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I'm guessing 90% of people who call themselves Tiger fans have no clue who any of these players are.

I wouldve traded a 6th for Fields, he couldve provided some insurance incase Montgomery or Gibbs go down.

Cody Stavenhagen on yesterday’s breakout game: “Official attendance was listed at 2,011. There seemed to be a lot of online interest in the prospect game, but the meager in-person attendance made for a sleepy atmosphere.” As good as the Tigers pipeline is, I’m a bit surprised at the attendance numbers. If I were anything close to local, I’d have been in the seats.

They are forgotten and their stories are irrelevant. My Dad would have my brother and I pull coupons for a free pack of cigarettes from magazines (early 80’s mind you) and take a stack to the VA hospital and hand them out the the Vets living there. He always instilled on us these guys deserved our kindness.

Of course, let's not forget the Panhandler in Chief:

Wow, Hinch actually named a starter at one position? I was expecting something like "Colt is going play a lot of 2B, but you could also see him at 3B and we are working him out in LF this spring."

There's a reason it's 1.1. Only room for improvement. 😉

Well executed fake.

The announcers during the Bulls broadcast announced Derick Rose is retiring. Problem is, it was a fake Woj Tweet they read and so far he is not retiring.

I've noticed the grocery store music has gotten better as I've gotten older.

Yes, Avila had good intentions (from an overall perspective) and/or did some good things. Not all of the workstreams were sufficient enough, however, for some reason or another. I think development can be pointed at as a weakness. In general, though, it just seemed like they just weren't gaining traction quickly enough.

tl;dr he had a vague idea of what needed to be done and no idea how to actually do any of it.

Wings improve to 7-7 over their past 14 games, lol.

Wilmer Flores touched 99.5 in his scoreless inning of play today. A bounce back season from him would be a welcome sight for sure.

Harris kind a Guy

He was both the pain and the ass. So at least he had that versatility going for him.

He's probably always going to give up more than average numbers of HRs, but if can keep his K/BB ratio high that won't hurt him too much. We had another young guy like that once (high HR, high k/BB) and he ended up doing OK.

He laid the foundation for getting the team off the FA boom and bust cycle and into a sustainable development system. He upgraded the draft evaluation system to bring more promising players into the system. He got the Tigers off Dombrowski's 'old washed up expensive relief pitcher' merry-go-round and toward building better bullpens. He understood the team had to embrace the tech. He made a couple of critical hires. Those were the plusses. The minuses were that they didn't always understand what their tech was telling them (e.g. it's more important for a pitcher to have more life on his FB than more cut on their breaking ball. This misunderstanding led them to Mize, who this regime has had to rebuild into a pitcher with a more effective fastball because in the majors neither the split or the slider could make up for his flat fastball), most of his signings were busts and they spent too much time in denial about it, he was pretty much a zero in terms of being able to pull together complex deals like his predecessor, got way too little back for the assets he had when it came time to cash them in, and in general lacked sufficient urgency to move things faster, though in fairness we don't know how much of the go-slow may have been coming from Ilitch, and despite the tech they had, they had no apparent clue on how to use it to coach hitting and finally, pretty much failed at international signings. So on the whole, he did some things that were critical in terms of re-orienting the operation, but also failed at a lot of the portfolio. And he had his share of just plain bad luck with Zimmerman and Austin Meadows.

So Colt Keith has been named the Tigers 2024 starting 2nd baseman. Good luck, young man.

The scary thing about this line of thinking is that the next MAGA leader may be more savvy than the current guy and less grievous oriented.

Thanks wasnt sure if he got the Ban Hammer I know he was a pain

If you want to hear unvarnished commentary on a baseball podcast, the kind that does not fluff a particular team, Major League Baseball, or The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, you can't do much better than Foul Territory. They can have as much annoying insidery banter as any other podcast, and they sometimes pull punches on player commentary because they are still part of the brethren. But when they get on a roll about the state of the game, it can be really exhilarating, because they are beholden to nobody on the inside. The stuff they've said, for example, about Anthony Rendon after his ill-advised comments, and about the Oakland Vegas A's situation in general—just 👩🏽‍🍳💋.

I seldom use my phone as a phone.