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Could there be a different reliever of the month in June? Meh - Lange had a bad day - but who knows, if they had scored a couple of runs and he came in not having to work so fine maybe he doesn't walk anyone. There aren't many times I'm going to fault the pitching in a loss when we scored 2 or less.

yet

Whoever put the two of them in the same booth with such similar sound was a sonic moron. When you can't identify the two sides of a conversation it's very disorienting to listen to, even if the conversation might have made sense. So that was one strike. And of course the other was that there had been no reason to make the change. Either of them might have succeeded as a member of a new team here if Ernie had retired voluntarily, because we recognized we couldn't replace him. But for someone else to be there when Ernie was still available and still perfectly capable was completely unacceptable. That strike two was so big that you didn't need a strike three.

I wish they did routine breathalizers on these runs. These people can't be sober, can they?

If it looked like it was coming to that there is always the possibility that the Dems decide to save him. That would only happen if the Dem side calculation is that chaos in the Congress will play badly for Dems and the Presidents in the election even if it is the GOPs fault. Likely? IDK, but possible I think.

Chuck Todd done at Meet the Press https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/04/chuck-todd-leaving-meet-the-press-welker/ 👏

That's my boy. Took a middle-middle FB for a called strike one, then hit an slider put into the bottom corner of the zone, a pitcher's pitch, for the HR. Baseball.

yes and no. Rodriguez' injury I think was the stake through the heart. Until then there was some kind of outside shot because while it's hard to see where consistent run production can possibly come from, the team still managed to get to 1 under 500 with it's best pitcher due back in a month. But now all we can hope for is Skubal replaces ERod.

Nope. What they didn't tell us in our childhood was that Briggs was a terrible man. That's a place we don't need to go back to.

He might have. Just because he couldn't hit the breaking ball didn't mean he wasn't one of the more athletic players to put on a Tiger jersey.

won't say I'm certain, but catchers know the timing for each pitch they call and from the way he moved it sure looked like Haase was expecting breaking ball velo there because he was way out of rhythm to get to it.

That's the worst combination; Haase called for off-speed, got the fast ball *and* the fast ball was way out of the zone and he wasn't ready to react to it.

yes it would have been a great story if Malloy had been able to keep it up long enough to have more seriously demanded a call-up. That seems to have gone by the wayside for now. Is Keith the lightning in the bottle we hope for? Again - maybe, check back in another 50->100 AB and maybe the wisdom of a call-up to Det will be clearer, though I wouldn't hestitate to bump him to AAA.

It all platitudes with Craig. He's got like two dozen stock phrases and tosses them out there at random as though Shep is rolling for them with an isosahedron gaming die.

I don't think we are anywhere near where we should pull the plug on him, it looks like there is a lot of talent there, as long as he keep evolving. I'm willing to see if learning to take a walk is a good intermediate step for him. So I'm less impatient with him than just looking at what I think his next step needs to be. And with any team there is always the question whether the right voices are in his ear for what *he* needs to learn to do - which may or not be what any other hitter on the team needs to do. I understand that when a team is as completely messed up as the Tigers have been you maybe need to have 'team' approaches, but OTOH, baseball is a stupendously individualized sport - no two guys have the same skill-set/strengths/weakesses. 'Team' based coaching is fine up to a point, the good hitters especially have to be free to optimize their approach to their strengths. Hopefully the Tigers have a staff now where that can happen.

Torkelson has made strides since last season but he's over doing the team mantra. He's not just waiting for pitches to hit, he's waiting for perfect pitches. It's going to get him a lot of walks but he's not going to be much help against good pitching until he's willing to be a *little* less picky early in the count.

They're fielding an offense that would not even be average in the International league.

better not be another pully injury

Now that I think about it, a couple of years ago I had a bunch of trouble with my ATT account and it turned out that they still had a zombie/dormant UVerse account of mine from like 10yrs prior in the system that had somehow gotten reactivated and everything was sending me there to a basically empty account shell. Was only able to get is sorted out with a live agent working on the other end. So yeah - they have ways to screw things up we can't even imagine. And that old account was still not able to be killed, had to just change its ID to something I would never use as a login again.

yeah it's a pain to reset the stuff you do want, but I clear out *everything* periodically, just out of principle. 😡

Not a solution at 3rd however.

I thought the other interesting thing I didn't see any trace of in Alberta's reporting was any talk about *news gathering*. If he wants to be the trusted source, at least some of the effort has to be redirected into simply being a better news source. Licht may not believe it but despite that it may be true they spend too much time at 'level 11', I think MSNBC has done a better job as a news source than CNN. In recent years MSNBC has had people in the field like Richard Engel that are head and shoulders above CNN's staff.

I got through about half of this before the site threw me out for some reason, but the conclusion from what I did read is that Licht is mostly an incompetent programmer - he may have an idea of where he wants to get but functionally he has no clue what a news organization needs, either leadership nor programming wise, to get there. On the negative side he knows what he doesn't want but on the positve side his ideas for what to do have been failures.

I get to my account info via https://www.att.com/log-in/ does that take you to DirectTV?

I think he has this about right. He's basically a fly ball pitcher whose fly balls go too far too often. Maybe not quite enough life on the FB to get more pop-ups? His H/9 and BB/9 are good but the HR/9 stands out as not so good. The one thing Faedo has some room to work with is that if there is such a thing as throwing too many strikes, Faedo is probably the example. He walks so few maybe should be trying to work away from the middle of the plate more.