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    April Game Thread

    in Detroit Red Wings

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    7 hours ago, oblong said:

    The Kane goal in Chicago was definitely the highlight of the season until last night, or last week if you must, but maybe I'm too level headed than most sports fans and I am not trying to be cocky about it.  I get it. It's sports.  It's an outlet.  Take the highs and lows and vent.  Better to do that in sports than real life.  

    My point is just enjoy this because I always say the ride up for a team is so much better than the ride down.  IT's all new and fresh and less stressful.  The 2006 Tigers were more fun than the 2013-2014 Tigers and for the Wings franchise I always had a soft spot for 87 and 88.  1997 was as awesome of an experience you can get but part of that was due to feeling "It's about freaking time!".  Then for 12 years it was Stanley Cup or Bust.

     

    I hate the Maple leafs so bad that season Allan Bester and Wendel Clark

    Hitting Woes... who's to blame?

    in Detroit Tigers

    Posted · Edited by Toddwert

    53 minutes ago, chasfh said:

    I might have been one of the first, if not the first, to hypothesize that the main issue might not be that the coaching is failing the hitters, but that this collection of hitters just might not be good enough. After all, not every player can produce at a Hall of Fame level if only he had the right coaching. Some guys simply have very low ceilings. I think we might have a few of those guys on this team right now.

    That said, I also can't say that this is true, or even that this is what I firmly believe. It's still just a hypothesis for me, and it may not really be provable one way or the other, because how do you do so except through the eventual results years from now? So I expect we will have an active and spirited discussion about this during the coming couple of years.

    But I am glad we've gotten this discussion rolling, because frankly, I was getting a bit tired of hearing the hitting coaches, and by extension A.J. Hinch, getting raked for failing to put All-Star-level hitters in the batter's box this year. Not that I'm a slappy for Hinch and the coaches, but it seemed like too simplistic an implication being made: change the manager and coaches and the guys we have now will become All-Star hitters. To Oblong's point, there is a force on the other side of the field actively trying to thwart us and that we have to work through. But, also, we were told by multiple sources (ZIPS, Marcel, PECOTA, etc.) coming in that this team was going to be a bottom-of-baseball offense, and I'm pretty sure they were not predicting that because of the coaches we have.

    its possible that Tork and Carpenter and Rodger are at their ceilings..they battled to get to majors and Tork played at a top flight college that may have already got a lot out of him.... I did notice Tigers social media freaked out that the pre season predictions had the Tigers around an 80 win team... at the end of day there is a lot or liked good in the minors and werent stars in the majors

    TV Series

    in General Discussion

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    anyone else watching Fallout on Prime its based on the video game series its in a post-apocalyptic world with different factions of survivors of a nuclear war. The vibe of world is kind of if the 1950's never went away.... only 2 episodes in and I like it so far

    4/11/24 1:10PM Twins @ Tigers

    in Game Threads

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    8 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

    the turnout they had today/tonight probably doesn't move the needle.  There were have been 4,000 there tonight.  

    I'd rather err on the side of caution and not risk a player losing footing and blowing out a knee.       It's April and it's a team from our region.............lots and lots and lots of chances for makeups.

     

    The right decision was made. 

    agreed ... Riley Greene turns an ankle in some random thursday game when it shouldve been a rain out is gonna be annoying

    4/11/24 1:10PM Twins @ Tigers

    in Game Threads

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    32 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

    It's clear all the way from my house to Comerica. Has been for hours...

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    what sense does it make to have rain out for no reason? its going to be traditional Double header so you lose on the tonights gate and food and what not

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