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Tigers lose. It's going to feel like a long time between now and the next game Friday night. I think losing 2 of 3 at home to this Twins team is just as discouraging as being swept on the road by Pittsburgh.

Maybe it’s a good sign that Tork is hitting his meaningless home run earlier in the game.

That is easier said than done for a lot of reasons and would probably result in less accurate data. They would have to get the respondents ( households and businesses) on board. Putting the burden on the survey takers could result in fewer completed surveys and less representative data. You need economists and statisticians to analyze trends, make adjustments, etc. Dating cleaning and validation are not as easy to automate as one would expect as different data issues come up all the time. In summary. They could automate everything to an extent, but it would give you less reliable results. The delays and revisions might give the perception that the results are not reliable, but they actually make the results more reliable.

I would prefer not to

The Dickerson & Dirks combo is the best.

He re-signed.

If you are connected with me on the socials, you know this is a hot button issue for me. This may belong in the pet peeve thread, but hey. I'm fired up this week because in the past week in my beach volleyball leagues, I have walked off the court when lightning was clearly too close and everybody just kept on playing. While I am outspoken about it and bring it on, I am insulted regularly for this, masculinity questioned. People in the league just keep on playing until the rain comes, and then when it is finally cancelled they hang out at the outdoor bar near the courts. Last week my playoff game was a forfiet (until it wasn't when they called it ten minutes later). Often, people will wait out lightning delays under a tent. One time several years ago golfing, I heard thunder, saw lightning, but was not driving the cart and had to walk basically a mile back to my car because the person driving the cart refused to go to shelter. Earlier this year, I was boating with friends. I had been monitoring the weather all week and thought we were likely okay if we got back to the dock by 3-4pm. The sandbar we were at was an hour or so away from the dock. I saw clouds building up around 2:30 and was ignored for 45 minutes by the masses who relied on "future radar" to say we are okay. We got caught in a nasty lightning storm after waiting too long. Time and time again, other people around me ignore the danger of lightning or just do the dumbest things during storms, and I feel like I am on an island taking precautions. Just needed to vent...

If they blow the division and miss the playoffs, probably would have done that if they gave up prospects for a higher priced reliever anyways.

IMHO, they also need a better approach. To many were swinging out of the 'zone' big time. 'Control the zone' has gone away more so lately. With said we have to stop giving up so many runs or nothing is going to help. It puts a lot of pressure on the offense.

The Guardians are now closer to 1st place in their division (6.0 games) than are the Yankees (6.5 games).

Interesting thing about the Twins. They traded everyone with a pulse from their bullpen. They didn't really tear down the offense, other than shedding a bad contract in Correa (who wasn't hitting) and dumping Castro. Twins offense has been around middle of the pack all year and they kept 5 of their top 7 hitters (by wRC+). So to see them score a few runs is not surprising (not to excuse the god awful performance by Tiger pitchers in this series). The real surprise is that the Tigers couldn't dent their bullpen. That was depressing.

You forgot the estimable Jose Urquidy.

Don't worry everybody. The Tigers staff will be fine once Cobb, Lange and Sewald return.

AL truly is up for grabs. No team stands out. Harris was worried about trading a player who would come back to haunt the Tigers. Wonder if he thought that missing the playoffs might haunt the Tigers as well.

The Tigers are reminding me of 2006 when they unexpectedly got off to a great start and built up a great lead as everything went right. Then they faded late in the season and failed to win the title. This year their fade started earlier and not winning the title could mean no playoffs.

Since the game is putting me in a bad mood, I’ll gripe about the incredibly stupid MLB ad with the stats on batters that tapped the plate in last years playoff. Whoever green lit that idiotic waste of effort should be fired.

garbage baseball all around in the run prevention department.

We really have serious issues with corporate and tax law in the US. We've made it profitable to make money by gutting otherwise stable businesses. But it's one of those esoteric topics that democracy is really bad at because no-one understands how it works. You just have to have decent leadership to fix it and with Citizen's United making sure it's the profiteers that buy the politicians, that's impossible. I believe there are certain 'trapdoor' function errors a society can make that become fundamentally irreversible; that there is no way back from. Even though the consciousness of it seems to have faded from public awareness completely, CU and our corrupt political funding system is still at the fulcrum of what keeps US politics from ever-re-establishing anything like a public interest equilibrium.

The twinkies left him in a bit too long. 😃

Kerry Carpenter homers (20) on a line drive to right field. Colt Keith scores. OK the trampy niece can wait.

This Twins outfield has gifted the Tigers a few runs this series. I can't believe they didn't change that CF drop to an error yesterday. 100% an error.

How is this not gritty?

Or maybe nerding out at a Comic Con convention somewhere.

Is Jason just taking a short vacation or something?

I had a former colleague who got a huge dataset and ran some quick code on it, promised our bosses it was a panacea and it was on me to validate it. I spent months trying to clean all the data his automated code missed and eventually rejected the database because the data was incorrect in far too many places.

