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I assumed it was artificial intelligence.

Those pillars seem more annoying now than back then. But, damn, those orange seats right behind the dish had to have been awesome to sit in. Everything laid out right in front of you, close proximity to the field, a little leverage above the field. If you could hear Ernie, too? Those seats had to have been good living.

Oh, I think we're mature enough to handle "pains in the ass". No need to sugar coat it with "peas in a pod".

Tough first week for Jackson Holliday. The kid is only 20, so its not a surprise. But given all of the hullaballoo about starting the season in AAA, its probably not how anyone envisioned the debut week.

Uh, spoiler alert?

Man, I can’t stand bad defense. They’ve been better than I thought they on defense. This was a tough one to take. Todd Jones’ opinion of the glove being a counterweight was kind of interesting. I don’t know if that’s what caused the Skubal toss to first to be so wide. I’m also not sure Torkelson couldn’t have saved that out with better feetwork at the bag. But in his defense, that throw was really unexpectedly off and slow. I think Keith gets a bit of a reprieve as that final bounce did look bad. I don’t know, maybe he could have come in a step and cut down that hop from mid to short hop which might have avoided that error. Maybe he didn’t have enough time to do that, I’m not sure. To his credit, he’s looked fine with what’s been hit to him so far this season.

Welp, there's always sports gambling podcasts to (try to) make a living.

Right behind me.

My window here is now wet.

Is it just me or does it seem like Greene's swing has gotten more uppercutty?

You didn't put the tarp over the driveway? Dude.....

Uh.... have the postponed Wednesday's game already?

This brings to mind Perez perfectly timing his leaping catch in yesterday's game right against the wall. I think the ball would have gone out. But even if it wouldn't have, he played that so impressively well for not having many reps in the Detroit OF.

That's interesting. When I look at % of base runners to score on a batter's plate appearance, I see that Canha has scored 13.2% of his inherited base runners. Its below the league average of 14.4%, but better than the Tigers' 11.9% as a whole. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/2024-batting.shtml But we can go with your 4 game sample if you prefer to pick nits.

We were in Boston last summer. Saw the exterior of Cheers. There was a line to get in and I knew that the real inside wasn't like TV, so declined to check it out.

Indeed. Hey also had a 3rd team all NBA selection while a Piston. The ending was brutal, but I can understand his frustration with getting kicked to a team that had gotten itself into a quagmire.

That was a thing of beauty. And then he followed that up with a walk after falling down into an 0-2 count.

I think that might be the thing to do right now. Add Carpenter in at 3rd, and then just figure it out from there. I guess Torkelson 4th because he did kick into last year and hopefully he finds that groove again. 5th through 9th, go ahead and play the matchups or least cold bats or however.

Pena mentioned again being aggressive early to be walked more. I think the way he contexted it this time made more sense. Paraphrasing, but he essentially said its the long game. I think his inference is that a batter gets the reputation of swinging early, and pitchers are going to dance around the zone a bit more, try to get you to chase balls out of the zone, then it becomes more of a hitter's count, etc, etc. To me it just sounds like you have to be constantly evolving as a hitter, which is part of the competition. If pitchers try to get a hitter to chase early, lay off. If they pound the zone early, be ready to swing. Maybe I'm not reading his approach to correctly, but that's what I'm getting from it.

Numerical proof, please.

Yes, there's that, too.

I'm sure Doc Rivers will guide the Bucks through Indiana like a hot knife through butter.

Ain't like the kid bilked a bunch of folks out of their retirement, and yet Denny McLain is still revered by some.

I'll bite. If Meadows needs more time in AAA, I'd call up Baddoo and platoon Perez and Vierling in CF for now. I think we know what Baddoo is, which probably doesn't cure the ill all that much for now. But if they think Meadows could tune something up in Toledo, I'd take that short term demotion for the long term gain. I would think the Tigers have that opinion as well and have not yet reached that line in the sand. Another week or two, and maybe they reach that line in the sand.

Lorenzen's FIP for the outing was 4.63. 3 well times double plays helped foil the Tigers. I don't know for sure, but my guess is that run expectancy for those innings with runners at 2nd and one out would accumulate 2 runs. The Tigers ended up with 0. That's just baseball sometimes.