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Eugenio Suarez has played 8 games for the Mariners since being acquired at the deadline, going 3 for 31 including striking out 13 times for an .097 avg, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .347 OPS.

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.

I love winning games after reading that people are on the verge of bailing on the team.

I have great news for you. They did not lose on Thursday.

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.

Gleyber has been such a great addition.

Lou Whitaker is better at interviews now than he was as a player.

Morton strikes out the side and has 8 Ks through 3 innings.

Momentum is only as good as the next game's starting pitcher (Earl Weaver)

Jones better homer to make up for that terrible route.

It’s all good, just don’t make it a hobbit.

The thing with Norris is that his head snapped back when his facemask hit the leg of the RB. That's actually a good thing in this kind of scenario. If it had been the top of his head that hit like that, it would be a much scarier situation. You are supposed to tackle with your face facing the target and not the top of your head. If you look at just about every serious spinal injury in football, you will see that these guys were leading with the top of their head, with the crown of their head. That compresses the spine directly down upon itself and that energy has no where to go, so you end up with broken necks and spinal injuries. His head snapping back from a facing position, the energy disperses. Now, it's a serious concussion, no doubt about that and he might not play again, but I think he will. I took a lot of heat online when I suggested on another board that Ryan Shazier's injury was his own fault because he did the one thing they tell these guys not to do - lead with the crown of your head. Not that I don't sympathize with Shazier and his career ending, but it was 100% his fault. These coaches tell these guys over and over and over not to do this. Your target gets broken ribs and you could end up in a chair Mike Utley fell in an awkward way onto the top of his head. Reggie Brown was engaging in a tackle when someone fell into him in that position, he wasn't targeting a guy like that.

Rabbit Hole? Au Contraire! More like the Great Smials of the Tooks.

Hopefully the blow to the head will leave him with amnesia about his approach for the last 6 weeks.....

I consider anything Lange does to be a bonus. He walked too many batters when was healthy and i never trust a pitcher coming off any injury.

Norris’ career ended with the Columbus Clippers in September of 2023. If he’s pitching on foreign shores, I’m not finding it.

someone will get cut when Lange is called back. He worked a back to back last week for the 1st time (though he gave up a solo HR the 2nd night). He had a couple of bad (as in multiple walk) outings in July, but generally seems to be improving - if he can stay healthy.

So, everything I like about him is what's wrong with him. 😃

Every so often when I hear his name in the headlines, I think about how he wrote the book as one version of JD Vance and, when faced with his political ambition and the need to pivot, conveniently uninstalled that version from his hard-drive and installed a version 2.0. Just one of the phoniest human beings alive.... no core convictions, no beliefs, no personality.

This team is sometimes like Colonel Kurtz‘s tortured soliloquy in Apocalypse Now where he describes his state of mind as being akin to a snail slithering along the sharp edge of a straight razor and surviving.

I wish Dickerson was full time tv. Great to see Matt V take em home tonight. I'll never forget last season in their run, when Vierling scored and popped up waving his fist. They need his energy right now. Excellent win!

I enjoy posting positive knee jerk reactions better that the usual negative ones. 😆

Yeah, that was sooooo necessary.

Biggest win of the season so far.

Had 'em all the way!

Tigers win! Vierling with the biggest moment of the season so far, arguably.

FLYYYYYING V

Riley! Watch him fly!

I think he needs to be hammered as an elitist for doing this. Like when Bush's campaign mocked John Kerry for wind surfing back in 2004, JD should be mocked for his phone populism and clear elitism.

Narrative will now be Harris should have sold at the deadline.

The byproduct of all of this is that he's made us all cynical. These guys just all suck, they're all corrupt, there's no truth so might as well just put on my foam finger and root for my guy. It's pure unadultered nihilism. I remember saying something to this effect to Melody (on the last iteration of the board), but all the cynicism and all the defenses that hinge on saying "they're all like that" is a self fulfilling prophecy. If you expect nothing from your government, nothing is all you are ever going to get. I don't know what to do about that.... I truly believe that most Americans, on an individual level, are better than our current government. Not enough, but a majority anyway. And while I understand all the political science reasons for why he won in 2024, he's governing how he campaigned, and anyone who was really listening to the campaign should have ****ing known better.

I happened upon a podcast from a guy named Valenti on YouTube last night by chance. In essence he said Harris only wants good not great teams. That he is "settling" for good and forfeiting great. I found his argument patently unfair and incorrect. I mean the best record in the AmericanLeague/Baseball seems better than good to me. I can't believe Harris is subjected to this type of cynicism. It's like a child whining on Christmas morning. Needless to say I did not subscribe not hit the like button.

Paddack, Morton and Finnegan have all pitched well. I'll take the players who will be good for Detroit in the second half over the players who were good for someone else in the first half.

All IMHO. We learned a bit more about SHarris at this 2025 Trade Deadline. First, I still think he has done a lot for the organization in terms of: getting facility upgrades, talent evaluators aboard, nutrition with exercise science and recovery data sought, scouting & development and several other things. The one thing I had questioned for a while now is his ability to acquire MLB talent. Yes, he can get players who 'may' hit that are younger still ex McKinstry, Vierling and Holton. With said he has had numerous other 'shots' with the likes of Maton, Rizzo, Solak, Camargo, Nevin, etc., etc. Not to mention all the arms back and forth. All GMS do this. I/we do not know just how much he tried to get another 'impact' BP piece here. Was it just Briceno (also Clark, McGonigle, Rainer or CRodriguez) or bust to get one? I do not believe that. I somehow think he may have been able to do a 3 (or even 4) for 1 deal for a Helsley or a similar arm. Or for Suarez. I would think a combo of anyone from say our 7th to 25th rated players, that type of thing. Also, he still had JJung, JHM and others to work with. I would tend to think another deal to add quality to go with the quantity he obtained could have been done. Again a 3-4 player for 1 deal. Other teams did accomplish this. The Yankees got Dovel for 4 minor league players and NOT a Top prospect. Seattle did it for Saurez. The Mets for Helsley. I think even GSoto may have been able to help (ex against a heavy LH hitting like Philly - the Mets thought so). Where the Tigers 'may' have been short was young actual prospect arms to get this type of deal done. With said, IF Harris opted not to trade quantity from say the top 10-25 ranked prospects (which is subjective), using multiples to get a better player to add on - then I am mildly disappointed. If you think about it, he used the same quantity over quality approach to get players. If Harris did not do this because he felt even that is too much then I really second guess here. Why? because your are keeping your top farm guys AND adding impact at the expense of potentially lesser players. You are trying to win now and in the future. I still question if Harris has the art to negotiate a bit back and forth when dealing. The knack to get a deal done. I do like that he made deals with several different teams. That he is gaining more experience here. I question just how much GM JGreenberg impacts things with deal making. I also think Harris has a bit of Yzerman in him and a little 'thinking the smartest guy in the room' mentality going on. They both seem very secure with their respective positions. IMHO, a bit more could have and should have been done. I am pleasantly surprised he did get several deals done. You never really know when you are in a true position to win. The Tigers have that now. There is some luck involved with this and there will be injuries to all teams as we move forward. Some injuries may be devastating. Go Tigs!

Take my view with a grain of salt, as I live thousands of miles away and in a different country, but I think Bob Wojnoski is the one remaining columnist/reporter in the tradition of Green and Falls.

legacy sportswriters have been getting the **** kicked out of them by internet sports kids for years. its embarassing. its a dead media. monarrez is a poor man's rob parker or drew sharpe. just offering up contrarian takes for the sake of contrarian takes. and sharpe - for all his flaws - was a lot better at it than monarrez.