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Harris, you had a chance to impress me last winter, but you let it pass. All you had to do was get rid of Torkelson and Baez. Trade Torkelson for a bag of balls, he's had more than enough time. And Baez, just cut him, just eat the money, move on. Show us that you run an organization that isn't afraid to admit its mistakes.

well, Langford is 4 WAR LF and we have a 5 WAR LF, so he has to go to RF, which displaces Carpenter and/or Vierling (~3 WAR). So maybe you trade a player, but corner OF is not where the Tigers have much weakness that Langford would have been a big marginal upgrade. OTOH, Max Clark is three yrs younger and should a big piece of the pipeline as we start losing current players to cost/FA. Assuming Max turns into a good pro. If you are in "all in" win once ASAP you definitely take Langford. If you don't want to be the Orioles and have your window close before you ever got through it, maybe you take Clark.

I had jury duty this morning and they were advising us to be aware of unconscious Baez. They were right to, I am aware.

I am finally watching extra inning games now even though I hate them. That's how much I like this team.

As the team gets better, the ratings expectation on the broadcast rise with them and if the guys in the booth aren't cutting it, they are not going to get the kind of long leashes they got when the team was losing 100 games and no-one expected much. I think it's pretty clear from his rapid rise to the top of the heap that Dirks has been the ratings star of the group. He can get a little OT, but he gets down into the weeds of how the game is played better than anyone we've heard in a while.

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: FanDuel Sports DET Game Time Forecast: 73 Cloudy Starters: RHP Hunter Dobbins LHP Tarik Skubal

Funny I was just going through last year's draft and realized that Hill, Massey, and Swanson are all hurt, thinking I wish they used those picks on a less risky position type.

May 14, 1973 NASA launched a Saturn V rocket for the last time. This wasn't a lunar mission but it carried Skylab, our first Space Station. A minute into the launch there were problems as a micrometeroid shield deployed early and took a solar panel with it. The first Skylab manned crew had to come up with emergency procedures to rescue the mission, which they did. At one point Pete Conrad was stretched out to the max on his tether. He walked on the moon but said he was proudest of this mission. The Saturn V is the only rocket to take man out of earth orbit. It stood 363 feet tall and in my opinion is a beautifully designed piece of work. Magestic. I've seen a 1/10th scale model when they did an Apollo era museum tour here at the Henry Ford a few years ago. I want to see one in person. They have one at KSC in Florida and two in Huntsville. The Artemis SLS vehicle planned is a few feet taller but nowhere near as elegant.

and if the gov is going to be responsible for picking private sector managers, the grift potential is off the charts. That's why the Dems have been shooting down repeated GOP proposals for privately managed gov investment vehicles since Reagan.

Jason Benetti is very good. Glad we have him.

One thing I do like about Benetti is that he's willing to toss an allusion out there that might not work, and just let it be. When Riley hit the single that Abreu botched, his line was (as close as I remember) "Last year the Tigers went to Williamsport and now the Red Sox have brought Williamsport to Comerica." That's a brilliant baseball line even though most(?) of the audience probably missed it. And then even better, a few minutes later when Sweeney hit his home run, Dirk's picked up the thread with "Riley hit a Little League HR, now Sweeney hits a big boy HR", which probably turned the light on for a lot of the people who missed the initial reference without ever making any belabored explanation. That's awesome, subtle, clever teamwork.

After reading the Morningstar piece, I’m not at all impressed with this idea. The money is taxed upon withdrawal. That’s a huge penalty on the idea as a whole.

I have never seen a catcher show so much disgust so quickly as on the Baez homer. Love to see him isolated on video

That was a fantastic game start to finish. A bunch of lead changes, some great defensive plays, big clutch hits and home runs. It had everything.

How can this not be our year?!?

On my god, a Tigers game where the score box is small and at the top and we’re not being bludgeoned by prop bet odds!

Cough cough

I don't mind JK Simmons or Jack White in the booth, talking Tiger baseball. I kinda enjoy them. But a NASCAR driver? No thanks...

They’re talking to a NASCAR driver during the game? What’s next, a poker player, or a bowler?

I think you are just stuck back in the 60s.

This just sounds too much like the right wing machine latching on to some number they don't know the meaning of to bash CA. Remember the big story about the fire trucks that were being stopped from helping during the fires? Neither does anyone in CA.

Also they have done pretty well grabbing later round pitchers and enhancing their offerings, such as Hamm, Melton, J.Miller.

Sometimes the body language is such that it appears that the uncoiling of motion creates a magnetic charge between the bat and the ball and a massive collision is certain.

Last year the top rounds minus Rainer were very pitcher heavy

These pics are getting blown up and planted on my living room wall! Payback for 2013. Big Papi will suffer!!!

The reason Tiger fans boo him is because he gave an impression, maybe it's wrong to assume this impression, that he was only going to sign with Detroit because nobody else was out there, not that Boston made him a much better offer. Kind of like resigning yourself to going to the dance with the ugly girl because nobody else is saying yes, until the prettier girl does. To give him the benefit of the doubt, he probably felt his asking price was fair and legit and the Tigers didn't quite meet it and they aren't going to bid against themselves so he was holding out for what he felt he deserved. Why should the Tigers artificially set the market for him all by themselves? Then he got an offer that either met that or came closer to it. Nobody did anything wrong. That's negotiations.

Tigers are 7-1 against the AL East.

Team Payrolls NY Mets $255,812,098 LA Dodgers $212,725,880 San Diego $149,546,881 Detroit $106,984,955

Red Sox fans are insufferable. They were already griping about the team during Spring Training in 2005.

Javy as an AS cf?

I like this. We all know how it turned out the last time.

All 4 teams won tonight, in addition to the big squad SGL with 3 hitless IP w/West Michigan

Bregman said he expected to sign with Detroit right up until Boston made their huge offer.

He's a Sox fan who was predicting a negative about his team. He was right.

The spine bone is connected to the hip bone!

I need the Dickerson call STAT

<hits 5-second-rewind button> yeeeaahhhhh <hits 5-second-rewind button> yeeeaahhhhh <hits 5-second-rewind button> yeeeaahhhhh

I think I would pick Indiana over NYK.

Kahnle looks like a position player throwing.

His logic makes no sense. “Well they aren’t a threat anymore”. If that were the case then he could have done this in 2015 and just said “he can’t work in the game”. The punishment wasn’t about being a threat.

Yes, stop letting the Red Sox answer

You are the wind beneath my wings

He got way more of a career than a UDFA has a right to dream about. And he got paid three Ms this year, which is a nice consolation prize.

Yes, we’re on TBS because we’re playing a “real team.“

You’re probably right, but part of me also wonders whether Bregman would have negatively affected the bonhomie in the clubhouse, not because I think he’s a bad guy necessarily, but injecting a new highly-paid mercenary into a clubhouse full of kids learning how to be big leaguers all together would definitely have shifted the vibe, and who knows whether for the better or the worse.

Every time I see betting odds on the screen of a sports broadcast, or broadcasters doing drop-ins for gambling sponsors, or commercials for gambling during the breaks of sports broadcasts, a little more of my soul leaves my body.