Mr.TaterSalad

I am really trying to be positive about this team but it's hard. It's playoff baseball and it's been enjoyable to watch. But this team was so dreadful the last 30 games and so pedestrian the last 50-60 games. With the historic collapse they had to close out the season it is hard to get out of this negative mindset and just be blindly enthusiastic and ra-ra. I'm trying though, I really am.

But the Tigers lineup simply isn't hitting lately, outside of two games. Our lineup has averaged on 3.87 runs per game over the last 30 games. They are averaging 3.86 in the postseason overall. Maybe I an unfairly comparing two different things by holding Skubal to one standard and our lineup to another. I have just lost faith in this lineup at this point in the season to put together back to back games of real productivity.

I think 1-800-Call-Sam Stadium has a nice ring to it. 😒

Skubal against the Mariners this season is 0-3 with an average of 3 runs given up per game. I think if we regress to our mean as of late and the Mariners play their average against Skubal they'll score between 3-4 runs. With the way this lineup has been hitting lately, 3-4 runs may be all it takes.

I thought it was vaccines that caused autism, no? That's what the right and anti-vax HHS Secretary RFK Jr. had been telling us for years. “I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated." - RFK Jr.

I expect a loss here because I believe yesterday was an anomaly and a mirage. This team is still bad at hitting. They still have poor approaches to the plate overall. They still press and swing at too many first pitches. They still strike out a lot and leave far too runners on-base, in scoring position. They still have issues with their bullpen. Yesterday was fun and I enjoyed it. Friday, I feel will be a reality check and a regression back to the mean. Skubal being on the mound brings me some level of confidence, but not much. His stats against the Mariners this season are atrocious. This season he has a 4.58 ERA, a 4.9 FIP, a 1.41 whip and averages less than 6 innings pitched per game against Seattle. A few years back Nelson Cruz was the Tiger killer and he just had our pitching staff's number. It feels like the Mariners have Skubal's number for whatever reason. Maybe it is because he is from Seattle and the pressure feels different? I don't know what the reasoning is, but the numbers aren't good. I want to be proven wrong. I hope to be proven wrong. I want to win this game in the worst way and go onto the ALCS. I just don't have a good feeling that it will happen. I feel like I am backed up by the statistical norms of the last three months of baseball that this team has played. In a sport where statistics and measurable analytics matter greatly, the math points to us losing.

Don't forget about supporting rape and walking in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant.

You voted for a man who walked in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant and who was on the flight logs and best friends with a child pedophile. Furthermore, the man you voted was accused and convicted of rape. Yet, you have no problem with a grown man walking on on teenage girls changing or rape as you still voted for him. I'll take your bait on Joe Biden and the Epstein files. The contents of Ashley Biden's diary have not been fully verified, just that there is indeed a diary out there that belonged to Ashley Biden. Furthermore, we have no idea if the shower story is true, nor the age she was when if it actually happened. Obviously, if an adult parent is routinely showering with a child that's a significant problem. It's also a significant problem if the child is older and doesn't have some sort of disability that requires assistance bathing. Regarding Epstein, I know that I was calling for the release of information on Epstein, including a potential client list, during Biden's presidency. There were others I know in my left and Democratic circles of friends that were wanting the information made public as well.

The President you support is a loon, it's been well documented. He's also a child pervert who walks in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant. He was also best friends with a child pedophile. Last I checked, Marjorie Taylor Greene was not best friends with Jeffery Epstein and did not walk in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant. Is she a loon? Yes. Is she right about the government shutdown? Also yes.

Oh, now when she doesn't march to the Dear Leaders talking points we can have her? She's right. She understands who has the majority in the Senate with 52 votes. The Republicans can open the government with their votes alone anytime they want with the nuclear option. It's on them for not using it. She gets it.

5/3 Field or 5/3 Park sounds so underwhelming. At least with Comerica we've grown accustomed to it and can even nickname it Copa. I don't think I'll ever call it 5/3 whatever, just like I never called Pine Knob DTE.

I can't believe some people wanted Harris to be more aggressive at the trade deadline or callup Kevin McGonigle with a lineup like this. Who wanted that to happen?

TORRES!!!!!!!!!!

5-3 now. They might as well be down 10-3 lol

RILEY GREENE YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!!

Great inning by Melton. Does AJ leave him in for another inning then?

Nolan Melton . . . who knew.

I am shocked they have made this comeback. Keep it up Tigers.

3-3 game now, no way are we going to come back from this. Might as well be 6-6.

3-0 Mariners. No way we come back from this now. Might as will be down 6-0.

Is Hinch the new Dombrowski with the criticism he has received during these playoffs? Are we all a little bit tigersrok at heart today?

Maybe. I think the real answer is that this team's weaknesses are masqueraded by playing in the single worst division in baseball. They get the benefit of playing several bad to mediocre teams throughout the season. Playing those teams disguises how bad some of their flaws really are like hitting and the bullpen.

I don't get taking Mize out this early. Disagree with that decision by AJ.

How can it not be? When you are out there pitching your ass off and you give up 2-3 runs at most and that is a hole your lineup can't dig itself out of, I don't see how that isn't demoralizing. You basically have to try and pitch flawless baseball every time because the lineup behind you is filled with the likes of Kimera Bartee, Melvin Nieves, and Paul Bako.