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Start pulling out some cords so you can watch the game without all that noise in the background. I left work 30 minutes early to make it to one of the few Detroit bars in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area.... and I'm pleased to say I'm not the only Tigers fan here.

Jake Rogers' mustache remains majestic. I'll keep an eye on it.... just for you of course....

Fun umpiring fact: umpires for the World Series are usually chosen from the ALDS/NLDS crews, and new umpires are brought in to work the ALCS/NLCS. So for all the bad we are seeing, they're going to choose like eight of them to work the World Series.

That's my catcher and DON'T YOU FORGET IT

Exhibits A and B as to why they haven't implemented an automated strike zone at the MLB level. Exhibit C would be the report card they give to De Jesus, which is going to be neither of these. Which one is right all just depends on your margin of error and what you're okay with being called and not. These systems are imperfect.

Bad teams with stupid owners do stupid things that keep them bad. The Browns, Jets, Panthers, Jaguars, Bengals, Raiders, and Titans all qualify. They might accidentally catch lightning in a bottle once a decade, but they’ll never have sustained success until their owner dies, is replaced by his elderly wife who always has sunglasses on, and then the wife passes it on to the daughter named Sheila who actually puts her best foot forward in fixing the losing culture.

Rodgers and all his little friends are good as gone if the Jets don’t make the playoffs. And the Jets will be back to the drawing board.

Most guys don’t get to choose. There are only 32 jobs, only around 5 are open any given cycle, and usually those five coincide with bad owners who have a rotating cast at the head coach position. If you’re Ben Johnson though, you can afford to be picky. If I were him, I wouldn’t take a job from most of those owners you listed. Certainly not Tepper, Johnson, Jones, Davis, or Haslem. Mike Brown might be an exception because he’s got Joe Burrow. I could see him going to Philly if the Eagles can Sirianni.

Not a chance. Beyond the QB, it’s ownership ineptitude. Ben Johnson can choose his own boss, and no one is choosing Woody Johnson.

If they were going to fire him for a 2-3 start with a 40yo QB who hasn’t completed a pass in two years, they should have fired him at the end of last season. The Jets are Jetting. It’s idiotic if they think Jeff Ulbrich is going to win any more games than Saleh would have.

NFL Coaches Hired in 2021, along with grade given by Sports Illustrated: 1. Robert Saleh (A): fired 2. Brandon Staley (A-): fired 3. Arthur Smith (B+): fired 4. Urban Meyer (B): fired 5. Nick Sirianni (B-): hot seat 6. Dan Campbell (C+): Mayor-Elect of the City of Detroit 7. David Culley (D+): fired Maybe this is why SI fired all their staff this year.

Whatever it was called live is what was going to stand. I think it’s atrocious for an umpire to say that a ball that the naked eye can clearly see bounce bounced off of a small strip of fast moving leather as opposed to the ground though. He’s just blindly guessing at that point.

This is not finalized yet, it takes about a day to cross all the t's and dot all the i's, but if it stands it will indeed be the worst performance in the 2024 postseason to date, and one of the worst postseason performances in MLB history. Skubal recorded four strikes on two of his eight strikeouts, and five strikes on one of them.

I was hoping for a GOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, but I wasn’t disappointed.

Trying to explain to my non-sports girlfriend why I needed to listen to this was a challenge. ”The Tigers - well all sports teams - have their own guy who calls all the games on the radio, and when there is a big play I like to hear how they call it…….. I know it makes no sense but I PROMISE if you ask any sports person they’ll get it.”

Skubal had a strikeout with five recorded strikes on the K Zone earlier, all five pitches were above the last pitch of the game.

Now for a second off day in three days to travel 2 1/2 hours northwest

Yee of little faith. I never doubted the Gritty Tigs. 😅😅😅

Win one in Detroit and trust in Skubal.

I double posted this but it was true to the bitter end.

THREE GAME SERIES

If the TBS K zone is remotely close to being accurate, De Jesus may have the worst strike zone in postseason history: