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4 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Tork might be batting .180 and can't field, but he's clutch.  That's something you can't teach.  

He had to swing just out of the zone to get that. The other night he took strike three in almost the same place with the game on the line. 

And he went to RF.

Just now, Tiger337 said:

Tork might be batting .180 and can't field, but he's clutch.  

walk and a hit - Torkelson has to get back to that being his normal night and maybe he'll be OK.

22 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The running game has blown up in their face way too much this year.

but not that time.

29 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

this got me wondering: when was the last time the Tigers had a LH semi-regular 1B? (throwing, I mean, not just hitting)

I missed most of the time between Tony Clark and Cabrera and almost all of the '90s, so the last one I can think of offhand is Dave Bergman.

Carlos Pena for a couple of years after Clark

The running game has blown up in their face way too much this year.

8 minutes ago, chasfh said:

And then there’s Riley Greene still ripping the cover off the ball and batting something like .330.

So we talk about what a defensive liability Riley is in left field, and how Tork is basically playing his way out of town this year. We wonder about moving Colt Keith to first, or having Josue Briceño come up and play first—but what about training Riley Greene to play there? He certainly has the bat to overcome a slightly below average glove, if that’s what he could’ve there. He certainly is trending toward the mobility of a first baseman anyway.

interesting thought, but you can probably forget about ever seeing a 3-6-3 DP. 🫤

Might be better on foul balls....

stole 2nd, then doulbed ott

49 minutes ago, chasfh said:

They had to decouple themselves from NBC News because they're no longer using those same resources, while maintaining the MS part for continuity.

yes the continuity was the driver.  I suppose there is such an ephemeral aspect to the whole construct of an US cable news source that that is why the continuity is important. It's understandable they needed to rename without risking the loss off the old identification and since they couldn't use the 2nd half they had no choice but to re-use the first, but that combination of circumstances still yielded what strikes me a very silly result.

28 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Right. I hadn't known where the Goodwill part of the slogan came in, and now I do. It's interesting that they kept it well past when Goodwill sold off. Then again "good will" means something outside of radio that "group w" does not.

talking about odd echoes in station branding I've wondered what they were thinking with the "MS-Now" rebrand that has nothing to do with MS. One possible angle is that for people that have their channel guides indexed alphabetically, keeping the "MS" does insure that people don't "lose" track of where to find them. IDK for how many people the alphabetically indexed guide is a thing, but it's about the only angle I've thought of where "MS-Now" offers anything.

20 hours ago, oblong said:

I learned yesterday I had been pronouncing Bruschetta wrong.

 

I learned about hard 'ch' in Italian when I got my Bianchi bicycle frame.

With Mize something unforeseen is getting to be foreseeable.

at the rate they are giving up runs, the offense hardly even matters. They might as well get over all their slumping before the pitching (hopefully) becomes competitive again.

has someone checked the flight logs to Katmandu?

I guess they have put out that he's having a health issue. Apparently something that has taken his ability to speak.

7 hours ago, chasfh said:

I totally remember that, and I still replay it in my head every once in a while!

I'm pretty sure it was Ch 7 "ActionNews" that ran the spots but I've forgotten the target - could have been when WWJ/WDIV hired Mort Crim?

2 hours ago, kdog said:

Greene, Dingler, and McGonigle will be around after the lockout ends. I can't say who they should commit to beyond that.

Riley has made a good step this season. nice OBP improvement, though still too many Ks

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Hard to gel with eleven of the 17 guys on your injured list would be on the active roster right now.

indeed. doesn’t fully explain why guys that are playing are playing below optimum, but you can’t discount the snowball effect. 

On 5/12/2026 at 11:33 AM, chasfh said:

TBF, it’s hard to exactly nail the dialogue of a whole other bygone era when you don’t live during the era.

TB even more F, you don’t have to nail it exactly—you have only to make it seem to the modern audience that you have.

and there are multiple levels of this. you can do a period piece and want the characters to have period sensibilities, e.g. barbarians talking like barbarians, or you set an essentially modern fable in period and want those characters to have a ‘modern’ outlook. 

my compliant about Nuremberg was even narrower than that, which is the unnecessary use of particular words/idioms that didn’t exist in the era when the language of the era would be perfectly intelligible to the viewer if the writer had bothered to look for the anachronisms he had let creep in and purge them. 

