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So, when George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin I was thinking George Zimmerman was possibly in the right because I listened to those who framed it that way. Then we found out that George Zimmerman was a smooth-brained, sloped-forheaded ass who cherished the Confederate flag and seemed to always be in violent confrontations. But Kyle Rittenhouse who failed to get into the USMC during a global war on terror and seems to love cops and think they never do wrong -- and thinks shooting people who are protesting is cool -- is probably just being unfairly maligned. There would be a place for Rittenhouse -- working for the BOP -- gooning it up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the black body armor, with the face shields.

Nice to win a game again, especially in the ninth-inning. Winning is the difference between milk and honey flowing through your veins or battery acid. I like milk and honey a lot more.

Couldn't resist

There was never any doubt.

Smith doesn't watch games. Grimes hasn't played for NYK in two months.

It's surely disappointing but what can you do? Nobody else from that draft is lighting it up. Nobody else on this team is lighting it up. Is it a Spencer problem or a team/org problem in not giving them the tools and support another club would? He knows as well as anybody here or on twitter what he's doing and not doing and needs to do.

quite simply it's easy to push back on the "leave it to the states" argument by bringing up IVF. They left it to Alabama and IVF is now threatened. That's the logical extension of being anti abortion. No other statement is necessary.

put some long hair on JV and he's Dave Grohl.

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I don’t see any way in which pitchers en masse, outside of maybe an handful of exceptions, lay down their arms and lay up on pitches and allow batters to put balls in play on purpose. I believe they would basically regard it as career suicide to do so, and I think in most cases they would be right. It’s the game that’s creating the incentive to throw max/max on literally every pitch, because getting a chance at a career in the big leagues is based on outstanding performance, meaning, standing out from the crowd. I see no way a pitcher coming up through college or the minors is going to decide to ease up on his pitching to preserve his arm for the sake of his long-term career when he doesn’t even have his career in the first place. If it comes down to laying up to worse results and not making the majors to reduce the possibility of arm injury, versus going max balls out to better results and having a chance to make the show in the first place, I think they’re gonna choose the latter, if not exactly 10 times out of 10, then probably 99 times out of 100. To paraphrase a now-famous saying, don’t blame the player, blame the game. Therefore, change the game. Just my 2¢, OMMV.

The Tigers have won one game out of their last one games played, good for a one game consecutive winning streak.

Kreidler has a broken index finger on his right hand. The guy just can't catch a break.

While I prefer the milk and honey, I'm having a hard time holding a charge.

Bad news, Gipson-Long is dealing with right forearm tightness. Good news, the Mets traded Tonkin to the Twins.

They are like an outfielder chasing a fly ball over their head and twisting and turning each way trying to figure it out.

This was clutch.

And Greene's robbing of a home run.

Urshela has proven to be a really good pickup.... just a professional AB every time it seems like

It's a good thing the throw to 3rd was wild, or else the runner would have been out by a mile...

According to Tigers offensive offense math, the 4 runs scored yesterday should cover about 3 games worth of runs...so if the 1 run holds today, then Thurs and Fri should combine for aprox 3 runs, soooo according to my Tigers math calcalutions, look for Sat to be a 3+ run game for the offense...just hope it's not too many more than that, or it'll take quite a few games of 0-2 runs to get back to the mean, it's a delicate balance.

well, since they're playing in Pittsburgh...................

He doesn't have any defensive value or speed. His only value is the hit tool. I would expect an .820 OPS at the minimum or he is replaceable. The issue I have is he doesn't make consistent contact when the power stroke disappears. You aren't getting the consistent production. Greene and Meadows have some defensive value, speed on the bases, tools...Rogers is a good framer and defensive catcher. Tork has none of that.

Tigers managment did not expect that. They put out a development team with a few low risk vets. Low risk is the how they operate. If they contend, it's a bonus. They want to operate like Milwaukee, Cleveland, Tampa, etc. The young players have to perform....you aren't getting help elswhere.

