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I love it. Everyone has a role on this team. Anyone not in the lineup is on alert. Heck, Vierling even played “out of position” at 1B, his first time there this season. Mize out of the bullpen. The whole of this team is truly greater than the sum of its parts.

Watching Meadows run is like seeing someone running on one of those motorized walkways in an airport.

Good point.

Thank you for the script Dr Shades.

Ah, dude, you should’of told me to wave for the picture. I’m the one in the Tiger hat. On a whim, I took my dad to the game. We hadn’t been there since 2019. He doesn’t exactly move around quite as spryly as he used to could do, so we went early to get close parking. Literally walked in shortly after the gates opened. Sat in our seats and just took in the sights and sounds and smells of the ball yard. Never really fretted anything about the game except for Alexander’s performance. The deficit really didn’t bother me. Well, actually the scoreboard bothers me because it cuts out to too many shots of fans during the game eliminating the information (lineups and stuff like that). I don’t know about you, but it seemed to me like there were quite a number of kids at the game. Some looked like school/youth groups, but a lot of parents with school aged children. I overheard the family behind us a bit, and the father kept telling his daughter “I can’t believe you wanted to go to school today”.

Too late.

Eh, **** ‘em.

All I will say about winning the World Series is a 1 (winner) out of 12 (total playoff teams) is it is a 8.3% chance.

I went to the Kenny Rogers game. So, I don't know, perhaps any frustration that I had at the Royals' game on Sunday was flushed out by that experience? The mind is a goofy thing and I don't have much to play with.

It seems doubtful that the doubleheader won't have some sort of seeding implications at the least. But if there is a berth (or two) at stake), they need to figure out a way get that on national TV. As far as the playoff schedule is concerned, game 3s for all wildcard rounds are Thursday 10/05 with the NL division series having games on Saturday 10/07 and Sunday 10/08. It appears to me that the brackets are not locked and that the lower remaining seed travels to the higher seed. So its possible that team planes are on tarmacs waiting for a direction on Monday (with a game on Tuesday) and Thursday (with a game on Saturday). This might push Tuesday's AL wild cad games to both being the earlier games.

I was at the last game. It was a discouraging game, it cost the Tigers the division pennant. But that aspect didn't bother me as much as how they were stumbling at the wrong time. They were in the playoffs, so division winner or wildcard, I didn't really care. They just weren't playing well.

Benetti has his moments that annoy me, but nobody is going to be perfect for everyone in that role. I think he's an upgrade over Shepard. Unfortunately for Shepard, its easy for a broadcaster to take on part of the persona of the team over the course of a season. He broadcast some awful baseball. Not his calling necessarily, but the action on the field. I do feel some sympathy for him that he misses out on calling a playoff contention caliber season, and that it happens to be his first oine out of the booth.

The home town season ticket holders that have gone through the several season losing streak certainly deserve to see an on field celebration.

I don't feel bad for the Clippers. Its Kawhi Leonard. What did they expect?

"Might as well get ready for the postseason." I mean, what else could Skubal be saying there?

I mentioned this around Labor Day weekend. The 7-2 in the Orioles/Royals string of 9 games has been so huge in this run. 85-77 seemed best case back then, and now it would be a disappointment.

Quite a baffling season from Miller. Didn't let runners on, league average SO%, better than average BB%. But he gave up gopher balls, and like you mention, leverage was an issue.

These damn millennials and their lack of patience....

Leyland tells you to go get a f-ckin' win, you go get him dozens of wins. Its just what you do.

Maeda, Baez, and Torkelson better show up to Lakeland in the BSOTLs next February.

Sounds like Shelby Miller will be DFAed.

Oh. My. Good. Ness.

(1) Is he related to Andrew Vaughn? (2) Does knowing who Greg Vaughn is make me old?

Yes, the more athletic style of play in the field, offensively and defensively, has been fun, too. I'm not sure its all Meadows, but it seems like the defense has been much improved since his return. I suppose part of that is the significant upgrade with Meadows in CF and the domino effect of Greene and Vierling with decent CF skills being pushed to the corners. The range of the total OF is noticeably better. But the IF also seems to have gotten better. Jung isn't necessarily a 3B, at least to my unqualified eye. I think the arm is suspect to begin with. However I think he's been better than advertised. And Torkelson seems to be better than he was before, albeit there's still room for improvement there.

The action on the field and the results have been wonderful. But also add in the fact that this really has been a total team effort. Its sometimes cliche and gratuitous to include the last guy on the roster in the spoils of the success. But the aspect of the pitching staff usage and the mixing and matching of the position players along the way has added something to it.