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Especially considering three key position pieces are still out.

Sorry to hear. Radio feed can be paused on the MLB app.

That's exactly why they wouldn't fire him. The appearance of instability when a franchise fires people all over the place reduces the sale price. Plus, if they were to fire Baldelli, hire someone else, then sell the team, the new manager would probably get fired, too, and no decent replacement manager worth anything would take a job he knew would put him on the chopping block right out of the gate.

One way around it, kind of, is this: turn on the Twins feed on an mlb.tv app connected or cast to your TV, like a Samsung app or Apple TV box; then bring up Dan and Dan on Tigers radio on the MLB app on another device, like your phone. It's a two step process after that: (1) sync them up; (2) enjoy. I did that yesterday when Dan and Dan kept dropping out on the audio feed of the Apple TV+ app—I pulled up the guys on the MLB app on my phone and just listened to that.

We could well be 11-3 right now if only we'd won game 3 of the Yankees series that Colt booted with errors, obviating our comeback; and game 2 of the Dodgers series that Beau blew in the 10th.

When you watch your local team on mlb.tv, the opponent's TV crew are blacked out.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but cellies suck. There, I said it. But you all were thinking it.

Doesn't break my heart. 😁

Man, we just carved them up like nobody’s business today, didn’t we?

Right, well, never mind that Bregman was never coming here anyway. The thing does make a handy cudgel to hammer the front office with.

Yes, but also, a mental whiff by the runner Miranda, which pulled Colt’s ass out of the jackpot.

Makes sense—if a country willingly limits its ability to source products from outside its borders, that creates scarcity, which is great in the short term when it manifests in the higher prices and greater wealth transfer from plebes to oligarchs they seek. But at some point, when things evolve beyond that to widespread shortages and the resulting civil unrest, the problem of too many people for too few resources may well be addressed.

Well put. Not only do intellectuals go against the regime's best interests, but an educated people in general goes against their interests. That’s why people who are publicly lippy in general may well find themselves in hot water before long.

The strikeouts will come.

We have done a really good job putting pressure on the defense to make the play and we’ve gotten away with that so far. It’s gonna backfire from time to time but a good team that makes good decision, like ours appears to be, should experience a net gain from that.

Pretty good swing by Colt on that third out, though. Good sign.

Those were not good swing decisions by Riley on either that 1-0 or 1-1 pitch. He could be sitting 3-0 instead, and took a walk on that fourth pitch below the zone, and he might not have struck out on the breaker in the dirt. He’s off at the moment, and the shake of his head going back to the dugout tells the rest of us that he knows it.

Why, no.

Carp has a 105 wRC+ as well as a .314 wOBA and .138 BABIP, so, not worried.

Kind of funny that the Tiger-Twins was the first 200-minutes nine-inning game of the season, and then a couple hours later, the Mets-A’s matched it out in Oakl … er, Sacramento.

Did you call her miss McStinkyre?

People who think the regime is gonna stop at immigrants are whistling past the graveyard.

Fun with Fangraphs: The Tigers are 8-2 against non-Dodger teams. During this period our hitters have the best wRC+ of any team at 131, and on the pitching side are 8th in WHIP+ with 91; ninth in FIP- with 87; and 11th in xFIP- with 97.

I’m not hopeless, but I am a hopeful pessimist.