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the guy has two 100+ EVs good for 2/4 against one of the best pitchers in the league and he's the one you are complaining about?

Toledo W 4-1 Lee 1/4 RBI K HR Sweeney 1/4 2K Mallot 1/3 BB K Jung 1/3 RBI BB Dobnak 4IP 3H ER 3BB 7K Mattison .2IP BB K Petit 1.1IP 2K Heuer 1IP K Erie L 4-1 McGonigle 0/4 BB K Briceno 2/4 K WM W 7-5 Pacheco 0/4 BB 2K Graham 1/3 BB Peck 2/4 2RBI BB HR 2B Castillo 4IP 3H 2ER 2BB 3K Lakeland W 6-5 10 Inn. Macdonald 0/3 BB 2K Strong 1/4 RBI BB Rucker 1/4 BB K Reyes 5IP 4H 2ER BB 2K

If he turns this into the Lions GD forum I think I'm out of here.

Dirks before the first pitch to Carp: "This is NOT a good matchup for Davis."

Only the last few minutes of signatures will be good signatures.

If you look at my posts, you'll find me rooting on the Cheney/Kinzinger's and hoping for more folks that will push back and attempt to make that party better, rather then just falling in line. The left wants people on the right to 'stand up for their principles' and 'speak their truth' if it's against the republican party, but when folks like El-Sayed have a major concern with the democratic party, 'shut the f up and get back in line'. If we got Biden, you actually believe there is any difference in terms of Gaza right now? El-Sayed didn't tihnk so and he spoke up. He apparently got enough assurances and endorsed Kamala. Honestly, forcing Kamala to defend her position on Gaza to El-Sayed in a stronger fashion might have actually helped her more. The fact that El-Sayed caved might have cost her Michigan (didn't matter, she still would have fallen way short).

Franyerber!!!

They do it on occasion. I don't like it, but this was hilarious: "Sorry, guys. I need to make this play real quick." Miguel Rojas ...

Morton: 6.0 IP, 1R, 4H, 1BB, 6K

Believe me, I really do not like losing in Philly - don’t much care for the fanbase, at all. Having said that, this is a totally knee jerk take. Trying to work the count on Sanchez - especially tonight - is a fools errand. You’d be behind in the count every at bat. Every well struck ball by the Tigers was on 1st or 2nd pitch. Overused phrase, but applies tonight3 just tip your cap and move on.

This series has lived up to expectations

I just finished The Cafe with No Name, by Robert Seethaler. It's a fairly quick and satisfying read. I like that it goes over how the city of Vienna changes and yet doesn't change, just as is the case with the characters in the book.

I almost feel bad for Rielly Greene. I think he might swing through a ball on a tee. He can’t make any contact and he is just hacking away.

He'll sign for 10 minutes but then Hanifee will take over for him...😅

Influential El Sayed

You build for the playoffs by having Andy Ibanez available to pinch hit.

I think the only way you can somewhat "build for the playoffs" is to have a couple of aces. A top heavy staff has an advantage in the playoffs with all the off days. However, as we saw with Verlander and Scherzer, even that doesn't necessarily work.

I drove through Yellowstone on my way back from a visit to Detroit in 1988 and it was the day before they closed Yellowstone for the fires and the way the sun filtered through the smoke, your skin looked as yellow as a caution sign. It was really weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kamala_Harris_2024_presidential_campaign_sub-national_officials_endorsements https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/26/michigan-metro-detroit-jewish-arab-american-voters-react-to-kamala-harris/74546204007/ FYI Abdul endorsed Kamala. I believe he campaigned for her as well.

Stevens endorsed Mike Bloomberg for US President just five years ago because he donated to her campaign. She sold herself out to the highest bidder. Bloomberg is a racist, a sexist, and a misogynist who made women employees sign NDA's. He called women fat broads, horsed-face lesbians, made sexual remarks about his own daughter, and so much more. That clearly didn't both Haley Stevens though. Apparently your purity test doesn't include not supporting openly racist and misogynist people. "All of you girls line up to give him oral sex as a wedding present." - Mike Bloomberg "I’d like to do that piece of meat." - Mike Bloomberg “Look at the ass on her.” - Mike Bloomberg “I know for a fact that any self-respecting woman who walks past a construction site and doesn’t get a whistle will turn around and walk past again and again until she does get one.” - Mike Bloomberg "If [the clients] told you to lay down and strip naked so they could **** you, would you do that too?" - Mike Bloomberg "I like theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. What do you think? It’s a wet dream." - Mike Bloomberg "My daughter is tall and busty and blonde. We went to China together. And what's a 16-year-old going to do on a business trip? So I got her dates in every city in China." - Mike Bloomberg “I would like nothing more in life than to have Sharon Stone sit on my face.” - Mike Bloomberg “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s.” - Mike Bloomberg

Even when a 98-win team is playing an 86-win team, a playoff tournament can resemble a crapshoot. But that will even moreso be the case if you have a bunch of 90-wins vs 94-wins matchups.

