casimir

Yes, Ilitch family ownership. People can complain about Chris, rightfully so. But let’s not pretend Mike’s era was all unicorn toots and rainbow ice cream.

Ibanez is hitting well. Nevin is a cheat code early on.

That wasn’t against the Pistons?

Replacing “Tigers threaten, but do not score”, eh?

Matches a career high for strikeouts? Through only 4 innings? Ugh…..

Wentz only 33 pitches after 3.

Good plate appearance by Rogers. He just got dorked over on the resulting call.

That assumes they put it in the correct locker to begin with.

Kid looks good aside from the Franco walk.

LHP on the mound. So, sure, why not start him today.

Where are the April in the D adverts? The Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings all play today. BSD ain’t going to town with that?

While they are showing pitching grips on the TV, I’ll be honest and admit to having a baseball in my office that (1) is soft enough to use as a stress ball and (2) I toy around with pitch grips during conference calls and whatnots.

Convicted to setting up the inning ending double play, he was.

Yikes, first pitch stolen base for Franco. Did Wentz even glance over?

I think the other thing that works against Baez is that he has flair to his game. Flair doesn’t work well when the game isn’t going well.

Normally when a team brings in free agents with kind of contracts that he and Rodriguez got, they tend to make them the faces of the franchise. It doesn’t seem like either was pushed like that last season. Granted, it’d have been tough to do that with Rodriguez while he had his issues. But it didn’t seem like either was in the f front of advertising much before the season started. It seemed weird to me.

Pitchcom fail. It’s like my house and people with uncharged phones and iPads and laptops and crap.

Ballys graphic shows Springs as a RHP whilst he warms up lefty. So, either the graphic is wrong, or Springs knows today will be a cakewalk.

The Tigers are getting extra batting lessons.

In all fairness, nobody knows what the tournament will be. So it’s a little unfair to be critical of the unknown. On the other hand, this league is good for some dumb ideas. So, cynicism shouldn’t be unexpected.

I'm not disappointed. Water will find its level. There's a reason he was so readily available last year.

Why not? He had a good season at AAA last season. This may have been what you were getting to with the Granderson comparison, but it looks like he has some speed on the bases, too. Can he field well? It looks like most of his time has been spent in CF. I know Carpenter is a bit of a favorite for some around here, but the big league roster isn't a place for his glove right now with Cabrera also on the roster.

Everything is temporary in the grand scheme of things, Grasshopper.

He was doing TV analysis during the first weekend of the NCAA tourney. I don't know what he said. All I could think of during the telecast was (1) this guy ruined the Pistons and (2) why am I sitting here listening to him?

Trayce Thompson hit 3 HRs last night. How did you spend your evening?