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Don’t look now, but Mean Tweets has his batting average up to .289. No extra base power yet, but not worried. Keep the cleats, kid.

Dan calls the game like it’s on radio. He mentions every pitch and outcome, and he talks baseball the entire time in between. A lot of people don’t like that. They thinks it’s too verbose. Not me. I love it.

Without looking it up on the timeline here is my theory. Lee Iacocca became a celebrity. He had a national best seller. A celebrity CEO. trump saw that and decided to follow suit with his own book. He would often call up the gossip columnists. As with anything, something that’s big news in NYC is pushed on to the rest of the country because the network news outfits are based there and it’s an easy story to sell. He was a fake “tycoon”. Throw in his marriage scandals and the tabloid nature… people ate it up.

Wenceel has played a sum total of 21 games in his career as a corner outfielder and certainly none of them were ever next to a CF with Parker's range. What do you expect to happen when you throw guys into fielding situations for which they have zero experience? Management is supposed to put players into a position to succeed. Putting a fielder into a game at world's highest level of play who probably hasn't had 50 lifetime chances at the position and expecting clean play is just ignorance. The team may have to put him there, and he may succeed there, but put the blame for the level of performance while he learns the position on the fly where it belongs.

My favorite part is the state rep who owns a Smoothie King insisting that children want to work for him without having to take breaks. When I was a teenager, I don’t think I ever worked a single minute in a restaurant when I wasn’t thinking about how long it was until my next break.

Parker Meadows made that happen.... to his credit, when he gets on base, he's a handful!

One might question the basic assumption that it is possible to play great team defense without letting players settle into regular playing positions. But if one did, they wouldn't be working for this FO.

Feel really bad for Jack Flaherty, he deserved better than that.

Does a 3rd inning single in April really warrant pointing both arms to the heavens? Unless it was Carpenter’s 3000th career hit, in which case I apologize.

Target Field - Minneapolis, MN Game Time Forecast: Cloudy 40 Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: Bally Sports Detroit Starters: RHP Jack Flaherty RHP Joe Ryan

Wanting Tork to have a WAR thats not in the toilet isnt "Pavloivian hate...it's simply critique based in the current reality of his all around performance 🤷‍♂️

That Javy throw was a completely catchable throw for any big league first baseman.

yeah - that was an absolutely terrible AB. It was like he decided he really wanted to hit one that was a foot outside - just to prove it?. They weren't even pitches with big break. Ober started them outside and they finished outside.

++++ I used to work at a small research arm of a medium small manufacturer. The owner kept his offices at apart from the factory where our lab facility was and we reported directly to him. I was sitting in his office one day talking to him and he placed a call back the plant for something and got the hold with music, which the plant manager had had installed without telling the boss. The boss was not amused. It was turned off that day. Small victory in a losing battle.

Being gaslit by corporate America absolutely drives me out of my mind. The worst thing in the world someone can do is pretend something is one way when I and everyone else can absolutely see that it’s the other way. But then, there are things in which you know you’re being gaslit but you can’t absolutely prove it. Here are two fast examples: Any company you call and the AI-or-recorded voice says, “Please listen carefully as our menu options have recently changed.” No, they haven’t. You’ve had this same message for several years and your menu options have never changed even once. My car dealer’s recorded voice answers with, “Thank you for calling [car dealership’s name]. Our receptionist is currently assisting other callers …”. No they aren’t. Two reasons I know this: (1) I haven’t seen a receptionist at your dealership for almost ten years; (2) I got this same message when I called it once at 500am.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

It's the downside of constantly moving players around. I guess the upside is match ups and happy clubhouse because everyone plays but to me it's not optimal. Perhaps with better players it will be less frequent.

Leyland did this with Marcus Thames to get his bat into the lineup a bit more. I don't the current situation with Carpenter is the same as with Thames. No one is going to accuse either of average defense in the OF. Carpenter's major weakness seems to be anything around the wall, and maybe its just going backwards in general that's an issue for him. But I think he has gotten his glove up from bad to playable. And I think his bat is more of a component for this offense than Thames was back then. I like versatility. I'm just not sure that I'd mess with Carpenter right now. That seems like a spring training experiment. That might be something to consider next March when Canha leaves and if Malloy is destined for Detroit. Then maybe toy with Carpenter/Malloy at 1B to see if either can spell Torkelson at 1B. Heck, they can do that with Malloy in Toledo now.

It'll be Buddy Kennedy. You're welcome.

Has Kerry Carpenter ever had a successful catch on the warning track? As far as the Perez error, Meadows kept calling and calling and calling (per the TV replay). Miscommunication that could have ended up in a collision. Not ideal at all, but, given the Urshela injury earlier in the game and Ibanez, Kreidler, and Leonard (I think) on the IL, might be best to have an error on no injuries rather than an error with possible dinged up players.

That’s exactly the same way I feel about Elon Musk.

