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Fidrych's last great moment with the Tigers. That's Jim Leyland (pre mustache) with his arm raised (and Jim's mom) over Maak's left shouldah. Jim was very supportive of The Bird and I think he even stayed with Jim and his mom in Toledo.

Somewhere, Senor Smoke is smiling

From the Department of No Sht, Sherlock

Jim Leyland said once the game starts that managing pitchers was the primary job of a manager and that managing in the AL was always harder than the NL because in the NL those decisions were often made for you due to when the P came up in the battine lineup. That always stuck with me because of the old conventional wisdom that managing in the NL was harder.

Jake! Missed this game because for the last 8 Mondays I’ve gone to the local Regal Theater and seen in succession all of the Spider-Man movies: the 3 Toby Maguire’s and the 2 Andrew Garfield‘s and ending tonight with Spider-Man: No Way Home that unites all 3 Spider-Man’s. What a treat to go “oh yeah“ and open my phone and see this win. And in my humble opinion Toby Maguire is still the king. GO TIGERS!

Is Hinch the other one?

Do us a favor and doubt him again tomorrow.

Well deserved. One of the great baseball characters of all time. I know Jim wasn't that famous when Major League came out, but there's a lot of Leyland in Lou Brown. This is my favorite Jim Leyland moment. CONGRATS, SKIP !

It's how all management works. Even Harris. Remember when the Tigers said one of the reasons they got Canha was so the young players would learn from his approach? Yeah, Meadows and Tork shipped out, Keith struggled for the first 8 weeks or so. Which player has benefited from Canha's high OBP? Javy? Lol...I don't think so.

I envy you.

Going to the Masonic tonight to see these folks....

Oblong knows what I am talking about. There is a house on Outer Drive on a corner who keeps putting huge anti-Biden signs in his front yard. All conspiracy type stuff too. I am mailing him a letter (typed) with Guilty listed 34 times.

I waiting for lil Gardy

The second guy.............If Twin Peaks Agent Dale Cooper and kd lang had a baby..............

For anyone keeping track at home, the Tigers are undefeated since demoting Tork. So, there’s that.

Kreidler can't hit and Leonard can't play shortstop and maybe can't hit either. They are not the answer.

Can Kennedy play shortstop? When your starting shortstop is Javy Baez, you need a second guy on the roster who can play there. That's why McKinstry is still on the roster. His time is running low with Kreidler off the Toledo IL though.

We were lucky to have both Anderson and Leyland. It's hard to know how good they were because they had a lot of talent with which to work. Anderson was probably my favorite, but Leyland may have been the best. Both were great at working with different personalities, but it seemed like Anderson didn't have patience with certain young players as he did with stars. Leyland never seemed to have a problem with anyone.

I would love him if he did the pizza pizza thing as a way to tweak the tail of the boss. If he did it earnestly I have to wonder if he'd test well enough to join the USMC. * *that's a low bar.

joining Hamm, Lee, and Anderson from the 2023 draft at WMI

My guess is that if it comes down to it, protesters would part to let an ambulance through to the medical center, because I doubt they are cartoon villains. But then, it only takes one to break that convention, right? Fun to speculate about.

Jake is a mistake.

amusing

I don’t know who the hell Adam Adrzejewski is, other than Google telling me he is the founder of something called OpenTheBooks.com and he wrote a book in support of Trump draining the swamp, but when I read a story about this from an actual journalist, then I’ll start paying attention.

I never drink pop, but I had a Vernor's the other day solely because you never see it on tap in restaurants.

Yes, and also, AL managers had to figure out which nine guys to put in the order and where they should all hit. In the NL, the pitcher practically always batted ninth, so convention made the decision for managers.

I didn’t say “favorite”. 😉

It was Pepsi sales falling as much as Dr Pepper increasing. From what I've been reading, the entire old style soda market is declining. It's something I've gradually given up the last few years. It's an easy place to cut out empty calories and without doing too much else other than dropping the soda I did drop a few lbs.

This is exactly from the MLB Network interview Tork and Greene did at the start of the year. Tork said all I'm thinking is hands and Greene said I'm the opposite and the host said everyone he ever talked to was also the opposite. Tork derp.

Vintage javy

Somehow he will give up a walk off grand slam.

His announcing is as uneven as his pitching was.

Yeah, but… Did you hear that they’ve picked the jury for Hunter Biden’s criminal case? That’s the second story of the day! That’s so important! What you’ve posted nobody cares about because Hunter Biden‘s jury was picked! What’s the matter with you! Don’t you know what’s important?

This is a BIG deal in the battle against crazy crap on the internet.

He says as Hinch starts him his first game against a RHP.

Dang...that woulda been outta the stadium in Toledo. 😃

All out of likes for today-but this is a big thumbs up to Sue and Rob’s posts.

I’m laughing my ass off at the suggestion that a congressional hearing is “looking into something” rather nothing more than a gigantic grandstanding opportunity in an election year over an issue 3-4 years ago because the majority has nothing else to run on.

Oh, come on. Every single time Fauci has been requested to appear, HE SHOWS UP, and every single time he’s accused of doing something illegal/unethical and “we have proof” - nothing ever produced, but let’s keep accusing him. Eventually, someone will kill a family member or him. Time to put up or shut up. A congresswoman today said she has “emails”…. ****ing produce them. Questioning whether things could have been better, - reasonable. Pointing to pharmaceutical companies or particular CEO’s, etc. raking in ridiculous amounts of government money. - definitely 👍 But for God’s sake , looking at Dr. Fauci in particular as a boogy man or a monstrous entity that needs to be “thrown in prison” and not called “Doctor”, is getting infuriating. WTF

To me the top Leyland moment is when he broke down after the 2011 division clincher. Detroit had just come out of hte recession, the auto industry hit hard, and you could tell that he as the kid of a blue collar worker really wanted the fans to know how much they appreciated their support given all of that and he hoped they gave them something to look forward to and enjoy. For him to think about that while celebrating tells you what kind of man he is. Like Sparky he always thought about the little people and being decent.

I'm sorry but you all sound like a bunch of whiny crybabies. Bodies were being stacked in hallways and in portable coolers and health care workers are risking their lives trying to treat people and dying while doing so and it's like "OMG, I had to wear a mask and be 6 feet apart...." So yeah... **** the critics.

That sounds unlikely. Am I supposed to believe they knew nothing about Skubal and selected him just bcause Boras suggested him?

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"3B"