Motor City Sonics

So Juan Soto, who is injured, has allegedly not even spoken to his teammates during this 12-game skid. I always kind of wondered what a player's real role is when they are injured. I remember seeing Casey Mize on the bench when he was on the Injured List. I've seen other players around teammates when they were not eligible to play. As far as Soto and the Mets - I feel like that is a team just completely broken on every single level and no amount of money can fix that. I don't know that the ghost of Billy Martin could get them right for half a season. He didn't have SOMETHING he could have offered to his mates? Who was the pitcher who refused to travel or even stay with teammates, ,was that Kevin Brown? I get it, some guys are assholes, but it seems like if you really want to win, you'd want to be around your teammates through thick and thin, But Soto got his money, so he's good. No need to bother. Says so much about the Mets, doesn't it? I don't know what I'd be like if someone paid me ridiculous money to do my job, but I would hope that I'd try to lift everyone up. I wanted Bo Bichette for the Tigers.........but not for $42 million a year. That's going gangbusters.

Maybe when not playing for national pride he's just not all that good.

my driveway is dry/ I would do a video report but the last time I did I fell on my face.

When was the last time the Tigers made a really big trade? I mean bigger than Gregory Soto trade?

How about this instead of those awful Blue road jerseys

He'd have to go through waivers first. No way he'd make it. No Friggin' Way. I don't think Verlander is coming back until it's consistently 80 degrees out.

I don't like them either. They are very little league-looking. Can we just go back to the button up version of these?

Anyone remember Jason Grilli & Daniel Schlereth?

See you tomorrow morning (that sounds weird).

Here it comes Rollin' down the street HONK HONK THE BUS IS HEREE

Did Cora send him just to get out of the rain?

Something wrong with Vierling, he sure didn't get down the line quickly. Here comes Dingler's triple. !

They need to pinch hit with McGonigle here so he can get his 162

BERT !

Wow, Torres really SMOKED that double.

HOW'D YOU DO , HAO-YU............WHAT A PLAY !

Sorry I'm late. Fell asleep.

By the way, The Pitt's next season is set in November. So I am guessing that it will be Robby's first day back from his nervous breakdown/sabbatical - and he is going to walk into a bunch of unexpected changes and an emergency room that ran very well without him - which will cause an existential crisis for him. I think Thanksgiving, and a Blizzard may be part of the backdrop and the mix of the day will be a bunch of homeless people finding shelter at the hospital and making up reasons to be there (only to find out they have real illnesses), along with a terrible icy road traffic crash and maybe a mass Food Poisoning scare. Robby will not walk in as the Senior Attending right away as they will give him a few weeks to readjust. That means Abbot has moved to Days, Or Al-Hashimi has gotten her wish of two attending - herself and either Dr. Ellis (who will be a regular next season) or Dr. McKay.

No, no way. The Pitt is an outstanding show but comparing anything to BB/BCS/Sopranos/The Wire in my book is like comparing a rookie to Babe Ruth, Willie Mays or Sandy Koufax. It's just not fair. I think TV really started to change with one show in 1981 - Hill Street Blues. As far as I can recall that was the first cop show where the cops didn't always get the bad guy and sometimes the cops WERE the bad guys. Maybe intentionally (Cheif Daniels, Sal Benedetto) or screw up with heart in the right placye (J.D.LaRue). Then a couple years later came St. Elsewhere - where the doctors didn't always save the patient (previously the patient ALWAYS got saved). If you were a patient the first season of St. Elsehwere, you needed to update your will. Then TV went to another extreme in the 90s where the bad guys becaume the lead characters and the writers got you to sympathise with them - and that's when TV got really good. To black hat/white hat so much, just a lot of grey, really intense grey. The editing on Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and the Sopranos was as good, if not better, than any major theatrical film. Face it, Breaking Bad was basically a 60 hour movie.

I disagree. One thing that they can't do on that show is to have a "Crisis Of The Season". To have some sort of Mass Casualty event ever year. That would get old and very predictable. It's like the cop show were suddenly someone from the squad's family is targeted. It seems to happen every season on some shows. No, The Pitt's wasn't as action-packed as the first season, but that's by design. This season had two different kind of crises with the information outage and then the staff themselves. The true "crisis" was a slow burn and I thought they did an excellent job of showing how the stress of emergency medicine effects people in different ways. I thought the ending was really good because they didn't just answer questions and wrap it up - they showed the ongoing problem of it all. Maybe around the 4th of July, I am going to put that season on and just let the whole thing play out in real time. The whole season. I won't just sit there and watch it all but I will have it running on 1 tv all day to maybe get a sense of things. The real-life version of Dr. Robby was an ER doctor named Lorna Breen. Read about her. It's a devistating story. I think she actually might be the inspiration for this show. The healers need healing.

I got caught stealing once. When I was five. I enjoy stealing. Just as simple as that. When I want something and I don't wanna pay for it - I walk right through the door. Hey, alright. If I get by, it's mine. Mine all mine.

I am unable to watch (F Apple TV). I walked my dog and came back and they are already in the bottom of the 5th? Like Mark Fidrych's first start (and like Armando's Imperfect Game)

Saudade is such a great album, it's like a blissed out Summer day in your headphones.

It's so HIgh & Dry that Duane Kuiper could have hit as many as 2 or 3 home runs per year.

Oh, and while I don't think GR would ever be considered for MLB, I wonder why it's not a AAA market at it's size. It's basically a five-hour ferry ride to Milwaukee. So if Nashville goes MLB, the Brewers would need a new AAA team. Grand Rapids would be PERFECT !