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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.

My wife is a teacher. We know a lot of teachers. Most teachers get into teaching to teach. My guess is if they wanted to be in law enforcement rather than education, they'd have gotten into that. And as for arming teachers, a hearty GTFOH to that. They're usually busy teaching. How effective can they be at teaching if they are constantly monitoring the doorway/hallway?

I guess I thought most players go through more year round training whereas when some of us had dinosaurs as pets, spring training was for players to get into shape. But I hadn't thought about the lack of contact between players and personal trainers with their MLB teams and training staffs. That said, we're now about two months into the regular season. Shouldn't the kinetics be caught up by now for guys that have been going since spring training? Maybe I'm just looking at this from too much of a macro point of view. You dig into a detail like Pineda's injury being kind of flukish (although he has had his health struggles), and there's not really anything that is an effect from the offseason or spring training. I don't know, its all just very frustrating. But lots of kudos to Fetter & company for making chicken salad out of all of this.

But it can't all due to a shortened spring training, can it?

What other team is going through anything like this?

8 pitchers on the IL, soon to be 9. Good grief, they’re going to have a whole pitching staff on the IL pretty soon.

JINX!!!

Wasn’t Carlos Peña a bit slick with the glove works?