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team is catching the ball exceptionally well also. McKinstry playing better SS that I thought he could. Fears about Gleyber being a liability at 2B have dissolved, Colt suddenly a solid 3B, Torkelson has pushed himself to +4 R(drs) and leads the league in assists, Javy making Parker's absence sad but not significant.

Loss. Still was a 5-1 homestand. Things are good.

Fanduel Sports is the single worst streaming app I've ever used.

Zach McKinstry singles on a line drive to left fielder Adam Frazier, deflected by third baseman Maikel Garcia. Dillon Dingler scores. Now, 7-6!

First Bert and then a lead!

little things. Riley didn't take the best route on that ball. If he catches it Jack is out of the inning clean.

Time to put the kibosh on actors in the booth...

Jack loves that sweat stained hat.

Jack wearing a sweat stained cap.

Fun fact: the Tigers are 19-19 in our last 38 games. We started that stretch losing 12 of 13.

Also possible the event he is working may have been set up a long time ago - e.g - last year.

Do you think they will forfeit a game? 😀

Yes. Two games in a row does not seem to be an inordinate wish.

Glasgow was LG. I think Mahogany will be upgrade over Glasgow as he was last year when he did play. Ratledge is replacing Zeitler which will probably be a down grade but I don't suspect a big one. Glasgow will probably be better at C than he was at LG but still a downgrade from Ragnow.

Nice area.

It helps when your LT gets to false start 10 times a game with no call. I think the Lions will get to the Super Bowl in one of the next 3 years. I think it's going to be in a year where we don't expect it because I think being an underdog favors this team more than being the favorite. But they really need to find a way to stay healthy. Remember people had written off the Eagles last year. Sirianni was fighting with fans and seemingly on the hot seat. Funny, so many people seem to expect a down year this year, a down year being 10-7. Imagine thinking 10-7 is a down year just four years ago.

Well said. Other teams are blandly uncreative in their approach to acquiring players. They just buy more big guns. But strategy and tactics are as important as fire power. Yes, the Tigers have some big guns, but that’s not all they rely upon. Harris is also engaged in asymmetric guerrilla war. He’s not just responding to force with more force, but with finesse. The Tigers are a bit like the early American revolutionaries who didn’t meet the British Army head on which just marched in lines, and they instead use mobile hit-and-run tactics to wear down the enemy. Harris and Hinch are finding chinks in the armor of other teams and aiming their guns there so to speak while developing their own big guns in the sticks. We’re witnessing something special perhaps even historic with this club.

Guardians lose.

I mean, look at this interview. It's very professional. Johnny Kane can't even ask a question without a giggling fit. Hasn't anyone told him to act like a pro?

Daniella Provenzano is her name now. Looks like she will keep using Bruce professionally.

We have a new SS in Toledo

Will M.F. Vest

Here’s a 53-man roster prediction. QB (3): Jared Goff, Kyle Allen, and Hendon Hooker Allen squarely won the backup gig, but I still the Lions will keep Hooker. I don’t think most Lions fans will love this, but I don’t think the Lions are ready to give up on Hooker and I don’t think he would survive waivers. RB (4): Jahmyr Gibbs, David Montgomery, Craig Reynolds, and Sione Vaki Assuming Vaki’s injury isn’t serious, anything other than this would be a shock. WR (6): Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, Tim Patrick, Isaac TeSlaa, Kalif Raymond, and Dominic Lovett I really like Meeks, maybe even more than Lovett, but I think the Lions view Lovett as a possible heir apparent to Raymond and will stash him. Meeks is also probably slightly more likely to clear waivers to the practice squad. TE (2): Sam LaPorta and Brock Wright Usually I have a blocking TE I fall in love with during the preseason (see: Parker Hesse), but not this year. Neither Zylstra nor Horton has done anything to deserve a roster spot, and I don’t think either will be gifted one. Similar to carrying only four WRs into the 53-man last year, I expect us to have three TEs when the dust settles and we go into Green Bay, but roster spots are earned with this coaching staff. OL (9): Taylor Decker, Christian Mahogany, Graham Glasgow, Tate Ratledge, Penei Sewell, Dan Skipper, Kayode Awosika, Giovanni Manu, and Trystan Colon (PUP: Miles Frazier) I tried not to overthink this. I think the first eight I listed are a lock, with the last spot a little murkier. Colon was the better player before his injury and I think he gets the nod, possibly with a four-game IR designation after the cut to 53, promoting Muti from the practice squad. Eguekan has not looked like a serviceable NFL player this preseason. EDGE (5): Aidan Hutchinson, Marcus Davenport, Josh Paschal, Ahmed Hassanein, and Al-Quadin Muhammed I think the terms of a deal with Zadarius Smith have been agreed upon for well over a month, but both sides have agreed to wait until after roster cuts to put ink on paper. This allows them to bring a guy like Hassanein onto the roster, designate him to the IR the next day, and have him be our four weeks instead of the entire season. Then you can sign Z to replace him on the roster. This also assumes Campbell has been truthful about Paschal’s status and window of an early September return. DT (5): Tyleik Williams, DJ Reader, Pat O’Connor, Roy Lopez, and Keith Cooper (PUP: Alim McNeill and Miles Frazier) This was the trickiest position for me. Ultimately I think they carry five and Cooper extends the Lions’ streak of rostering at least one UDFA. They will want to rotate often here to keep Reader fresh and I think that makes it worth the extra spot. LB (6): Jack Campbell, Alex Anzalone, Derrick Barnes, Zach Cunningham, Trevor Nowaske, and Grant Stuard (PUP: Malcolm Rodriguez) If they have the room they may find a way to get Pittman on the roster too, but Stuard seems like a better version in all respects. Cunningham does offer some cut flexibility because of his veteran status, so he may get cut and return before week one. DB (10): DJ Reed, Terrion Arnold, Amik Robertson, Kerby Joseph, Brian Branch, Rock Ya-Sin, Khalil Dorsey, Avonte Maddox, Loren Strickland, and Erick Hallett I think they value the versatility that Hallett brings and that it will earn him a spot over Kennelly, who is assured a practice squad role if he clears waivers. Special Teams (3): Jake Bates, Jack Fox, and Hogan Hatten Money.

