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Everyone's welcome on the Lions Express, even a toothless Hooker.

Well, he could have also rolled over and grounded into a double play. Wait, nope, he wouldn't have been doubled up. I'll admit, I'm a bit of a slappy. He was a highly successful player that had a game that really stuck out from the rest of the crowd. The contact, the speed, the defense,..... the first step out of the box while putting the ball in play on the ground to the left side. Oh gosh yes, I'd take a leadoff hitter like that right now, especially with the changes to the rules affecting base running. And drilling down on the base stealing, Suzuki finished with 509 SB and 117 CS, a success rate of 81.3%. Rickey Henderson was 1,406 and 335, a 80.8% success rate. By no means is it a perfect comparison, the eras are slightly different. Supbar walk rate of 6.0% vs MLB average of 8.3% is noted. But let's also note his 10.1% SO rate vs 18.9% average. So, OK, he walked only 75% as well as league average. He flipping struck out half as much as everybody else! I think given his highly successful BABIP over the years, it was imperative for him to swing at what he could make contact with to get on base for those hitting behind him in the lineup.

it's like a happy version of "fire millen." it brings everyone together.

I never understood the lure of youth sports to the extent or sacrificing entire summers in lieu of constant traveling for tournaments and camps and all of that… just to get a scholarship at some mid level school. I’m talking division 2 or 3 l, if NCAA at all. It seems to have become a big thing with my generation raising the kids. You spent more on the sport and sacrificed more than the scholarship is worth. Live life. Don’t make your kid spend their childhood on the road. as much as I love baseball and playing it as a kid I am not upset my son didn’t care for it if that’s what it takes to be good at a sport today as a youth.

Greatest flip book of all time!

He will be up for Super Bowl.

Yes, I remember hearing this story from Bob Kendrick on the Black Diamonds podcast. I cannot find the article, but memory (yeah, I know) has it that he was very eager to meet Ernie Harwell when he made his his "vs Detroit debut".

Biden and Dump as buddies.

His hitting producton was not elite, not with a 107 OPS+. His speed and defense were elite. He is Hall worthy, but I wouldn't put him in the upper echelon of Hall of Famers.

Just for 💩 and grins, say yes when the rental car person asks if you will be taking the car into the city. The instructions they give really are something.

Very cool. Almost forgot to add... any golfers coming out here for the game, go play Pebble Beach. I know it's $$... but c'mon. It's Pebble Beach

It's always been a football town.

I mean, you probably could have saved your money and caught him in Europe next year.

Read an article about the house he is building in Bloomfield Hills. He bought and tore down an 8 year old 22,000 square foot house. Then bought 5 surrounding houses for a grand total of 14 acres. Now he is building a 60,000 square foot house on the land. His brother did something similar on the lake over by you. Entire family has small dicks.

I learned a lot about Thomas Jefferson by listening to a free series on Audible "Greatest Courses" or something like that about the Greatest Presidents and it was by Alan Lichtman https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-presidents IDK it Audible still has it free but I think Oblong would love that series, it was really great

Lot of rumors about Harbaugh potentially hiring Kapernick as a coach now that he's the Chargers coach. That'll be an awesome something.

Live life and do what, play video games? Striving for something, anything, is living life, and those lessons, even if you fail and come up short, are invaluable.

And at Yost Arena;

This is quality content that is well worth a 3rd round pick. I'm upset I didn't think of this one myself, need to do better.

Jared Goff would spit it out on the feet of the defensive line and smile at them.

Quote from Dr Andrews: "These kids are throwing 90 mph their junior year of high school,” he says. “The ligament itself can’t withstand that kind of force. We’ve learned in our research lab that baseball is a developmental sport. The Tommy John ligament matures at about age 26. In high school, the red line where the forces go beyond the tensile properties of the ligament is about 80 mph." Pretty much blows everything in the world of youth and minor league pitching out of the water right there.

Very good read if you have a few minutes… https://www.mlb.com/news/dr-james-andrews-world-renowned-orthopaedic-surgeon-retires

yeah - and he probably plagiarized John Locke.....

And he’s going to replace JA-RED GOFF JA-RED GOFF?

What's better than Dan Miller Calls of the Game? Calls of the Season!

On the topic of Ichiro, last fall I read Poskanski’s Top 100 players book, which was fantastic. I took a screenshot of this passage on Ichiro.