casimir

Did anyone else find themselves tapping the top of their head after a few pitches tonight or was it just me doing that?

Six person team and half are missing? Is your team name "Detroit Tiger 2025 Outfielders"?

Yeah, that's a valid point. What I never understood about Torkelson's debut was, if a 1B is MLB ready with that Tiger squad, why is he hitting 7th/8th in the lineup?

Same here. I know some folks were pleased about the contract he signed, but I have my doubts.

It doesn’t seem like #3 should be necessary as there is plenty of actual evidence that Trump is unfit for office. But here we are. We’re simply screwed until he croaks.

A few summers ago, the family went to Niagara Falls and Toronto. While we were in Niagara Falls, we took a trek up to Niagara on the Lake, which is right on Lake Ontario where the Niagara River flows into it, right across the border from New York State (I forget that town’s name). It’s a little touristy, but there’s a pretty nice walkable Main Street downtown area with small shops, a nice sized common park area, horse carriage rides, small town stuff like that. And the town is walkable with lots of nice houses. Lots of grape vineyards along the way from the Falls to the Lake. The weather was clear enough where we could see across the lake and make out silhouettes of the Toronto skyline. I think we were told that was around 30 miles across the lake? I don’t know. Maybe someone was yanking our chain a little on the distance. But it took somewheres around an hour from the Falls to downtown Toronto when we made that drive.

Do your taxes. Do your laundry. Do a puzzle. Play some OOTP. Go bowling with chasf. Empty out your spice pantry. Check your fire alarm batteries. Watch a movie. Listen to a podcast you’ve never tried. Make a quiche. Eat a quiche (after its cooled, not out of the oven). Put your snow thrower away for the season.

This man drank his breakfast.

They’re getting close to breaking his glass case because of the health emergency.

Best day of the year.

This happens at the beginning of every season. Some series goes Thursday through Saturday with no off days, some series goes Thursday through Sunday with a day off in there, usually a Friday for those weather sketchy home teams.

Pitching chaos?

You look like ****. Call in the substitute bowler.

That’s an interesting thought. One thing I did hear that kind of parallels young pitchers is that Clark, from Indiana, hasn’t played as much baseball during a season as most other prospects due simply because of climate. I don’t know how much of that is true, at least for him personally. My guess is he’s had lots of hitting reps which could be done indoors. There are probably some defensive drills that can be done in those big athletic bubbles which are more available these days. But I thought it was a comment worth putting in the back pocket.

This is probably the correct answer.

As long as the traditional Pizza Spear made the trek out west, things should be good to start the season.

It’s all relative to what a trade would look like. I don’t not against Sasser, I tend to agree with you that he was probably miscast. I can see him as a part of a rotation off of the bench. Maybe he could develop some point skills, but definitely not in starter minutes, and maybe only in scaled back bench minutes.

On the other hand, I wouldn't worry about making roster decisions based on parallels with what the Angels think. I think the bigger priority here is to patch something together to bide time until Vierling/Meadows return while at the same time keeping Greene out of CF as much as possible. Now, Moniak's 2023 was fueled by a .397 BABIP, so I agree that his 2023 OPS should be discounted as such. But he is a 110 +OPS vs RHPs on his .318 BABIP vs RHPs over his career. So, if he can field CF well enough and maybe just maybe hit enough at the bottom of the order to fill a platoon role in CF, I think its worth consideration. He'd be cheap, he'd be expendable, he'd fill a short term role.

Is Marcus Sasser building up his trade value for the offseason?

I like it when the interviewer asks a question of the player and you can tell based on the facial expression of the player that he understands it or even answers it himself.

Yeah, it bothers me, too. But what was the point of it to begin with, does it matter, who cares? It'd have been funny if nothing were mentioned about it and it was up to individual folks to figure it out on there own, how long would it have taken a person to notice? Would it be the same kind of thing as realizing the jersey D and the hat D were different?

I suppose keeping the legs fresh and not overused might be the angle. So if that is indeed the objective, hit more home runs and trot around the bags.

Maybe he’s not used to MLB lights.

Now we’re getting somewhere…..

Nice area.