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Despite the horrific way by which the Tigers have lost some recent ballgames, a glance through their games to date reveals that they do not have a losing record in any ten-game stretch so far this season. But, also, they’ve been as good as 8-2 in any ten-game stretch only a couple of times. So the whole season so far has been a steady diet of 5-5, 6-4, and 7-3 records in any given ten-game stretch. That’s a very good kind of consistency.

I think it has to do with fear of failure. It’s fine if the trade you make works well if you and even works well for them at the same time, but if it ever boomerangs back on you—if the guy you trade to Cleveland beats you in a late September game and affects your playoff positioning as a result—everyone is going to focus on that and hammer you ten times as hard for it.

I’m guessing Brebbia will slip through and head down I-75 to try to fix whatever’s ailing him.

I think that’s a lot easier when you have a team of really young guys playing on minimum or small contracts and still in the process of establishing themselves as major league regulars. The one guy on the team getting really good and paid for years, Javy Baez, I think has been humbled by his last three seasons so his ego has been checked so far. I’ll actually be interested to see whether his attitude will change with his renewed success—some guys seem humble when they’re scuffling, but then when things start going well again they start really feeling themselves again. The two other vets getting big paychecks, Jack and Gleyber, are on prove-it deals so it seems unlikely they would let their egos run wild in that situation, even around a bunch of impressionable kids.

I know that Dan has paired with Carlos before but I honestly can’t remember whether I saw them. I’d love to see that one of these Saturdays.

We can afford Skubal in money. The real question is whether we can afford Skubal in years.

I remember both this from being interested in TV ratings when in school and also when I started worked in ad agency media: the Tigers frequently had the highest TV ratings for any local team in baseball.

This paper gets me to wondering, I wonder how many World Series winners who got rings wear them everyday out in the world? I always thought more like it was something they would put in a case at home like a trophy, and maybe break it out for special occasions, rather than just wear it everyday day like a wedding band or something. I saw Scott Harris’s ring he received with the 2016 Cubs when I played at Cubs Camp. His dad was on my team and he’d brought it to camp to give nobodies like me a thrill. That thing was super heavy. I guess you’d have to be a really big guy to wear that around regularly.

Cade Smith just took a liner at 106.6 mph off the bat of Rowdy Tellez right to the forehead. He came within two inches of being another Cleveland pitcher getting Herb Scored. The Guardians are keeping him in the game. I’m not so sure that’s such a good idea.

Special pleading works well when you tell this President how strong, powerful, smart, and handsome he is.

I gotta tell ya, I have never heard so many helicopters flying over our neighborhood as I have in the past week or so. We almost never hear helicopters around here, unless there’s some car crash or something nearby and a TV station sends a copter to cover it. But we’ve been hearing maybe half a dozen helicopter patrolling overhead every night pretty much on the regular. It’s happening right now. They are definitely patrolling something.

I’ve been wondering how the Trump people are going to turn this story into an indictment of the Democrats. My guess is they will go after the “leftist” media for reporting the story in a way Trump doesn’t or wouldn’t like.

It’ll be interesting to see whether he can do anything as a Brewer. If so it would be another that for some guys, which system you’re in makes all the difference.

No doubt. Not everyone on a minor league roster can be an actual prospect. You need to fill out the rest of the roster so you can field a team.

OK, good feedback. I purposely cut him off at the eyes because I wanted as little of his face as I could get away with, while still allowing people to immediately identify him. I wanted the focus to be primarily on the crown, not on his face. I wouldn’t add the clown makeup to mine. That would make it completely different from the joke I wanted to make, and would shift focus from the crown to the clown. Feel free to on your version, though. Would love to see it!

Matt Manning has got to be done here.

You still could’ve beaten Carpenter around third to the plate.

And there we go!

How telling is it that Matt Gage was called up and Matt Manning was not?

Hey, White Sox, we have a Devil You Know you guys could probably use.

I still feel pretty good about getting the win.

Carpenter ran like I could beat him in a race, and I’m in my 60s.

Which is fine for him because he's got goals at 30,000 feet he needs to accomplish. Although he will definitely swoop in at times and issue a decree about some minor hot button issue on the ground.

I agree that he is cognitively slipping as many 79-year-old men would be. What I would not agree with is the idea that he’s a mindless, utterly non-cognitive blob who couldn’t possibly be aware of anything he is doing at any given moment. The details don’t matter to him—they never have—but he knows what the strategy is, and he knows how to move the strategy along, and the fact that it is effective with large swaths of the population is also something I firmly believe he is well aware of, as well as why it’s effective. To suggest that he could not possibly be aware of any of it, which has been implied repeatedly in this forum, I believe serves only to take him off the hook of responsibility for it.

It’s one thing if they talk about the game like you might hear two guys in a bar talking about a game on TV. It’s another to hear two guys in a bar talk about which Stars Wars movie was their favorite and why while the game is on TV—which I don’t mind, ‘cos it’s a bar.