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Finnegan left them in his wake.

So you telling me he thought he had a chance to get the call reversed… 🙃

Too easy

Nice to see the Tigers win and make a handful of posters sad, lmfao!

Briceno finished the night with two dinngers,

I don't get why Hinch didn't do something else? All he had to do was something other than what he did and the Tigers win.

Where's my six outs?

I wish baseball allowed teams to have pitchers that can get outs after the 6th inning. Weird rule but whatever.

Hey, this is a game thread not a political thread.

For a front office that is so tough to deal with, they sure made a lot of trades (8) with several different teams (7) leading up to the deadline.

Citizen Bank Park - Philadelphia, PA Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: FanDuel Det Game Time Forecast: 79 Partly Cloudy Starters: LHP Tarik Skubal RHP Zack Wheeler

A Detroit native, btw.

It probably doesn’t help Vest that they see him two days in a row. That’s a good lineup over there. If the Tigers are playing the Twins or Angels, back to back outings probably work out better.

So, on a serious note, maybe some of the carping and complaining forgets to take into consideration that there is a varsity team in the other dugout, and this series is, as you said, against a really good team and on the road.

Impressive 4 out save.

Never a doubt. Piece of cake.

More suspense than I expected for a game in which the Tigers have scored 7 runs in a Skubal start.

The awful bullpen is unprofessional. Scott Harris did not do his job. Brutal.

Very clutch of you.

I didn't think that was gonna carry that far. Wow.

Dan pointed out that New York seems reluctant to overturn a call made by a crew chief. seems like what happened here. frickin' weak.

Statistical bonuses are allotted based on % of that stat accumulated with each team. There's a minor bug in my table, but I will address that once Paddack or Montero hit their numbers. Postseason/award bonuses are allotted based on when they happen. The Tigers are on the hook for whatever percentage of the stat came with them. I found out last year, these are paid out at the end of the year, not when triggered, to avoid constant denominator changes.

The cap in 2020 was $198 million and today it is $279 million. That is an increase of 40%. Joey Bosa was the highest paid pass rusher at $27 million. Today the going rate is about $40 million, a 48% increase. Bosa was 13%of the cap and $40 million would only be 14%, but we are talking about two top pass rushers. 28% of the cap to two players at the same position. That’s just not sustainable and you’ll lose players at other positions plus your draft picks. Plus, Parsons isn’t even a great fit.

I’m honestly ambivalent too. I just like to vent.

I worked with a guy who was into Nascar and I was giving him a hard time about how stupid I thought it was that people got into watching people drive in circles. He was quiet for a bit and then informed me, "sometimes they drive in figure eights." LMAO I've heard it's one of the most popular sports in the country and I've mellowed. If people wanna get into it, fine. To each his/her own.

Because the fans’ intellectually capacity is under the control of a sophisticated media apparatus that’s unmatched in its ability to disseminate propaganda and, fortuitously, in an environment that’s basically self-hermetically-sealed by its own target audience. IOW, Fox News and their fellow travelers have the luxury of being able to tell anything they want to their audience, who will believe anything they hear because they refuse to obtain any information from anywhere else—in fact, it is by now considered practically disloyal to do so. The American RWM learned from the best in the business.

That’s a big reason why the game and its many of its broadcasts are lousy with gambling.

Small sample size..but it's nice to see Clark posting better numbers in AA than high A

Good Lord, that Yankees collapse tonight, and that Rockies win are truly epic! What an astonishing sport this is. Honestly, I feel nowhere near as bad as I did. And actually, it’s nice to hear that that the guys in the minors did well tonight. Takes some of the sting out of it Honestly. There’s no way I could manufacture as much drama and excitement by sitting in a room by myself as I did by following our game tonight and hearing about all these other amazing games. Beisbol bean berry, berry good to me, tank you berry much!

And Bricineo who I heard Pittsburgh wanted for BedNar had two bombs tonight. Harris can't win for losing.

When your fans won't hold you to any kind of logic or consistency standard at all, you are embarrassment proof.

Who said Vest is our closer?

Still short rest for him

There is a silver lining—all of our minor league teams have won/are winning. <ducks>

**** Scott Yzerman.

Who is going in next, the electric Kyle Finnegan and that breathtaking 7.4 K per 9 rate? Luke Jackson and that shutdown WHiP of 1.46? The incredible Raffy Montrero? Oooh, goosebumps with that haul. Can't wait for that Charlie Morton call, maybe his kids can go to the game, if they can get out of their college classes.

They could buy it Colbert for way way less than $30 million and just ****can everyone else and save a couple Ms. If it’s about the money.

Is this 2024 Flaherty?

Thump basically threatens to nuke Russia and it gets pretty much zero coverage. Wild times we're living in.

Wouldn’t it be some s**t if this Bristol game got rained out after all that’s gone into the planning and work!

And look how that turned around it, a Divisional Round exit. /s

The thing is that, politically, so much of how people view the economy runs off of vibes anyway... and like Biden before him (who never could outrun 9% inflation in 2022 despite many good jobs reports), his vibes are in the toilet. Also similar to COVID as well.... people built an impression of him, and he never did outrun it (even with Operation Warp Speed and some other successes).

There's, very correctly, a ton of concern coming out of this about Trump cooking and / or juking the numbers to make things look good for his political concerns (I'll leave those for the other thread), but the reality is that businesses need reliable data in order to make decisions that are in their strategic/fiduciary best interests. Trump, by doing this, is basically undermining the basis of the data going forward. Just adds yet another level of uncertainty to an environment that he's already injected a bunch of uncertainty into.

Maybe MI has caught up on this one by now, but I was impressed on a trip this Spring (before they apparently closed them all!) that the rest stops on I-75 in Ohio were stocked with Naloxone dispensers....

Difficult to deal with aka stuck with their valuations of their players and those on the block, and didn't budge. Sounds like the same execs that complained last year about the Flaherty trade. I think, given the last year and the overall results of the team and farm, Harris would have earned some trust from this fan base. They had a plan and executed on that plan. It reminds me of the draft where they selected players who may not have had the circuit track record of others but they saw something they liked and went with it. I am good with that. Finding an edge or what you believe is an edge and going with it. It may not work, but I like the creativity. Overall I would have preferred other players but it sounds like Pirates wanted Briceno for Bednar which I just wouldn't do either and I am guessing other teams were also asking for similar from us.

I am not especially thrilled with what they got at the deadline, but I don't know what it would have cost to obtain more impactful players. I don't think they significantly impoved their chances of going all the way this year, but how do you do that? There was no urgent need because they have such a big lead and the teams in back of them aren't really trying to win. I think the post-season is mostly a crapshoot, so I am not in favor of selling the farm just for what might turn out to be one series.

hard pass on that. you know who people liked dealing with? Idiot trader Al Avila. One reason Harris is not well liked is that he has literally won almost every Tigers trade he has made, and people are pissed he did not settle for less, or will not give up prospects who other teams really want.