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I’m not angry. I’m not fed up, but I feel worn out. There are, honestly, greater things going on in this world than the fate of a ball club can make up for. To paraphrase Bogart‘s character from Casablanca: "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of a baseball team doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” I’m glad for the good that the team gave me this year regardless of how things turn out and I’m glad for the camaraderie we have here. And I guess that’s enough payback to make up for this hill of beans of a crazy world we live in.

As Gordon Lightfoot also said: "At seven p.m., a main hatchway caved in, he said. "Fellas, it's been good to know ya". The Wreck of the 2025 Tigers.

Let Skubal walk. Why spend for what he's done in the past? Give him 50 million a year after he's peaked? Nope. Remember the last 5 years of Miggy?

4-0 Athletics. The turtle race for the final wildcard spot is on.

Will escaping the bases juiced, no outs jam be the catalyst that turns our season around? One can only hope.

I would have let Melton pitch until his next baserunner.

good job by Melton. bullpen time, buckle up.

All your curly fries are belong to us.

It’s the MLB.com Free Game of the Day. Makes sense, because people are always drawn to natural disasters and accidents and train wrecks.

OH HELL YES!

Shots!

I joked about that early in the season. The team has no personality. The look like a white suburban middle class travel team. I don't think that is why they are losing, but it makes for less entertainment.

We were in first place or in contention for it ALL YEAR and our farm system was stellar. That is a bloody good season at the Macro level. It's the Sopranos with a ****ty ending but we WILL be back next year provided Harris makes some solid moves. I think he will.

If you have a torrid summer fling with a hot co-ed but you broke up after Labor Day, 10 years later will you be able to put the ending out of your head and just remember the good times? Probably if it was an amicable breakup, like if the Tigers lost a pennant race that was close and hard fought the whole way. But this collapse is the equivalent of not only her breaking up with you, but doing so after cheating on you with some loser dude. Hard to erase and move past that.

so here is a thesis. The Tigers over-emphasize hitting mistakes. Makes them overly vulnerable to when a team pitches well and doesn't make many. IIRC this was Tork's whole problem last year - he had to go back to Toledo to basically learn to cover more of the plate. But where did he develop that habit of being too selective in the 1st place - the Tiger org. And in fact early in his career Hinch always stressed Tork had to "find pitches he could drive". OK that's true as far as it goes, you do have to hit the mistakes. But what do you do when the mistakes are not there in quantity? Is the Tiger hitting philosophy flexible enough to produce hitters that are competitive against good pitching and don't just beat up on the bad? "Command the zone" is a two way street for hitters. You have to let the balls go, but you also have to put strikes in play - at least after strike one, even if they don't happen to be HR potential level mistakes.

Sure because I am in a position to actually make trades for the Tigers. I can throw out silly trades just like anyone but I have no idea what another team would accept in a trade So because I don't come out with some far-fetched fantasy baseball type of trade, Harris must be amazing? I'm not a mlb GM. It's not my job to sit and study other team's rosters and call other teams up to find out about their players. I have no idea what it would have taken to get some players via trade. But Harris ended up with a guy who had been washed up for 3 years and a guy who had basically a 5.00 era for the last 6 years. I have no idea how even the most devoted Harris slappies could even defend those deals All I know the Tigers went into the season with Trey Sweeney and Jace Jung as the SS-3rd base combo. Two guys that were obviously not mlb caliber players. It almost seems like Harris doesn't care about the mlb team because his guys are all in A ball and AA and if the Tigers fail, he'll just say it wasn't his fault because those aren't his guys.

ETTD

smart by Tork to whip that home when the 1B ump's call was late.

That was not a cheapy. That’s a home run everywhere.

Wenceel with the glove!

Dirk's optimistic attitude is irritating.

“He looks like he has a boat in his front yard”. My son says that about a lot of them

From the JVL piece. Check out the comments as well, if you can

Maybe if the party stopped relying on or hoping for a" savior" with a plan they act like a left of center Heritage Foundation, basically a think tank, to formulate a blueprint for all candidates to run on. The problem is that getting Democrats to agree on anything is like trying to heard a Cub Scout Pack after they've had their snacks

Yeah, so in 2020 we had a candidate who literally had dozens and dozens of very detailed, very specific policy proposals on how to fix this country and improve life for the average, working-class person and their family. From climate action to healthcare to housing to infrastructure to transit this person laid it all out on the line. In-fact, this person's campaign slogan was quite literally "I have a plan for that". Instead, America rejected her as too academic, too liberal, too wonky, and too unlikable.

We don't need no stinking signal chat. We'll just announce our plans publicly.

If you posted this clip with no name attached. I would have guessed it was from Magic Johnson in his broadcasting days.

So Cleveland doesn’t do visiting teams the courtesy of an afternoon game on a travel day, unlike the Tigers, who seem to extend this courtesy to everyone. I would just like to get the suffering over early so I can find something else to worry about this evening.

I’ve been thinking along those lines myself the past day or two. This is really doing a bigger number on my baseball psyche than I imagined it would. It’s even making it harder for me to watch baseball games involving other teams, which I normally enjoy, because doing so just makes me think of The Collapse. (Yes, I am conferring that official name onto it. No need to add the team name or year to it. We will always know what it refers to, and when it happened.) The biggest problem for me as far as The Collapse is concerned is that I am going to be hearing about it constantly for the next year, and then hearing about it occasionally for the rest of my life. This has been so monumental a collapse that it’s almost as though 2024 never even happened.

Not exactly true. That team won five of their final six.

Can we please stop calling Cal Raleigh “Big Dumper”? Ugh.

I’s true: networks have the upper hand here, and they should take advantage of that. In big markets, there are enough independents they can strike affiliate deals with, like WDAL in DC or KWDK in Seattle or KPDX in Portland to shake off pesky affiliate groups and get clearance for their shows. In small markets, they can strike deals with other stations to run on their dot-two channels to get clearance. Affiliate groups on the other hand won't make as much money airing Golden Girls reruns, so it ends up hurting them more. I think I'd like to see networks flex their muscle in this case.

Gleybor Torres is Venezuelan and Trump is blowing his people out of the water. This is why I’m not terribly upset to see the Tigers choke.

Speaking of the barchart tweets

I’m at peace. Go Lions!

Hinch saying he doesn’t care about handedness as some people might think is laughable. You can set your watch to his moves.

I think they just partnered with them in a single mine site. Lithium Americas Announces Closing of Thacker Pass Joint Venture with General Motors

Greene and Zach have struck out twice already on the indoor pitching machine

Anything they say is suspect. Would they tamper with evidence to further their agenda?

This is incredible, not AI done either. Can only imagine the amount of time it took to put this together.

Why did Jimmy Fallon shoot the immigration detainees?

Even though it was all detainees that were shot and killed. What a lying piece of ****.

Playing my 70th round of the year. Fall golf in Michigan is the best.