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I remember keeping score for the 1983 game. That's the one where Fred Lynn hit the first ever all star game grand slam off of Atlee Hammaker.

I have no problem embracing my grumpfartism here. The players should wear their regular team jerseys and hats. Want to alter those a bit just for the game? Fine, add a star, add some gold trim, maybe a league specific patch. They do use team specific hats and have the team logo on the sleeve, so in fairness they are incorporating that into the league uniform. I just think that gets a bit lost in the rest of the ASG kits.

Agree.

All other things being (relatively) equal, draft up the middle. SS, P, CF.

Were you singing this post?

I don’t like the idea of coupling a bad asset with Skubal in a trade scenario. What the Tigers need to do is build up the offense in total, work to get Baez back to an 80 OPS+ individually, and use his talents as the best fielding SS in the organization.

Two years? He’s under control for the next three postseasons. Let’s work with that.

That version of the anthem was better than my best singing.

Of course it was. There's no way a ball of green cheese can support a heavy space craft.

The Tigers simply need to develop players. Position players that can hit and field, pitchers that can pitch. If logjams of talent along the way happen, that would be a fantastic problem to have.

I like the part in the article that mentions 3 postseasons rather than just the 2+ seasons of control. I suppose the former could/should be understood by the latter. But it just seemed to come across differently reading it that way.

If anyone knows about exceptional message boarding skills, it would be you.

Nice effort.

I can remember sitting in the LF grandstand and Jim Rice clubbing one out to our area. It landed a row or two behind us.

Is BInge still the only 0fer in history?

I can’t say I’m a fan of home run derby either. But if someone else enjoys it, what do I care? I think I’ll bide my time by alphabetizing my sock drawer.

Why would the umpire be paying attention to framing anyway? He's supposed to make a call on whether or not the baseball passed through the strike zone over the plate, not where the catcher caught it.

Precisely my point. Here it is boys. This is playoff baseball. Let's learn some lessons now.

I suspect Bochy and Thompson are going with bullpen games tomorrow.

Not as impressive as Saturday's game, but still fun to look at.

Right, it all depends upon what the deal is.

So, OK, some/many have opined that this is a season of evaluation. Let's take the 54-54 record, assume its a few games out of the last wildcard and say there are 2 or 3 teams in between. That's a heck of a testing environment for evaluating some of the guys, isn't it?

No to 3. 2+1 depends upon the terms of the 1.

You had me at hello.

He’s a catcher. He crouches in front of 100 MPH from 60 feet as his chosen profession. Tools of ignorance. Does that kind of say it all?