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Coaching and playing are two completely different deals. Signed, a great engineer who admits to flailing when being asked to lead engineers.

San Diego is in Houston for the ESPN Sunday night game tonight. Here’s hoping the Easter Bunny delivered extra innings for that game.

First game I’ve gotten to watch of the season. Feels like they’ve gotten a lot of pitches to hit but haven’t been able to do much with them. (Tune in next time for more riveting analysis from MichiganCardinal)

It ain't that big.

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

It’s a quote from every uninvolved parent who gets upset at the teacher that their child can’t perform at grade level.

This Natalie Kerwin really isn’t very good at talking baseball, is she? How did she get the job, anyway? Oh …

Ha! I just checked out his BABIP as well and then noticed the BB%.

Wow. This team's depth. It's a marvel. I didn't even want McKinstry on the team, most of us didn't, but he keeps proving us wrong.

Tork just missed that. Needed a 100mph wind out to left to get that one out.

we are tied!

Love watching these guys go first to third.

it just his typical sarcasm. He's actually pillorying the whole Christian ethic here, the subtext argument is clearly that any real Christian attitude of love and forgiveness is actually ridiculous and foolishly naive. Of course it doesn't matter to his fans in the Christian right, who have already wandered so far to support him they won't see it.

Very wizard of Oz. Look at all those criminals and inept leaders. Pay no attention to the inept criminals in the current administration.

Dan said Carpenter would stop at second but he ran right on to third and dared the RF to throw him out there, which he couldn’t. Being super aggressive on the bases doesn’t work every time, but it’s working enough to make it a good strategy in general.

Dead feed for me on the Tigers radio app but the KC one is working. I wonder if this is an MLB problem or a problem on the Tigers end… DUH I just realized that the Tigers pregame show isn’t as long as the KC one and the game doesn’t start for another 34 minutes.

I'm hoping for the 1980s again - a bunch of well rounded players who were allstar level some years, but not superstars. It would be nice to have a superstar too, but I wouldn't build a roster around one or two players.

Who said anything abut lumbering sluggers? I think his strategy is to have players like Greene, Torkelson, Carpenter, McGonigle, Clark, etc actually being good hitters and not relying on McKinstry, Kreidler and Ibanez to be working the strike zone and being versatile for 400 at bats. I don't think what they did last year is a big part of the strategy at all. That is unlikely to happen again. Some of the elements they employed during that period might be used as fillers, but it's not a strategy for sustained success. Talent is still whats going to win the most games.

Had no idea that another season of Andor was coming. It’s only a few days away. I can’t recommend a show that’s any betters

Hitting is so reactive. You have to be prepared for everything. You can't go in and say work on your curveball swing. Whereas pitchers can. One coach can work on a pitch and another coach another pitch. Hitting is more generalized and one adaption might strengthen a batters effectiveness on some pitches but open vulnerabilities against another. I hope the hitting coaches consult together as much as they do with the players and they approach the batter in a unified manner.

I understand that part of the change could be a reaction to needing more revenue. In the case of my deli and with most small businesses that change hands… the new owner has to cover two nuts now. The purchase plus themselves. Someone spends a lifetime building something and they need their payoff, rightfully so. Just doing the same old thing might not be enough.

As bad as Cade was, if they play defense they win this game. They can win scoring 112 points a game. They can't win giving up 123.

Not in the same boat but our favorite local winery changed hands about two years ago. The owner and founder was in his 80s and it seemed his sons had no interest in continuing the enterprise. It was and still is a nice upscale place with a small hotel and nice restaurant. It was also a nice place to hang out on a Friday afternoon or take out of town guests to lunch or dinner. The principal owner is an investor type, he owns another winery on the other end of the state that is just starting to produce wine. He also owns the minor league hockey team in Norfolk. It's being managed by a former Marriott resort manager in Virginia Beach. It's all well and good, the atmosphere has changed however. The original winemaker also left, I'm not sure if he was pushed out or left on his own. He had been there since Patrick opened the winery in the 1980s. The new guys want to do big events, prices have gone up, and things like the member tasting room and the outdoor tasting areas have changed. As have the members tastings. That started to change near the end of Mr Duffler's ownership and instead of informative talks from the winemaker it seems that most of those who attend now just want to see how much they can consume. We ended up not renewing our membership, we had too much wine on stock anyway. The wine maker has moved to a winery closer to us and it will be interesting to see what direction that place heads.

they lost their poise down the stretch. that's when your supposed veteran leaders - harris and hardaway - need to step up. instead, hardaway missed wide open shot after wide open shot and harris did what he always does in big games: disappears. ask sixers fans. when it mattered, ausar was awful on offense. duren too. cade was miserable. turnover after turnover. dumb shot after dumb shot. yes, they got no calls. but its the playoffs in msg on national tv, guess what? youre not getting any calls. that's life.

Their star > our star tonight. THJ, Beasley, and Harris were great in the 1st half. All three were brutal in the 2nd half. Cade wants to be the man he cant let a 15-0 run happen. I know some of it was with him on the bench. But he needs to grab the ball, clear out, and get a bucket to stop the bleeding. This was the game to steal.

It's gotta be da shoes.

Missing 7 wide open shots in a made it a moot point.

I didn't see this play or know who he fouled but you are just asking for this to happen when you put Thompson on Brunson.

it has to be a frustration for a quantitative driven management that there is so much you can do for a pitcher with today's data and tech and yet how limited what you can do for a hitter remains. I think at least at the general theory level, Harris has been a clarifying voice with the idea that you have to be competitive against the whole or at least as much of the K zone as you can. My impression was that under Avila's people the emphasis in being selective at the plate had gone too far and Tigers' hitters too often found themselves hitting out a hole behind in the count - certainly one of the habits Torkelson was still fighting early last season.

Do they even have an A team? It will be the line-up which puts them in the best position to win like most days.

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

From the story: “There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership,” said a senior defense official. “Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with some people who don’t have his interests at heart.” You heard right: the explicit primary consideration of the people being hired into the Department of Defense is not the interests of the country and its security, but rather, the individual interests of the head of the department.

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

We have scored the third most runs in the AL and allowed the fewest runs in the AL. This seems like a pretty good recipe for success.

It's good to see the team doing everything management has asked them to do. Control the zone, taking the extra base and versatile defense. They seem to hold themselves accountable. Very encouraging and entertaining start to the season.