I might have been persuaded to give Rittenhouse a bit of slack if he had quietly disappeared after his trial. The fact he is touring the country, probably collecting significant speaking fees and generally cashing in on his fame is enough for me to continue to condemn him

that picture makes it look like the grandstands are on fire and Cobb and Wagner did it.

Not bad in Pittsburgh for this series.

I expect this team to compete for the division title. Until proven otherwise, it’s the weakest division in baseball. If they’re not competitive this year there are problems higher up than the players on the field. The Spiders/Indians/Guardians just lost Bieber for this season. There isn’t any excuse to not be at or near the top of this division.

bottom line is that it's pointless to even listen to what a compulsive liar says at any time about anything, because they've already proven that their words are worthless. But the pre-disposition to believe what people say is just to ingrained in the species and so many simply can't process that a liar's speech is nothing more than noise. I think that may be the most unique aspect of this particular age. Throughout much of the history of civilization public lying was generally severely punished. It was pretty much even in the US right up to Nixon. But somehow, possibly as the corollary to the explosion of voices produced by the digital age, maybe because it was impossible to hold *everyone* accountable, we just stopped holding *anyone* accountable to a standard of truth, and it's something that is destroying the ability of democracy to function. A public cannot vote without knowledge, and when everyone lies, there is no reliable knowledge, thus no remaining value in public decision making (i.e. voting).

Very true. Too many players not able to make contact. And too many umpires with different strike zones. Playing with a dead ball may bring back more "small ball" with teams putting more emphasis on making contact and putting the ball in play. It would probably take a generation of players to adjust to it though.

We're 10 games into the season. Lets not get carried away. He struggled early last year too.

We most definitely need a “I’m mad as hell reading this” emoji. 🤬 Everyone should be. I know someone who is an administrator for a nursing home group in south Jersey. I’m sending this to her

A win tomorrow and it will seem much better. Skip breakfast and come to work hungry Tigers !

do you really want even more K's? The contradiction is that everyone and his brother wants more balls in play, but pitchers will move heaven and earth to keep balls out of play as long as any large percentage are likely to leave the yard. I don't think you can square that circle by tinkering with a corner here or there, you need to redraw the figure the way it was originally designed. The balance in the game evolved with a percentage of home runs lower than they are trying to play the game with now.

I’ve always been power worship phobic. I hate bullies and i always found the sort of NCOs who sit around dipping and drinking and talking about giving their troops hell are worthless as humans.

The Zimmerman case was something I evolved on too. I don’t remember the timeline and now it relates to my political evolution but his actions afterwards just led me down the path that he was a fake cowboy who like to start ****. He saw a black kid in a place he didn’t think he needed to be, confronted him, got his ass kicked, then shot him, and Floridas laws protected him. You can pick a pick and then kill the person.

You are born again hard, romad1.

Horner hit .277 for his career Torkelson should be so lucky

Also some of the states that are using their "states rights" to implement policy that is repellent to the moderates that Trump is ostensibly supposed to be assuaging with his statement are considered to be in play (ie. Arizona, Georgia, NC). His message will not work in these places, and likely in the other states that will decide this election. And every moment he and his party spend talking about the issue of abortion is a gift to his / their opponents.

I am. I’m rooting hard for him. We need him. I just have my doubts like you do with Olsen. It’s what fans do.

Olsen is much better than Manning. Let the season play out.

Carpenter has had some atrocious at bats today

JV discussing pitcher injuries;

I am not a fan of Kerry Carpenter. I don’t know why he bugs me. I think it’s that headband combined with a Ken Doll blank smile all the time.

I think he said that just to piss of Scherzer. You know those two............ Anyway, How about the fact that with travel teams and tournaments that kids are throwing a LOT more than they used to at an early age and they are throwing harder and more breaking pitches before their arms are even fully developed. But, as JV says, it's a lot of things. Why did the Beatles break up? 100 reasons why. You can make a case for all of them to be THE reason, but it was the combination.

Justin Verlander gives a great answer to the pitcher injury question here:

I mean if killing people is your bag.