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    2024 DETROIT TIGERS REGULAR SEASON THREAD

    in Detroit Tigers

    Posted · Edited by Motor City Sonics

    2 hours ago, chasfh said:

    Maybe, but he beat his body up pretty good with his work habits and diet.

    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". 

     

     

    Random NHL comments/thoughts

    in Detroit Red Wings

    Posted

    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. 

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    5/4/24 1:10PM Tigers @ Yankees

    in Game Threads

    Posted · Edited by Motor City Sonics

    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.  

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    5/3/24 7:05PM Tigers @ Yankees

    in Game Threads

    Posted

    Being 18-14 should feel better, but this team should probably be 22-10 right now.     How many times is Olson going to pitch this well and get nothing to show for it. 

     

    Tork has no business being here.   Don't care if he's a 1-1, he's lost and he can't even hit fastballs.    

    What Are You Listening To?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Motor City Sonics

    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. 

    When Gio comes back.............

    in Detroit Tigers

    Posted

    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.  

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    When Gio comes back.............

    in Detroit Tigers

    Posted

    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? 

    When Gio comes back.............

    in Detroit Tigers

    Posted

    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.   

     

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