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Someone was whining to me about it at lunch. And I quote said person: "But we knew he was a crook!". I was ill prepared for a follow up, and so I raised me eyebrows and let the silence take over to allow that comment to sort of try to seep in.

Bring back the air raid sirens from Tiger Stadium circa mid 90s.

I think the logo was an Mike Ilitch thing. I think that was right after rehiring Harwell. I know most people think Ilitch's ownership started in 2006, but he actually owned the club for a while before that.

Did he not have his security sticky note?

Just going to put this here for the religious right. Of note, a few of the 10 have been broken directly, and a few have been broken indirectly.

Flip down glasses! You see those, kids? That's when baseball was baseball. Trammell, what in the world are you doing with the glasses on your hat?

I am not going out on a limb by predicting that there will be a track called 34 on the next album. Hell, there may be a single dropped this weekend.

Baddoo was ill equipped for it. Jabbing at the ball twice. Poor form. I don't mind it idea of it there with a lefty on lefty and with Baddoo's speed. But the skill was absolutely lacking there.

OK, so it kind of shows a similar deal, 2.2 WAR in his rookie season followed by 0.5, -0.8, 0.6. None were over full time playing status (asterisk on the 0.5 in 59 games of the COVID 2020). I don't know. At this point I guess I would look at it more about getting Torkelson straightened out for the long term rather than picking up any contribution from Hiura short term. If the Tigers think he needs to work away at it in MLB, so be it. My worthless opinion is that it's more mental than physical, not attacking on hittable pitches. I wouldn't worry about losing Hiura to an upward mobility clause. If he thinks he is in a position to exercise it, than good luck to him. If the Tigers do feel Torkelson needs a reset, that's fine. But I wouldn't necessarily hand 1B over to Hiura in the meantime. Edit: After I say I wouldn't hand 1B over to Hiura, I realize I'm not sure what the other options are. Maybe a combination of Canha/Vierling. But with Carpenter out, I don't how that works for the OF. I suppose a recall of Meadows? Not sure, maybe it just does default to Hiura.

They probably played Seven O'Clock from Gigaton as well. That's definitely directed at Trump.

Not sure what WAR you’re looking at, but I see 1.4 on bbref. 1.9 of that was in 2019. Additionally, he’s at a stout .730ish OPS in AAA this season. I don’t think the reward of promoting him is all that it was cracked up to be.

I read Bless You Boys by Sparky in grade school for a book report.

Remember the clamoring for Hiura to get called up? Good times.

I’d completely forgotten about him.

I am surprised it was a clean sweep. I didn’t pay much attention, so it’s not an educated opinion. I’m just going along the lines of nothing ever sticks to this clown. But now what? Does this ruling really have any teeth to it?

I kind of wish I’d have trademarked “President Felony Five”, “President Forty Felony”, and “Felonious Trump” (shout out Thelonious Monk). Those could make for good Tshirt and coffee mug sales.

Having a good glove would certainly give him more grace while the bat is unsteady. I'm not much for younger 1B to begin with. I understand some guys just aren't going to be able to play elsewhere, and it happens. Ideally guys start higher up on the defensive scale and cascade down over the course of their career. So here we are, a situation where a young player had the perceived hitting skill set and accolades to go 1.1 and a glove that was "hidable" under those circumstances. But the bat hasn't delivered.

Here is something that baffles me about the results of Torkelson's plate appearances. The BABIP is low while the hard hit % and exit velocities are above average.

You think this hat sucks? Just take a look into the future.

The Alsassin for short?

I get that Torkelson has been frustrating so far. But comparing the start of his career numbers to another guy’s entire career numbers doesn’t seem all that useful to me.

This is one of my peeves about baseball. 4.1 innings? It’s 4.33333333333333 innings. Or 4 1/3 innings. Come on, man, think of the kids in here and the habits they pick up on.

I had heard on a podcast that he was sent down too recently to be recalled, per MLB rules. I don’t think this applies to demotions of 27th men from doubleheaders.

That’s a heckuva day.

I don’t know, I thought this was a pretty good idea. Which one of you morans dropped the ball on this?