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Tork has been so so good and so incredibly consistent: Season (23 days): .428 wOBA, 188 wRC+ Last 14 days: .423 wOBA, 185 wRC+ Last 7 days: .423 wOBA, 184 wRC+

0-0, really fun period, if these teams play each other in the playoffs it should be a good match up. Overall I thought Finnie and Lombardi looked really good, Finnie is really intriguing. ASP looked great on the power play, at 5 on 5 he seems to work well with Buium though they did get hemmed in their own zone at one point. Cossa looked really good, made a couple saves with traffic in front of him and looked calm/composed. He even made a nice play on a puck that Rockford tried to ring around the boards, knocking it down with his stick. Danielson's hockey IQ is evident, he does a good job erasing plays coming on the backcheck. He had a couple nice passes on the power play, flubbed a 5 on 5 scoring chance. He's playing PK and PP as well as line 1 C. Tuomisto looks like an AHL guy to me, foot speed just isn't enough to make up for being out of position at times. Johansson looks pretty good carrying the puck, didn't notice him a lot. Wallinder seems like an adventure out there but more often than not gets the job done. MBN took a dumb penalty trying to do too much on a forecheck. He does seem to be looking for his shot a lot which I like. So far I would say it looks like ASP could play for the Wings next season no problem, he's very noticeable against AHL talent. I'll stop flooding the thread with my thoughts after this 😂

When I first heard Greg Gania’s voice on the radio I thought it was Dan, but it sounded like Dan was hyper excited and talking fast like he’d just snorted a Tony Montana sized pile of Coke. Great game!

Stop stealing Confucius’ work without properly crediting him.

There is a tweet for everything.

Hey, do you have expressed written consent from Major League Baseball and the Detroit Tigers?

Meet you there.

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: FanDuel Sports DET/ MLBN Game Time Forecast: Cloudy 62 Starters: RHP Seth Lugo RHP Casey Mize

Hinch does so much shuffling on a daily basis that I don't think there is any need for a "Sunday line-up"

Ramon Santiago plays short on Sundays.

He's good now, so why not enjoy it while we can?

She said "Spencer Torkelson scored the Tigers lone 3 runs." There is SO much wrong with that statement, I don't even know where to start.

Winner

You never been to Mexicantown? Southwest Detroit?

He's playing like a wily vet.

We are a good team.

Sweeney sold the **** out of that!

This isn't Brad Ausmus

The IV is because he's constantly dehydrated?

That overturned call robbed Casey Mize of getting a huge hand form the crowd. This is the 1/1 we'd hoped for.

When do we collectively change from McStinky to McKingstry?

The Tork go BOOM

Tork bomb

Yeah, it's funny how many fans have been name-dropping Chris Shelton wrt to Tork's current resurgence -- not here, but other places for sure -- while taking it as a matter of faith that Keith is gonna start mashing any day now because... reasons. If anyone should be compared to Shelton right now, it's Keith, not Tork.

Mize looking good but so is Lugo.

"You're gonna win 50 games and you're gonna lose 50 games. It's what you do in the other 62 games that matters."

Tork smash is equally unexpected

20 games is a perfect sample. Do you know why? It's because you can multiply everyone's stats by 8 and get a super-precise prediction of what their total year performance will be. Tork is going to hit 48 home runs, and his 144 RBI will be fifth highest in team history, Greenberg has the top 4.

I believe in eating my small sample ice cream before it melts.

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Second generation Latinos pulling up the ladder behind them.

.600 ball y'all

Think of Black Mirror as a modern day Twilight Zone. Most have a theme surrounding some type of technology and a unique twist at the end. They can all be watched completely independent of one another. My favorite episodes: White Bear USS Callister White Christmas Hated in the Nation San Junipero Common People, Plaything, and Hotel Reverie are all really good from this season. I’m still waiting to watch the final episode which is some type of Callister sequel.

Even though Adduci senior was an angry drunk I do give him credit for showing his son the ropes and loopholes when it comes to the MLB. He surely was the one that taught him to keep tabs on returning players and to make sure you get "injured" right before they get called back up so you can still collect an MLB paycheck.

I really need the Tigers to win it all soon, so I can get the thought of 2013/big papi out of my mind. It lingers still. The horror.......the horror!!

Winning the Jobe vs Ragans matchup is huge. Gotta feel great about taking at least 3/4 with a good chance at a 4 game sweep now.

Harris & Co can't play around here. Tigers are on fire right now, but they will slump at some point and this division is going to be close - you can't afford throwing games away just to save face. Swallow your pride, admit you made a mistake and then move on. I am guessing Chase Lee or Jordan Balazovic are the most likely with Foley being hurt. Lee's on the 40 man, so he's probably closer. Montero is a starter and they probably don't want to disrupt that. Enns has pitched okay, but he's not on the roster.

How the heck did Brebbia get out of that unscathed?

I still hate these uniforms.

Just passed Judge with that double.

Detroit Tork City!

My parking lot in Boise, Idaho is dry as a bone.

Riley Greene with another hit and RBI

You are raining on my unicorn.

I've been following updates. We'll see how he does in the upper minors. So far he looks good at WM. I love stories like this. Guys like Neikro, Wakefield, RA Dickey, etc didn't have the right stuff without the knuckler, then bloomed late when they learned the knuckleball. Maybe Kenny will have a similar path. Doesn't hurt to try

Question: What is the strike zone in a Major League Baseball game? If you said the plate horizontally and shoulders to kneecaps vertically, you are wrong. Answer: Whatever the home plate umpire in that game decides it to be. MLB has created a world where there is little consistency in the rules for each game. Every ump has complete control of what they want to call. If a manager or player disagrees, they are immediately ejected from the game. If they say anything to the media after the game, they are fined. MLB has allowed the stance to exist that as long as the calls are consistent for each team, the strike zone shouldn’t matter. That’s ridiculous if you really think about it. How about they have defined rules and they should do their best to follow them. The strike zone is a pretty important part of the game. Making the situation even worse and what allows it to continue is the lack of accountability on the umps. Their union backs them on everything and while they do keep track of accuracy, very little is done to fire or remove umps that do a poor job. Some of the worst offenders are not only allowed to stay on but even get post season assignments due to tenure (I’m looking at you Laz Diaz). I was glad to see the robo ump experiment in spring training. It worked much quicker than most people expected and was a big success. Yet in typical MLB fashion, they didn’t implement this season for fear of upsetting that big, bad umpires union. Typical Rob Manfred leadership.

The two that stand out from memory that I really liked were called Be Right Back and another with Aaron Paul called Beyond the Sea.