Shades of Deivi Cruz

Oh man, I love that commercial so much. I laugh every time, and my wife just looks at me like I've lost my mind.

Exactly.

Counterpoint: sweeps are hard, and Thursday day games are weird.

You're welcome.

Littell has been pretty good since coming back off the IL, but he also doesn't tend to go deep in games. Let's get his count up early!

I love Benetti and I'll be thrilled to have him for as long as the Tigers possibly can. I have no problem with him working other games, and don't take it as some slight on the Tigers that he does so. He does go off the rails occasionally, but that's OK with me. He's a marked improvement over Mario and Shep, and that's all I care about.

I won't miss him, but I feel a little bad for Shelby. He's been with the team all season and is getting the boot with six days to go in the middle of a post season run.

The last couple episodes of that show made my brain melt. I literally said to myself "wait, WTF is happening right now?!?!?". LOL!

It was funny hearing Dirks and Benetti talk about the idea that KC could end up being the team they are chasing. A sweep would certainly pull that into higher plausibility. Also, I really like Dirks and Benetti together, although Dirks does fall into the "Tony Romo-style" of pitch/play guessing a little too much for me sometimes.

In two starts vs KC this year (early in the year though), Mize has given up 9 runs in the first two innings.

The problem is, Mize tends to give up runs early before then settling in.

Did we ever find out what he was so upset about?

I didn't know LL Cool J was still doing music, but his new song with Eminem is great (Murdergram Deux).

I am perfectly happy with Brian Kelly's performance at LSU. I wish he could be put in charge of all of the SEC teams.

Yeah, this is why a VP and Pres candidate spouting off about this like this on national TV isn't actually all that funny. There are too many nutjobs out there that get enabled by it.

We need to lock in, people! We still have meaningful games THIS year to worry about. The time for spitballing about next year is after this year is over, and it ain't! You same people are probably at WalMart buying Christmas decorations right now.

I went to look at Flaherty's stats with the Dodgers, and I noticed that they have used 38 different pitchers this year! It seems like the Tigers have used a lot, and they are "only" at 25. That's insane.

The teams behind and tied with Detroit don't actually concern me too much. In order to make up the five games we are behind MIN/KC, we have to keep winning anyway. If we do that, those other teams will pretty much take care of themselves. Since MIN and KC are playing each other this weekend and we still have a series vs KC remaining, I guess I'm rooting for MIN? There are other ways to go about it, but that seems to be the most straightforward.

No, I feel like his name was "slick" or "shady" something... Now it's going to drive me crazy trying to come up with it.

The first thing to come to mind when I saw this photo was the time on the old forum when one of the goofball members asked if we liked his new hat. His username is right on the tip of my brain, as are the rest of the details...

Throwing the first pitch anywhere near the strike zone is a terrible, awful idea. The one from Montero was inexcusable.

For some reason I have a hard time ranking the Batman movies in with his other work. I've also not seen Following, but for everything else I'd go: Inception, Prestige, Memento, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer, Insomnia, Tenet I'd probably slot the Batman movies between Interstellar and Dunkirk, if I had to.

I still cannot get my head around this scheduling. Play in Detroit on Sunday, then an afternoon game in SD with an off day after that? It makes no sense. There were plenty of other teams that didn't play yesterday.

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