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Of the Opening Day starting five pitchers, Joey Wentz is very likely to be the only one still active and pitching at the end of the season. So goes the Tigers luck.

Looking closer at the IL playoff format: The first half winners will host the three game series. There will be no home games for the second half winners. So Norfolk and Iowa will host. The winners of these two brackets will go to Vegas for the championship games. Not really sure why there isn’t at least one home game for each team that makes the playoffs. When all else fails, I blame Rob Manfred.

Anyone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. The first half winners in the International League were Norfolk and Iowa. Norfolk in the East and Iowa in the West. Currently the second half leaders are Durham in the East and Nashville in the West. So, if the regular season ended today, Durham would play Norfolk in a series and Iowa would play Nashville in a series. I believe these are best of three series. The East winner would advance to play the West winner. Don’t know if the championship game is a single game or not. From this point I believe the IL champ would play the Pacific Coast League champ in a single game championship.

I wouldn’t take anything for granted against the A’s. They’ve been a better team as of late.

Dan said the Tigers haven’t swept the Angels at their place since August 1993. I’m no math guru, but that’s 30 ******* years!

Jobe finishes six innings. Four hits against six strikeouts- zero walks!

Bought tickets this morning for the Erie/Richmond playoff game Tuesday night. It’s as close as Erie plays to our area. The Richmond team led all AA teams in attendance this year. Considering they play in an old and very outdated stadium, it’s quite a compliment to the organization and fans there.

I’ve never seen so many different color baseball shoes as these guys wear now…on the same team. Neon this and neon that. Don’t even start on all the chains, literally, that these guys wear around their necks. The only thing that is uniform on the MLB mandated uniforms is that ugly Nike slug on the chest.

Tork lives!

Cohen is a genius! 😁 David Stearns hiring is proof that Cohen is learning.

Is there a game today?

Currently Jobe is not on the Erie roster, fwiw.

Monroe in the booth with Dan. 👎

As the late Jim Price would say, ‘You can’t make this up.’

He thinks so anyway.

According to the resident manager, Faedo was heading to the pen and Wentz was going to stay in the rotation. So much for that idea.

MLB has Faedo listed as the probable starter against Cole. Just last week Hinch stated that Faedo would transition to a middle innings reliever. Perhaps this is a planned bullpen game and Alex is first up. We’ll see.

As of this evening there are four teams in the NL tied for the third wild card spot.

I believe that is correct.

Read a piece in the Freep this week, I believe it was, that Faedo will trend toward being a middle innings guy. Hinch is talking about Faedo being a two or three innings type reliever. I think it makes sense at this point.

Just finished reading Geezer Butler’s book, Into the Void. As much as I followed the original Black Sabbath, there was a lot of information about the band I was not aware of. Butler is a very down to earth guy. I’d love to sit and have a pint or two with him. If you had any interest in the band I would recommend it. It is officially an autobiography.

I saw the original Who on November 20, 1971 in the old Charlotte (NC) Coliseum. They were on the ‘Who’s Next’ Tour. The opening act was some local band-can you imagine opening for The Who! The Who were awesome, as one would expect. This is the only time I ever saw them but I believe they were probably at their peak at about this time.

The Tigers, according to a report by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, have placed veteran right-hander Jose Cisnero on waivers