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The 2003 club really hit their "stride" in June... 5-22 for the month. The two shouldn't be close once July hits.

Sounds right... not hard to think he'd be gone already without the Kreidler injury

Not the reason they lost by any means yesterday, but it was another lineup with Cabrera and Schoop batting back 2 back... painful stuff Setting aside Miggy, who is untouchable so long as he wants to play, how much more leash is Schoop gonna get? He's really hard to watch at the plate right now

Unrelated, but Dallas Braden has quite a beard...

That was more on the defense imo.

Tyler Holton took one for the team here... 48 pitches

Man, Goldy... just good at baseball

Was that play in the 6th? For some reason I thought it happened in an earlier inning

Today is a reminder that, even if they may be a little better than some thought, this team still has a ways to go to being good... With that in mind, they just need to use that inning as a learning moment and just build off of it to make sure it doesn't happen again

And Jake joins the error party...

This happens sometimes to every team in baseball fwiw. Except for maybe the Rays

Just brutal defense this inning... damn

Rogers slam is fun, but they got an assist from Oli Marmol there... just overmanaged the hell out of that inning

I think what is hard, particularly with catchers, is that you don't 100% know whether nagging injuries were a factor in performance. Just wonder if that was the case here.

To be fair, St Louis is rolling out a 6th/7th/8th type in Steven Matz today... or at least he's pitched that way so far lol

Even aside from McKinstry, and with the caveat that it is a small sample, Andy Ibanez is another guy with ML experience he had stashed at Toledo and has made some contributions at the ML level since being called up. Just doesn't seem like something that would have happened during the last administration... they probably would have rewarded loyalty to an org soldier

Interesting part about Pig Smuggler's screencap is that 41+29 = 70. Meaning there are 30% in the other category. Gonna hazard a guess that cohort tends to be younger and is made up of predominantly people who are outright hostile to the GOP in elections.

I grew up with a predominantly Polish background in one of the German blocs of the Thumb... The most noticeable thing comes down to religion... multiple Lutheran churches in town given that the German stock tended to come from reformist parts of the Germany, one relatively small Catholic parish that covered the rest of us. Drive 20-30 miles? Much different story... it reminds me of the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, just on a much larger geographical scale

Maybe we all buried Dingler too quickly?

Tremendous team win today... contributions from just about everyone on the field. Love it!

His calls in big moments last night wete probably an improvement over previous years. But that doesn't mean they were good lol. In general, I prefer him when he's paired with Petry too. But Petry, along with Cam Maybin, are the cream of the Bally crop lol

I hope Will Vest gets some rest, because if its close, someone else is gonna have to close this one out lol

Regarding Junior Valentine, it has to be stated that his zone was pretty wide all game and to both sides. The strikeout called third early on to Haase with men in base is a good example. And he was calling those balls at the bottom of the zone fairly consistently. Not saying he got those calls right or wrong in the 9th, but it is what it is

It's been a while since a Tiger game felt that adrenaline filled... the big crowd in St Louis no doubt is a factor

On one hand, the calls are very questionable. On the other hand, angry Cardinal tears give me life