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It's time to again post my favorite Danny Murtaugh quote

Fixed that for you.

What immigrants puked in his breakfast cereal?

body cams are a good way to keep police crime to a minimum.

Might as well win the series today

Or got lit up. As in lit up… if you know what I mean.

The Erie game is on mlbtv

I remember nearly freezing to death (not really, but it was cold) one evening during a Spring Training game in Clearwater.

Also interesting that the thinking is in black and white with no middle ground. Totally colorblind there.

It's what happens when nobody wants you around them all day anymore, and you get paid a pittance to stay the hell away. 😁

I would imagine Savoie is the more highly regarded prospect due to being a center and doing pretty well in the AHL stats wise last season. It seems like people respect that more than KHL production. They are probably more equal than that because it remains to be seen if either of their games will translate to the NHL and I don't expect Savoie to stay at center. I haven't gotten any sort of extended look at either outside of highlights so I'm not super qualified to say in my mind. I do feel that Buchelnikov has done really well at his age in the KHL so far, so I lean his way with my homer glasses on.

By the way, is Dingler’s absolutely awesome helmet worn only on special occasions? Of course, I guess if he wore it every day that would destroy the dignity of the game, unlike gambling.

I get it, Domes like Tampa's, the old Astrodome and the Baggie in Minnesota all seemed to sterile, at least on TV. We attended a few Brewers games in Milwaukee when Millef Park first opened. It was ok, once again a different feel when the roof was closed. The same with the Silverdome, very sterile. Baseball and football should be played outdoors the way the gods intended. With real grass.

y'aint from around here iz ya boy?

Something about the way this discussion has turned makes me remember the guy in the Fenway neighborhood who used to yell at teenagers walking by and talking to 'shut up and get off of my lawn.' He lived in an apartment building. He didn't have a lawn.

The NFL is a week-to-week business. The team that wins a playoff game often isn’t the best team playing (e.g., Commanders over Lions). The Super Bowl Champion often isn’t the best team in the league (e.g., the 2023 Chiefs). It’s not baseball where you have to win four of seven on multiple occasions. The better team will often find a way to do that, which incentivizes making your team as good as possible for “the run.” It’s single game, put up or shut up. In such a situation you’re far better off setting yourself up for a decade of continued success, than a single push at four consecutive January to February wins. If Holmes can figure out a way to bring in Hendrickson and still establish continued success like the current trajectory, I’m all for it. From a lay perspective though I don’t see it.

Because I am retired and I have not only a lot of time on my hands but a ton of Excel skills I want to continue wielding, I put together a graphic representation of how the Tigers have scored runs and allowed runs in game streaks between two and 20 throughout the season. Using Baseball Reference, I downloaded a list of all games played by all 30 teams through yesterday (August 19). Then I created two tables, one for runs scored (offense) and another for runs allowed (pitching and defense). I added columns in the middle of each table to reflect season win-loss record along the way, as well as records for streaks of 10, 20, and 30 games, pretty much as you see within standings tables on Reference itself. Then I created additional streak columns at the end of each table for last two games through last 20 games, to reflect runs scored and runs allowed during those streaks. You can easily figure out what's what by looking at the column headers at the top. Then, to make it easy to see whether the Tigers have scored/allowed a lot of runs versus a few runs in the last X games, I color-coded each box to show whether the Tigers did well in the past X games (the redder, the better) or did poorly in the last X games (the bluer, the worse). White boxes reflect average runs scored/allowed. The numbers in white means those streaks were at the extreme 1% percentile at either end of the spectrum, meaning the most (or fewest) runs of any team for that streak length throughout the season. I'm basing these colors on the average of runs scored/allowed in each set of X games throughout the season by all 30 teams. The analytical cognoscenti among you might notice that I am using standard Statcast colors on this table. Hopefully, that's enough explanation for you to figure out what's what. So here they are, side by side, with the runs scored table on the left, and the runs allowed table on the right. Just remember that for each table, redder is better (more runs scored, fewer runs allowed), and bluer is worse (fewer runs scored, more runs allowed): Yeah, it's really hard to read the numbers within the post, so if you want to see the actual numbers, my advice is to click on each table to see those tables expanded in your browser. But even if you don't expand the tables, you can tell by the colors how well the Tigers did in streaks of anywhere from 2 to 20 games throughout the season. You can see how the month of May was "peak Tiger" on both sides of the ball, but you might be surprised to see by the gaggle of white numbers showing that during early May, the Tigers had among the very best offenses of any team during the entire season for long stretches of games. Did you remember that during the 12 games between May 1 and May 13, we scored in double digits six times, and at least eight runs eight times? I didn't remember exactly that until I saw this! Then you can see how the offense went colder than average from late May into mid-June, but our 30-game records were still in the .600 to .700 range because our pitching was redder than average during the same time. But then it flipped around from Mid-June into early July, when our offense got redder while out pitching/defense got bluer, and yet, we still maintained close to a .600 winning percentage over a series of 30-prior-game chunks of season. Then you can see where it really falls down in late July, which is a sea of blue on both tables. That's where all the losing really came from, and you won't be surprised to be reminded that it was the offense that really went splat, but the pitching/defense was also well below average, taken against all other teams for the entire season and their performance for streaks of similar length. And the happy ending to this post is the red at the bottom that has crept back into both the run scoring and run prevention. Well, this was fun way to kill a morning. 😃

Only question being if they want to carry 3 QB's on the active roster - they only carried 2 last season until signing Bridgewater late.