Whenever I see the name Wacha I think of pacman. Wacha-wacha-wacha-wacha-wacha-wacha................takes me back to arcades and atari

Morton was actually pitching pretty well the previous couple months. He was just so awful the first 6-8 weeks his numbers didn’t show it. And he was showing really good K/9 as well.

Looking at Cincinnati and Dallas, I’m so glad the days of gross organizational mismanagement appear to be behind us.

Only one thing can save Cracker Barrel now

He might. I think Harris might sign a big free agent this winter if he determines a deal that’s right for what we need. But even if he doesn’t, so what? Is that such a failure on his part? I don’t understand why the key benchmark of success for Harris has to be whether he signs big stars to big years and big money, and if he doesn’t, it must be because he’s cheap or he’s scared or he’s lazy, all of which have been suggested by various people (I don’t mean you) at various times about him for not signing or trading for expensive contracts. I understand other teams have been aggressive signing big stars for big money and lots of years and we haven’t. The Yankees have Judge and Cole and Fried and Rodon and Bellinger and Stanton. The Mets have Soto and Lindor and Alonso and Manaea and Nimmo. The Dodgers have Ohtani and Snell and Betts and Freeman and Glasnow. The Phillies have Wheeler and Schwarber and Harper and Nola. The Giants have Devers and Adames and Chapman and Ray and Lee and Webb. The Padres have Machado and Bogaerts and Tatis and Musgrove and Darvish. They all have big stars making big money for lots more years and the Tigers don’t. What none of these other teams have that the Tigers do is 76 wins and the best record in their league. So maybe winning in today’s game is not necessarily about who has more of the biggest stars making the most money into the 2030s. Maybe winning today’s game is about something else. And as fans of the Detroit Tigers, we’re about to find out one way or the other. Not for nothing, Milwaukee has even fewer high-priced stats and a lower payroll than us, and they’re doing even better than us and everyone else. And they’ve been winning that way for years. Maybe that’s the organization Harris is emulating and not any of the big-spending coastal teams, one of which he left to come here. So maybe Ilitch, Harris, and the Tigers will sign Skubal for many many years and nine figures. Maybe they won’t. I’m in for the ride either way.

The “are they going to the playoffs?” sounds like a quintessential non-baseball fan thing to say. A baseball season is like walking with your friends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and only taking a day off every 10 days or so. It’s like a pilgrimage. It takes a long time because there are so many games. Rain or shine you’re out there. Sometimes staying in a campground, or taking shelter under a bridge and sometimes staying in fine hotel nursing your sore feet. A baseball team is a commitment, a vocation, and it’s not a walk in the park. The journey is more important than the destination. The playoffs so-called seem a long way off. Relish the moment, relish the scenery of the eternal now. Time is extended. Other sports only occur once a week, have set timetables, and sometimes have a two week gap and that’s not much time walking. It’s easier to think about the destination and consider that the only sustenance. You’re never really nursing sore feet. A baseball season is like an entire lifespan and the next year you rise from the dead and you’re in a brand new body and you can do it all over again having lost some compadres and gained some new ones. Sometimes at the end of a season’s coast to coast walk, something really special will happen and it will bind peoples hearts and minds together for generations, and when they talk about it and share that moment their voices will quiver with emotion. And that’s better than fantasizing about “playoffs.“

LOL. (and I wonder if I have owned that book!?) This reminds be of a tragi/comic bit I read (and again, I can't remember where) about an Renaissance period philosopher/mathematician writing to his son, bemoaning that he had wasted his life foundering on the rocky shoals of pursuit of proof of the parallel postulate, and imploring his son not waste his own life following in his footsteps. Now I'm going to have to find it.