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This occasion is ripe for arrogance. Series in hand with Skubal on the mound. A chance to kick a city entirely out of baseball mode and into football mode despite the Clowns being the Clowns. An opportunity to break the numeric system by seeing if indeed there actually does exist a 1 decimal place number in between 99.9% and 100.0%. Or, perhaps, the opportunity for the Tigers to invent that number with a victory today.

Wenceel Perez seems to be lost in the shuffle of the Tigers improvements from last season to this season, but he has looked much better in the field.

I’ve been meaning to look back at rolling 10 to 20 game records for the Tigers this season. Just to see what the is to see. I would imagine I wouldn’t see many 10 game windows below .500 and no 20 game windows below .500.

I’ll believe the A’s are settled when they’re settled in a new ballpark.

Well bless her heart. Oh, wait, the bitch doesn’t have one.

I do like the idea of flipping the exact same package acquired last season in an exchange of buyer/seller roles. Well done!

Anything might be possible, but I wouldn’t think teams would choose to try to emulate the Tigers’ second half.

Politely decline.

I’ll be honest. The way this season is going, a loss doesn’t move me much. Last night sucked, but it happens, it just ain’t happened much to the Tigers this season. The other thing is, they just have not been in much of a slump and are in complete control of the division. I’d probably live and die harder if they were in danger of the division lead. If they lose today, there’s another game tomorrow. That’s kind of how I’ve looked at it this season.

So what do you do the day after they’ve done both? Jello fighting with a silent post game platter of ribs?

Shout out multi time “all star” Gregory Soto.

There’s something magical about the pregame introductions of all stars on the baselines.

Could it be some sort of draft capital, either a pick or swap?

My arm is getting tired listening to this.

This is rude. I love it.

May the dear Lord have pity on their souls.

Ryan Rollins just had his offer rescinded by the Bucks, what with all of the hullabaloo they’ve been engaged in. He’s now unrestricted. Is he a reasonable backup point option?

Are you related to OklahomaBert?

Did you laugh or break something?

Russell Westbrook is available.

I agree, I’d prefer Yabusele at 2/12 over Reed at 2/10. But was Yabusele interested in Detroit?

But will there be a rain delay broadcast amongst the Tiger announcers tonight?

Yeah, but this doesn’t necessarily disprove craziness. Maybe this post was just the right amount of crazy.

When Torkelson fielded the ball, I thought he was just for the lead runner. But his throw was placed perfectly enough and he had the wherewithal to get back to the bag. It didn’t seem like he had enough on his throw to lead to a double play, but Baez’ return was on the target and with appropriate speed. That’s as good of a 3-6-3 as you’ll see. We can’t tell. We can only speculate. But I would bet Torkelson’s mindset this season is in a much, much better place than last season. The physical, tangent, numerical offensive results are there. But the defensive eye test is there, too. So fun to see that.

Wrong birds.