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This game is about as perfect as they come. They scored six runs, Mize was good, the guys who aren’t normally hitting were hitting, and the guy I never heard of before, Kennedy, hits a homer. It’s almost like being Tobey Maguire in the first Spider-Man movie and learning the Kirsten Dunst actually likes you and you’re not stupid and you don’t turn her down because “with great power comes great responsibility.”

Winning 12 out of 22 isn't bad at all. I would like just a slight improvement...13 out of every 22 for the rest of the year.

I'm as certain as I can be that Craig Monroe has zero idea who Goo Goo Dolls and Spin Doctors are.

It absolutely does not make a huge difference lol.

I assume you mean where you bat the same nine guys? That's research they did a decade or two ago and that did come to the conclusion that stressing over batting order is overblown because the difference in run production is small as you say.

Exactly. This was the Harris/Hinch stated strategy. They would have liked to have done it last year were it not for the 800-pound gorilla.

Age, injuries and the difficulty of pitching enough innings to get a win makes it a steep climb. If anyone can do that its Verlander.

New Salt Lake uniforms have leaked.

There's a new Steve Martin documentary on Apple. I haven't watched it yet but there is a part where he talks about John Candy and TPA Here's the script from the cut scene...

Casey Mize is adjusting very nicely after TJ. Much better than Fulmer and Turnbull.

First you complain that he hits into too many double plays. Now you are mad that he didn't put the ball in play!

Ironic since he just wants you to know who I am and he likes to talk for hours.

I mean cricket the game, not Cricket the It's Always Sunny character. 😉

Colt looks OK with the glove, I see whether he ends up a 2B or 3B as a secondary issue to whether he can get his bat going!

Dan had Craig's stupidity under control. Jason feeds into the moronic issues. Base hit for the Tigers and the announcers are busy talking about phone chargers. Who the hell cares? Get these washed up jocks outta the booth.

Regardless of how bad Javy does at the plate, he sure can run bases.

Surprisingly (at least it surprised me) the difference between a mediocre and optimal line up is probably only 10 runs or 1 win per year. No real reason not to have high OBP hitters batting more often, but you can bat your Don Kelly types second every once in a while. Sometimes they'll homer in game 5 versus the Yankees.

The force out at second

Carpenter is on fire lately.

I think I’d like to see him at one spot as well. 2B full time until he’s ready to move to 3B full time or 2B full time. He has a history of needing time to warm up once promoted. Give him the stability on defense to get his bat up to speed.

Hinch is just giving Tork a partial day off. He'll be back at 1st base for the next 20 games. (Or longer). It's why we don't have a full time DH. To rotate guys getting a rest.

It’s not as though Tork is tearing it up at the plate, either. Would we really want him to be full-time DH? Do we want anyone to be full-time DH?

It’s easier to scoop on MLB field where there are almost no bad bounces and the ball is predictable.

The MLB page is ridiculous with constant hypothetical projections and ‘what ifs’ on a daily basis. I pretty much gave up on the stuff.

Hope whoever replaces him at 1B can scoop as many bad throws as he is capable of.

This should be Tork's new role. Brutal week in the field. 11-10 is so much better than the last few years 8-13 2023 7-14 2022 7-14 2021 9-12 2020 But don't you feel like in the last week they booted away 3 games, Team, even if you get conservative on the booting thing should be 13-8 right now. It's so frustrating. By the way, the last time they started out 11-10 they wound up losing 114 games that season (2019), so there's that.

LOL at the Republic Party negotiating themselves out of border security and Ukraine funding and into just Ukraine funding. Incredible use of leverage.

I wasn't really expecting the infield defense to be particularly strong. We knew Torkelson had problems, Keith was an unknown, Urshela is average, Baez is good. Having Greene and Meadows in the outfield is definitely a plus.

FWIW, I do think thin skin on social media can be a bit of a warning sign.

It's a scourge.

Gotta work on the bat flip.

It looked like some mulch was added around the letters too today which was a nice touch.

That's cuz your a commie.

He was about the only person I could stand listening to during the pandemic. He has spend most of his career doing research to save lives. They are trying to destroy him because he represents the science based govt agencies which they hate and also he didn't bow down to Dump.

It will make more sense when Gores reveals that his choice for new President of Basketball Operations is Blake Griffin.

I definitely think it will be. At whatever point we are peaking, we'll probably have something like five or six everyday guys who will get spelled maybe once every ten or so games, and six or so guys to rotate regularly among the other two or three slots.

I'm not crying. You're crying. Shut up.

Is there a vote tally out there? I'm curious where my rep voted. Edit, I see from his twitter he voted in favor, but used it to trash Biden's border policy, which is odd considering how that went down last month.

YES!!!!

Not MLB related but still pretty cool.

Even with players moving around, they will eventually get to 'know' each other, but it will take longer. Wenceel did get into 16 ST games, but it looks like mostly in center, so possibly he had never played next to or had a called ball situation with Parker.

This works. Iacocca's autobio was released in '84, Art of the Deal in '87. Ivana's divorce 1990. The wedding to Ivana in '77 had also been big deal in NYC.

With instant replay...Tigers woulda won. Inge was hit by that pitch. 😡😡

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.

Isn't the entire state one big hash bash now?