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Tork's on bust-watch as far as I'm concerned. If he can't hit, he's worthless.

With an airship terminal attached to the new scoreboard, the Tigers can now send players to Toledo for hitting refresher courses and cut travel time from 1 hr. and 11 min. to only 22 min. (per Jason Beck)

Lange has options, and it might be a good time to use them to bring up a fresh arm for the nightcap.

7 runs on one hit ! That's not easy to do.

Kerri Russell was in The Americans, wasn't she? A very fine show!

If Selleck had done Jones it would have been one and done. He couldn't have given the character the irony that is Ford's calling card and makes a romp like an Indiana Jones movie work.

Still hope someone on the schedule picks him up!

They changed game 2 to Manning now.

I'm not convinced he's a weak link yet.

I don’t know that I like Chafin here with two games on tap for tomorrow. This garbage time moment is tailor-made for Joey Wentz.

Captain America defending democracy:

😂

Carlos Pena is so much better than Craig Monroe.

no doubt you view that as an open and shut case....

Alex Lange enters the chat.

Imagine the field day traditional fans would have with this idea! 💀

Looks at lineup graphic on TV. Baez .282? What?! Oh, wait, that’s OPS. Ok, that makes sense now.

Pretty obvious Vierling wasn’t up to it. But how many ball players are up to bunting anymore?

Tork's baseball instincts are very questionable. Platoon DH batting 7th is in his future.

Yes and Yes the runner sucks. Just play 3 normal innings and call it a tie if need be. Football and Hockey have them. Ties stink but it's the better alternative .

McKinstry on the bench looking at the iPad trying to figure out how he could have possibly given up that bomb.

I'm gonna crack up later this year when Hinch runs out of players and has to put a pitcher in the outfield.

McStinky..chess piece...

McKinstry kills hope.

On the bright side, Lange will not be available for game 2.

Not feelin so hot about Greene being leadoff if he cant get on base...wouldnrather see Canha leadoff at this rate.

We know a little more about your spare time habits.

I disagree a bit, he showed a willingness to use Seider and Raymond right away at a young age. I think he just has veryhigh standards for the young players. Edvinsson is definitely a nice addition to the team but I can also see why he was still in the AHL with some of his play. Seider and Raymond had already excelled against adults over in Sweden and Edvinsson still seems to have some brain farts. I do agree with you on Danielson, I think he's going to make the team next season. He plays a complete game and showed well in preseason last season, so I would not be shocked if he is another Seider/Raymond type. I'd like the team to give him and Albert Johannson a fair shake at making the roster next season. Johannson has been having a solid season and his coaches and teammates rave about him. Maybe the Wings can get creative and attach an excess d-man in a trade with Beggren or something. I would not re-sign Gostisbehere personally, he's served his purpose keeping Seider's power play points down for his next contract 😉 I am assuming Edvinsson will be in Detroit, and while I would love a look at Kasper I can see them wanting to give him a full season of top line center in Grand Rapids to see how it goes (he's worked his way up there from the fourth line this year). I think he and Cossa will get a few games next season but be regulars in GR. Mazur could get a look too.

I'm convinced Angel Hernandez is on the take from companies that manufacture the robo home plate umpires... https://x.com/umpireauditor/status/1779005111525867814?s=61&t=akgNyUltuSb7RN54lulxTw

Knowing the Tigers High Level brass we could have another Hindenburg on our hands. It might be better to house the company jet at Coleman Young to ferry players. It's about a 15 minute drive and a smaller corporate jet would be faster than a giant balloon

Javy not playing game one. Not sure about putting in two lesser defensive players on the same side of the infield. (McKinstry at SS and Vierling at 3B) in the same game. Seems to be a possible disadvantage for Kenta. Seems like McKinstry-Gio in one game and maybe Baez-Viering in the 2nd game might be better - unless Javy is injured. What if Manning pitches brilliantly in Game 2 today? What then? It seems like it would be a serious **** move to send him back to Toledo then. How much rope does Parker get here? Just looks uncomfortable and overmatched at the plate. Sending him to Toledo would not be a punishment, it would be a reset. I know the idea of Akil Baddoo coming up isn't that exciting with his robust .212 BA, but his OBP is solid at .366, but he'd be a fill-in as Matt Vierling has earned a chance to play every day - at least for now. I have always thought that Matty V could be the best player in that Philly trade and if he puts it all together with his speed and power, he could be a really good player.

That transportation mode makes sense. A slingshot is slightly underqualified. That would barely get someone to north of Monroe from either direction. Although if the winds last night were lined up just right, it could've worked one way.

Look on the bright side. That's 0.53 R/K. Last season they finished at 0.45 R/K. If they just keep up this pace, they'll score around 120 more runs this season than last!

I think the plan might be to play Greene in whichever corner is the bigger, based on which stadium we play in.

This is the first time I have ever heard Wenceel Perez’s name said out loud. I always wondered whether it pronounced “Wen-SEAL” or “Wen-SAIL”. I never even consider how Benetti said it: “WEN-sell”.

At least Meadows has options and theoretically can be sent down... Baez? Jesus take the wheel, hope he figures it out lol

The rule in 2023 is 4.03(c)4. https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/mlb/wqn5ah4c3qtivwx3jatm.pdf There is no provision made for a change of score later in the game, so presumably if the lead margin narrowed, you'd have to go back to the bullpen for the next inning.

Its really early, but I dont know if there's a team where preseason expectations versus early performance is more off base than the Minnesota Twins. Injuries are a big part of the story, but if the Guardians, Tigers and Royals are better competition than expected, they are in a lot of trouble

Baez should just not swing at any outside pitch. It’s going to be a slider/sweeper and he has no shot at making contact. Go down looking is better than swinging at something he’d need a boat par to hit.

Slider away slider away

Yeah, not ideal with a doubleheader tomorrow. Pitch count climbing quickly after a relatively easy 1st and 2nd.

Might need to put some $ on a Willi Castro game winning RBI...because that just seems like the way.

Not to be offensive, but is our 3B coach on the spectrum? Because he's def all over the place...

knowing holmes the way we do, it seems more likely that he would trade up from 29 than trade down. they probably have a limited number of prospects with first round grades and will see if they can trade up to get one if they are the last one left on the list.

Now you're just bragging.

There is no doubt that Hamas has an agenda and the Gaza Health Ministry works under the auspices of Hamas, so they would have an incentive to cook the numbers to make the death toll seem high, and to ignore the difference in deaths between Hamas fighters and ordinary civilians. But Israel also has an incentive to cook the numbers to make the death toll seem low, and to characterize the percent of deaths being Hamas fighters as being as close to 100% as possible. So whom to believe? Most people will believe the numbers of the side they are squarely on. Me, I'm not on any side, except on the side of the people who want nothing more than to live ordinary, everyday lives minding their own business, so I would want to know the number closest to the truth, versus the number that best supports the purpose of breathing fire into a political forum. Why do I tend to out more stock in the Hamas numbers than I do the IDF numbers? According to this, the World Health Organization characterizes the Health Ministry numbers as, if not "perfectly accurate on a minute-to-minute basis", then at least as being "largely reflect[ive of] the level of death and injury" during the siege. Also, Israel sealed Gaza’s borders and barred foreign journalists and humanitarian workers from even entering the area from the very beginning. That's the action of a party that has an interest in shielding what's happening in the area from the outside world. I wouldn't take the numbers of either side as being ... ahem ... the gospel truth, but I do believe that one side's numbers are probably more accurate than the other's. In the end, though, we won't know anything that's closer to the truth than either side's for years, if at all, and even then, it will be at the behest of the party that gets to write it all up as history.