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Absolutely.

Let's all kick a little ass in our endeavors this week, shall we?

Is Aspiration still hiring?

I can’t believe it’s mid September. Last week I had a monthly meeting with a higher up. He asked if I watched any football over the weekend. I reminded him it’s still baseball season. I think he understand me more now.

Ohio State to the AFC North and the Cleveland Browns to the BigTen?

That would be grand. But if you look at Kahnle’s history, he doesn’t throw more than 60 IP in a season. That’s pretty low. He hit that threshold early this season. Was he taxed?

The one aspect that I really loved about Gibson was playing the game ahead of the game. Here’s the situation at hand, here are the options and the pros and cons, make your decision now and not in hindsight.

This guy needs banned on the count of he’s quoting me. Not that it’s nefarious or anything like that. But I’m a dweeb. No one should be listening to my typing. Mods, please, do something to help this cat out.

Yeah, I heard something on one of the pods this week about how the arm barn numerals in this second half are surprisingly good. If they are good, I am surprised.

I wonder if the bigger variable for Flaherty is the upcoming collective bargaining session and how shopping his wares over that offseason seems less desirable than hitting free agency this offseason.

But you're good enough. You're smart enough. And I'm sure we can find somebody that likes you.

Maybe the success of pitching chaos and the pitching factory was much more fortunate than we imagined?

Its possible Harris sniffed around the idea of bringing Verlander back but the interest wasn't mutual.

Unfortunately, you're probably right. It'll be garbage to see it occur.

Come on, you couldn't have gone with "Even though Morton will strike out Soto to end the inning, his day will be done."?

I guess I don't look at the split season as a shot against tradition. Maybe subconsciously I do kind of parallel them together. I just look at the season as a whole measuring stick of teams. Teams will have ebbs and flows through the year. I don't want to see a team that goes 92-70 miss the playoffs in lieu of a team that goes 86-76 because they latter had a better half than the former. That should never happen. Its just like splitting up into too many divisions with too few teams. At some point a team with a losing record wins a weak division and makes the playoffs. Its happened in the NFL. It was going to happen in MLB before the strike in 1994 shut down the rest of the regular season and the postseason. A losing record should never make the playoffs over a winning record in a professional league.

Local cable just removed ESPN and FanDuel Detroit from its offerings.

I shan't disagree here.

Sommers can be gone.

Skubal at 92 pitches through 7. 4 run lead. If the Tigers stick to a 5 man rotation, he’d have a day off included before each of his next two starts (day off this Thurs, pitch this Sat, day off next Mon). Do you send him out for the 8th?

I bet Hinch & Company would rather just get this game over with no more scoring and get back to Detroit ASAP. Tomorrow’s game as @ 1pm.

I don’t think he touched it. Maybe “Whiff”?

Oh, come on, I’m not that insufferable…. I am surprised they didn’t try to get Manning’s mobility into the game a bit more. Maybe not necessarily as a primary running option, but maybe just moving the pocket around a bit more from side to side. Perhaps Manning’s media coverage is a bit overblown. I don’t fault him for that. He’s a sophomore starting the season in Columbus. That is a bit of a tall task. To his credit, he did call himself out for not playing well enough. I suspect he’ll still have a fine season and this will be used as a learning experience.

I’m against 1st half and 2nd half. A season is a season. And I want playoff teams based on best record, not fortunate geography.

I think I’m more comfortable with a Morton start than a Flaherty start right now.