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everything working for JV today. Just like old times, except for the uniform.

Just now, IdahoBert said:

Strike ‘em out, throw ‘em out to end the top of the third. Nice. 

LOL - definitely a bad decision there  - he was out by at least 6 ft.

21 minutes ago, buddha said:

cant wait until there is a salary cap and big boosters can go back to paying kids under the table again.

LOL - this should be bookmarked as a future 'most likely outcome'.

What I really love is the juxtaposition within a single season of suspending the National Championship program's coach for getting advanced scouting from one guy buying single tickets for friends with iPhones because advanced scouting is so expensive that we have to outlaw it or we can't maintain a level playing field, and  --Oh, by the way - remember you need to raise an 8 figure sum to pay your players next year or we will probably re-organize our conference without you.

2 hours ago, Toddwert said:

https://fixupx.com/detroittigerspr/status/1789409238298640696?s=46&t=uKn9WBEnLreIb7r9zyeHOQ

Maeda to the 15 IL with an illiness

Inflammation of the ERA

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

He isdisappointing individuslly so far, but when you rely primarily on a bunch of high draft picks to re-build, you can expect to be disappointed by one or more of them.  Mize has a long way to go too.   Green is certainly looking like someone who will give them a high WAR return and Skubal is already a steal for a 9th round pick.  

We need to keep running down Tork. He's on his 1st 5 game hitting streak of the season.

4 hours ago, casimir said:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/urban-meyer-believes-nil-in-college-football-has-evolved-into-cheating-thats-not-what-the-intent-is/

That's cheating?  OK, Urbz.....

NIL is a ridiculous system, the donors who are funding it are being had, and the Universities that are losing development funds to all their other priorities in the redirection of those donor dollars to Ephemeroptera like player salaries are ultimately acting against their own institutional interests..... and the Sun also rises in the East.

9 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

Definitely more than a little annoying that the consensus #1 picks in our drafts were Mize and Torkelson while the O's consensus #1 picks were Rutschman and Holliday.

2019 was a quite the 1st round. 5 of the top 20 have already made an all-star team plus Riley, who has a good shot to.

I'm just going to file that he came out of this ST throwing harder than he ever had before.

good call - pretty clear here:

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

I got a sawbuck saying otherwise.

Fun fact: McKinstry has never had better than 79 OPS+ in any season, and his number is at its worst this year; plus, he has played only 15% of his total defensive innings at shortstop, the equivalent of thirty big league games, at sub-DRS levels. Have we already forgotten how he's butchered third base and second base already this year?

I get that people are frustrated and want Javy Baez out of there RIGHT ****ING NOW!, but I promise you that you will be just as unhappy with McKinstry playing shortstop even most days. Same with Urshela: hitting poorly this year, fewer than 10% of his big league innings at shortstop, also sub-DRS, older than Javy and playing hurt. You would hate seeing him there game after game.

Seems as though fans might have reached the fling-it-against-the-wall-and-see-whether-it-sticks stage. Next up: the fire-Harris-now-because-he-can't-find-shortstops stage.

you don't have to tell me the options are bad, but there is still *always* a downside limit to what any team will carry bat futility wise. Just based on what will get a manager laughed at the golf outing - I think Javy is about there. Now maybe the org will persuade itself he's having better AB and they give him more rope - for a while, but I still think they do *something* even if Kreidler isn't ready if Javy's trajectory doesn't change in the next....say 50 AB - even if it's a waiver claim, or Valade or whatever.

So - we'll see how it plays out....You may be more right - but I sort of hope not. I'd rather see them deal with it.

16 minutes ago, theroundsquare said:

Rob Deer hit the ball over the fence

It's a measure of desperate times that Rob Deer would look pretty good right now.

1 hour ago, oblong said:

the guy having the gun in is hand will be all that's required for him to get away with it. 

This. It won't be hard to find a jury to acquit - all they have to do in FLA is find a white one which should be easy in an area that is >90% white.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

On Javy: i do think we are close to an inflection point, although we need for Ryan Kreidler to get healthy after finger surgery.

IDK if it's reasonable to wait for Kreidler if Javy is stuck at a 450 OPS very much longer. They have some options in McKinstry and Urshella - they may be painful but not as excruciating as Baez.

40 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I believe a key reason Avila got such a long leash from Tigers fans, and Harris is getting a way shorter one, is that Avila failed using tried and true baseball methods

Could be. Also he was the continuation of a regime that has been successful at one point - plus you had Mike's death which was certainly a reason to give management some slack because ownership attention on the franchise was assumed to be distracted by other succession issues in Ilitch holdings. Plus Al said the right things. He talked about pretty much the same things Harris does - he just didn't execute well enough or fast enough - and that took time to transpire.

23 minutes ago, chasfh said:

 

Speaking of which, why does every AI song or poem read like it was written by a Disney studio fugitive?

what do you think they train it on? 🤷‍♂️

30 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

You're looking at it from a textbook economic view.  Channeling Dangerfield in Back to School, the attacks on the refineries leads to a perceived attack on oil, so Russia greases up OPEC to find a way to increase the cost per barrel under a 'the market is shaky' excuse and then the US cost goes up not because we can't just supply our own country, but because our suppliers, as they are finger wagging at OPEC, gladly sell their oil abroad.  Everyone wins, except for us commoners.

you're overthinking it....

