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In honor of the greatest athlete in American professional team sports history today. No single player in any sport faced the kind of pressure that 42 did, not just from the people who hated him and wanted to hurt him, but from the people that absolutely needed him to succeed. He carried it with dignity and buried the rage and pain so deeply that it killed him before he reached the age of 55. His incredible wife, his strength, will turn 101 in July.

if you thought Javy's mental mistakes were bad (credit to him for bouncing back strong yesterday), Dylan Bundy's was much worse. I am sure many of you are familiar with JomBoy's videos, but for those who are not, he does use the naughty words a fair amount.

Very interesting to see how Ty Madden's next couple of starts go.

Wow, Scott Harris sucks.

Actually I was just making a generic statement, I couldn't even watch the game. I was just expecting them to screw it up somehow

ain't no law says they gotta keep him.

Oh, you have got to be kidding me...........COME ON, MAN..............REALLY ?

they own you now. you will never be able to escape.

Screw Apple TV

Does Riley need to go to Toledo for a couple of weeks?

I have seen Good Javy. He's not old. He's in there somewhere. Gotta unlock it. It's not too late.

There isn't a show that had made me howl with laughter in a very long time like Letterkenny does. Don't know if you have seen it, but it's just hysterically funny.

He's trying to win the game every AB. He's not just taking a deep breath and focusing. Anyone have video of the Javy incidents? Maybe he needs glasses.

If I remember correctly Gibby misplayed a ball and got really pissed off and Sparky pulled him out because of how he reacted. I seem to remember that he didn't get pulled right away and when they came back in between innings Sparky told him to sit down and calm down or something like that. KG was not the best OF'er.

Seriously, did he trip on a cloud and fall 8 miles high? Please, Please, Please tell me what he did. I HAVE to know.,

Hi. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Why did Harvey leave the game?

Well, everyone doesn't have a bidet..............

Every couple of years Chris needs to talk to a baseball consultant about if the GM/President is moving things in the right direction. Al Avila must have been quite the salesman. Too bad he couldn't use those skills on other GMs and Agents. Or maybe Chris was just gullable and not knowing baseball (and to me that is evident) made him an easy mark.

Thats why I am saying he has to draft and develop nearly perfectly. That's the only way they're getting out of this. And it takes forever. So yeah, comparing to the miserable 1989-2005 years, we're really in about 1996 and even then it took an owner, who loved baseball and followed the game closely getting sick of losing and having to overpay on a couple of older free agents who people thought were done (Pudge, Magglio) and being fortunate enough to get rejected by the steroid-inflated Rich Aurilla which prompted us to take the guy he replaced, Carlos Guillen who may have been one of the best moves in the entire Illitch era. It took the owner getting absolutely fed up with losing to commit to that. But there's a problem with that now too. Pudge was $10 million a year, to nab anything like that now, it's probably $35 million and I don't see Chris doing that - ever. Thanks to the second-biggest free agent failure in Tiger history, Harvey Baez, Chris is going to recoil a spending anything big for a long time. (Jordan Zimmermann is the biggest flop, Harvey's got time to unseat him). But winning meant a lot to Mike, but the feeling I get, and I could be really wrong, is that Chris just isn't that into baseball and watched his dad spending part of his inheritance on it. It comes down to Chris not recognizing Avila was a total failure (I love your Reign Of Error remark) sooner. 2019 should have been it. 47 wins should have been the indicator that this ain't working, but those 3 extra years are probably going to cost us 5-6 more years of bad baseball unless Harris is near-perfect at recognizing talent. If he isn't, then were talking the 2030s before we even have a chance. Damn. I'll be 70 in 2034.

This team is so bad that if they devised a way of cheating like the Astros and knew what pitches were coming they still wouldn't hit league average.

Press Release: Johnny Kane will no longer work during Tiger games for Bally Sports.

There are some managers that make a big difference, but usually in the short term. Billy Martin could always get a team to play better - for awhile, until he just burned everyone out.

Maybe he ain't all that as a manger. I mean, the Astros flat-out ignoref him when he told them to stop cheating (but did he?).

I know Hinch ain't making a gourmet meal with the groceries he currently has, but for f**k's sake, don't overcook everything.