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literally - nobody. Just two misc folks on a sponsored Tiger Travel Tour talking up how good the tour guides were, how they loved the accommodations, tour events, and meeting the announcers. ie, Shilling for the tour.

Malloy keeps adding punches to his ticket back to AAA on Vierling's arrival.

no-one you ever want to see again, or wanted to see in the first place.

Shilling for tours on the broadcast now.

Lee makes two good pitches then completely loses the plate. 🤷‍♂️

As Peaches notes, great to see Torkelson going middle/RF twice after an 0/4 day. Call it a sign of a maturing hitter.

Won't be surprised if Scott leaves the game before it's over. That's bad place to get hit.

The whole episode only cost one pitch.

One of Javy's worst AB in a while there.

I remember a few years ago the Tigers came out of ST with a bunch of steals, them proceeded to get thrown out a bunch of times once the season started and pretty much stopped running altogether. The were doing a nice job on the bases last season but definitely seem to be pushing a notch too hard this season. The trick will be to cut back without shutting it down.

We didn't quite get Scherzer just for Jackson. Scherzer's cost was Jackson and Ian Kennedy, and the payoff for Kennedy was Curtis Granderson less the return of Austin Jackson. Scherzer was still the prize of the deal, though Granderson was understood to be the biggest piece at the time. EDIT: LOL, slow on the draw here!

The team that gets him won't have to take it all on though. Canucks are just stuck. Maybe the coaching change can work but otherwise he's useless on that team unless they bring in 19 other new players and any potential trade partner knows they are over a barrel and will drive a hard bargain on how much salary they will risk taking on. Someone will take a flier and either end up very happy or just as screwed as Vancouver. Wings, with 6 Swedes on the roster, would probably his best landing place, with the big cap jump they'll have room to be interested, but I doubt they will be.

well, at least better that they thought they hadn't delivered them when they had than vice versa!

They'll learn not to use him to close soon enough...🙄 In April, he had a bunch of holds, a zero ERA and a 287 OPS against. In May, being used to close, he has 5.83 ERA and 929 OPS against.

I'm sure he's probably not the only guy to have ever done it, but my all time favorite checked swing was when Willie Horton broke his bat.

I'm getting the impression that Skubal is pushing himself too hard early in a couple of these games where he was chasing a no-no. He's got to realize that going that hard there is no way he can finish 9 innings anyway. I'm almost hoping to see him give up a hit in the 1st so he dials back a little.

LOL - I was just going to post to ask if this was a single Post to both cities. How bush league can you get?

Jake and Dingler could be a nice tandem for a few years - not perfectly ideal as neither hits left, but in team building never let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Don't even need metrics to know he has one of the strongest arms in the league, that's measureable independently - and he appears to be pretty accurate, so I'll believe he is Jake's equal in terms of the run game. It would take a little more convincing that he's already as good at Jake at blocking pitches. Jake is really quick. Framing can be a little tougher for bigger catchers because umps will tend to favor what they can see more easily. Bigger guys have to work harder at staying out of the way.

I was amused to notice that there a disclaimer under Google's AI Overviews. I don't know if it's new or if I just never noticed it, but right at the very bottom now you now get: "AI responses may include mistakes."

I haven't paid as much attention recently, but in games after Jake first went down they were signaling pitch calls in to Dillon from the dugout. This is something that pitchCom actually makes easier.

I've lost track since it's been a couple of years, but the FDA would have standing if the vaccine suppliers have never converted their emergency approvals to "full" approvals. Short of that, no - I don't see what could could prevent Pfizer or Moderna supplying all the vaccine they wanted as long as someome paid for it - private insurance, OOP or whatever. We followed the pandemic very closely in real time (my SO is a MPH) - watched all the demographic numbers from WashCo Public Health and it's true, in the absence of identifiable co-morbidity, the danger to the young was vanishingly small, and now that kids are growing up in the presence of circulating virus, probably even less so. At the time the issue around children was mostly that they were a spread vector to those around them higher at risk.

true - Jake's bat has always made him a stretch to be a #1.

I suppose if there is such a thing as herd immunity for Covid the US has reached it by now. Hell of a way to find out though.

I actually have a different view - I think the conventional liberal idea of 'making the corporations pay their fair share' is just virtue signalling rhetoric. I'd would just as soon see corporate income taxes stay low for the sake of US competitiveness, and because the corporate income tax is fundamentally regressive - lower income consumers spend more of their income on corporate products. But the balance is I want to see dividends taxable as ordinary income on the graduated scale. The historical precedent for low capital gains taxes was that it was a double tax because the corporation was already taxed - low corp income taxes kill that argument. Then the adjunct to that is that the 100% reset on capital gains on inheritance has to be modified. Too much capital gain escapes taxation completely under those rules. Those are my perfect world tax system dreams....😉