepherd...just put the game on a delay so you aren't so obviously wrong all the time.

Thank you, A.J. Pollock!

Howdy neighbor.

good thing the wind is blowing in tonight.....

Welcome!

They basically offered him a game-used Alfredo Simon jersey and beer koozee to sign.

I know they want to start giving Greene and Tork more DH and off days, and Hinch is probably brilliant to have realized Greene must be exhuasted after 5 days off.

Spaghetti pie was a staple growing up… whenever there was spaghetti or linguine leftover (& my mother always made plenty), you could guarantee this would show up a few days later. And we all loved it. Yours looks fantastic!👍

Sunday Pie. Spaghetti baked on the charcoal Weber. Big hit with the teenagers.

If you combined offensive and defensive WAR, isn't Lou #2 or #3 all time for Second Baseman? Oh yeah, he didn't do interviews - gotta punish him for that.

I think he was blackballed because he was critical of the Tigers organization. On another note...On two occasions, Fenech took my blog post and used it as his entire Free Press article. He gave me full credit, so I loved it but it was strange that he did that.

Please tell me that was Jordan Zimmermann that was just booted.

Lou and Tram shoulda gone in together. Longest DP combo in MLB history and that record prolly won't ever be broken. And Lou's numbers are as good as, or better, than many other 2nd basemen. IMO, which doesn't count, he should have already been in.

There was an additional paragraph in Trump's statement talking about Ivanka's juicy ass but aides removed it before release.

You can't just throw out stats. Stats are not a reward for good morals and ethics, They are a record of the game's history. Hundreds of hitters and pitchers used PEDs. It's not even practical to try to re-adjust all the stats to penalize the hundreds of hitters and pitchers who used steroids, amphetamines, etc. You can say that you think Aaron was a better home run hitter, but Bonds is the all-time home run leader. If I was going to select the best home run hitter, it wouldn't be either of them. I still think that's Ruth.

Its almost as if there was a building in St. Petersburg, Russia with some satellite offices elsewhere in Russia where they manufacture this crap.