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Newsom is taking Trump to the woodshed right now.

7 weeks from tomorrow is the trade deadline, and for the first time since 2014, the Tigers will be buyers! One real need: high octane bullpen arm to compliment Vest Nice to have: 1. more pitching is always good and 2. they can add any bat at any position to this line up if 3B, CF or SS is struggling with health/performance. But if Vierling and Meadows are healthy and contributing, it will actually be difficult to improve the lineup. Harris would need to either get a star, or maybe he just gets a guy like Ibanez who does one thing really well. My picks: David Bednar's last 2 seasons have been rocky for Pittsburgh, but he looks good again, and I'd trust Fetter to get him right. He's an All Star at his best. Under control through 2026 as well. Suarez makes sense if Arizona continues to crater, as long as we don't discuss who we got when DD traded him away. Bregman would be the funniest addition ever. Sleeper position: Catcher. Jake looks bad before and after injury, Dingler I suspect will wear down, and Hinch would love a LH compliment to DD.

with regard to orderly homicides, as the 2022 numbers, the suicide rate in AR (18/100K) is 70% higher than in CA (10.5/100K. That's the thing about MAGA, they are basically unhappy, but demand that you live like them, so you can be just as unhappy.

Very TACO of him 🌮

We know what he’s getting at here. “Articulate”.

According to ESPNs WAR McKinstry leads all Tiger position players in WAR with a relatively modest 1.6. I say modest cause that doesn't even crack the top 30 in the AL so they haven't gotten elite production(atleast by WAR) from any non pitcher. But what they have gotten is plus production from a bunch of players, yeah the Tigers don't have any bats in the top 30 but they have 7 between 30 and 50 with an 8th(Carpenter) being just .1 behind number 50.

My thoughts center around the possibility that this dramatic shift in college football will change it to the point that it no longer becomes a good thing for the NFL. As college football becomes more like a professional entity, what happens if the NFL sees it more as a competitor than a partner. They tend to crush any competition. The idea of owning viewers on Saturdays too could be huge. We’ve seen what Amazon will pay for Thursday’s and holidays. What do you think they would do for 2 marquee Saturday games at 3:30 and 8:00? We will see how it plays out over the next few years but I also can’t see NFL liking every 5 star QB is making as much as the 6th pick in the NFL draft. Even more extreme, how about when a 4 star DL from Saginaw gets paid the same amount as pick 26. They really aren’t going to like when the senior QB with a first round grade decides to stay in college for more money instead of coming to the NFL. The players union will hate it too and will definitely want to start getting more of the pie and could even strike for it. What better argument they aren’t paid enough than high school grads getting paid more than pros. We can compare to other pro sports but the reality is the NFL operates on another level. It’s like little league vs. high school when comparing them with other sports. Everything they touch gains viewers and makes money. They have very few missteps. I am not saying any of these things will happen but there is a dramatic change happening with college football. It’s not out of the question that the NFL chooses to step in and take control over their own player development and open a new revenue stream that makes billions of dollars at the same time.

its a case where they both are right.

That probably won't be great for the discussion, but it will probably be good for the site and help keep it funded. Edman's going to be scolding everyone though.

Speaking as someone who’s on the same side here, Terry Moran’s tweet was well out of bounds, and his journalistic integrity and objectivity could be fairly questioned in the aftermath. ABC could not afford to keep him around after that. It’s just a shame he couldn’t restrain himself, because who knows what kind of character he’s going to be replaced with.

He was thinking we didn't get six runs for Bert... dummies.

This is not humerus. Sorry, that was terrible.

should've drafted Mayer

I’m a moron.

Would love to see an old fashioned gully washer this weekend

Johnny in the pregame is doing Chris Farley's you remember when Miggy retired? You remember that? That was awesome.

I'm going to say it's Happy Bert Day.

The Tigers didn’t invent that type of seating so I assume billion dollar corporations have lots of research and data at their disposal (both their own and their partners in the league who already did this)before they invest millions to renovate like that.

Cleveland is now leading the Reds 11-2. I’ve never been good at Black Magic.

Personally, I don’t really want to see us do too much to upgrade the offense at this point. I’d really just like two bullpen upgrades for Brebbia and Brieske.

OTOH, Marlins at Pirates in Pittsburgh on a weekday afternoon.

