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I get this weird feeling that Britney Spears is really dumb.      I don't know why.   Just a hunch.      But still, it's her money, if she wants to blow through it all, it's her right.   Just don't want to hear sob stories when she does. 

I'm just not sure she's naturally dumb, or if she was kind of raised to be this way.   You have that and then putting a teenager in a fishbowl - chased by photographers everywhere she goes and you get what we see now.   

How can anyone in that situation expected to have any kind of normal life. 

It's sad, but not surprising. 

5 hours ago, Edman85 said:

The way Perez is being featured, I think Meadows gets the axe unless he heats up. Unless Urshela can fill in at short, you still need McKinstry around. It doesn't help that Leonard and Kreidler got hurt in Toledo to give us some shortstop depth.

Isn't it time to just cut bait with Kreidler?     Dude is always hurt.  He's on the Anthony Rendon plan.  

It will always sound like  "45 virgins and a pelican" to me. 

32 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

I doubt this would happen, but what if the Tigers decided to send down Tork, Keith and Meadows all at once? From a PR/fan perspective spread the attention with the focus on it being a temporary thing to get these young players on track. And the corresponding move? Activate Urshela, and bring up Malloy and Baddoo or Kennedy.

OF is Greene/Vierling/Perez. DH is Carpenter/Malloy, Canha is 1B, Ibanez at 2B, Baez, Urshela at 3B.  McK is the main IF sub, plus Kennedy if they brought him back up. Carpenter/Baddoo as the main OF subs, with Malloy another limited option. I think Hinch would prefer the extra IF over Baddoo.

I don’t know whether that would work, and it could fail horribly I guess.

I think they’d score more runs, maybe lots more, and not lose that much on defense. Ideally at least two of the three demoted guys gets it together in a month and we can have options for any of the replacements that don’t cut it.

I know they want to believe in the 3 young guys, but maybe going to Toledo and just getting some positive results can turn them around.       Don't concede, man.   We haven't had a team that was still in it by late May in half a decade.   I know this year is about evaluation, but they want to set a culture of winning too, right?    If you put forth that losing is okay for evaluation purposes you are kind of saying losing is okay, aren't you? 

1 minute ago, oblong said:

google sucks now for searches.  It's basically useless.

 

it's become like facebook.   some days you go on and there are no posts from real people,  just ads, just spam.  

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

bookmarks are your friend

I already have a few hundred of them.     

Who goes? 

Can't be Perez right now.   I mean, maybe he doesn't last, but as long as he's solid he stays

So who goes down?   

I think McKinstry (being a lefty bat) and Ibanez (making his playing time count) deserve to stay.

Do they actually send Tork down?   Keith?    

Tigers are in a situation right now where they really want to get reps for Tork, Keith and Meadows, but Vierling and Perez are throwing off their plans because they deserve to play every day,  at least right now. 

PET PEEVE-  When I google Toledo Mud Hens, the first seven sites that that come up are ticket sellers.   I want the Mud Hens site first.  I shouldn't have to scroll for it. 

Have you noticed Akil Baddoo has a .396 OBP and .944 OPS at Toledo?       Malloy is heating up too.    Tigers need guys that can get on base.   

ANOTHER SERIES WIN

KEEP THIS GOING

Way to go get it, kid.  Nice catch out there. 

Why try a steal there?    Why? 

Do you think it's a case of Wency not realizing that he's probably not that good and he's just kind of going with it.  The second he starts thinking he's finished...................

Ibanez can't run? 

1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

I’m watching on TV on the MLB network but it’s about 3 pitches behind. Feed must be getting held up at the border. 

when the Gordie Howe bridge opens up that should get better.................

Eric Munson                  1056 AB........ 49 HR.......147 RBI......234 K   104 BB   .214 BA   .289 OBP   .673 OPS   80 OPS+

Spencer Torkelbust       1069 AB        39 HR       132 RBI     294 K   114 BB   .221 BA     .301 OBP  .578 OPS    92 OPS+

Man,  that is a GREAT comparison.   

