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The Tigers very likely clinch before this happens, but they could have a magic number of 3 with Cleveland before the third game of the series and clinch with a win. They would have had to win the first two games of the series and not have clinched already. This is because a sweep in the series next week clinches the tiebreaker.

One of the 9-10 games I am blacked out for...

The Marlins do.

Why is Sunday TBD? Is it a matter of if the division is too close, they want to save Mize for Tuesday against Cleveland?

Lange is not on the IL, and he has been getting roughed up since being sent back down.

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Depends how many of the women who came forward are on the baseball side. I do know the woman who was in the analytics department, who had gotten some pub several years back, left the team sometime in 2023-24. Giblin getting bumped up to VP after being Menzin's subordinate is interesting to me as well. I don't agree that this is a New York hit job. To my original point, if there are rumblings about a woman being thrown down the stairs by a team employee, the local media needs to get on that and chase it down. There is clearly still a problem. They are retaliating against Stavenhagen, for example. Gustafson seems like a bad egg.

Why was I thinking there was some pedophilia there too?

Not to bleed things over from the forum people would be wise to avoid, but is somebody else going to have to start game threads for a bit? No way that post today doesn't warrant some time away...

Kinda what I was driving at. I noticed in The Athletic's follow up story, the team tried to ice them out of the media availability in the afternoon. Sports entities took the wrong lesson from Penn State/Baylor...

I am curious who throws the last two innings with TBD tomorrow.

Great job by the Yankees fortifying their bullpen at the deadline. A guarantee of success, the groupthink mafia told me.

Yeah, but we don't have to be assholes like them.

Getting in front of this here. https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lyix2xcgs22i

Political violence is bad.

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Quick social check from beat reporters: Woodberry did not tweet the Athletic article but did tweet the Tigers response. Nothing on Twitter from either Petzold or McCosky. Paul and Henning aren't beat reporters but have tweeted the story. Stavenhagen retweeted his colleague's story.

Might be a good idea to monitor the front office directory on the Tigers website for stealth changes...

What was Fenech digging into when he was forced out by the Freep under pressure by the Tigers?

A national news organization did the digging here. Where is the local media on this? Just toothless these days and the team uses access to keep them from digging around. This take somewhat inspired by doing some Epstein digging here and remembering it was a local reporter who blew the lid off and brought the story back to life.

Had a feeling Menzin was the tip of the iceberg...

The Yankees were one of the trading deadline paragons that people pointed to for fixing bullpens, right?

Yeah, we want the Royals. This has nothing to do with current standings and everything to do with remaining games. The team with six games left against the Tigers has more chances to catch up than the one who has none.

If Cleveland does well in this week's series, that may put an end to any confusion resulting from Chaz's stubbornness to embrace the new rules. 😃

Nobody associated with this year's team is the magic number because it was retired with Sparky.