Shades of Deivi Cruz

We've had to "root" for Cleveland a couple of times over these last few weeks. Felt so dirty and gross.

The Os are +140 tonight, not -140, and Cade Povich is not exactly contending for the Cy Young. They also have very little to play for. They are three games ahead for the top wild card spot. That said, if Tigers get a decent lead in the game tonight before MIN even starts, then MIN will absolutely fold.

I was over there last weekend and said "I was thinking about maybe going to a game this week" interrupted by a "YES!!" halfway through. 🤣

I will be in attendance with the parents, so yes they might as well do that. I bought the tickets early this week hoping it would work out to be the potential clincher. Now that it is, the tickets are 4-5 times as much. Good job me!

"IT IS BOTH! IT IS BOTH! IT'S BOTH!!!"

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.