The other thing about oil is that you'd think it would be relatively easy for producers to cut back production and the market would be very elastic - but it turns out not so much. Oil coming from secondary and tertiary recovery methods is not so easy to stop and start, and the places were the oil is still easy (Middle East) most of the them need the money too much to cut back. Saudi is the only place that can really soften or firm the market - The question is what do they think about the war In Ukraine?  Pre- MBS they were pretty anti-Russia. With MBS, who knows?

2 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

So was Stormy Daniel's testimony ultimately effective and damaging to Trump in the end? Is that the general concensus from the past couple of days?

who really knows? If it's a 'good' jury, in the sense of understanding what is presented, then yes should be damaging because the prosecution succeeded in the only objective for calling Daniels, which was to show that Trump had adequate reason to pay her to shut up. that her story in public would reasonably be considered a threat to his election chances. I don't think any of the particulars of her testimony or even it's truth mattered much per se; as long as she presented as a person that could damage his election chances.  I don't see that anything the defense did undercut building that premise. But the fact that that's how it looks on the outside is just a guess as to how it plays in the jury room. I am old enough to be a little surprised that this jury isn't being sequestered, but I suppose in the era of the smart-phone that's pretty pointless.

Bigbie got off to such a slow start, made it look like his hot finish last season was just a mirage - but he's started to turn it around a bit. 900 OPS so far in May.

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

Stormy Daniels walked all over that cross examination...holy crap. 

I think the line that may do more to get him convicted came later from the secretary - the reported quote from Trump that you "hire good people and then DON'T trust them." They're riveting down the case that no money got spent in the Trump org with out Trump knowing exactly who/what/why.

Baez started the season poorly and has only gotten worse. 524 OPS in April, 456 in his last 55 PA and 178 (!) so far in May. He has a good chance of hitting under 150 over his 1st 150 PA. At this point it would be a breakthrough just to get last years Baez back -  as bad as it seemed then

Looking at BR, Urshella has played about as many MLB games at short as McKinstry - neither has a good defensive rating in what is too small a sample to mean much for either of them. They would at least be a R/L platoon pair if you bench Javy.

20 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

It's frustrating that Miggy was used as an excuse and an acceptance of below replacement play. Now Javy has taken that role. For more than a month, it has now included Tork, Keith, Meadows and others. Meadows and the others actually have defensive value to make up for their shortcomings on offense. Tork, Baez and Keith all have negative WAR on Fangraphs and have been some of the worst players in baseball.

 

If Torkelson doesn't straighten out, it's easy enough to put somebody - probably Canha, at 1B. But catcher and SS are going to be hard to fix. We have guys we can put at SS, but none that probably won't cost us runs there, and Dingler is only managing 230 against AAA pitching so that's not very promising.

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

no reason to mortgage the future for a hitter right now who won't get us over the top anyway.

The best deals for a team like the Tigers do not give up young for old, they are the ones where you have done your homework on up and comers around the high minors or green rookies that haven't proven anything, like Austin Jackson and Max Scherzer. But of course deals like that kill your roster value if the guys you bring don't pan out. So really - it's the same as it ever was - if you can evaluate talent - especially that others miss, you can build a winner. Or you grow your own, or you can spend $250M on payroll. That's really all there is available to management. 

I think there is a lot of magic thinking that the right GM  can just wheel and deal his team into contention. Well, he can try, but in most cases what looks like short term success is burning a system's future seed corn, the way Dombrowski burned ours.

5 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

I still own multiple Firesign Theater albums. 🥸

I almost became a fan, but I couldn't get there from here...

7 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I listen to music in a strange way,  always listening what might fit on the radio and I rarely ever just listen to a whole album anymore.   Always on the hunt for the next great song or on the hunt for the perfect older song to put next to it.    But I can't get enough of the new Lemon Twigs album "A Dream Is All I Know".   60's and 70's style AM radio pop brought back to life.   These guys are great.       They wear their influences on their sleeve (and I am fine with that, they don't deny it like Greta Van Fleet did at first).  Much of the album is a love letter to Brian Wilson, who wasn't afraid to challenge the listener, which always makes music more compelling (and it's why commercial country sucks).   This is Byrds/Teenage Fanclub/Big Star here and I love all three of those artists.   If you listen to current pop and country radio, the art of the harmony (and melody) is lost.    Not with these brothers.  

(If I am forced to listen to a Top 40 station these days - like in a waiting room or store - the lack of melody and harmony and repetitive nature of it gives me a headache). 

 

yup - Roger McGuinn's 12 string and America's voicing, but their sense of rhythm needs work -  boring.

Related: I've read the studio used session men on the Byrd's first recording work because they didn't believe McGuinn could play the guitar.... LOL

7 minutes ago, romad1 said:

She doesn't want an Indian president

 

LOL -If you look up Xenophobe in your dictionary you are sure to find a picture of Ann Coulter.