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SGL not great, not terrible. I suppose considering how few IP he has since surgery we shouldn't complain - he really should have been able to spend more time at AAA rebuilding instead of being pressed into service on a division leader.

8 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Is he injured? He wouldn't be the 1st pitcher to not inform the coaches. 

which isn't even a good move for a guy with options. If poor performance gets him sent down and THEN after more poor performance at AAA  he finally goes to the IL, I believe he's not going to get MLB service time for it.

7 minutes ago, kdog said:

Hurter needs a break in Toledo:

can't be sure, but maybe a trend there...

Too many ball out of hand pitches. Not good

12 hours ago, papalawrence said:

Turns out Gio Urshela played a significant role with getting Gleyber to Detroit. Nice to see Detroit is becoming a preferred destination 

Gleyber Torres breaks silence on Tigers decision | Sporting News https://share.google/XYFoES3KTkZtAwed4

This was reported way back when he signed.

30 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I just can't believe how many roll over for this man that should know better like universities and lawyers. 

They roll over because their institutions are all on the Federal dole. That the problem with the increasing shift in all kinds of spending from private, state and local, to the Federal government - you get money but they get the leverage. 

8 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

they'll cave. They always cave.

18 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Have the Tigers become worthy of Joey Cora’s aggressiveness or is he making better choices?

I just remember when we used to complain about him and we don’t seem to complain about him anymore.

As long as he's not sending Jake, Kerry, or Gleyber he's golden.  

18 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Parker is not yet as hot a hitter as he was last Fall. Dang. 

he's got a 7 game on-base streak going. 

We’re doing downpour-sun-downpour every ten minutes in Ann Arbor 

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Funny thing is, the leftist senator from Pennsylvania is one of the biggest warmongers in the senate. 

war and peace often doesn’t break left /right. I think it’s more how much history a person understands and that’s no particular strength on either side of left right. 

I gave up on 'the Journal' 25 yrs ago. Have pretty much given up on the NYT, the local rags are but shadows of what they used to be, and Reuters now has a pay wall. Cable news is a wasteland, social media is run by algorithms that don't care about accuracy or truth.

WaPo likes to say democracy dies in darkness - it's already gotten damn dim.

1 minute ago, pfife said:

Since its where you finish that matters why are people here trashing him before he begins

 

meh - he'd probably be disappointed if they didn't. Bomb throwing is a valid political strategy (look at DJT) and getting the reaction from the right people is part of the strategy.

1 hour ago, RatkoVarda said:

well that is the same argument that has been made since forever and since 2009 - we cannot increase the minimum wage because it would destroy the economy and cause massive inflation, so, while corporate profits and executive pay soar, you need to keep working for the same minimum wage that is now OLDER than Uber and Instagram.

NYC's will be $17 next year, so it would take a few years to get to $30

It's not a yes/no proposition. it depends 100% on how far and how fast. To just say $30 - which is more than 4x the Federal rate, and not know what inflation does or doesn't do over the time period of the increase or what adjoining jurisdictions or the State of NY (otherwise known as your business competition) do, you are talking about the possibility of dislocation. The when you are talking $7.25 to say $12.00 and do it at the federal level where the guy across the street is not exempt,  you are in a whole different world in terms of effects - or lack of them. The level of impact of an increase does go to zero when you are starting at low rates and making relatively small increases. In general US MW has always been so low and the increases so small that people who argue they are the end of world are always wrong - no argument there, but that doesn't mean there isn't a place where the level and difference won't have an effect. Economics is always about degrees. 

That's why it will be a measure of Mandani's actual political/economic acumen. It's not where you start, it's where you finish (assuming he eventually wins).

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Powell stuck it in Trump yesterday when he testified in front of Congress.

Paraphrasing.  He said they would have already cut rates had there been no tariffs.  But they can't because they all feel inflation is coming due to them.  Figured that would elicit a response from Trump.  It did.

 

He talks about debt service, but the other half the equation is that if you want to deficit spend (Trump does) then you don't care about inflation because you get to pay back your debt with devalued dollars. And Trump will just claim inflation numbers are fake news or worse, gut BLS so there are no numbers and MAGA will slurp it up like everything else, because that's what cults do. 

20 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

I think Finley has been replaced by a programmable bot. No real person could write the ridiculous things he does.

2 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Oakland pitching and defense played very well. I can see why they've had win streaks. Gotta get em tomorrow

Oakland played all aspects of the game well enough to win. Tigers didn't K so much as just didn't barrell anything up.

Flaherty kept them in the game after not looking like he would. That was something.

6 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Why can’t Gibby be at the desk instead of Todd Jones?  

I think we have to assume his health has declined too much. One hint might be that Kirk didn't narrate the recent commercial for his foundation. 

19 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

The irony is, the working class who would likely benefit most from a minimum wage increase, went for Cuomo. 

because they know that that kind of policy can't work for them in reality. Now if he ends up settling for a 10% increase, that's the kind of thing that could have a positive result. *IF*. But if he practices all-or-nothing politics he either gets nothing or he does get what he wants and closes every restaurant and mom and pop business in NYC

Kotsay going to live dangerously?

tokens of life.

Hinch used Hernandez against 3 RHB and 1 LHB and he got the three RHB. Just like AJ drew it up I'm sure.

Too bad that kind of management doesn't work as reliably on hitters.

Does NYC  have statutory authority under NY state law to tell businesses what to pay? I'd expect if he campaigned on it the city does but the American voter is ignorant enough I don't take something like that as a guarantee anymore.

that's a nice AB by Parker.

EDIT: and the good result was short lived

Gleyber got his man that time, but still took the ball too far in front.