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    5/8/24 1:10PM Tigers @ Guardians

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    2 hours ago, SoCalTiger said:

    I am good with Harris and Hinch. No need for DD and Smokes. I like the direction of the team etc but I just wish the urgency was ticked up a bit. By that I mean adding a player or two on short term contracts via free agency. We could have had JD or Turner for one year as an example. They didn't need to play every day and the youngsters could have been brought along with a bit less playing time. They can be traded or just cut when the kids settle in and start hitting. 

    I don't like the blanket statements like "year one is for evaluating what we have" and "this year we will struggle to hit as we provide runway for the newbies ". Both of those can be accomplished while still adding some veteran players to help us win and take some pressure off the youngsters as well. It's ok to platoon your first year in the bigs or play part time. 

    We've had nice start to 2024 but look how much of it is attributed to Mark Cahna and Urshela. We could have had one or two more vets as well and still played Meadows, Keith, Wencel, Tork and Verling etc plenty.  Spend a few million each year on one year stop gap players until we don't need to. Make winning today just as important as developing for tomorrow. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.

    agreed there seems to be an all or nothing approach with Harris .. you can have  a few vets sprinkled in with the young gus and maybe soften the struggles a little bit they all dont need to play everyday out of the gate 

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    2024 DETROIT TIGERS REGULAR SEASON THREAD

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    23 minutes ago, chasfh said:

    The 1901, 1902, and 1903 Tigers would definitely like a word with you and your AI. 😁

    Speaking of which, why does every AI song or poem read like it was written by a Disney studio fugitive?

    you might want to disappear for while the Disney Mafia can be scary 😉

    5/8/24 1:10PM Tigers @ Guardians

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    9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

    I believe a key reason Avila got such a long leash from Tigers fans, and Harris is getting a way shorter one, is that Avila failed using tried and true baseball methods of scouting and drafting and roster construction, the kind we all grew up reading and learning about, which traditional fans are far more likely to forgive; whereas Harris is the first guy bringing what is considered newfangled new age thinking to Detroit, even though the better organizations started moving to such thinking as long ago as a couple of decades.

    This isn't anyone here in particular, but a substantial percentage of fans are still holding out for Harris/Hinch to get ****canned and Doombrowski/Leyland to make their triumphant returns.

    I think a lot of people dont realize that just because Avila got canned the fan slate dosnt totally get wiped clean we still had to watch the 2019 Tigers and get our hopes up after the 2021 season we thought the Tigers had turned the corner to only be crushed by the 2022 and to give away two great players (jv and JD) for nothing so its not like we dont have fun scars that havent heal.... just point out why people may have a shorter fuse for Harris

    5/8/24 1:10PM Tigers @ Guardians

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    Posted · Edited by Toddwert

    2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

    I know the game is a little different now, but isn't it funny how guys like Sparky and Leyland just put their best 9 out there and let them go and they somehow managed to win?    Just pick your best guys and put them in the roles they're meant for.    This ain't a video game. 

    when he gets a team with more then one all-star and a HOFer Position player then we can compare... Sparky and Leyland had way more talent then Hinch ever had 

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    5/8/24 1:10PM Tigers @ Guardians

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    1 minute ago, chasfh said:

    Haven’t you learned yet that when the Tigers win it’s because of the players, and when the Tigers lose it’s because of M.F. Hinch?

    and when the Lions lose its the QB and the Wings lose its the Goalie

    5/8/24 1:10PM Tigers @ Guardians

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    10 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

    We’re at a best a .500 team, so not surprised to see water seeking it’s own level with us.

    Poor Reese.  Might win an ERA title without getting a W.

    getting close to the magic 40 games and it looks like a .500 team not much different then everyone thought at the start of the season

    2024 DETROIT TIGERS REGULAR SEASON THREAD

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    2 minutes ago, oblong said:

    I do not get the hype over these... maybe because I'm old but I really don't give a ****.  What is the big deal?  Soccer's always been "the sport of the future" for all of my 50 years of living.  

    THe Tigers had a tweet with some players walking into a room seeing them and they reacted as if they saw Sidney Sweeney starting at them nude with a bowl of strawberries.

    I 100% agree with you to me they look like soccer jerseys

    5/5/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Yankees

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    1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

    Get swept in Cleveland and season over. Time for a tear down and rebuild. These kids can't play.

    I dont know about tearing down but maybe we should trade some pitching for a little hitting

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