gehringer_2

would have been nice to have Keith taking that AB.

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

I don’t disagree on principle, but rule 5.06(b)(3)(C) is pretty clear that when a fielder tumbles into the stands after a catch, the batter is out, the ball is dead, and all runners advance one base, and the rule does not draw a distinction between fair and foul.

He just can't have a foot down in the stands before the catch - correct?

1 hour ago, buddha said:

way too many executives leave yzerman and do well.  verbeek.  brisebois.  yzerman returns to detroit and is now working only with former red wings he played with and the results are not so good.

This is becoming all too obvious isn't it? Is Ilitch paying attention?

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

I will say this about the Benetti hire: I think he has done as much as anyone to rekindle interest in the Tigers among the non-diehard part of the fan base. Most people regard it as a pleasure to tune him in, and I can’t help but conclude that he is a key reason the Tigers more than doubled their TV ratings in 2025 over 2024, as more causal Tiger fans discovered him. From that standpoint, it was a genius hire to bring him on.  

6 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

He was a good hire, but their ratings are up because they are winning.  Fans will tune in to see a winning team regardless of the announcer.  A good broadcaster can improve ratings a bit, but I don't believe that Benetti doubled the ratings.  

Don't forget the converse. The broadcast with Shep was getting so bad you were going to lose fans even if the team was winning.

FanDuel appears to be officially dead

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/48388773/nba-nhl-teams-told-main-street-sports-network-end-operations

38 minutes ago, buddha said:

i dont know, but soderblom didnt do jack here and now that he's in pittsburgh he's playing physical and scoring.  sooooo....

IDK, I always thought he at least made the other team aware he was on the ice, which is more than most RW forwards achieve. I would have liked to have seen them given him more run.

41 minutes ago, buddha said:

i dont know, but soderblom didnt do jack here and now that he's in pittsburgh he's playing physical and scoring.  sooooo....

I've often had the feeling in recent years that the Wings are a team where players come to get worse. So do they have really poor coaching and development people? I don't think TM is a bad NHL coach, but guys are not exactly blossoming under his coaching when they come up here either. Does Yzerman have a toxic philosophy about how to manage young players that has been enforced by him only hiring coaches that share the view and they are all just wrong?

An org that can't progress has to make changes if that is going to change. I get that there are a lot of reasons CI is going to be slow to fire SY, but I can at still hope Ilitch would at least tell Yzerman that it's time to turn over his staff if he wants to remain the guy in charge. They just are not accomplishing anything more than 'about average' and you can't get better with that FO performance level.

1 hour ago, casimir said:

"All your ovoids are belong to us"

walker looks like he has it all the way - until his arm hits the wall and gets deflected just enough to make it a miss.

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

Terrible outing by Jack. Hinch should have an extremely short leash on him.

They love that he's a high K guy, but if he's going to give it right back up in walks and HBP the WHIP ends up so-so and the results likewise. 

Jason is incorrect. The last run is Anderson's

Did you know Anderson had remade himself as a pitcher in Korea?

7 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

That’s on Hinch.  Flaherty should have been on a short leash to start the inning.

He and Harris are off to a rough start to the season.  

Jack is a guy I'd like to see Hinch give a less rope than he usually does. Sure he works his way out sometimes, but I think the probability of an inning going south for Jack in a hurry is high enough I'd be willing to give up the times he gets out  of it. Esp when he's at his third or 4th jam.

Kerry just hit it out opposite field on a half checked swing. That's why he's hard to get out of the lineup.

this game starting out a little sloppy. As long as the Cards are sloppier...

weird inning for Jack. He would have been in even worse trouble if Walker had had the confidence to challenge the 2nd strike call. It was absolutely a miss.

On 4/3/2026 at 10:22 AM, Jason_R said:

I stumbled across this site which shows ice time for various line combinations: https://frozenpool.dobbersports.com/

Just for grins I looked up Marco Kasper. People talk about a sophomore slump but last year he spent almost half his even strength ice time with Larkin/Raymond or Kane/Debrincat. This season he spent less than a quarter of his even strength ice time with them. This is not so much a sophomore slump as it is the obvious consequence of pairing a kid with linemates who are replacement level or worse. 

It goes both ways though. I remember when playing with Pavel Datsyuk earned Abdelkater a contract that we found out was a mistake once Pavel went back to Russia. If he's not good enough to be at least somewhat productive without a lot of help  then he's probably not a building block.

58 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Not only that, but if you play each position enough, your brain can map out the difference between needing a certain-sized glove at one position versus a different-size glove at another, even if the difference is a fraction of an inch, basically because of the thousands and thousands of balls you have fielded at each.

easy to assume, more difficult to prove. I'd be interested to see some controlled work that shows how well the brain actually does avoid crossing itself up. You certainly do see the issue in industrial safety incidents where context has changed.

I think the more technical term for what happened to Philips is 'a bender.'

2 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

Tol wins 7-1; Max 2/3, SF, BB, no Ks; keeps rolling on

Hitting side good, Madden throwing 30 pitches and not getting out of the 1st not so good.

47 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Not sure—but the idea of an outdoor Minnesota baseball stadium has always struck me as dumb.

Summer evenings in the Twin Cities are pretty nice. Sure you are at risk at the beginning and end of the season but the rest of the summer outside is a pretty nice payoff. They could have tried for retractable but they didn't have the room at that site, the $$ probably weren't available, and the easiest retractable designs are open air so they don't keep in heat which is probably a bigger issue than precipitation.

Not a terrible send with 2 out, but OTOH, the Tigers have been hitting the ball hard.

1 minute ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

trump only likes pilots who don't get shot down.

8 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

F15 was shot down.

5 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

McGonigle 3B

Torres DH

Carpenter RF

Greene, R LF

Dingler C

McKinstry 2B

Torkelson 1B

Meadows, P CF

Báez, J SS

Classic L/R alternation.