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I’ll be there with my son sitting right behind the visitors’ dugout.

The Tigers hit bottom (we hope) three Saturdays ago, July 26. With 56 games still to go, the Tigers' division lead had shrunk to 7.0 over Cleveland, they were 3.5 games behind Toronto who led the AL, and they were 0.5 games behind Houston for the bye into the ALDS. Since then the Tigers have gone 11-6 and, apart from losing a mere 0.5 game in the standings to Cleveland and neither gaining nor losing ground with Seattle, have gained on everyone else with now only 39 games to go. The Tigers have picked up: 3.0 games on Toronto; 2.5 games on Houston; 1.5 games on Kansas City; 4.0 games on Minnesota; 3.0 games on New York Yankees; 0.5 game on Boston; 5.0 games on Texas; and 5.0 games on Tampa.

If you told me in 2015 that the Harbaugh saga at Michigan would end in ten years with one National Championship and a total of 14 years in show-cause penalties, I would be thoroughly impressed in Michigan's embrace of modern day college football.

I hate to say it because I know many here read them and post about them but the folks from places like Bulwark aren't really accomplishing anything. I'm not suggesting they have a job to do to elect democrats but their readers and viewers have to realize that just talking about things in a way that's framed from a pre trump world will not reach the required people to the degree to win elections. I'm talking about sunday talk shows, nightly talk shows, etc. We can preach all we want about how horrible he is and his admin is but you need a D congress to begin to attack it. As long as they rubber stamp his ideas then they will become laws. The game plan different now. The scoring system is different. It's cricket vs baseball.

Drafting Clark was higher risk than drafting Langford, IMO.

Maybe it's different motives but I don't care. I hope this is true. I hope everybody involved in that is held to account. I don't care if it's Trump, Biden, Clinton, Tom Hanks, Ernie Harwell, or Billy Graham, or Mister Rogers.... anybody who is known to have been in that world exploiting children deserve what's coming to them.

Is this where we vent about stupid takes from Stavenhagen's pod? Scott Harris stock down? Really? Really!?!?! They said the same thing after last year's deadline because they didn't get enough for Flaherty, apparently. (Granted, Sweeney and Liranzo have fallen off a bit this year but still). They said the same thing when the Tigers signed Torres instead of Christian Walker. They said the same thing after the 2023 draft which now boasts two potential cornerstones. Every... single... time... the Twitter intelligencia second guesses the Scott Harris front office, every... single... time... the Harris front office gets proven right in the big picture. Those guys need to not get caught up in Twitter groupthink.

Kevin tweeting from Max's account.

When they were down 3-0, I almost bowed out. Glad I stuck around.

Biff Mayhem sighting!

Did not have Montero getting the W on my bingo card.

Duck snort. hat tip to our friend Jim Price.

With seasons starting overseas I figured it was time to make a new thread... NDN had a 3 assist game before this too. There's always been talent there, he just is injured all the time Anton had an assist Big man has some skill

I saw a great post on bluesky the other day. Something to the effect of "Has the pod saved America yet?"

I think the Jimenez/Malloy trade made sense at the time. Jimenez finally had a good season at apthe age of 27. That was the time to flip him. Malloy’s defense simply hasn’t materialized at all. I contend we don’t enough about what happened behind the scenes with the Rodriguez trade to know who botched it or how it was botched. He’d had the long term absence with little contact to the Tiger front office the season before. Then he nixes the trade because he doesn’t want to play out west. Then he signs with Arizona. Doesn’t sound like a, oh, how shall we say it, stable personality to engage with.

4 team divisions suck. I don’t mind interleaguing with Pittsburgh. I’m still not convinced Las Vegas happens.

the penalties would have been negligible if harbaugh had cooperated from the beginning and not been an ass about it. the ncaa has a hard on for michigan but part of that is because harbaugh refused to cooperate with them. yes, that's because he recognized that the ncaa is a joke organization who is handing out punishments to him for buying a kid a hamburger while ignoring the university of miami buying kids hookers and maseratis. but its his JOB to cooperate and he refused, so the university has to pay. he's one of the best football coaches ever, but he's also a ****. and that cost michigan in this instance. the stalions stuff is really a non issue. a slap on the wrist offense that is a minor violation. everyone steals signs. but its the cover up and the repeated lack of cooperation that is the "crime" here.

