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Baddoo on base streak with the Hen's ends tonight.

sure, and Javy's miss may have been Grossman's fault. Just saying you win more if you clean that stuff up. But the reason I go back the the play with Javy is that it extended the inning where your pitcher give up the big hit. You can also point to them guessing wrong on shifting for Vedugo. That may have been the worst because that could have been a tailor made DP ball in a standard set.

if Javy catches the pop fly, it's a different ballgame. They can't seem to break through to a clean game.

it wasn't even a breaking ball. If you can't see when a fastball is on the plate you really shouldn't be umpiring.

Robbie get jobbed on a pitch 6" inside. Unbelievable how bad the umpiring is.

aged very well!!!!

pinch hit for Schoop and Castro? Won't happen.

It's perfectly reasonable that Hinch has started Greene off low in the order to start, but you have to hope he can keep his head above water well enough to get flipped to in front of Miguel .....soon.!

THe obvious fact is that Isaac never played enough in Det to get any kind of comfort level. They didn't given him a position to play or and confidence he'd get another AB. Some guys that doesn't bother, but it clearly did Isaac. The give away was when he came out of winter league having won the batting crown and then couldn't do anything in Det. You knew there was a player there we weren't seeing, whether it was major league or not, it was better than we were seeing.

there was always some complaint with Paredes. First it was that he was going to get fat - he didn't. Then it was that he wasn't going to hit, and he did. Then he wasn't going to hit for power, but he seems to be...... The glass was always half empty with Isaac. Maybe they will still be right in the end but they have egg on their face right now.

Ah - gotcha. I see it now, the feed selector doesn't link to anything....

game of inches...

Do you mean you can't get the audio at all or can't cast it to another device? My MLB updated yesterday and still does regular audio.....

It's not helping the perception that he hasn't been able to stay on the field.

Ironic that the one thing we hate the Tigers for is preaching patience, but every time they do something born out an attempt to move fast to plug a hole, it seems to backfire.

Schoop is just sucking every bit of life out of the line-up right now....

Beau doesn't have to improve his command much to reach mid rotation level. They've thrown him out there against some pretty good hitting teams. No guarantee he can make that step but you can see a route for him to get there.

Wenceel has pushed his OPS to 1000 with a 2/5 3B night for Erie. Carpenter 2/5 2B, 2K Maddon: 5IP, 2H 0R 1BB 5K

Javy with a good AB, got BABIP'd

pretty much, but lack of communication was in play there he looked down - probably to see where Robbie was instead of knowing Robbie was going to let him catch it. It's importantly not only call what you are going to catch -but also let the other fielder know that it's his ball.

Brieske seems to profile as a guy whose command has to be perfect to get by - not much safety margin in his stuff to put one down the middle that still isn't squared up.

Live by the shift, die by the shift. Double play ball goes for a single. HR follows.

the difference between winning and losing baseball.

LOL - you are about 10 miles ahead of what I just posted, which was simply that they were losing their opportunity to have any input, which they are. But just to humor you - while I don't know where you get the idea UM Presidents have "bemoaned" sports, I can say that in Schlissels case he pretty much just ignored them. In his years here through listening to many of his statement, addresses, emails etc, I can't remember once he even mentioned UM sports. Of course Gordon Gee couldn't say ten worlds without referencing the football team in Columbus! The Pres at OSU now is an ex-Stanford Lacrosse player. I'll be a little surprised if UM matches that.

....and still no announcement on a University President. Michigan is basically going to lose any influence it may have had on the future of college sports just on the odd circumstance of having nobody steering the ship for going on a year. Then who ever it is has to get up to speed - unless it is someone coming from a similar position at a similar institution, which I think is doubtful. Odds are a law or medicine or liberal arts academic from a non FBS school on whose agenda (as with Schlissel) NCAA sports doesn't make the top ten. None of that bothers me in particular, but M sports fans should prepare themselves for that reality.