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Good to hear you survived the trip. Always good to add another park to the list. Regarding the game, trust me, it sounded as bad as it looked.

X-rays negative on Grossman. Further assessment back in Motown.

I have enjoyed Petry in the booth with Dan. I hope he’s the road guy for the remainder of the year.

I think I need a day off as much as this team does.

Thanks. That’s what I was thinking but hoping I was wrong,

Is there any word on Riley Greene’s status?

Feeling like a 1-5 road trip.

I believe SoCal is at the game today. I hate he’s having to watch this crap.

This is so sad and so predictable.

Going into tonight’s game the Tigers have only stolen two bases.

Give Jackie Robinson his due but a Willie Mays anniversary lands on this day . On this day, April 30, 1961, in game number 16, Mays hit four home runs against Milwaukee at Milwaukee’s County Stadium. He became the ninth player in big league history to hit four home runs in one game while driving in eight runs in the process.

My point was not specific to pitching. My point is that Avila still carries a lot of dead wood on the roster.

Considering this team totally bombed out of the gate last year I really believed that the organization would be motivated to be better out of the gate this season. Guess what, I was wrong again.

Sooo, I guess we didn’t do the full bore thing this month.

Freep article this morning regarding last night’s issues on the mound contained this blurb: ”Opposing the Tigers' Alexander was Dodgers left-hander Tyler Anderson. The Tigers showed interest in Anderson — a free agent this past offseason — but backed off their pursuit coming out of MLB's lockout.” BS! The Tigers/Avila only feigns he might be interested in upgrades but don’t even offer that anything near legitimate interests existed.

And rents are going through the roof at the same time (no pun intended). We bought our house in October 2020. We were entertaining the idea of buying a house elsewhere and selling here but don’t see that as feasible at this point. Out of curiosity I called a local outfit that oversees rents, handles everything. This, in the event we opted to keep this house and just rent it out if we bought elsewhere. The lady handling my call during my inquiry asked maybe a half dozen questions and told me without seeing our house what they could rent it out for a month. The monthly rent she suggested getting for our current abode was two and a half times more than our monthly mortgage payment. Investors are buying an inordinate amount of homes solely for the purpose of renting them out. In the Raleigh, NC area, investors are loading up on properties. Then you have other outfits that are buying and flipping. Approximately 30% of homes in the triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) are being purchased in full cash and are going way over asking. Some of the numbers are ridiculous. Home ownership is indeed eroding for the less than affluent. It’s ludicrous the way the market is at this point. Something has to give at some point.

The old adage advising “sell in May and go away,” may have been a month late this year. The Nasdaq suffered its worst month since 2008 falling 13.3% in April. Dow down 4.9% and the S&P down 8.8%.

Hinch is wishing he never answered the phone now.

I have said that a gabazillion times. I’ll NEVER understand it-ever.

Two run lead may be insurmountable for this team.

Tiger luck.

Bauer has ripped MLB and Manfred personally numerous times through social media. This is clearly personal on Manfred’s part regarding punishment. MLB hates the guy and is going for the jugular.

This topic may not be specific to investing but it is an interesting read and don’t know that this is as public as it should be. https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1088562/big-changes-may-be-coming-to-traditional-medicare

Labor Department officials believe Fidelity Investments’s plan to allow investors to put bitcoin in their 401(k) accounts risks the retirement security of Americans, a senior administrator said. “We have grave concerns with what Fidelity has done,” Ali Khawar, acting assistant secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Khawar’s group works inside the Labor Department to regulate company-sponsored retirement plans. In the interview, he said he views cryptocurrency as speculative. There is “a lot of hype around ‘You have to get in now because you will be left behind otherwise,’” he said. WSJ

Not really sure where to put this and am pretty sure most everyone has already seen this dated article on the The Bird. Really good read for Tiger fans looking for something to smile about these days. https://vault.si.com/vault/2001/07/02/mark-fidrych-in-1976-the-bird-flew-into-baseball-free-of-guile-a-little-bit-gullible-and-absolutely-lovable-twenty-five-years-later-hes-the-same-rare-bird