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I can't see them giving Jones much more rope but other than that: Parker and Javy aren't actually doing too badly, Torkelson's last three games were good, Yesterday it was Keith, Torres and Dingler that went 1-12 and those are the guys who had been playing well so far. Green is scuffling but you know he going to get more room to straighten up than anyone else on the team.

Just now, Betrayer said:

I suppose the doctors know best, but it seems silly for him to play at all. He's not eligible for awards no matter what at this point and if he doesn't play in the regular season that's another week and a half off before the playoffs start. He can work his way into shape in the first round.

Stew on the other hand hasn't played in forever and isn't dealing with an organ injury - I'd like to see him get a game in.

If the docs say there is no risk, then starting now and giving him the longer ramp up to playing full game minutes seems like a fair strategy - assuming they do limit his minutes. The paradox with Cade is that he's so much an end of game player you wonder what you'll get playing him 15 min. 🤔

1 hour ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

What a great negotiator 

whether we agree or not, I'm sure Iran's position is that a cease-fire means Israel stops shooting at their clients and that surely hasn't happened either.

1 hour ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

I'm hoping somebody can help me with this question.  Can anybody here tell me what the only thing that Fieger Law does is?  I might have heard it mentioned once or twice while watching a Tiger game this year but I can't remember.  Perhaps they will mention it on tonights game?

Use auto-tune?

16 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

This is just my opinion...

But if we had had Sebastian Cossa as 2nd goalie behind Gibson all year, instead of Talbot...

We'd be in the playoffs right now.

I also believe Gibson would have played less the past month or so... in which McLellan has simply worn him down by overplaying him (Talbot started ONCE in March...), and BOTH: Gibson would be sharper in the games he has played... and Cossa would have won a couple games that Gibson got blown out in...

I think he would have been worth 5 more outright wins for the Wings.

IMO.

I think this is a good take. Talbot was pretty useless this season and we knew from the beginning that a lot of the team's early success was Gibson and the temptation would be there to burn him out. I just don't get this reluctance to see what a guy can do, what the worst that can happen - he shows he's not ready? It's not like you'd be sitting prime career D. Hasek to look at him,  he would be stepping in for just barely there Talbot. 

Intel, left for dead 8 mo  ago at $19, just hit $58

5 hours ago, oblong said:

eh, Tim already had 2 WS championships and they won the year before in '67 so he could get over it. 🙂

 

Right. The thing with McCarver is that he was never gracious enough to admit the Tigers were also a pretty damn good team that year. Even Tom Izzo will admit when he plays a good opponent! 😉

20 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Yes, If Greene, Torkelson and Carpenter hit even at their normal levels, it will solve a lot of problems

I was really hoping we'd see a Riley that has moved away from the extreme swing but I'm not seeing it. I see Riley as a guy who can either be a very good 20 HR hitter or a pretty useless 35 HR hitter and he seems determined to be the later. He's just not built to hit homeruns without the long swing. His frame can't generate the power that a big guy like Judge or Cabrera, or even a more compact but powerfully built guy like Trout can without having to over commit on his swing. And the over-commit is going to leave him a poor OBP hitter if he won't change it. Be a good hitter and let the HRs come on the good barrels and he'd be fine (IOW if he had just continued to let his '24 approach improve)

12 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

He doesn't come off to me as intense as Gibby.  I knew Gibby a bit at MSU and he was INTENSE.   Clark seems to be more of keep things loose but "let's go win" guy.   I've followed him on twitter and watched/listened to his workouts that he posts.  Under the flash there's a pretty solid, intelligent, high effort person.  It just strikes me that he's the kind of leader this team needs.  

The spotlight falls on him, doesn't faze him and the others fall in line and follow him....I'm thinking we may see sooner than later.

Correct. Max has some personality, but I don't see him as the type to come into a clubhouse the tear into it and a HOF manager the way Gibson did in LA at all. Max is more what I'd call a "Peacock" on a Myers-Briggs scale. Outgoing, likes to be seen. Gibby was a piranha.

1 hour ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

Toledo Mud Hens

Kudos for the return of the MiLB reports!

21 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

How is a fan to know better about these things than Hinch?  

No arg there. That was sort of my point about why good managers are rare and valuable. It's easy to have a long resume (say like Trammel) and get a managing gig and just try to always go by the numbers or by a 'system' (like his reliever rotation idea), but a good manager does have to have sort of 6th sense about his team and players that goes beyond the data. I didn't mean to imply Hinch wasn't as good as anyone at it, just making the point that that is always the manager's biggest challenge - and where his decisions can have the most impact, especially in such a data driven environment where it's always easy to justify "I was just following the numbers"

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Not that it needs re-iterating but... ETTD.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

One needs to inquire if the Trump family has investments that directly benefited from the cease fire.  

