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They got through Paddock, now to see if they can get through Rollercoaster ride #2.

They need to win 1 of the 3 games in this series. If they can pull that off they still have 7.5 game lead and that should be more than enough at this point. Paddack and Flaherty do not inspire confidence. And when Skubal pitches, he goes up against Wacha, who is a tough nut to crack.

If it happened today, Marichal might get a lifetime ban and rightfully so.

A non-Tiger, but he had the greatest season ever. Johnnie LeMaster, 1985. He slashed .128/.180/.160 for the season over 45 games and played for 3 mlb teams that season. Pittsburgh 57-104, Cleveland 60-102, and San Francisco 62-100. Played for 3 teams that lost 100 games that season.

There is a 0% chance Skubal resigns with Detroit.

So you're saying he was like Babe Ruth?

Right now the A's have a really nice lineup and the Tigers have some pretty awful pitching. Tough to win that scenario.

Usually once you get it going it's okay. The ads are just at the beginning.

Reminds me of the Simpson episode with Darryl Strawberry. Then he pinch hits for him in the 9th because the pitcher was left handed.

Players win games. Managers lose them..

I was refering to people who want to realign the divisions...by putting both New York teams in the same division along with Boston and Philly just because they are close to each other. And had you quoted the very next sentence, that would have been clear. And what I wrote, had absolutely nothing to do with Indianapolis.

I use Sportsurge.to or Streameast to stream the games. Sometimes it's slow or stops, and you have to put up with and close out annoying betrivers pop ups ads before you actually get the game to stream, but it doesn't cost anything.

Because he is smarter than everyone else...just ask him and he'll tell you. No clue why he brought him out to start the 6th. Hinch is playing 3D Star Trek chess while everyone else is playing CandyLand.

A team that is 24 games over .500 with a pitcher who is 7-13. Flaherty has almost 25% (24.1%) of his teams losses. It's time to ship him to the bullpen or maybe as a 1 or 2 inning opener for someone.

Smartest man in the room with the quick hook on Flaherty. I think he should have kept him in there to give up more hits and runs.

Whew. Thankfully he didn't homer on a ground ball to second base.

Last year for the Dodgers, Flaherty allowed 18 ER in 22 innings in the postseason. 33 hits/bb in those 22 IP. He was awful.

Kyle Karros is playing for the Rockies. His dad is Eric Karros. I remember when his dad was a rookie. Yikes.

As far as geographical realignment goes, it seems irrelevant. Teams fly to their locations. It's not like they are taking a greyhound bus or riding the train. This isn't 1947. And there really isn't any egregious examples of teams misplaced. The AL West is the only division that even has anything questionable with the two Texas teams with Seattle.

They have a AAA team that averages under 7k per game. A city and area of over a million...that's awful. They would need to draw at least 4.5x that per game to be average. A city like Lansing with an A ball team draws nearly 5k a game. They are affiliated with the Pirates. Maybe the Pirates should just move to Indy and have Pittsburgh as their AAA team.

Cut 4 home games off the schedule

No way will they ever cut games off the schedule. They aren't going to lose the revenue from those games. Plus I'm sure TV contracts probably require so many dates. I cant believe there would be a realignment like that. Having Boston, both NY teams, and Philly in same division would be disastrous. The league loves it when all those teams are in the playoffs and this would assure probably 2 of those teams would not make it. Manfred doesnt really make any decisions. The owners make the decisions and they arent going to radically change the nl/al alignment and I cant believe they would cut 4 games off the schedule.

I am guessing he won't make 6 more regular season starts and they will start to limit his innings more down the stretch, especially if they have the division wrapped up.

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The issue is usually the owner. Look at Detroit when Ilitch Sr took over. He didn't really try to win for the first 15 years. Most people stopped caring or following them. I grew up in the mid 90s and didn't care about baseball at all even though I played a year in college. He started investing in talent and people started following the team again. Pizza Jr didn't try to win for 10 years or whatever. Most people stopped caring about the team. The last year and a half the Tigers started winning and people started caring again. The league should really crack down on trash owners and force them to actually try. Not sure what metric to use but they could do something. Maybe tie tv money into their effort?