1 hour ago, oblong said:

I'm listening to a podcast about Robert Duvall's career. They pointed out some movie he did where he played a Nazi general.  He used a German accent. The other nazis used their british accents.

I remember the first time I tried to watch Hunt for Red October I struggled with Connery's attempt.  My take is just talk.  It's silly to portray a Russian by speaking English in a Russian accent...  Just talk normal or speak Russian and use subtitles.  

 

 

i disagree on this one. something they did in red october on a different aspect demonstrates why: the cinematographer on hfro realized that he needed some way for the viewer to instantly recognize which sub he was looking at, so he lit each one in a different color. the subterfuge works perfectly, your brain picks it up but you hardly notice at the conscious level. IIRC a similar trick was used in VanillaSky to id dream sequences. 

accents work the same, it maintains a level of illusion identifying the difference in context but still allows you access to dialog you understand. 

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Are you done with Tork, then? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I could be talked into that, but then what do we do with him while his value is at low ebb?

Tork is a mixed bag right now - he's walking enough to be keeping one of the better OBPs on the team but he's fallen back into the his usual rut of taking so many strikes looking for perfect that his K rate is too high. He strikes me as a guy who just can't get out of his own way mentally to maximize the physical talent he does have and it's frustrating to watch. He needs to go to RF more and he needs to swing at strikes both of which he is perfectly capable of.

If we had a LHB that could play first you could sit him against tougher RHP ( of course Anderson is a RHB) - you'd think that guy could be Keith, but he's a worse defender and until he finds some ISO he's no more productive than Tork has been.

This team just is not gelling according to plan.

anyone have a good rationale for why Riley isn't batting behind McGonigle where he could be driving him around once in a while? Or at least 3rd if you wanted to get a RH bat between them.

31 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Something has to change.    Just make a move to make a move.   Shake them up.   This team is in a Coma.  Perez, Short, Jones - no business being on a major league roster.   Dump them and call up Malgeri, DeJong and Max Anderson.  Do something.  Please.     The two starting pitchers you count on right now, Montero and Valdez give you really good starts and you waste them.    Get rid of Torkelson too.   Is there someone better to play first?  I don't know, but I've just had enough.   My patience with him is over now.   With the injuries he's one of the guys that needed to step up and he's been brutal the last two weeks.   Last 14 games 7 for 50 for a robust .140 BA.  4 RBI.  Just go away.   Just put Colt Keith over there.    

Max Anderson is tearing it up at Toledo. I don't think they think his glove plays on an MLB middle IF but he'd probably do at 1st.

16 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Gratiot.  I should have known better because I took French in High School.  

Years ago, when local TV ratings wars were the thing, one of the Detroit stations brought in a new crew, mostly hired from out East. The station with the people with most local depth started running commercials against them that highlighted an anchorperson representing one of the foreign imports mispronouncing Gra.tee.ot. It was a very well done takedown.

In the Detroit area there are two road names that betray the foreigner - Gratiot, and for West siders 'Lahser' which the unfamiliar (including too many Detroiters actually) invariably dyslexicly read and pronounce as 'Lasher'

On 5/9/2026 at 1:08 PM, Motown Bombers said:

Keep in mind these economic progressives who think billionaires are the scourge of the earth are endorsing a billionaire for governor of California. 

we have DSA candidate for Mayor in A^2. I don't agree with the DSA on very much but I'll vote for anyone against Chris Taylor. If Taylor wins the primary, Mayor will be the only R vote on my general election ballot.

31 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I never heard that expression until I just saw it over and over again in a book recently: "The River" by Peter Heller.  Excellent book by the way. 

I thought it might just be a made up expression for the book, but now I know it's for real!

I think it goes back a way in Canadian and Aussie English.

3 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I’m turning over a new leaf and if I can’t say something positive I’m going to STFU. 

just end every critical sentence with "anode"