Motor City Sonics

That's on the manager - and it's not the first time this year. You know, you can evaluate and still win too? The Orioles did it a couple years ago. Ausmus Jr.

I feel so bad for Reese Olson. Can we expect more from him? He's been All-Star worthy so far with 0 wins.

I'm sorry, I will go back to the fact that the only time Hinch won anything his team had to cheat to do it.

**** you, Hinch. Got cute again, didn't ya? Reese Olson should punch everyone on that team right in the mouth.

Fireman Chet Kelly from EMERGENCY! coming in to play closer today. If he puts the first guy on base, I'm gonna need Roy DeSoto and Johnny Gage !

What happened to Baez? What went wrong?

They have not named anyone the closer, have they? Aren't they going with the hot hand until they aren't?

Okay, 6 insurance runs, please.

We're witnessing THE VILADE EFFECT !!!!!!!!!!

Tigers..........hang on, man. Get this kid a win, he absolutely deserves a win. Don't blow this.

Who is watching this on Bally's app? Mine is freezing about every 15-20 seconds. I have AT&T Fiber, very high speed and the fire stick is literally 2 feet from the modem.

Who goes? The Ferguson kid?

Andre Lipcius is hitting .320 with 9 HR in Triple A. Wasn't good enough for us, though.

Because he was planning on making Ramirez miss the tag.

Nice job, Carpy

it was the cigarettes too. How many packs a day for Frank. Had to be 3 or more. He refused to believe cigarettes were bad for his health, even when he was dying at 53. Smokers are much more likely to get pancreatic cancer than non-smokers. There is nothing good about cigarettes. It's why they tried so hard to make them as addictive as possible. My dad and had nine siblings. One died very young from drinking illegal alcohol (or he got whacked by the purple gang, we still don't really know), my one aunt (the youngest in his family) quit smoking before she was 30 and is still alive. Out of the other 8 (including my dad), 7 died from breathing/lung related issues and they all smoked, and smoked heavily. The only sibling of my dad who never smoked is 94 and still alive and still shovels his snow and walks a couple miles a day. In fact, he, at some point every time you see him will say in his Boston accent "ah, you're all soft".

Who used the Ballys app for the first time this past weekend and what did you think ?

It blows me away that I am 6 years older than Frank Zappa ever was.

The cap needs to ALWAYS be the Olde English D. But if not, then "313" on the hats.

I still remember what Jim Kaat said in regards to Nestor.

Riots in Toronto yet?

This feels like Wings-Blues 1996 game 7, doesn't it? I was working in Albuquerque. I was on the air at night at KTEG, The Edge. We had no TV at the station. We had no internet at the station (not in the studio anyway) and I told my friend's sister (family owns Kenilworth Pub in Dearborn) to call me every time there was a goal. No call. I called she says YES, WE'LL CALL YOU I called again and she said to stop worrying. Finally after that long night of not knowing the hotline flashes and I picked up the phone and I could not hear what she said, I just heard cheering and screaming and I knew they'd won. I saw the goal on ESPN when I got home. That was before Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith ruined it. I know you all hate the Leafs, but when I was a kid and the Red Wings were more concerned with players haircuts than they were with winning (traded guys who refused to get military-style haircuts, and I am not joking), I turned to the Leafs for exciting hockey. One of the first games I remember is Darryl Sittler scoring 10 points. So I became a bit of a Leafs fan. Borje Salming, Lanny McDonald, Mike Palmateer, Tiger Williams.,............Then they traded Lanny McDonald......just to piss off Sittler (not kidding, that was the reason) and Sittler went into the owners office and cut the C off of his jersey. There were mass protests in Toronto - people swarmed Maple Leaf Garden in anger and I realized that the Leafs were even more ****ed up than the Wings. I would love to see the Leafs win tonight. I'll admit it. I'm not afraid to and honestly, if they finish this comeback, they might actually go all the way, because a giant weight would be off of their shoulders.

We keep talking about who could be good if given the chance. We just don't know. What we DO know is that Spencer Torkelson, when you take offense and defense into the equation, may be the worst starting player in the majors right now and it doesn't seem to be getting better. Sending him down to Toledo may not be a punishment, it might be the thing that saves his career. I feel like AJ hinch is looking at the crumpled hood of the car and saying "my dad's a TV repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools.......I can fix it". See, the team is 18-15 now and they are in the thick of it in their division and continuing this course with Tork/Meadows/Keith sends a message that it's okay to fail on a massive level and that's terrible. This 18-15 should probably be 22-11 based on the number of fantastic pitching performances that have gone for nothing. Skubal a Cy Young candidate, Olson is pitching great with 0 wins, Flaherty just struck out 14 and they lost, Kenta has turned the corner and looks how we hoped he would and maybe the weakest in the rotation is Casey Mize, who has pitched really well, actually. This is his return from almost 2 years off, he's not even really fully back yet, but what we've seen so far is extremely encouraging. This is being wasted for 3 young players who seem to have been deemed "untouchable". That's ridiculous. I don't care what McKinstry hits, he's the swiss army knife. I don't care what Rogers and Kelly hit, Rogers is a big reason for our pitching. The righty/lefty matchup thing is getting old. Ibanez, Perez, Vierling all need to be in the lineup every single day because they are actually earning it. Take 'em out when they cool off. This need to prove a point is costing them games and we only need to look back at last year to know that if you can just get in the playoffs, you can do some damage, especially with pitching like ours. LETS NOT ****ING SQUANDER THIS! We haven't had a meaningful post-May game in years, lets not fall off a cliff over 3 guys who haven't earned it. I've never been convinced Meadows will hit, but I have seen Tork show power and I do think Keith will be a serviceable major leaguer, but maybe Keith's just not ready yet. Maybe Meadows needs to tweak things that can't really be fixed against big league pitching and maybe Tork will start to do some good things at a lower level to at least remember what that feels like. Tork can't hit a fastball right now and that's so freaking bad. Is it a vision problem? Is it mental? The Eric Munson comparison is so good. Almost exactly the same stats. How did that end? Baddoo and Malloy deserve shots at this point, but they shouldn't be blocked by 3 players who aren't doing much of anything. I know it's an evaluation year, but winning now should matter too. Canha and Ibanez can play first and both are probably better at it than Torkelson. The glove/range and lack of any other real option are the things keeping Baez here, but based on performance he shouldn't be here anymore. We'll just have to live with that like a drug side effect. Maybe the Tigers are just thinking "Well, half our fanbase can't even watch right now, lets sneak these guys in". (that's just a joke). Let's not spoil this Summer early please. Stay in this until September.

I'm fine with Ibanez. He carries his weight.

Is Spencer Torkelson the worst starting player in MLB right now?