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It looked like someone that was probably Denise was there in one shot as well.

Chafin with 1IP at Lakeland. 1H and 3 outs. At Toledo Hill was 1/3 and played CF. Progress.

With Shea Patterson one would have expected even worse.....

all you can hope for with a guy like Brieske is that he's a late bloomer and he's still getting better, so he's going to outpitch his projections. There was some discussion he's picked up up a couple mph for instance. 2 mph can be big difference if he can use it well. Still, do the math - they are now down 6 pitchers (Mize, Manning, Cisnero, Funk, R. Garcia, Chafin)? from where the season started? Under normal conditions you wouldn't say Brieske had exactly worked himself into "next man up" status yet.

156K in 137IP is low K by today's std.

Two facilities in Moscow went up in flames today. Very Interesting...

Boone was completely correct. But if you are at the ballpark and don't boo the opposing manager for that you should lose your ticket buying privileges. That's what you are there to do.

Yeah, they were pretty desperate for a W

Maybe the rest of the staff should dye their hair blue.

Can I believe my eyes? A Tiger pitcher made a play in the field!

Lange wanted no part of Judge - leaves a mess for Soto.

this Yankee staff mostly works pretty fast. If that is Aaron Boone's doing, good for him.

Kirk sounds decent - having a good day.

Barnes *is* going to turn back into a pumpkin, but hopefully not today.

Reyes - no drama on the fly ball. Pineda - great outing.

Also Scherzer

The ‘vacuum tube’ idea was a really dumb concept. It’s one of those things that doesn’t scale.

yeah - that's a good observation. If the silly fool was still playing at the Judo master thing into his 50's he may well have fried his back beyond repair - you've got to know when to back off certain things, and we don't need much more evidence Putin doesn't.

Schoop has an 0/20 going. Ouch.

With Putin you can count on that being some kind of lie, the only question is from which direction.

I think it only changes as the roster changes. You have guys that don't have good compete awareness, as long you play them your team won't. Jimenez is 6yr vet - if he doesn't have the awareness to hold a runner in a close game today, he simply never will, so the team's compete level doesn't take a step up until a guy like that is gone. Sure, there are guys with so much talent you may have to live with the loose screws, but the Tigers in question don't have that kind of talent....

Goodbye Daz, we hardly knew ye.

that is certainly a change.

didn't he say that the night he hit 499 then change his mind by the next morning? But maybe that was a road game he held him out of, I don't remember...

LOL - big night for Barnhart actually - a hit,BB and CS.