Tiger337

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

I would pay to see Skubal pitch. The guy is a bulldog.

How much would they have to pay you to watch Baez?

4 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Sometimes you just see when someone is DONE

Kirk Gibson's second run with the Tigers

O.J. with the Niners

Iverson with the Pistons

Hatcher and Modano with the Wings

Javy is right there.   It's just obvious.    Not saying his career is done, but he's done as far as being a Tiger.   This isn't just a slump.  

Gibson did OK in his second run with the Tigers.  In his last season, he hit .260/.358/.449.  His performance would make him one the best hitters on the current squad. 

Just now, SeattleMike said:

Third youngest team and playing .500 ball is actually quite encouraging. 

They are doing about what I expected.  I thought there was a chance they could do better if they had a break out from some young hitters, but it hasn't happened.  I don't know if I am encouraged, but I an not disappointed or surprised.  

That Fielder photo is one of my all-time favorite Tiger photos.  I remember seeing it in the local paper and thinking how cool it was to have the slugger on the roof where he hit some of his most majestic homers.  His first season with the Tigers was really special.  Having a relative unknown coming to the Tigers and hitting 50 homers in an era when that just didn't happen was magical.  

4 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

right - as a spectator sport it has never provided the drama or football or the speed of hockey and that's why to me it comes down to the experience. I enjoy basketball as a spectator sport though I never played it at all.  I have a hard time imagining I would ever watch a baseball game if I hadn't played at it so much. The appeal (to me) is watching a SS snare a liner and knowing exactly what that felt like, or knowing the  unique feeling when you have hit the ball dead on. I can't bring that level of 'intimacy' to watching any other sport - so the bar for those sports to be interesting to me as a spectator is higher, and they provide that in a way that baseball really didn't have to for it's 1st 100 years or so. Or maybe another analogy would be that I think musicians themselves are the core group of jazz fans - because they are better able to experience what an improv player is doing at more levels, while the rest of us can only hear it.

I played baseball, but my love for baseball started before I really played it much.  I was mostly a box score and radio fan as a kid, so it was the numbers that drew me to the game.  Other games have a lot of numbers now too, but I don't how many fans get into basketball/hockey because they love the stats.  Probably not as many as baseball, at least not initially.  

7 minutes ago, buddha said:

pick a triple a shortstop out of a hat and he'll be better than baez.

Offensively maybe.  Defense would be more difficult.  The end result is there are probably available shortstops better than Baez, but probably not so much better that the Tigers would be tempted to eat his contract.  

Young fans don't like baseball because it's boring compared to sports like basketball and football.  There is no way to make it as exciting as other sports without ****ing it up so much the fans they already have won't like it anymore.  I think this is why they have always tried appeal to older fans by stressing history and tradition.  You can't please everyone.  

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Riley on a 1 for 24

That's because they keep moving him around.  Should have kept him leadoff!

I was thinking of picking Weathers up of the waiver wire in my roto league just to pitch against the Tigers.  Then I got excited about last night's game and didn't want to have to root against them tonight.  

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Maybe you didn't want an idea of why so many Americans want autocratic military rule after all, then.

You could express try expressing that idea without disrespecting soldiers.  

19 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Pretty much the most disrespectful thing I have ever seen you post.

I didn't like it either.  To criticize politicians for abusing the military is one thing.  Disrespecting soldiers is another thing entirely.  

1 hour ago, The Ronz said:

Exactly this!

And win by a landslide too.

I don't get your insistence on a landslide.  There hasn't been a landslide in this country in a long time and there likely won't be in the near future.  It will be a close election again.  

On 5/12/2024 at 1:43 PM, chasfh said:

They did get an education—in the militarization of America society over the past two decades, and the normalization of our kids going overseas to become warriors in distant lands populated by people not like them who don’t want them there, and then they are praised when they get back and feted at places like every single ballgame you go to.

No wonder Americans thinks of soldiers as benevolent gods on Earth appointed to protect them by raining death and hellfire on people they hate. That’s what they want here, because that’s what they’ve been trained to want here.

We should honor soldiers for their courage and sacrifice as much as we can.  They deserve our praise and admiration.  

It's the people who tell them what to do who can be a problem.  

Just now, Sports_Freak said:

Faedo blows the lead and gets the win.

He's got the will to win.  

2 homers down.  38 to go for Tork.  

47 minutes ago, Shelton said:

Not the first time you were wrong. 

 

Not the first time you pointed out my wrongness.  

What threw me was the auto racing posts?  What is that? 

15 minutes ago, The Ronz said:

I would be stunned if Trump was found guilty.

Absolutely stunned.

There is already precedence for this - John Edwards - who was found not guilty due to a hung jury/mistrial.

I expect this case to go exactly that way. 

Not that Trump isn't guilty. He was first charged for a crime in 1973 - that was over 50 years ago - and he beat that charge and every charge since.

 

You are absolutely correct.  Anybody that thinks he is going to jail is delusional.  The worst thing that might happen is he'll get fined and then end up not paying it.  

On 4/25/2024 at 8:08 AM, chasfh said:

If they’re really looking for wage/income/wealth equity, they need to balance the scale on the other side by raising taxes and slashing abatements and subsidies on the ultra wealthy and their business activities. 

The wealthy don't want that and they always get what they want.   We live in a world designed by the weathy for the benefit of the wealthy.  

I am pretty sure the new poster Shelton is neither Chris nor MTS Shelton, but it made me think:

Shelton career: 3.9 WAR 110 OPS+

Torkelson career: -1.5 92 OPS+

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

True, you did say you don't want to hear excuses, although your post mostly criticized his not hitting for power at the big league level, implying his "supposed" performance in the minors might have been a mirage. I think it was real, and I'm not so worried that Colt Keith's power output won't click at some point.

I have seen him touted as someone with the potential for immense power (e.g. 70/70 raw power at fangraphs). I have no scouting skills, but he strikes me as me more of a line drive hitter with pretty good power rather than elite power.  Just watching his at bats, I would guess that his hit skill is better than his power.  

26 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Hitting big league hitting is harder and takes more of an adjustment to get right than hitting minor league pitching.

It's completely different from minor league pitching which is why most young hitters fail initially and many never figure it out.  I'm not being critical of his performance. It's just that the ballpark excuse sounds lame.  

8 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

383 is reasonable HR if you pull at least to the power alley - if you are to the center field side of the power alley you have no real complaint until you've hit it more like 400'

a home run in exactly 1/2 (15) the parks says nothing more than that you play on an average field

If there is one thing Hinch needs this team to do it's stop making excuses for themselves and start hitting the ball. he needs to stomp any player self-pity about the ballpark dead.

Yes, I don't want hear excuses.  Keith isn't hitting the ball hard like he supposedly did in the minors.  I thought one of his best assets was supposed to be his power.  

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Henning is such a tool. 383 is not a HR in any CF anywhere and he certainly should know that.

What's so ridiculous is that he's been in every major league park countless times, its absurd he makes statement that people will rely on assuming he's giving them reliable reporting when he's not.

I  don't think Henning said it.  Keith did.

Tork!  First of 40!