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Chicago White Sox (74-71) at Detroit Tigers (55-89)

Eat it, Jerk Sox!

A Yankee jersey? Really?

You saw the east/west leg. They added additional lanes in either direction in between the 23 split just north of Central Avenue and have 3rd lanes in either direction until Airport Highway. They should have just extended to at least US 24 (Maumee River). They'll probably need to add an additional lane on the other side of the river at some point. Sylvania and/or Monroe the length of Toledo? Yuck. And certainly you weren't the only one doing that.

The hysteria was bubbling up a bit before Riley's fly out.

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Advantage Kelly, with the deciding factor being grit, which is noticeably missing from the above metrics.

Bad assumption. They're adding another interchange (which is probably needed) and finally expanding the 3rd lane in each direction between the current 3rd lane (which was just recently added with another badly needed interchange west of Toledo proper) and the Maumee River. The current two lanes are clogged, clogged, clogged during afternoon rush hour.

My work commute is primarily one lane (each direction) county roads at off peak hours. This discussion reminds me that that ain't necessarily a bad thing.

Ah, here's a wrinkle in all of this. Who knows what baseball will be like next season? Deader? Livelier? Same? Would hope it would be the same given the other variable changes to game play (shift rules, pitch clock), but who knows what it will be like.

Chicago White Sox (74-70) at Detroit Tigers (54-89)

You don't think the pitching will be not as good? I was half joking about the fly ball map, but in all seriousness, what would the net effect of bringing the fences in be? How many more warning track outs have the Tigers had vs the opposition? I don't know the magnitude, but I would imagine the Tiger pitchers have benefitted from long outs that would be home runs in other ball parks. I don't know what's going on in the minor leagues. I would hope that the SO% & BB% are more in line with normal than what we are seeing in Detroit. I would hope they're learning how to work pitchers, focus on making solid hard hit rate type contact on hittable pitches and taking them to whatever field is best based on pitch type and location. I would hope they aren't just swinging for the downs. What talented young players are we talking about? Greene & Torkelson? I hope they have something with Kreidler, Carpenter, Baddoo, anyone else. But I think we're grasping at more hope than anything given how the draft & development has been handled the last several years with some of the younger guys. I actually think what would help the youngsters at the major league level would be to have actual major league batters performing to reasonable expectations surrounding those youngsters in the lineup. The horsebleep seasons from Baez, Schoop, Candelario, Cabrera, Meadows, etc, sure ain't helping the cause for Greene & Torkelson.

It’s national double cheeseburger day. I used pepper jack for mine.

There were a few hits to the opposite field yesterday. Obviously it wasn’t enough, but didn’t they come from Greene and Carpenter? That was good to see. They really need an everyday RHH corner OF with power. Go get Judge and have him patrol RF. Greene in CF, Meadows can DH, one of Carpenter/Baddoo in LF with a RHH platoon partner. Let’s go, damnit, somebody make Judge to Detroit happen!

The hitters might benefit from shorter distances, but what about the pitchers? And it bears repeating, this team cannot make contact with the bat. So who is really going to gain from cozier dimensions, the team that cannot make contact, or the team that can? They’re bottom 5 in SO% and dead last in BB%. Seriously, how do different dimensions alleviate those serious issues? Their big offensive acquisitions were Baez (contact issues) and Meadows (on the IL pretty much all season). Greene and Torkleson weren’t able to make the impacts that were hoped for, and in fairness, they are rookies so they shouldn’t have been depended upon. Schoop and Candelario are having the worst seasons of their career, Cabrera is a corpse. It’s been said before that Baez can’t be the best player on a winning team, and unfortunately we’re seeing it in action. I hate no baseball, but it’s getting to be about time to flush this season. It just sucks so much.

Just eyeballing some of the good run of 2006 - 2013, the Tigers were above average in scoring more often than not, even as high as 2nd place in the AL a couple of times. They simply had better hitters during that time than they do now.

The drawbridge is still in use. I think it was stuck in the up position earlier this year.

Bennett? You probably got off of 75 at Berdan or Phillips. Damnit, now I want an Inky's pizza.

I’d like to see the net of Tiger home runs lost vs opponent home runs lost due to Comerica’s dimensions. Overlay league average dimensions onto the current field, plot the fly outs, and let’s see what the damage is. Can you get that taken care of by tomorrow?

Please, trade him this off-season.

I remember the BPs behind RF and the more expansive LF. I guess I thought there might have been a previous design that never came to fruition.

What was the original design?

Yes. They're also bad on the road.

Zipper merge might as well be political fodder.

Throw lots of green dead president fudge at Judge?