Volkswagen employees vote in UAW in Tennessee. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/19/vw-uaw-tennessee-vote/

I love Wenceel Perez, one of those guys you could follow in the DSL and the GCL, and he was a shortstop back then which made him really interesting. He stalled for a couple of years but came back and had a huge year in 2022, tailed off a wee bit last year, and one offseason genius, I forget which one, did not include him in the Tigers top 30. So whoever that guy was, Wenceel has given him, in the words of the immortal Lou Brown, a nice big sh*tburger to eat.

Ha! Maybe he missed getting the eyeball genes and the frontal lobe genes from the same set.

I think whatever Javy Baez decides to do after baseball, he’s gonna be all right.

Great grinding win.

One takeaway from tonight, and maybe it's already in the process of happening, is that they really need to get Parker Meadows going.... he creates action when he's on the basepaths.

I was thinking the same thing but who are we to question the chess master?

And carpenter, a below average outfielder, will solve the problem at first how exactly? Can you show your work on that one please?

Greene Meadows Verling left to right daily please. If not them then Chana. Maybe try Carpenter at first ? Seriously. Solves two problems.

Greg Gania.

Something I notice Joe Veleno doing a lot too

i thought half of the point of compher and copp was they were good defensive forwards?

That's how I feel, too, but we're in the minority. I will say that this black jersey is a thousand times better than the previous version. Overall, I'm happy with new unis, mainly because they ditched the stupid custom number font in favor of classic block numbers. They're clean and simple with no unnecessary outlines, although I wouldn't mind no outline at all.

Why do we keep hitting him leadoff though?

I have a difficult time understanding how some folks reconcile him as something he clearly is not (or, in some instances, reconcile him to not be something that he clearly is).

this guy

That is also how I remember him. At the same time, he has always appealed to a certain kind of person and I never understood the fascination. I never thought he'd be able create enough interest to become as "important" as he has become. I have a difficult time reconciling how dangerous he has become with how irrelevant I always viewed him.

Remind me does the party that worships The Former Guy still value themselves as the party of family values. We know they value the unborn so they can use them as unpaid (or vastly unpaid) labor

Another note to throw in the mix is that Saban complained about the players on this team on his way out the door. Might just be be sour grapes on his part, or maybe he wasn't getting as much of the kind of player he wanted recently.

Fauci is one of those litmus tests for me. If a person is going on about him then I can safely dismiss their opinions. They may as well tell me we faked the moon landings.

In memory of Brian Bluhm. 17 years ago on April 16, 2007- we lost a treasured friend and member who was killed at Virginia Tech. ”And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” – Maya Angelou RIP, Brian.

he got off because he was black and the black jurors were not going to convict him. thats it. all the other stuff doesnt really matter. i dont even think their use of furman's past statements on race - which never should have come in - mattered. that jury hated LA cops and the plaintiffs (and the judge) did a great job of mucking it up and making the trial about the LAPD and not about the obvious murderer who was standing right in front of them. if you want to get into the weeds, it was the judge who caved to the pressure. ito let the defense do whatever it liked, it was ridiculous. he was obviously intimidated by the big name attorneys on the other side and his decisions were all slanted to them. the weight of the knowledge that a decision against oj might have started another riot may also have weighed on him, but i think the bigger issue was his being intimidated by the moment and the johnnie cochran's and f lee bailey's of the world.

I'm not opposed to March Madness pools, I'm not opposed to weekly poker games with friends, and I'm not opposed to gross, seedy, ugly gambling oases like Nevada—not even the cowboy casinos in Laughlin. What I am opposed to is a freewheeling barely-regulated gambling syndicate which is set free to seek out ordinary people minding their own business and lures them into gambling with things like implied promises of big wins and hit-of-the-dope first bets, promotions designed by AI data-crunching to get them to put as much of their money into gambling as possible, preferably all of it, I would assume. Now, I'm not naive—GAMBLOR has been let out of its cave, and there's not much chance of ever locking him back up. But If it were up to me, if gambling had to remain legal and freely available as it is today, I would outlaw any and all marketing activities related to gambling, with the possible exception of advertising destination trips to Vegas and the like, ads in which the gambling is only implied. I think if people want to gamble, they should have to seek it out on their own accord, not be subjected to being lured in. But that won't happen, because there's way too much money that the crooked politicians at the local, state, and federal levels can get from the organized crime-adjacent gambling empires for them to be concerned about something as boring and stupid as public mental health policy. Who needs a concerned government to get involved? Just say no! That's my piece and I am willing to just leave it here and say no more, unless, of course, people want to keep talking about it, in which case I'll be happy to oblige.

My wife pesters me when it gets very high because I think she's under some belief that your odds go up? I don't get it. She gets worked up b/c of the news stories and feels a sense of panic, like black friday shopping. As it is... if I had to pick the option of winning $5M vs $500M, I'd take the $5M every single time. $500M means you take on a full time job just managing the money and dealing with all the beggars. $5M you could stash away peacefully and retire and still live the same life ableit one that didn't require you to work at something you might not care for.