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I learned the hard way though that you have to keep all the bathroom doors shut.

Those photos are awesome @Biff Mayhem I housesat my oldest daughter and her husband’s four cats last weekend and they were an absolute treat to be around.

Last year we witnessed a record breaking season in terms of losses for the modern era of MLB (1901+). The Chicago White Sox lost 121 games. This topped the 1962 Mets who lost 120 games (the previous MLB record) as well as our own 2003 Tigers who lost 119 games (the previous AL record). If we look at winning percentage though the 2024 Sox were only the 5th worst team in the modern era. They finished 41 and 121, giving them a .253 wpct... this was better than the 1904 Senators (.252), the 1962 Mets (.250), the 1935 Braves (.248), and the 1916 Athletics (.235). This year we may be witnessing a season to destroy all those others: The 2025 Colorado Rockies. As of May 28 the Rockies still having broken double digit wins. They are 9 and 47. The '24 White Sox, thru 56 games, were 15-41. The '03 Tigers were 16-40. The Rockies winning percentage right now is .161! More than 70 points LOWER than the worst modern era winning percentage. The Rockies are on pace to win just 26 games. That would be 136 losses. 15 more losses than the White Sox had last year. To avoid topping the record 121 losses the Rockies would need to go 32-74 for the rest of the season. That doesn't seem like it should be that hard but 32-74 is a .302 winning percentage. That's nearly double the pace of winning vs. what they've done so far. Working in their favor, both the '03 Tigers and the '24 Sox had a pretty good last month of the year. Because other bad teams are likely playing younger guys to see what they have and better teams might be resting stars to prepare for playoffs September can be a month to make up some ground. The White Sox went 10-15 in Sept last year, a .400 wpct. The '03 Tigers went 9-18 in September, a .333 wpct. But even a September boost seems unlikely to keep the Rockies from setting a new record in terms of losses and worst wpct of the modern era. A few last notes: The Pythagorean W-L for the Rockies so far is 12-44. This is still a dismal .244 wpct and projects to only 35 wins and 127 losses. The Rockies have already had three 8-game losing streaks. This seems bad but it's actually a bit better than the Tigers did in '03. That year we had two 8-game, two 9-game, a 10-game, and an 11-game losing streaks. The Tigers clumped their wins more than the Rockies have so far. Four times we won back to the back games and we had three 3-game and one 4-game winning streaks. The Rockies have only had back-to-back wins once so far. About two weeks ago the Rockies fired their manager Bud Black, who was 7-33 (.175) on the season. Since then interim manager Warren Schaeffer has gone 2-14 (.125).

So first of all, "50 intelligence officers" never said the laptop was fake, they said it "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation". Secondly, we've never actually seen what was on Hunter's laptop, we've only seen what was taken from a copy of the original hard drive. Lastly, it's hilarious how much you people still care about Hunter Biden when you couldn't care less about the crimes your favorite orange felon goes around committing on a daily basis.

Keith 'hates the Tigers' Law has listed Max Clark as his #2 prospect...#16 Kevin McGonigle, Bryce Rainer #44.

I hope they put the groundskeeper flipping off the crowd on our World Series program cover.

We adopted panther siblings last year and I cannot believe I neglected to share that here. The girl has Batman ears and the boy is as handsome as he is dumb.

Kinga just wanted to say (or wave) hi to everyone.

I remember when they put that up, but if you go back and look at the overal statcast numbers for that game, Jobe's slider and FB were a couple of inchs off what he threw last night - that is absolutley significant when it come to missing a bat.The effect is real - but that graphic they put up during the game was some kind of collection of outliers. The effect is not as big as that in game sample implied.

We’d like our country to be more like Canada and not Romania

I thought when they started to use the humidor on the baseballs there things supposedly began to play closer to normal - at least those were the reports when they started doing it. I never cared enough to follow it any closer.

I had a cat who would do this until probably his mid-teens. could not leave the stuff out (and keeping the bathroom closed wasn't a good option, either).

Just can't leave politics out no matter what.....

Glad to hear he thinks that way. Doesn't matter how good you are if you are in street clothes on the bench.

Exactly. Same reason I didn't want to go after him back when he was a free agent. And based upon what Trajan has said and done so far, it seems that he values availability too much to go after a guy like this as well.

If anyone is craving some off day viewing, here is nice quality video of the '84 home opener. Tigers roster and staff is introduced from 18:05 to 21:25. National anthem by Fat Bob Taylor at 22:00. Spoiler alert - big moment at 53:40.

One big reason to avoid Johnson. His amount of games played since entering the league.

The current owners of the Rockies have owned the team for 20 years now and have only five winning seasons in that span.

This is a good post. It took a lot of work to assemble. Thank you. Although I feel no remorse in the Tigers sweeping the Rockies, I do feel bad for the players and the fan base that has to endure this. Although I’m kind of a snob about my team being 125 years old and with an extensive tradition to both enjoy and lament, I know there are genuine fans with a heartfelt love for teams with less extensive traditions such as the Rockies. They too are field of dreams dreamers, and this has to be very hard on those fans. It’s natural to want to blame someone when things go wrong. It’s not like the players themselves spontaneously formed a team. I’m sure blame lies with the front office that assembled the team. But they would’ve had to almost do a bad job on purpose to achieve results this dismal and I find it hard to believe they did.

You know, back when Smoot Hawley happened.