It's time for some changes.   If they're fragile little egos can't handle it, then they never belonged here in the first place.   Meadows and Torkleson and Keith too.     A steady diet of Tony Packo's would do them wonders.    They sure don't belong here.   Earn it.      I'd rather have Canha at first and Perez in the OF.    We have 6 guys who can play Second. 

But A.J. knows best, right?       I think even if these guys did bang on garbage cans they still couldn't hit.     

What's Eric Munson doing these days?  

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Tork is borderline useless right now, and that might be generous. 

Whomever around here calls him Eric Munson has nailed it.   

**** You, Hinch. 

6 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Hinch pulling all the wrong strings.

Overrated Manager.     Only time he won anything his team had to cheat to do it.  

This is the first time I am absolutely furious. 

Enough Meadows

Enough Torkelson

They both need to be in Toledo.  

They're useless right now. 

And we get to see it end with Torkelson and Keith today.............wonderful 

And why did Canha sit today.........he couldn't DH?    He's one of their hottest hitters.   A team that can't hit a beach ball, you need to play your best hitters regardless.     

Time to start considering moves with players and hitting coaches.  

Enough.   

Dude K's 14 and they're gonna lose

I wish the Cardinals still had those blue road uniforms.  I loved those as a kid.      A lot of teams went with the light blue.  

Wonder what the City Connect uniforms will look like for the Tigers.   I have seen the hat. 

To me any Tiger home uni without the Olde English D is a fraud.    I get Los Tigres and Detroit Stars unforms,. but that's it !

10 minutes ago, kdog said:

I'm not sure they have a catcher to call up. Dingler has a .640 OPS.

He's on the roster, it'd be for a day (or two).  

23 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

Fairly confident he legally purchased it from a pawn shop after the local prosecutor skirted the law to allow themselves to charge him with a misdemeanor when he was first found illegally carrying a gun.  

While I don't disagree with you either, this gets back to my next concern.  When prosecutors start using this new tool to go after parents and we find it's being used in inner cities more regularly and there is a demand from the democratic party to move away from it because it affects minorities disproportionately.  

Not if the kids keep getting shot with loose guns.  I think a lot of people in the minority population are actually clamoring for that. I think a lot of people are sick of idiots giving everyone else a bad rep.    Storing something up high where a kdi can't reach doesn't seem to be too much to ask.     Don't see too many minority mass/spree shooters.    A few here and there but it's mostly white people (who seem to believe that are entitled to have everything they want and when they don't get it - someone needs to suffer for it, usually some kind of targeted group - minorities, gays, women).     I don't think a lot of minorities have that kind of expectation to start with.    Candians have more guns per person than we do and they don't have this problem because I think they tend to be more pragmatic about life (and Canadians aren't nearly as greedy as Americans, but that's starting to change). 

We're going after adults who don't secure their guns..........or actually supply them to their kids.  I think this is wonderful. 

Now,  lets start going after people who provide guns to people who are not allowed to legally own them.   Like the MSU killer.  Where did he get the gun?   He wasn't supposed to have it.  Where did he get it?    Did he steal it?  Buy it at a pawn shop?  Buy it on the street?   Don't know, but the person who sold or gave it to him needed to be prosecuted.  Just because that piece of **** is dead doesn't mean the investigation should end.    

Boy, does this nail what current Commercial Pop Country sounds like to me.    

Why did they postpone this game.  My driveway is barely even wet !

13 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

If Levi makes it thru 2024, plays 14+ games, and then moves on, I think it is A++.

Otherwise just A+

I feel like Levi is not going to be  on the team this season.        I don't think this is a staff that holds on to him just to not look bad.   I think you either contribute or you're gone.   They liked Buggs, but they cut him loose.  Couldn't use him.   Seems like Levi has dropped on the depth chart rather quickly.    Health is a big reason why.