The playoff picture as of today.

Can someone please attend tomorrow and get to the bottom of the set-up vs closer dilemma?

It's not as bad as it was a few years ago, when you could smell and see it. You look up at the trees and it looked everybody was having a bonfire in their backyard. I don't smell it this year but it makes the blue sky disappear so it looks overcast. And in the evening the moon is orange and it does make nice sunsets but not for a good reason obviously. We get so many overcast days here from January to April so it is aggravating that we miss out on these beautiful blue sky days like this.

Or even simpler than that...random variation.

Native Americans are a larger percentage of the pop in the West. Wisconsin and some areas of Vermont show the correlation and direct causality between excessive cheese eating and alcoholism.

today came down to three hard hit balls right at players. Just one of them would have tied the game.

Haley Stevens endorsed a Republican Mayor for President of the United States and did so because she wanted to make a quick buck for her campaign and raise funds. Apparently racial slurs and blatant misogynistic behavior didn't bother Stevens at all. I'll vote for Haley if I have to, but she's an unhinged person and a sellout who endorses Republican Mayors for President. The person that Stevens endorsed for President as well helped cost Democrats the Senate in 2016 when he donated millions to Republican Senate campaigns. He propped up Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania and Susan Collins in Maine. He did so at the expense of Katie McGinty in PA. Abdul is my top choice for Senate followed by Mallory. Eli Savit is also the best choice for AG and Aghogho Edevbie for SOS. Karen McDonald damn near blew the Crumbley case by withholding evidence from the defense. That seems like something a prosecutor aught to to better about doing.

Thank you, I had no idea. I honestly can't believe this. This seems like baseball 101. I almost had my head taken off by a batted ball and I WAS paying attention - and it wasn't hit by some guy on ESPN Sunday Night baseball - it was just little Ralph from down the street. I'm old and a traditionalist. What have they done to the game I once loved? When I think they can't find new lows... And don't get me started on how if I chose to watch these games I have to buy them through a gambling site so I can hear and read gambling stuff all game while they mention the available pitching staff who are not suspended for potential gambling violations. Carlin would have a ball with this stuff. WTF?

One of my favourite movie scenes is set in Vienna. From the movie Before Sunrise with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.

Looks like Bristol, VA per Alan Trammell’s bbref page.

They’ve been doing this for a while. I’m pretty sure Riley Greene did this the last time they were on ESPN. Did you see the all star game? Clayton Kershaw was talking while pitching. Literally in the moment. Now, granted, that’s an exhibition game and he was only in there for two batters. But he was a blast on his short time on the mic.

Two very good teams. Home team wins the series 2-1. Not unreasonable at all.

He's literally the only dude I've ever put on ignore, and I can't recommend it enough.

Wow, TP_Fan is back with his optimistic commentary of the Tigers. I missed you man.

Listen for the :15 mark.

If Morton pitches like this against Chicago and Minnesota, he'll be winning a lot of games for us. Good job, Harris!! 😅😅

They just have access. And some knowledge has probably rubbed off along the way. But I think they are more Champ Kind than Bill James. WHAMMY!!!

There was always an assumption that these local paper guys were mixing it up with the local color at places like the Lindell AC https://www.vintagedetroit.com/remembering-johnny-butsicaris-and-the-lindell-ac-bar/?srsltid=AfmBOoqzDqBtMQ5utDwoq3nSArmcSZBXX3UmY3q7dsOEac0hEFHxZzT7 I went to a party one time at Jennifer Hammond's home (apparently a roommate of my wife's law school friend) and saw a bunch of the local sports types just standing around like regular people at a party where they didn't know everyone and it was a little uncomfortable. Van Earl Wright greeted Jennifer Hammond's mother like the Queen of England with southern hospitality. Terry Foster and Jamie Samuelson were ripping off jokes about something or other that I can't remember. In short, I couldn't see that group having any special knowledge about anything. Just a bunch of guys speculating and reporting what was told to them for the reasons that helped the teller.

OTOH, when you have a petty, vindictive meddling President and a merger before the FTC, you've got a pretty good basis to presume he had something to do with this one.

Somehow I picture quiet baseball analysts more as the murderer than the murder solvers. I bet Dexter pored over box scores and advance stats in his free time away from the police lab, when he wasn’t stabbing.

I'd definitely read that book. Make it a series.

Nice area.

It gets worse.

Sad news: Franyerber is done for the season. 08/04/25 Lakeland Flying Tigers placed SS Franyerber Montilla on the full-season injured list.

Wait until they have home run derby instead of extra innings to settle tie games. They are seriously considering it.

That was a dreadful Performance by the hitters tonight. They get over powered so easily. So many unprofessional at bats. 96 pitches is all the tigers saw. Dreadful.