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I think this is the a big piece of the issue for sure. You normally see a successful GM bring as much of his team as will follow him. Did Yzerman bring anyone? That probably should have been a red flag from the get go. That and the near total lack of accountability for the poor FO performance with trades and FA is another red flag. You can envision Yzerman being the total Mensch and saying - well it's my fault they didn't do better, but if you are going to be that guy and take the blows for everyone, a sports FO is probably not the long term job for you. Even Al Avila replaced people.

Tork is finally showing signs of being the hitter they want him to be - you have to ride that for now and see how it plays out. If by the time Meadows comes back he's back to being bad Tork, there's your roster spot, even if it is on the wrong side.

In a perfect world Wenceel should have even more advantage since he can field on the IF, if he could throw there he'd be another ideal utility guy, but apparently they don't even want to know if he's ever gotten over his yips throwing to 1b.

Yeah - Francis has been pretty quiet - probably because he's one foot in the grave at this point. Who knows if a new Pope would see making trouble for Trump as a way to prove his bona fides or not?

What interest would the Pope have in Biden not granting the clemency?

Actually, Timothy is the letter's recipient, it's purported writer is Paul, who was Timothy's mentor - more or less.

Perez is going to finish the day today 3/28 and zero XBH. That was probably enough desperation to sign Margot. At the rate it's going, CF is going to be Javy's job to lose.....🤣

Olson out for another inning. EDIT: - just to get to 84 pitches and out.

Tigers hit 3 hard, get BaBIP'd on two of them.

Tork smokes one for a double off the wall.

75 pitches for Olson, going to assume he is done, if so good outing - in reality he threw a shut-out against most of the Phil's starting line-up. So we are leaving FLA with 4 guys throwing well and the fifth our baby wild card.

Bottom line, Philly gets 2 on a ball that should have been caught to end the inning.

Clark stays in the game, Malloy walks off under his own power. J. Jones in.

Looked like Clark made the dive then Malloy kicked him as he fell over him.

how come nobody on this team knows how to yield to a CF?

that play may just have taken Malloy out of the running.

Jones' bat has gotten pretty cold as the pitching got better - I'd guess he's out.

funny how much the Tigers could use Clark and McGonigle right now. You know in a year or two when they are actually ready there'll be some kind of log jam.

once upon a time he put up some good defensive numbers in the OF but not so much the last couple of years.

if I'm in the house and but not watching the game, I can either route the web feed or 97.1 FM to the stereo. The same broadcast. But the web feed is virtually unusable because my neighbors down the block would be able to hear the commercials.

I hope wherever the two of them are now, Rick sends Jeff Jones a nice birthday or Christmas present every year - Jones probably saved his career and the $80million he eventually earned.

that didn't last long. They just stand around waiting to die on the penalty kill.

well, Vierling is supposedly getting close -r

just too bizarre. So *maybe* June.

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.