Jim Cowan

Greene and Canha are on pace for 30 home runs.

2 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

So, 56 AB's...multiply by 10 for a full season, 40 steals and 130 RBI.  I know I know, SSS and nobody cares about counting stats but still...he is at least meeting expectations don't you think?

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Hard to miss wasn't it? FWIW, I stopped wearing one 30 yrs ago after an wrist injury and never put it back on. A phone in my pocket puts the time close enough not to bother carrying around a lump on my wrist.

I did the same, and stopped fraying the left wrist on all my sweaters

Winning 12 out of 22 isn't bad at all.  I would like just a slight improvement...13 out of every 22 for the rest of the year.

58 minutes ago, casimir said:

Greene is leading off again?  That’s it, I need to find a cliff to jump off’ve.

Off've, thats some of your finest work.

The name Bailey Ober makes me think of the pilot Clarence Oveur

I love Wenceel Perez, one of those guys you could follow in the DSL and the GCL, and he was a shortstop back then which made him really interesting.  He stalled for a couple of years but came back and had a huge year in 2022, tailed off a wee bit last year, and one offseason genius, I forget which one, did not include him in the Tigers top 30.  So whoever that guy was, Wenceel has given him, in the words of the immortal Lou Brown, a nice big sh*tburger to eat.  

I don't think anybody said they hated him.  I would just tell him that he's a pro now, so act like one, and for your own sake don't ever reveal that you have rabbit ears.

Olson has 7 K's through 4 innings, on only 55 pitches.  So far so good.

8 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

If Correa woulda been out there that comeback may not have happened.

Or, he might have fractured 15 bones in his body all at once on that one play.

I don't really care for that, he needs a responsible adult to tell him to stop doing that.  That needs to come right from Harris, right from the top, right now.  This organization does not employ punks.  Stop.  Now.

4 hours ago, kdog said:

 

Brilliant.  Avila's lasting gift is Hinch, whose in game management wins and gaffes result in a net zero effect on overall team performance.  He is neither a positive nor a negative.  He is a 0 WAR manager, like all the rest of them.

Hey Lange the bus for Toledo leaves at 8:15.  Be under it.

Highlight of the day:  Wenceel's first hit, first stolen base.

Maeda got through 3 innings on 40 pitches, very efficient 

A pleasant surprise W!

Manning is at 78 pitches...one more inning at most

Do wins in April count?

That Toledo lineup looks better than some Tigers teams of recent memory.

4 hours ago, oblong said:

****.  Didn’t think of that. I live in Dearborn and finding halal hot dogs could be a good thing. Is that cheating?  It’ would be beef. Maybe it is cheating.  The hot dogs are the bad part.
 

I’m not sure 9 12 ounce cans of blue light or Miller High Life would do me in.  I have consumed that much beer at a game a few times back in the “good old days”.   It’s been probably 10 years. 

Yeah, the good old days were almost 50 years ago now, but I was found in the bushes outside my university residence building, early on a Sunday morning, after having bought and consumed a lot of beer at the folk club on Saturday night,  The legend was that it was 20 but realistically probably only 14.

7 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Has Joe Morgan yet denied that Jobe hit 102 mph?

You see, I played this game, and I know a 100 mph fastball when I see one, and that's not a 100 mph fastball.

Just now, Jim Cowan said:

 

Corrected to say first base coach, not third

1 minute ago, Jim Cowan said:

I know it's only spring training but when a guy gets picked off at second by such a ridiculous margin, does the first base coach not get his butt kicked up to his shoulders?

Here is how you coach first base, with a runner at second:  you yell at him YOU WATCH THE PITCHER!  I'VE GOT THE SHORTSTOP AND THE SECONDBASEMAN!

 

I know it's only spring training but when a guy gets picked off at second by such a ridiculous margin, does the third base coach not get his butt kicked up to his shoulders?

Here is how you coach third base, with a runner at second:  you yell at him YOU WATCH THE PITCHER!  I'VE GOT THE SHORTSTOP AND THE SECONDBASEMAN!

10 hours ago, casimir said:

In case you missed Ueck's birthday.

Lol!!! According to the late Norm Mcdonald nobody has a worse potty mouth than Uecker, which in my mind somehow makes him even funnier.