That's the so what of it all. Yzerman's pro-side scouting has been among the very worst in the league. Whoever advised him to sign some of these dead bodies like Chiarot, Gustafsson, Holl, Husso, Petry, Tarasenko has been advising him incorrectly and giving him bad advice. If he did his own film study and scouting and made the decision to sign many or all of these guys that's even worse I think. At least if he was taking bad scouting advice from someone else in the organization like Aaron Kahn, Chris Yzerman, Dan Clearly, Jiri Fischer, Kirk Maltby, Shawn Horcoff, etc. he could replace them with someone else and give it another go perhaps. If he is making these moves on his own accord, having done his own film study, then he might be the one that needs to go. It seems as if our pro scouting needs a complete makeover and that someone or multiple someone's in player personnel might need to be replaced. Scott Harris and Brad Holmes are both good examples to look to of GM's who came in here and immediately went to work cleaning out their respective front offices and bringing in new personnel and with them, new ways of doing business and new perspectives. Yzerman seems to have largely kept the same front office as Kenny had with Cleary, Draper, Fischer, Horcoff, Kronwall, Maltby and good ole boys from the ghosts of Red Wings past. That, on top of giving his brother a cushy job as a Pro Scout in the organization.

why in the long run, the GM/PBO is the most important guy in the org. Anyone can 'go get a player' but it takes a lot more than that to build a team that wins.

Unlike other sports most notably basketball you don't need stars to win championships in baseball. Just in the past 15 years you had those aforementioned Giants teams(Posey played like a offensive superstar in 2012 so I won't count that one) along with the Royals, Cardinals and Rangers just to name a few. That's about half the championships being won by teams without a true offensive superstar.

Going back last year to Aug 11 when the Tigers were 55-63, these are their "bad" stretches. My criteria was to exclude 2 game losing streaks unless they lost 3 of 4. They lost 3 of 4 in early Sep 2024. They lost 3 straight to the Dodgers to start 2025 They lost 3 of 4 in mid April. They lost 3 straight to Cleveland last week. During that stretch they lost 2 or more in a row only 6 times. It's not a fluke.

Philips is talking now about them with his partner. His partner is saying tigers to world series

Timberwolves looked like a French President getting beat by his wife.

Poor Mike Malone. Sharing a stage with idiots like Stephen A. and Perkins.

Funny story during COVID GM could not ship trucks built here locally due to chip shortages. So they got the great idea to park thousands of trucks in rented fields. They now use a soybean based wire coating in new vehicles, this was a dinner bell to field mice causing all kinds of wiring damage to tons of these trucks. Basically don’t buy a 2020-2023 Sierra or Silverado because you will drive yourself crazy with wiring gremlins.

We can keep this non political. This guy was the subject of great trivia.

At least until the Supreme Court overturns the ruling or a Truth Social post says otherwise .

We’re #1!

As much as I love Whitaker, he is not in the same class as Verlander. Whitaker should be in the Hall of Fame based on having been very good for so long, but he never had an MVP type season. Verlander has longevity and he also had multiple years where he was the best pitcher in baseball.

I am slightly worried about the miles on his body at this point, but the Wings could really use some of his style of play. He seems like a bastard to play against on the ice. Randomly, my sister in law gave him a few jiu jitsu lessons years back when she was living and training in New York and he's supposedly a very nice guy. So that's cool.

JB wondering why they don't limit Nesmith to 18 MPG.

Totally. I guess the groundskeeper was the libation we had to throw to the gods to get the win and keep it.

Toledo W 10-5 Meadows 3/5 3RBI 2B 3B SB Lee 2/4 3RBI BB K 2B SB Workman 1/4 BB 2K Manning 1IP H ER BB K Erie L 1-0 Anderson 1/4 2B Campos 0/3 K WM W 12-7 Clark 0/4 RBI 2BB 2K McGonigle 2/5 BB 2B Briceno 1/2 3RBI BB HR Pacheco 0/2 RBI 3BB 2K Ashman 2IP H Lakeland PPD FCL L 8-7 Dickson 0/5 2K Osorio 3/5 3RBI K 2B HR Jimenez 2/5 K

Trump has made a mockery of the entire US Judicial system. If he wasn't President, he'd be in jail.

"Pierre LeBrun: Anaheim, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles among teams interested in Marner; Florida, Vegas are of interest to Marner, among others - TSN 1050" it will be really hard to outbid anaheim and chicago. we might be better off being a cap repository for vegas and/or florida if they need to create space by selling low on some of their players.

Exactly. I am furious

What's especially infuriating, is the child has been diagnosed with having fluid on the brain, and will likely be born, if he survives, with severe disabilities. The same mother****ers who claim to be "pro life" just voted to cut all the services this little boy will need to have any chance at life, Medicaid, SNAP, etc. Plus, the dead Mom's family will probably be billed hundreds of thousands of dollars for "medical care" for forcing their dead daughter to be an incubator. Hate is too kind of a word for these people.

Its crazy to me how much time has past and just how old I'm getting! 🙂 The Rockies are a "young" team and yet have been around for over 3 decades now. They haven't won it all yet, but they did make it to one World Series. Also lost in the NLDS three times, so they've had some measure of success. Only 9 winning season in their 32 (completed) season, but even in the bad years they were still often competitive. Only seven times prior to 2018 did they have a wpct lower than .450. They only ever finished below .400 once in that time... they first season. In 2017 they made the playoffs but lost in the Wild Card. In 2018 they made it to the Divisional round but lost. After that peak they starting falling off... rapidly. In 2019 they won only 71 games... 20 fewer than the previous year. 2020 was covid... which is hard to put any statistical importance on... but they finished .388... their worst wpct ever up to that point. 2021 saw only a very slight improvement over 2019, winning 74 games. But then they dropped again in 2022 with 68 wins. 2023 was only 59 wins, 2024 was only 61. And now 61 wins seems like it would be an amazing accomplishment.

Remember the last time the Tigers and Lions were good at the same time? Yep, the Great Depression. Uh oh.