casimir

Nope, I don’t want to see any team make the playoffs with a losing record.

I give you credit for your optimism.

BS is an appropriate pair of initials for this season in more ways than one.

Deuce took him aside, had a chat with him, settled him down.

Callahan had the home run. Torres got a shot to the CF corner. That was about it, right?

Might as well win the series.

He should pitch to his contract and we all know it. The bullpen needed a break. He had a comfortable 7 run lead. His pitch count was in a good place. And he made uncompetitive pitches. This on top of Keith looking like this was his first game at 1B. And Baez letting one go by. And Lee rushing a throw. The Tigers got the win, and they definitely needed it. But they opened a door for Pittsburgh in this game and, by putting pressure on the backend of the bullpen, opened things up for the rest of the series.

Well this series was a kick to the nether region. Progression isn’t always linear. Gotta get back up, dust off, and move on to Pittsburgh.

Might as well get back on track with a win.

Along those lines, forum favorite Josh Naylor is up up to 23 SBs vs 6 CSs this season. Now that’s just a microcosm of base running in total, but that dude is going to get another 30 SBs? And this after double digiting in just one other season before last? Come on, that’s just nuts.

I guess it depends on what “significance” means. Neither would be a blockbuster move, no question. But I like the Harris regime’s ability to scratch out some talent in a deal like this. I agree with you about keeping Torkelson for right now as he addresses a specific need. I have been not as much of a fan of Carpenter as many others. I’ve always preferred defense in the Tiger OF and his bat doesn’t make up for his defensive inadequacies. Plus he can’t stay healthy. Despite that, I think some team would acquire him for his power at cheap salary.

Carpenter will be worth something on the trade market.

Dingler sitting at a .623 OPS the last two weeks. Might be another DH day or maybe just a complete day off? It’s understood how much he means to this lineup offensively and defensively. But they can’t run the risk of wearing him down in crunch time. This is a big series, sure, but there’s plenty of season left after today. The Tigers pretty much control their own playoff destiny now, they’ve played themselves back into it. It doesn’t mean they’ll stay there, but right now it seems the long game is maybe of more importance than today’s game.

Alright, alright, might as well end this losing stuff and get a win today.

I could kid you about how this sounds old manish, but, yes, I agree with what you’re going after by contacting them. I have a concern about a yield vs right of way merging of two entrances into another entrance onto a highway around me. The highway is going to be expanded from 2 to 3 lanes. The department of transportation was taking concerns and questions from the public. So I addressed my concern with the current structure of which direction yields and which direction has right of way. Not get too deep into it, but the current yield traffic driver literally has to look over its right shoulder and behind for traffic while the right of way curves and angles such that it sees the traffic it merges with. It’s baffling why it’s set up the way it is.

Might as well even the series up.

8 total bases for Schoolboy Rowe. Gotta give 84 some credit for that one, he was close with the 5 for 5.

No home runs hit. Chicks didn't quite dig the long ball just yet.

We were just talking about Verlander at softball last night. At this point, it is difficult to imagine he's going to be able to work up the stamina to be a SP. Maybe he can go a few innings, and there's value in that. But I wouldn't mind seeing him as a RP to finish out the season, there's certainly opportunity for improvement out there.

Might as well win the opener.