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I thought this was a reasonable idea, but, whatever.

Alright, 6 outs, get out of there without being swept. A few days off this week around a trip to Pittsburgh, maybe a few players getting back to the big club this week. Just get 6 outs and salvage something out of this series.

I use this a lot with a Yankee coworker.

At the very least, there was this result. One of the things that I would like in terms of managing a series is to dig into the opposition's bullpen as much as possible to make the pitching decisions a little more complicated for the rest of the series. On the flip side, the Tigers really gave an advantage to the Yankees last night. The defense just didn't seem to be as crisp on a couple of other plays as well. The quicker the OF alignment can get back to what was expected, the better. It wasn't great shakes to begin with, but at least there will be actual OFs out there.

Oh, concur. The game itself sucked. The broadcast sucked. Not seeing Gerrit Cole have a toddleresque melt down sucked. We all wasted 3 hours of our lives we will never get back.

The Tigers need to try pushing this button.

I just want something insightful. The Toledo Walleye have a female broadcaster for some of its TV games, and she understands the game, can pick up on the action, and communicates it well. If she had pink hair and a nose ring, it wouldn't affect her broadcast at all.

I was eyeballing the probabilities during the game. Didn't always make much sense (ex, on base probability would increase going from a neutral count to a pitcher friendly count), seemed to be updated right before or during the Ps windup.

I think I’ve seen the comparison to Fidrych before. Is this for realz?

Indeed. That's what I take away from the game. That and Galarraga is the only pitcher to throw a 28 out perfect game.

The only problem with this is I don't like the lack of position players on the active roster. I think we can all agree that there are times that players should be allowed to play through slumps and there are times when players need to be sat down for a day or two just to get away from the in game frustration that could mount game after game. We can guess as to when this is needed for particular players. Heck, management themselves probably sometimes guess at when its time to sit a player, particularly if there isn't much of a relationship history between player/manager. Baez' bat has certainly been a disappointment thus far. But he isn't the first and he won't be the last player to go through a 2 month slump. We hope that's all it is, anyway. Even with the slumping bat, he's made defensive plays for outs that we haven't seen out of Tiger SSs for quite a while.

I'm sure he had his finger braces on.

Clearly having gun toting teachers would have stopped this.

Legit? I got this....

I see you, Rod. I see you.

I've wondered about this, too. Look, I ain't in game shape either, but I also ain't in charge of professional athletes.

A win in only 135 minutes. Why can't they do this every night?

The Castros were meeting up with Deuce after the game.

This could qualify Fetter for sainthood.

This is ignorant as hell. You should absolutely be ashamed of yourself.

This seems a bit far fetched.

I tell you what. If the Tigers want to lock someone up on a long term deal, Fetters might be the next guy to do that with.

Preach. My oldest has always wanted to be a teacher. I think I would like her to consider another career. It's a profession that just keeps getting shit on. Then again, look at how the medical field has been treated the last several years, so,... yeah, what to do.

I was presented a job opportunity in Fort Worth years ago, but never really considered it as we were too rooted down where we are. Years later and I don't regret it at all. You're right about other public places. Banks still got robbed. Why have we not heard of arming bank tellers?

There are lots of obvious issues with teachers packing. Well, obvious only if one wants to give it a tiny bit of thought, anyway.