Jim Cowan

Dogs are just amazing.

Our Fritz would only get truly angry at us for one reason - if you pretended that you were going to hurt my Mom. He would get up and walk slowly towards you, letting out a very low growl. He wasn't kidding.

Toledo dropped both ends of a doubleheader, Baddoo was a combined 1-for-6 with a BB and a stolen base. He played both games, while the other guys - Hill, Cameron, Carpenter, Meadows - played one each and Robson didn't play at all except to pinch hit late in the second game. So it seems like getting Baddoo back in the groove is a priority when playing time is divvied up.

We had a German shepherd when I was a kid, Fritz, great dog, you could fight him on the living room rug and he would snarl and almost bite you but not quite. He was definitely the alpha male dog in the neighbourhood but as far as people went, if we liked someone then he did too. This was back in the days when milk was delivered to your house, and bread too, and even dry cleaning. So the dry cleaning guy came once a week, the dog would wag his tail, no problem. Then the dry cleaning guy got sick, his replacement knocked on the door, and when Fritz saw him he went full ballistic fucking apeshit, he hated this guy so much he was barking and foaming at the mouth. He genuinely wanted to kill the guy, no question, and it took all of your strength to hold him back. This went on for a few weeks, then the regular guy came back. A couple of months later my Mom is reading the local paper and she says "hey look at this". In the courtroom reports there is a mention of the substitute driver, who got 90 days or something like that for passing bad paper. Fritz just knew instinctively that the guy was garbage.

Off to Chicago now, to play the Barf Bags. First game is tough, Dylan Cease.

Patsy Baloney, lol

It's true, a lot of guys on that list want playing time, but I think that the verdict is in on Castro, Hill and Cameron. They are sub-.700 guys, and you just can't have people like that in the outfield unless they are Gary Pettis. Reyes is a solid 4th, and Meadows is a guy who should contribute if he can stop getting bitten by snakes.

I agree, they won't do it. I think that there is a school of thought in front offices that if you release veteran players, "free agents won't want to sign here". Which is completely false, free agents sign for the most money, or to play for a World Series winner. They wouldn't ever care if you had released an underperformer like Grossman. But anyway, yes they are probably deluding themselves that any other team would give up anything of value for him.

Ha ha, I remember that news article too but I think that the violence erupted in Boise!

Oh yeah, just seeing all the different uniforms was so exciting, and seeing all the guys from the other league. Unfortunately, in the 1960's it meant that the American League was going to lose, because they were about 10 years behind the National League in terms of signing and developing Black players, the talent gap was enormous. But still, great fun to watch.

I had no idea...that is very satisfying.

I don't watch them any more either, they lost any significance when interleague play became so prevalent. But it would be nice for Cabrera to play in one more.

It's not impossible and hope springs eternal that Torkelson will make an impact. He's the missing link right now.

I would like to see that.

Cabrera is now 8th in the AL in batting average at .308. It's completely empty of course but still it's nice to see his name on the leader board.

I hope so. It's a tough decision on Grossman but it's time to let him go. Baddoo and Greene are the 2 most exciting players in the organization.

According to Solzhenitsyn the knock on the door always comes at 4 AM.

Why is Harold playing shortstop?

The shooter has the appearance of someone who has been terribly bullied for his entire life.

He touched off a firestorm on the old board by making the team in 2005 ahead of Marcus Thames, who had hit home runs in 2004 in Toledo and Detroit at ridiculous rate. Higginson had been pretty well washed up since 2003 but the scuttlebutt was that Gibson had advocated for him. It didn't matter much, he only played a handful of games in 2005 and that was the end of his career.

He immediately becomes one of the top 3 Tigers hitters of my lifetime.

Wenceel 2 for 4, with a BB and a steal. OPS at Erie is .845.

Yes, his batting average is .303 and hid OPS is .942.

Now it's 20 - 6, Omaha has 27 hits and 9 home runs.

Baddoo with a 3 run homer tonight, Hens are losing 15-4 in the 5th.