I know you like to watch the margins but I remain unimpressed, until someone actually wins something unexpected. It's not a parliamentary system, bigger minorities don't do you any good at all.

I was there for all three games over the weekend. The crowds seemed even larger than opening day. We sat in section 121 behind the visitors dugout. Never sat there before but I gotta say you have a great view of every angle.

Remember when MAGA was crying about the 1st amendment?

Ahhhh...Lee pitched the final out in the bottom of the 3rd inning last nigyt and then the Tigers took the lead for good in the 4th. Yeah, I get it. It's just yet another example of win-loss records for pitchers being somewhat meaningless. I always look at a pitchers WHIP over most other stats.

In addition to the No Kings events going on locally this weekend there are a few Evans leading up to next week's Juneteenth observances....

This might be a close proxy to what you're looking for. They don't break out subs versus starters, but overall, Tigers are second in baseball for most different position players played during a season so far: This one they do measure. Not the most, but fifth out of 30 is a lot: Although this may be more a function of not having eight solid reliable starters we can run out there day after day, as the Cubs (29th) do.

I love. love, love that the Tigers do what they think is right, and its working. just 4 sacrifice bunts total; last in stolen bases, but first - by far - in extra bases taken. 4th most pinch at-bats; don't know how to measure, but Hinch must be near the top in both moving guys around in game and playing late game defensive substitutions. I see little complaints of "why are moving guys around?" when they have the best record in MLB. don't know if there is a way to check, but Hinch I assume players 12 position players (everyone but back up C) more often than any other manager.

Is Yzerman trying to replicate Hinch's pitching chaos of last September with its bullpen days? Let's have a 1st period goalie, a 2nd period goalie, a 3rd period goalie, a penalty kills goalie.

Politico is not part of the mainstream media dedicated to speaking truth to power. Their mission is to report specifically on the mechanics of the political aspect of government, mainly Washington, and they can’t afford to risk losing sources in this particular government by being some sort of diogenean truth-teller. Which is fine, I guess—there’s room in the media landscape for all kinds of players, and it’s up to us to disparage those we hate or that are craven liars.

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I was always of the belief that coaches only impact the game a small amount and most of their work is managing workloads and personality throughout the season. This team is challenging that for me as I am starting to believe that this coaching staff is truly elite and helping us win games at a much higher clip.

A lot of these lurkers, though, are search bots. The same was true on the old site. Nobody’s really going back and looking at four year old discussions of spring training. I just checked 3 IPS and they were from Vietnam, Ecuador, and Argentina. A bot in Brasília was just now looking at a thread called “revisiting cargo shorts.“ No human being, thankfully, is that bored.

My wife watches every game with me now.

No problem, just use prison labor.

Nobody that matters will care, but that was excellent.

The Tigers now lead Minnesota by 8 games, Cleveland by 9 games, and Kansas City by 9.5. And all three of these teams have records above .500 They are not bottom feeders. This is pretty satisfying.

If it means anything to people, the Tigers have won 20 more games than they’ve lost.

These Cowser puns are cheesy.

I want everyone in the crowd (well, Baltimore fans, anyway) to be sent home crying. but then I'm kind of a jerk.

Game 2 had the lowest ratings for a game 2 since 1988. But maybe we're looking at this wrong. Sunday's game was still the highest rated thing on TV for the entire weekend. And its ratings were 50% higher than #2. People don't watch as much TV as they once did.

The early 70's Orioles starting staff is what I remember. Three 20 game winners in '70. Then to top that, in '71, 4 starters, 81 wins racked: Palmer(20), McNally(21), Cuellar(20), Dobson(20) with 69 complete games. Earl Weaver hardly got his cleats dirty walking to the mound the whole season.

Every 12 year old should experience adults dodging you over their unpaid $1.75 tab.

Dag.: "He already took the fifth, before arriving." — Bluesky

I was watching that and when I watch other teams, which is rare, it feels like they’re living in the last century. They’re always talking about how it’s “hard for a guy to come off the bench after six or seven days without swinging the bat” and that doesn’t happen with the Tigers. Nobody seems to be going from 1st to 3rd the way the Tigers do. The Tigers play a different brand of baseball. And a lot of the broadcast teams seem like stuffy old fogies in suits and if I’m 73 years old and I think they’re old fogies they are. I like our broadcast crews on both TV and radio both a lot more than what I hear on other broadcasts.