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Perhaps he’s the father of said girl’s child and both were younger at the time but still underage ? Could be a martial issue, wife just found out, that has him on the restricted list and not the age thing ? Or both ? Who knows. Best way to solve it is trade him to Detroit for nothing.

Same. He didn't appeal to me at first. But... There was always a respect and appreciation for this. So for whatever reason that I didn't find him favorable to me early on, his honesty grew on me. He could praise and be critical. You could tell he was a Tiger fan, but he also knew when/how to voice his disdain and heartbreak. I think he grew on some of us because he was able to share his feelings as one of us. If only we had a nickel for every time we heard him mutter "oh, geez, no excuse for that platy" and then he is quiet and you wonder if he actually had to take the headset off and get up and walk away from his seat for 30 seconds. But he'd always start the game with unbridled optimism that today was the Tigers' day, no matter the circumstances. Maybe yesterday stunk, but today is a new day, let's go get 'em today. This thread should be appreciation for Price. But given what recently happened in Baltimore, let's give the Ilitch family some credit for the radio side. Mike brought back Harwell. He knew what he meant to Detroit, to MIchigan, to Tiger fans. He and Chris have allowed the radio guys the rope to be critical at times. Sure, there's a line that they have to maintain. There's a modicum of professionalism that they need to adhere to. Nobody wants to listen to constant bashing and whining and complaining. But the radio crew has been able to be pretty fair over the seasons.

I hope he's not trying to prove that. :--0

It seems to be a hard call deciding how much weight to give power vs contact skill with young hitters. I think it was true going back a few decades, the Tigers consistently overvalued power over contact skill, which is one reason they ended up with the all time minor league HR champion. But Hessman was just one in a long line (up to at least C Stewart) of power guys who couldn't hit enough for the power to bring any MLB value. Funny since the two greatest home grown hitters to come through the org after the '68 era were Whittaker and Trammell, who were all contact skill as youngstera - neither showed any power until into their MLB career. The org forget the lesson quickly I guess. One purely physiological grounds, I've always thought a player with great contact skill always has a chance to grow into enough strength to start showing some power. Granted that's not the profile for a 40hr guy, but maybe for a 20 hr guy. But unless it's a guy with bad mechanics you can fix, a guy without the neuro-motor-visual piece to be a high OBP player at lower levels doesn't strike me as very likely to improve in that area just because he gets older. Reps will help some, but if a guy is at his brain/CNS speed limit there is nothing you will ever be able to do (again - C Stewart is a classic example) The more recent regimes we are seeing some of the opposite. Paredes was the case of a guy they stayed with (at least for a while) based on contact skill, not knowing whether he would ever hit for power. Unfortunately the tigers were a year too impatient with him to find out their initial hopes for him were justified. Workman was a power guy who isn't going to be able to hit, then OTOH, Lipcius is a guy they drafted who has good bat skills but whose question mark was and remains power. Bigbie maybe another. So they are making or at least risking mistakes on both sides of the power/skill specturm, which is what you should see - That would mean you're in the sweet spot in the middle.

The bad news is the obvious injury but the good news is hearing a team like the Dodgers wanted him before we picked him. They have a good track record of identifying talent.

I always did appreciate his honesty as well, which is why I think Andy Dirks would make a good permanent realcement, because he does the same. I wonder how much of it is led by Dan Dickerson’s own truth-telling.

Why allow Diaz to bat there? He’s an automatic out. The one player that Maton is an upgrade over.

Like a lot of others here, I grew to really like Jim as the color guy, and I think removing the middle-3 PBP duties was instrumental in that. His strength was always playing off of the PBP announcer, and I think being limited to that role made him better at it. His greatest strength, though, was that he was genuine: what Price gave you during a broadcast felt like what you'd get if you were watching a game with him at the bar.

He don't need no rest. He's 18 years old.

The problem here is there are more than 4 guys who need to play shortstop in April and May, and more than 6 June-August... So if you want him playing only short, he's playing 2-3 days a week.

Might have two. Myself and my 15yo son. Will try to signup tonight.

Virginia Beach and the Langley area are amazing for the jets beating up the sky.

It's ironic because they are both Kansans, but his voice reminds me of Jason Sudeikis...

It is rare for me to like country music but I appreciate the basic honesty of this song.

Brandy Clark's new self-titled album is so, so good. It was produced by the other, also equally amazing Brandi, Brandi Carlile. My top tracks off of it are Dear Insecurity (which is tops by a mile for me), Northwest, Come Back to Me, and this song below, She Smoked in the House. Fantastic songwriting as always by Brandy Clark who continues to be one of the best singer/songwriters out there in the Country/Alt-Country/Americana genres.

We attended a Durham Bulls game yesterday. There were challenges to two of the plate umpires calls during the game. Both of the calls were overturned on review. Both incorrect calls were ball four calls that were actually strikes. Driving home I commented to my wife at how well the batters know the strike zone. These were the only two challenges of the game and the players were correct in both cases. In both cases the ball was on the strike frame perimeter.

Yikes not good https://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays/2023/08/13/wander-franco-social-media-allegations-mlb/

Russians lost another MIG. This time over Ford Lake in Belleville!

I've got my seven year old grandson here to watch the game with me and he says that the Tigers are playing like little League players.😂😂

This is as close to the Mawnstah seats as I could get.

Hard to see why they picked him up in the first place - looks like a throroughly uninteresting player.

With the new rule about emergency QBs, I would actually expect both Sudfeld and Martinez to last at least until Hooker is healthy enough that he could take snaps in case of emergency. If they start Hooker on the NFI list (which only makes sense), then he can’t play for the first eight weeks. QB Active: Goff, Bridgewater QB Emergency (dresses but not active unless QB1 and QB2 are injured or ejected): Sudfeld QB Practice Squad: Martinez NFI: Hooker After eight weeks, if you feel more comfortable with Hooker than Sudfeld, you could release Sudfeld and activate Hooker. After the eight weeks you could also choose to start having Hooker practice, though if he’s not activated within three weeks of starting to practice he is ineligible to play for the rest of the season. I think I would just as soon let Hooker just soak it all in from the sideline for a full year though. Let him practice at some point if you’re 100% comfortable with Sudfeld as QB3.

Low key one of Jimmie's best assets was his ability to call out the bad when he saw it. Whether it's because of his stature (ie. being so long tenured with the club) or because he was on radio or otherwise, it's just not something you really get with the other color guys. Particularly on the TV side

I got lucky when I upgraded. They were the only two available closer than the 20th row or so.

Price mostly followed Dickerson's lead which was a good thing. They worked well together.

Super sad to hear. Jim really grew on me as a broadcaster.

The pro-Ukrainian press reported it thusly

Riley ran us out of a run.

I can’t express strongly enough how sad this makes me. I knew him not only as a player and a broadcaster, but as my Fantasy Camp team coach (along with Johnny Grubb) in 2008. He was a great guy, never a sharp word or tone that I ever saw, easy to talk to. Rode in a car with him and Rusty Kuntz and learned some interesting things I will never forget. He was a true gentleman. RIP Jim.