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True, but I remember somebody on this board promising us we were going to love Baez. 😃

This is probably true. I just hope they are able to retain their top players through their prims. I don't want another Tampa Rays situations where they have to trade anybody who is too good. It has worked OK for them, but the lack of continuity would not be so fun.

Ride, not drive.

I probably wasn't clear but I am thinking more in general than the small sample size of this series.

Going to a play instead of a series deciding playoff game? If you were single and there was a hot chick involved, I could maybe OK it. But this is messed up.

It work both ways, but I think it may hurt Detroit more because their relievers are not as dominant. It's similar to why an elite starter can go three times through a line-up. but an average one can't.

Yes, This is a good point. It does take away the element of surprise when you see the same relievers over and over. It's not like the Tigers have dominating relievers.

Nope, and this one is actually 4 days for me because Monday is a day off too. Tonight, I got a pizza, saw the northern lights in person for the first time and watched the Tigers.

It would have been great to see them close out the series tonight, but I've got three days off from Friday to Sunday. After missing half the post-season due to work, I am looking forward to watching Skubal.

Do you think Malloy is a useful guy?

But they won the World Series when Reagan was President

I try to save enough where I'll be OK if I get zero social security.

Yeah, polls are less reliable than the used to be, but I'd still rather see Harris doing better than Trump in polling. I see this forum get very excited about good polls and then saying the polls are flawed or don't matter when it's bad news.

I am waiting until 70 before I collect SS. I hope it's still there at that time.

I am still half in the market (I am 62). All the money I need before I turn 70 goes into short-term or medium-term CDs so I welcome the high rates. I still have my long-term retirement money in a mutual fund.

I'm not pissing in my pants. As an aging white middle class male, the outcome of the election is not likely to affect me much either way other than having to watch half the males in the country jerk off to one of the dumbest people I've ever seen for the next four years. I am also concerned for the rest of the population. Harris is doing worse in the polls right now than Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020. That's a concern to me. What happened in 2022 may or may not be related to now.

I am not getting sucked into anything. I am just not a Democratic party cheerleader like you. I am aware of which polls lean Republican and some of these polls have been accurate in the past. Overall, it's looking like a dead heat and that historically has been good news for Trump. I am hoping that the pollsters have made the proper adjustments and that Trump no longer outperforms the polls, but I am prepared for he possibility that they have not.

I knew this was coming...

The polls haven't looked great for Harris this week. I know you can't tell anything from individual polls, but the aggregate seems to indicate that the post-debate momentum is gone and may be shifting back to Trump.

Yes, post-season is different because of all the days off. You could already see the trend starting in prevous years, although not nearly to the extent the Tigers are doing it. In the Tigers case, it's done out of necessity because they don't have enough starters. In other cases, it might be teams taking advantage of having starters left without a traditional role due to the schedule.

It's always a mix of both philosophies as it should be. Ideally, sabermetrics and scouting should complement each other, not be at odds with one another. As for whether the Tigers stand now, they definitely appear to be very saber inclined. They now employ more stat guys than any Tigers front office ever and Hinch pays a lot of attention to statistical reports in making decisions about all kinds of match-ups. The front office also uses a lot of analytics in all the transactions and player development. At the same time, a team needs to understand player personalities and the Tigers do seem concerned with adding certain types of personalities that will playwell together.

yeah, my assumption is that the vast majority of pofessional athletes are incredibly competitive.

It'definitely more fun that way. That's what the post-season is all about.

I don't think pitching chaos will become that big of a thing. There are too many things that can go wrong when you are depending on bullpen games day after day - injuries, pitchers getting tired, etc. I doubt the Tigers or anyone else will try this for a full season next year. What I could see is teams going with 3 or 4 regular starters followed by a bullpen game or two. I don't think we will see what the Tigers did this year repeated again, but that's what makes it so special.