Last season Olson did not allow a run in the first inning of his first 22 starts. Tied for 3rd longest in MLB history.

"The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky they're going to give Cleveland State another year of probation." - Jerry Tarkanian LOL, UM is a major profit center for everyone; no way the NCAA was going to do anything that hurts the bottom line; but the next small school to do anything wrong is going to get hammered.

Possible complications might ensue if the current US President sees this as an opportunity to placate a couple red state fanbases by getting involved.

MSU and OSU slappies since 2023: "The hammer is going to drop any day now!" The Hammer that dropped:

That, and because of propaganda from the people who are benefiting from the new technology cutting into their bottom line.

I think he is risk averse, but being risk averse does not mean being scared. It's more of a carefully planned strategy where you think a cautious approach will bring more long-term success than taking risks.

i do not think it is incorrect to say he has avoided moves that have long-term downside risk. his risk appetite, right or wrong, is currently different than Preller or DD. maybe that's just where the Tigers need him to be right now. maybe not. Clark over Langford and Keith's deal are the only 2 "risky" things he has done, maybe signing Maeda for more than 1 year as well

It did hit the ground. The batter didn't even try to run, though.

yup. Trumps opponents need to understand once and for all, crystal clear, that the things they find are so horrible about Trump don't bother Trump voters at all. They'd do better to forget all the moral outrage and just hammer him on inflation - and they should really be hitting a "Tariffs are Taxes" arg - repeat it every single time they can find a microphone, because the only the right hates more than libs are taxes. This is an attack vector that they are completely missing, but it's one of the few that would actually play to the right. Don't even uses the word "Tariff", ALWAYS call them "IMPORT TAXES!!"

groupthink is the right word. A narrative is born and they read it every day and it becomes fact to them. Like conspiracy theories, like religion.... When the professional media do it I always wonder if it's because he and his team don't talk like the old guys do.

I had a tick like that when I was a kid. It must have been right around the time McLain was suspended because I remember my father joking to a doctor that it came from that. I actually didn't know what was going on with McLain at the time. Anyway, the doctor asked if I was a lefty or a southpaw. I started to correct him, but my father stopped me since the doctor was either messing with me or was being stupid. I suspect the former. Wow, it's weird how that all just came back to me. The tick didn't last long.

This administration is awful, it is deadly serious. But the absolute best way to combat them is to mock the ever loving **** out of them. And I don't understand why we don't see it more.... Newsom does it, maybe Pritzker to a degree, but largely non-existent beyond that.

Riley‘s tightly wound, he’s a bundle of nerves, that’s part of his energy field. It’s not a big deal.

Rafael *Win Flag Montero

YES!!!!!!

WOOP WOOP! way to pull out a win!

I think the tiebreaker should be each club’s mascot playing a home home run derby off of a T-ball tee with a tennis ball. Whoever has the most homers after 10 swings wins, and if it’s tied they arm wrestle

That's one. Let's try to get another or two.

WP, SF, Keith scores

Are we really going to bring in Rafael Montero to pitch the 10th??

The camera thought that was a home run, but Riley caught it.

finally got warmed up

I think it was a Sunday game with the Phillies when they were interviewing the first basemen. While the game is going on, and if I remember right, a left handed batter at the plate. Don't remember where he was playing, but adding a fudge factor, let's say 110 feet from the plate. Ball gets ripped toward said player with an exit speed of 110 and he has about 3/4 of a second to react. WTF? Not to mention how utterly stupid this is since there is a baseball game going on. And this dude's basically on the phone. It could get someone killed and that is a hill I will die on.

That makes me miss helping run goalie camps during the summers when I was younger, good ol days

He had two games where he threw 13 innings. It would take about 7 or 8 pitchers to do that today! No ghost runners in those games either.

I don't think you can make definitive comparisons across eras with pitchers. When you compare guys with 200 IP with guys like Newhouser, Lolich and McLain who had close to 30 CG and over 300 IP, It's apples and oranges. I am not saying those guys were better, just that it was a very different set of circumstances. You can say that those pitchers couldn't do that in this era where every pitch is thrown with full effort and you'd be right, but if they were confined to 7 inning starts, they would have had much better rates than they did. The question is which pitcher dominated his own era the most? I think Skubal, McLain and Verlander and some others were all incredibly dominant in their best seasons.

I came across this on accident. Many of you probably knew this already, but I didn’t and holy crap.