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Happy for Lorenzen and his success should only help Detroit sign free agents. It's a win for Harris who needs a monster off season because we are all tired of being happy for others. Time to be happy for US !!

We need to harness Javy's windmill swing to produce electricity.

Made it through the Bluewater Bodge today.

I think our sticking with the Tigers through times as thin as the last seven years makes us pretty damn good fans.

future gym teachers Seth Stephenson, Carlos Pelegrin, JD McLaughlin and Jose De La Cruz currently are in the Lakeland OF, so that should not be a problem

Max Clark with another bomb!

He'll change his tune when they start booing and someone throws a battery at him.

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He's just kissing up to his new fan base, no different than just about every other athlete does so I take no offense to it.

Asking the analytically-minded hurler about the metrics on his cutter elicited a response that was preceded by a pregnant pause. “I hate trying compare myself to this guy,” said Jobe. “I don’t think there’s been anybody like him, and I’m nowhere close to being who he is, but my cutter is pretty similar to Jacob deGrom’s slider at times. When it’s good, I throw it at 93 [mph] with negative-two horizontal and four vert. Like I said, on paper. Obviously, he does a fantastic job of locating his. It’s not just metrics that make a pitch good, it’s how you use it. My goal is to one day be anywhere as talented as he is.” Yeah, I like this kid.

Good job morans for screwing up your lottery odds!!

Vierling only played a few games at 3rd for the Phils last season - mostly OF, but he looks pretty decent over there. I'd give him as much time there as possible the rest of the way because if Vierling could stabilize 3b it would be a big get for the Tigers. It allows Keith to fall back to 2B if in the end he can't cut it at 3b.

that reminds me, I gotta check the shop's work after they put my new tires on yesterday. another hit for Zach Mack.

You can thank me for putting Torkelson on my bench tonight.

Great game for Mike Lorenzon. Should of extended.

Fans at the Baltimore Houston Game tonight are chanting Free Kevin Brown!! And Broadcasters on TBS are ripping the Orioles

RHP Casey Mize (Tommy John surgery, lumbar strain) Expected return: Possibly late 2023 Mize completed a bullpen session on Aug. 5 in which he used his secondary pitches. He threw another bullpen session on Aug. 9. (Last updated: Aug. 10)

I’m dead

After seeing several games this season with the Challenge system and the ABS system, I’m a proponent of either over the status quo. I could see year one being the Challenge system for the sake of the fans. Call it a visual demo of the ABS system for the casual fans and how it will work. I think a year of the Challenge system might help the transition to the ABS. We attended a game this year where the ABS was being used. Several fans didn’t have any idea that that umpire was simply communicating what the system was telling him. These guys were riding the ump about how he was missing the calls. It was a funny, all things considered.

That was well timed from Olson's point of view. I know that "wins" are frowned on as a performance measurement but actual pitchers still like them.

can't believe in a former life I used to have Townhall bookmarked for daily reading.

With the prices of sports and concert tickets these days, to get this last minute single for $55 was nice.

In FCL action today so far Clark with a 2B and a SF, Andrew Dunford (12th rd 2023 draftee) with 1IP H BB K, Rucker with a 2B.

I'm pretty close to that myself, TBH. the polyrhythm knobs make almost no sense to me, even though I've read/heard explanations and basically understand them. the whole thing is basically just "twist some knobs and hope for an interesting result" to me. but I like it.

The Ziesenheim twins were born identical, but politically they were night and day.....

the "harm" in the hazing is being massively overblown by a society that treats everything that happens to you as some sort of "trauma." all these dudes who were 1000% fine yesterday are now lawyering up and claiming their lives have been altered forever because they had to do naked pushups. as for harbaugh, its the definition of a "nothingburger", in more ways than one and if it were any coach other than harbaugh, both g2 and bonghit would agree. harbaugh is a weird cat. but in this case the punishment does not fit the crime. you've thrown a guy in jail for jaywalking.

Love this reply:

Vierling played about half his games at NotreDame at 3d in 2018 before he was drafted. Since then virtually none at all. Given his lack of time there he'd have to be a natural born glove to move over there now, but you sure couldn't tell by watching because he's looked fine there this week - I'd say better than McK or Maton. I don't know why you would play a guy in the OF if he could play IF, but maybe because they were figuring him initially as a CF and the his speed would be wasted at 3B? IDK but I really hope they give him a fair shot to see. Keith said his college coaches never cared about his fielding or asked him to work on it and he almost felt cheated when he found out it was going to matter as a pro big time. He has supposedly dedicated himself to working on his quickness, IIRC somewhere he said he lost some weight etc. I suppose if he's never worked at it that leaves reasonable possibility of upside improvement. Keith has played 16 games at 2B and 56 at 3B so far this season. He's only started one game at 2b this month so maybe that means he's holding his own at 3b.

Fun game to watch

Also this from the wikipedia...and the podcasters made note of this

Not how anybody sees it. Dude is getting destroyed in the replies, even by Giants fans.

I just listened to the podcast "A Pod To Far" which dissects war movies (mainly British ones the podcasters remember seeing on a Sunday afternoon). They did The Great Escape. They say that Steve McQueen insisted on having his own writers revise all his lines to make him more awesome. I think they also say that David McCallum's wife left him for Charles Bronson during filming but he had no regrets because he scored The Man From Uncle on the back of the movie.

That was a fun game! Some good hitting and pitching tonight

It's fun crushing Twinkies

Cabrera wants Beltre before the season ends.

ReTorque!

wish he could have done it here, but good for him all the same.

It's been reported that they are working with him to cut down on his whole body rotation to he can be shorter to the ball. It's pretty major surgery - if it works at all probably not until he can commit to it full time for a ST

so what? we got a high-A infielder for him!

This is a very mechanistic, analytics focused management team. That is probably a perfect match for supporting pitchers, not sure it's that much real help to hitters. At this level, hitting is as much between the ears as it is the mechanics. In Tork's case in particular, I think the idea of a few more days off here and there seems an obvious move to which Hinch seems oblivious. Just from his body language you see nights it looks like the game is wearing on him.

Fair enough, and tbf to Tork, he is statistically progressing this season, but then again, he's a #1OA draft pick, who's cealing appears to be on track to be an average at best MLB player, which is great for this diaper fire offense I reckon. Further, your point plays into another side of my Debbie-Downer-ness: my criticism of this team under AJ and how they dont seem to develop offensively under his tenure up to this point, they are bad at the plate.

Fitting on this day to remember two of the greatest documentaries ever made. Honestly these are some of the best films of any type. True classics. RIP Sixto & Robbie

Welp Finally bought one after borrowing one about a year and a half ago and having a blast.

The nicest man I have ever met. I've shared the story many times around these parts but at the 2006 ALDS game (Bonderman game), Philpott and I were hanging down near the batting cage behind the net. He came over and just chatted with us for a good ten minutes. He was just incredibly happy to engage with us.