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SIX. Good number, six.

BERT BERT BERT BERT BERT BERT!!!!!

We are going to get Will Vest v. Jose Ramirez AB in the bottom of the 9th up 1, aren't we? God dammit.

Can the pen record 12 outs without a run? I'm doubtful. They need more.

DING DING DING A SOLO SHOT

Genuinely feels like it will take the pitching staff being perfect the rest of the way and the Guardians pen making a mistake that a little leaguer could take advantage of.

Impressive job by Perez to just end the inning himself instead of making us watch Tork strikeout again first.

Normally a four-pitch walk to the 2-hitter would be a good sign for an inning. But I know better.

There's your one Flaherty, go with God.

Are they just showing a replay of yesterday's game with the scoring chance here? Or will they do something with it?

Did y'all know that kid debuted in the playoffs? I had no idea. Next you'll tell me Kershaw and Stafford were high school teammates.

20 innings of postseason baseball. 1 earned run.

I assure you we can strike ourselves out, Mr. Umpire. They don't need your help.

I think Campbell has embraced it too. Whether it's the funny bits on McAfee about watching the wave while we threw the ball to Penei and making the wrong call on a fake punt, or wearing the race car helmet to a press conference, or the funny moments in many other press conferences. He's perfectly okay being thought of as the dumdum behind the scenes, while behind closed doors I think he's just as involved in offensive game planning and scheming as Johnson, now Morton.

Funny enough, I think people do still question his intellect. I think that's what led into both the narrative of how amazing Ben Johnson was and how big of a step back the Lions were supposed to take this year without him and Glenn. "It couldn't be Campbell who is doing so much great work with the Lions, it must have been the coordinators!"

With it not being a season ending injury, I doubt they do anything substantial. Certainly not sending away significant draft capital. What do you do with Arnold, Reed, and Stingley in 2026? I'm definitely not ready to give up on Arnold. If you're looking at four weeks for Reed, that's Browning, Mahomes, Mayfield, and McCarthy/Wentz, followed by the Bye Week. Obviously Mahomes and Mayfield can burn us in the air, but I don't foresee any addition being able to counter those two in time anyway. I think we are probably going to be better off just going next man up until Reed can return.

Honestly with that one, I doubt he knew or realized real time. Unless someone in the booth told him, he wouldn't have seen it from the sideline. Even the broadcasters didn't realize it until later their on-call official brought it up. Granted, it's not like he was ever particularly emotional on the sideline.

I feel like Burrow running the offense from a wheelchair in shotgun formation could have better results.

I always thought Caldwell was the type who would get the baseline out of his players. Seldom more, never less. Is that good enough to win a championship? Well if Peyton Manning is your QB, it’ll get you awfully close. He’d probably do pretty well with the Lions current roster. On the 2019 Lions though it wasn’t going to be good enough unless we found a hell of a lot better GM than Martin Mayhew or Bob Quinn. That was unrealistic, and Caldwell was not going to inspire us to win games where the other team wanted it more (e.g., Bengals). Or to win 11 games with a 8/9 win roster. So, he needed to go. Campbell OTOH is the type who can take a guy like Malcolm Rodriguez or Christian Mahogany, taken in the 6th round as fringe NFL talent, and make them play to the best of their ability every single game. Make them improve into starters. Campbell will turn a 1-16 roster into a 3-13-1 result; a 6-11 roster into 9-8; 10-7 into 12-5; and 12-5 into 15-2. With Campbell, the baseline isn’t good enough.

FIFTEEN runners left on base in a playoff game. ONE earned run in two playoff games. I would say it's unbelievable but I've seen enough in the last six months to know it's not just believable, but to be expected.

Imagine having the capability of doing something with a middle-middle fastball. Couldn't be us.

So predictable.

My memory of Bengals games is the Christmas Eve loss to the Marvin Lewis led Bungals in 2017. Lions came in 8-6 absolutely needing a win to put themselves in playoff position. Bungals had already bungled the season, came in at 5-9. So naturally the Lions lost 26-17. It was my last straw on Jim Caldwell.

Win or lose, they don't deserve to win. Too many left on base, asking too much of your pitching. Just like most of the last 163 games.

Fouling off these middle-middle mid-90s fastballs is infuriating.