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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 think you are just stuck back in the 60s.

The question asked was which team is best in the AL East. I can‘t fault anyone for not choosing the Tigers. The entire article was focused on just the AL East and the NL West.

Re: WWI I just finished reading the book, July 1914, by Sean McMeekin. Very good book!

June 15th over under:

You guys all said Tork and Baez are no good yu were wrong you are wrong about Baddoo too.

I won’t be happy until the jovial bullpen cop from 2013 is crying.

boston and cleveland just looked so soft. mitchell has been a real front runner for them. has some big games and then gets hurt when the going gets tough. jarrett allen got punked again. boston was just chucking up 3's with reckless abandon and refused to go to the basket. i know 3's are their MO, but when youre up 20, take some damn easy points and get to the line! the pistons played the knicks tougher than boston. jaylon brown looked inconsequential. the whole team wouldnt take a hard foul if you paid them. so many soft teams and soft players got exposed.

Clark. Thank you very much.

To me the tragedy is that I think Shep could have been very good. I've heard him be better in different circumstances. He just refused to be his best self. I can't figure why. Could he not get over being starstruck sitting next to a personal hero? Was he hung up on the idea that you can't know as much about the game as a player if you didn't play? That's nonsense, You may know different things but would Shep seriously argue a Bob Costas doesn't know more baseball than most players? Maybe he was afraid to fail being himself so he was comfortable hiding behind being strictly the PBP guy and leaving all the rest to his color man. But if that's your take, you really shouldn't be there. And that's where it ended.

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.

Even though the alleged Pelosi quote was likely taken out of context, my first thought after reading your comment was, ‘We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.’ I mean, that is how the federal government operates. I have searched for what funds/companies/stocks would be in this investment. I’m not finding anything on this. The Joint Committee on Taxation pegs the cost of these new accounts to the Treasury at $17.3 billion over 10 years. Of course, the taxes on the realized gains would recoup some this money. I don’t know why the morons in Washington don’t just work to improve the existing Roth IRA options that currently exist now. The Roth IRA is one of the most under appreciated investment vehicles out there for the average investor. This would be a much better approach than what I’m seeing in this bill.

If we’re grooming him for a trade, then we’d better send him down so he can start raking and up his trade value.

Most of us were wrong. Most of us wanted him gone. But he's another week of starts away from qualifying for the batting race and at this point he'd be close to the Top 10. He's been outstanding in Center, too And suddenly the Tigers don't need to rush Vierling or Meadows back. I think Sweeney has taken notice too, the way he's hitting lately. .425 in his last 10 games. When Vierling and Meadows come back (if for Meadows), someone's getting squeezed out. They all know it and they're playing their guts out because of it. This has been an amazing turnaround for Baez. I have my theory. When Baez is just one of several good players, he just plays ball and he's still decent. When he is asked to carry a team, like when he got here, he tries too hard, doesn't relax -- tries to force things. I mean, anything north of .250 for this guy over the full season is a win, right?

The hand he's gonna get when he steps up to the plate today. It's gonna be a standing O for him. My how things have changed in 6 short weeks.

I mean….we’ve won series against the Yankees, Padres, Mariners, Royals, Twins and now the Red Sox….

Well this thread is aging well tonight.

The Royaks lost but Guardiaks won. We won which is awesome.

JAVY F. BAEZ

Chapman getting a wild zone, lmao! Robot umps when?

This'll just make it more fun when they walk it off in the 9th. Javy again?

That building that looks like Tron is the new Hudson's Building. I think that's the name. I don't think it's fully open yet.

Dan's HR call;

I’m starting to feel vindicated some!

The bottom of the 6th would be the perfect time to put up multiple runs.

I have nothing against them trying to school other people in baseball so they know what’s going on and feel included, but I have to admit they aren’t particularly good. If they had Samuel L Jackson doing the voice over and using the M-word a lot, it would be more entertaining.

especially since you know there will be more baserunners. not like recent seasons where you felt like that was a rare chance for them to score a run.

oh man.... Was so glad to get to meet that guy when we were able to get in the suite at WM, which I think you organized? I still have the pocket knives and fishing lures he sent me.

Happy Mothers Day!