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Rare 1-2-3 inning for Joe Joe

Just too much plate from Fulmer....

Thank God the Mariners returned him, or else he'd be another Travis Demeritte lol

Wow, Will Vest...

Waste of a challenge by AJ there....

Oh my.... functional O decided to show up for the later innings lol!

I actually agree with you.... but he wasn't batting for the hitters after May 7th last year either.

Brieske ending with a quality start today is shocking considering how it started

TUCKER!!!

After the rough first inning, Brieske may somehow end up going six.

If Hinch got more out of this god awful team last year, why isn't he doing it this year? Have you considered that explaining the Tigers situation away on luck (both their success last year and failure this year) kinda undermines the whole point that all of the Tigers success last year is because of AJ Hinch? Again, people want to have it both ways and it doesn't work.

Kaprielian starting to give out free passes....

Badly need to score a couple of runs here....

Willi's defense is suspect, but credit where credit is due.... he's at least making contact more than the others.

Sure, it's better. But the bigger raging fire they have at the moment is the fact that they have next to no offense. Montas does not solve that problem. And that's setting aside that it probably takes at least a Mize or Manning to actually acquire Montas.

Miggy gets a middle-middle fastball, maybe slightly down, and pops it straight up. lol

What does Montas do for this team? Another guy to lose 3-2?

Well, time to make James Kapreilian look like Tom Seaver....

I don't know how you do it.... glad I can overlay Dan/Jim on the feed.

Tough inning for Brieske, but that's not what bothers me. Like last night, it's the fact that there's better than 50/50 odds that this pathetic offense won't put up any runs.

Aaand, here we go again

Congrats.

Just to add, at a larger level, the whole rumor was probably just Lynn Henning shooting his mouth off and taking advantage of the fact that the Tigers fanbase has a natural inferiority complex based on a number of factors (lack of success during the Avila years, lack of WS during last successful period, etc.). He has experienced what we haven't.... and we don't feel worthy. Even though, similar to when Mariucci became head coach for the Lions, even though he has had success and way more than his boss, he still can make mistakes and should be evaluated with clear eyes.

I honestly do not feel that the rest of the league feels as you do about AJ's time in Houston, having said that, the implicit idea of the "opt out" line is that the rest of the league would give him a pass for everything that is happening here during his tenure. And that doesn't reflect reality either. I like AJ Hinch and generally am OK with the job he's doing here. And I understand that there have been plenty of decisions made prior to his time here that have negatively impacted this franchise. But you have to compartmentalize the macro and the micro, and in the micro, I don't see what has transpired over these couple of years as being something that would springboard a team toward letting go of a winning manager and hiring AJ Hinch.