The fundamental reason they have to revise is because they operate under the assumption that the not received surveys would just reaffirm the surveys they did recieve. This is not correct as there is non response bias in surveys. However it is the only reasonable way to proceed on a monthly basis. They could infer but thats still just a fancy way to assume what the non response data is based on the response data.

Same with the anti A.J. “Smartest Guy in the Room” Hinch fans. They want Daddy to come home from going out for a pack of cigarettes.

and those who build a brand being "anti Harris" and have to stick with it at all costs. Hard to do when the team is playing at this level for a year but they keep trying. I think some root against the team so they can vent.

ah, the "best white guy" award

This is a reasonable observation, so thank you. I have an unhealthy investment in this team, and I need to be reminded of the value of approaching things rationally on occasion. Too often I crawl out on the ledge and threaten to jump when I should really just chill and see what happens the next day. The Tigers have every possibility of winning this series tomorrow. And winning series at home is the sine qua non of methodical success, which is what I should be looking for in the long run and not just cheap immediate boo-yah thrills. I was, however, primed for boo-yah thrills today. At least tomorrow’s game is a day game and I don’t have to wait too long for a sense of closure on this series.

We've got the same record as the Yankees since the All-Star break, 7-11. Luckily we've still got a 7 game lead in the division while the Yankees are half a game away from being out of the playoffs.

Andy respects Dan so he stays on point when he works with him. With Benetti, he can be looser and riff about pop culture and stuff.

Notice on that replay how, on the Jahmai Jones throw to the plate, which would have been a perfect strike on a contested play, Jake knew the runner on third was not contesting it, so he moved out from behind the plate and cut off the throw in front chest high to put himself in a better position to make a play on the runners if he needed to? It's a super low percentage chance anything would happen, but he did it anyway. #GameWithinTheGame

Left forearm tightness.

Using Michigan as an example, maybe you have people vote for 5 people from the party of their choosing. Doesn't need to be ranked choice as you've already declared the party you want representing you. Once the votes are tallied and the state knows the split, they take the top vote getters to fill the seats. Obviously this is just a silly idea I came up with, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. I've already mentioned how this would give every person in the state the representation they want, but there's also another benefit. Lets say you have an issue or concern and need to reach out to a Rep. You have the option of contacting the Rep you think can best help you or who will be most receptive to your concerns.

If this game doesn’t improve quickly, I may be forced to watch Sister Boniface on BritBox. I’m not sure however if that will be an improvement.

The Voting Rights Act mandates for minority representation in more districts is in a sense one of the original sins of redistricting abuse. Back in the 60's when the Dems' control of the House appeared beyond threat, packing high percentages of minority voters into single districts to insure a minority election winner was an easy solution for Dems. Not so much today when the consequence of those packed urban districts is to help elect larger numbers of GOP reps in the surrounding districts. If you are a minority voter, which is more important to you, that your rep look like you, or that your Congress have a chance of implementing policy in your favor? Not clear to me at all that the answer to that question in 2025 should be the same as it was in 1964.

In other words choose the party and not the rep? No way man. I may lean Democratic but I reserve my right to choose the best CANDIDATE not the party. You actually expect the average voter in Texas or California to go into the booth with over 100 candidates on the ballot and make a choice to vote for the best 30 or more people to represent them? Aint gonna happen that’s a worse idea than the current way.

For some reason, it's seems of all the major sports, Baseball is the one where the media get most attached to narratives about well know players and forget to let go of them when the players are no longer relevant. I think that underlying paradigm feeds into the ease of generating malcontent interest. A great example has been ESPN commentary about Correa. Carlos is a player who is getting old fast (30), hasn't had a plus hitting or fielding year in three seasons and they are talking about him like getting him is going to win Houston another WS. The odds right now, today, of him being a difference maker for a team are certainly objectively less than say - Zack McKinstry. But Baseball writers just can't let go of the narrative about guys on the downside, so when teams like the Tigers have sense enough to understand that it's a young man's game, they get hammered for it.

I find the local radio personalities pander to the lowest common denominator by leaning into conspiracy narratives like the Tigers are cheap (false), Harris is incompetent (false) and Tenacious D is smokin’ hot (that one may actually be true). Riger, Valenti, Ryan, etc…are less informed on the Tigers than almost anyone here. Listening to crazy callers all day probably doesn’t help.

One more take on gerrymandering, this time grading every state for which there are sufficient data. The results generally pass the sniff test for me. Again, take it as you will. https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card/

Not according to this. Take it as you will. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-gerrymandered-states

I can believe that there are antiquated systems in place at BLS. However, that's not the stated reason why she was fired. If the system does need to be modernized, I have have no faith that the current administration will address the situation in a thoughful and honest way. The system will be changed with the only goal bing to produce numbers that make Trump look good.

Yes, and I expect their level of aggressiveness to increase with their replenished defense.

This just pisses me off.