I sort of doubt we even need to inquire to know....

35 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Nothing like a 3% gap up to start the day.

The euphoria is somewhat premature I'd guess. High energy costs are going to take a while to come down and the month they have been high still has to percolate through the economy, plus we likely have a bad inflation report coming.

But I'm not going to complain if the animal spirits of the market want to bid up my IRAs.

17 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I don’t see Tork with a long term future here at all, and Riley is 50-50 at best. Our best hope to get anything out of Tork is a trade with the Angels.

Tork is what he is, a low average guy who can put the ball in the seats and has learned to play 1b somewhat above average. I would put it that from a team building perspective, replacing him is not as high priority as shoring up the OF and replacing Torres and Baez in the short term (and KM looks like one of those) but that it's fairly likely someone will come along with a better bat but a glove that won't play in the majors where it played in the minors and bump him out of his gig - for instance a Max Anderson type, though I'm not sure Max in particular is a good enough example  of his 'type' to do it himself...

Riley I'm more worried about. Seems like a guy who isn't bringing his brain to the table in his career thinking.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Can you imagine...how badly he would manage a Taiwan crisis?   The power dynamic would be all off.  The bluster wouldn't work at all.  These situations have real world consequences, and he is just so damn willfully ignorant of anything that doesn't give him an endorphin hit right now. 

Speaking of China. I tend to believe there were probably some quiet but powerful threats of economic retaliation from that quarter if Trump didn't end this. Of course, the Chinese being as subtle as Trump is lurid, they'll be perfectly happy if no-one ever knows.

3 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

So is Kevin McGonigle our best hitter already ? Serious question . 

well that's what we have all been hoping for! And seriously, on this team 'best hitter' was not a very high bar to clear. But he's still trailing Keith's start by ~40 OPS pts though he's passed Keith in most counting stats (also has ~13 more PA). Assuming this is the real McGonigle and not just the charged up version that will run down in a month - which is admittedly a huge assumption - I think he and Colt are as likely to be the highest OBP guys on the team as anyone else. And McGonigle may hit for more power. Colt has shortened his swing so much he has almost no hip rotation, he's really sacrificing power potential for contact right now. Maybe as he gets comfortable with the new stance he'll start to use his lower half more.

2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I liked Rod & Mario.     I don't care that they weren't buddies.   I don't care that one guy shoved a chair at the other and then shoved him.   That happens.   I've been in media for 40 years and there are times when you work with people that you don't click with, but the work is still good.  I knew one guy who literally body slammed another (after he gave his real cell phone number out on the air).   They both got suspended a week.   When they came back to work they were fine with each other.   They had their blow up and it was over.   

 

The sad thing is, Mario could have been better with someone else. On a few occasions when he worked with someone else the difference was obvious, he was much more personable and engaged with the other person in the booth and it was a better broadcast. Rod could do color, but Mario was right about that too - too often he hadn't done any homework and he would go whole games adding nothing but his cutesy signature lines.

Tiger's have only themselves to blame, they should have broken them up years before it fell apart. Sure you don't have to like someone to work with them, but when it reaches where one detests the other to the point he can't be his best self professionally it's no good to keep forcing it.

The interlude with Shep was regrettable, but they've landed on their feet with Benetti, for as long as he stays.

15 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Greene and Tork 11 games in and 0 HR.

Until tonight Riley only had 7 Ks in 43 PA, which is a decent reduction. Unfortunately all his other results have a reduction as well. 

We've heard a lot of talk about Riley having worked on a lot of stuff in the off season, but so far the upper cut swing doesn't look real different to me.

So all this amounted to was that we have given Bibi the free use of the worlds most expensive lawn mower for 30 days (which we get back with its blade seriously dulled) so he could extend his 'forever war' just a little further out before it becomes the failure it will inevitably be.

1 hour ago, pfife said:

Lmfao now MFs gotta pay Iran?!?!  Maga was against that before they were for it

Imagine bragging about voting for this ****.   @Tigeraholic1 @Archie lmao 

No, you don't understand, we just have to be patient and we will see the victory emerge....or so we were told.

13 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Iran has just been funded to the tune of 100 new Shaheeds per ship Transit.

So much winning.

7 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

If we're doing election stuff here....

 

It is too bad Johnson isn't up this cycle because he'd probably be toast.

7 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

well, that's what happens when you wait till the 9th inning to mount a threat.

I thought maybe the tide had turned when we got past Riley in the order, but foiled again.

This April is looking too much like '24. I liked last year's better.