Sweeney was rated the Dodgers’ #22 prospect by Baseball America or #28 by MLB Pipeline at the time he was acquired with Liranzo. Given that, playing 130 MLB games like he already has for the Tigers is more than I would have expected for his entire career.

On one hand: Yeah...we'd definitely be favorites. On the other hand... fate is a fickle mistress. We saw last year how injuries can ruin a season and even in the best of situations the old adage of "any given Sunday" is still true. Given what we've seen with how Holmes builds the team I'm reluctant to mortgage too much of the future on a "legit chance of a championship" when I feel like we're already almost there.

I’m not a public employee on the public dime, and it’s not as though we’re talking about DMV employees being harassed in the office. Police carry immense power in the public space with lethal weapons at their disposal, and I think that specifically because of that, they should be held to a much, much, much higher standard of conduct than just about any other public employee. Despite what you appear to think, we are not engaged in a shooting war in this country, so they shouldn’t be acting as though they are soldiers deployed to Iraq.

Shep—may I call him “Shep”?—was a weird detour in the history of Tigers broadcasting. Remember, Shep was not a baseball guy coming in. He’d done some replacement work on the Tigers’ broadcasts before 2019, but the sum total of his baseball experience was less than 25 games when he’d been handed the job. Shep was kind of the Xavier Nady of big league broadcasters. I would probably like Bennett better if I didn’t have Dan available via audio overlay, because I’d be comparing Benetti to Shep and not to Dan. I would be more open to the non-baseball wisecracking—or more exactly, the whole truckload of it—during the broadcast were he my one and only choice to listen to. A few scales have fallen from my eyes about Dan and I do recognize the egregious errors he makes in the moment—that sunshine “homer” last night being merely the latest—but man, does that guy know the analytical side of the game, and he is really good at translating it to layman terms for the broadcast. Plus, he is all business, and maybe you don’t care for that, but that’s perfect for me, and I’m gonna enjoy that as long as he can manage to stay on the air.

Also, if Joe Biden had said you need a license plate to vote in Delaware it would be on every newscast and pundit show for the next week. Plus, there would be headlines from papers like WSJ, NY Post, NYT and WaPo talking about Biden's age and cognitive abilities. I only saw a Yahoo News article on this story and little more.

I always carry an extra screwdriver with me just in case someone forgets

Dickerson is my favorite announcer of all time in all sports. Absolutely amazing.

I agree. I see him as a reliever with poor control who got hot for a few months one year, walked way too many batters the next year and then got hurt. I am not expecting much.

This post did not age well. 😉

Sweeney the ultimate PoS having quite the game

What an outing for Jack. One shaky inning followed by six superb innings. 6-0 Tigers at the 7th inning stretch.

Unfortunately for you, it's an extremely predictable result of the policies you choose to come here and champion.

Keith sac fly gets Sweeney in. we have Bert!

aside from that first-inning nonsense, Flaherty's been doing pretty ok today. I like.

Yeah, it has been for over a month, I think.

A Bert is imminent

And only half way to Cecil’s HR total

Don’t assume Vamanos Pest Co. is out of play

It'd sure help if they'd take the masks off.... police officers in my village and state don't wear them, why should these guys be wearing them?

Last I checked Albuquerque had a real meth problem. Even high school teachers and fast food managers were enmeshed in it.

Galaga, you're not entirely wrong that many of the reports have been blown out of proportion, but if the base of your party makes fun of 'face diapers', but celebrate and defend when their law enforcement is wearing masks, maybe you should reassess your position.

It's worth remembering that ICE has detained actual American citizens during the course of conducting themselves this way. Every single time it happens is a failure and is unacceptable. And should be treated as such

To be frank... unless his warrants are for serious felonies, this is a waste of government resources in the extreme. I'd rather the be used for a range of other activities than this made up concern troll about this person being a problem for the purity of our american essence.

It should upset everyone that masked people can get away with just snatching people off the street. It should be very clear to everyone who's around who they are and what their official business is. This is not a police state.

Now the the math is even more in the Tigers' favour. If the Tigers go 17-19 the rest of the way, they'd finish at 90-72. To match the Tigers at 90 wins (let's give the Guardians the tiebreaker as an assumption), the Guardians would need to finish 27-12 (.692 pace). If the Tigers go 18-18 the rest of the way to finish at 91-71, the Guardians would have to go 28-11 to match (.718 pace).

This makes more sense than “mental arror.”