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They’ll just move it to 4th of July.

This argument against him is still holding water in courts, but if we can’t turn this ship around, at some point it won’t hold any water anymore.

It would be best if it happened before the death camps open.

To this point, Matt Gaetz must feel like the biggest chump in the world now for pulling out of the Attorney General appointment.

Do you tip the gas attendant? We never did in the 70s when gas was invariably pumped for us. In fact, I worked at Sunoco for a day, and I quit because at the end of the day they presented me some dat saying how much gas I pumped, how much money I’d given them, I was short by two dollars and I owed them the difference. Hey, it was the 70s. Anyhow, pumping gas seems like it would be a tippable service these days. Is it now?

Brieske has become exactly the pitcher I complained he was back in 2023.

I’m not sure I would assume Jobe is going to be better after his TJ using Skubal as a data point, but all we can do at this point is hope he will be.

Also, Victor Reyes is The Man on the Lotte Giants team in Korea.

Plus how often you gonna need a LOOGY for the exact situation of two outs, RISP, close and late, good left-handed hitter up? Maybe half a dozen times a year, a dozen tops? Can you keep a guy on the roster all year basically just for that?

Fun Fact: Harold Castro is in Omaha right now, and he’s kind of killing it.

If you bring in a LOOGY with two outs and he gets the LHH out, he won’t have to face two more guys.

I am falling out of love with the idea of running on every single ball that’s hit. We have to figure out how to be more judicious about that.

They will have sellout weekends as long as they have the best record in the majors and the Chicago Cubs come into town. All I can lean on at this point is my experience that tells me it's a bad look that may hurt perception and marketability for the team not on Friday night, or on Saturday night, or on Sunday night, and probably not for the rest of this year, but in the long run. Or maybe it won't. I don't know for a yet-to-be-verified fact. I can't predict the future of this specific issue. I'm just speaking experientially as a marketer who dealt with consumer perceptions in my profession. I have to admit that maybe I'm wrong here. Maybe it won't matter. Maybe the Tigers themselves don't even care how it looks. Hey, maybe it even looks better for them to be empty. Maybe the Tigers designed the whole situation to be that way and they're satisfied with how it looks. I don't work with them, or know anyone on the inside, so I can't know for a fact one way or the other. I am merely hypothesizing based on my experience, so count that toward whatever you think that's worth.

And, also, we need free and fair elections.

"You're very clean and articulate, and how dare you not thank me for giving you such a high and totally appropriate compliment."

He is if you don't mind not hitting.

OTOH, Marlins at Pirates in Pittsburgh on a weekday afternoon.

I would agree that the likelihood of someone deciding not to buy a game ticket only because they saw empty seats on the one TV game they happened to be watching is roughly the same as someone deciding to buy a car only because they happened to see a car commercial on TV.

All due respect, if you worked in marketing, you'd understand what I mean.

If you think improving his line drive rate is itself luck, then yes, his higher BABIP is also lucky. But if you believe he improved his line drive rate through work and earned that increase, then he also earned that higher BABIP, since xBA on line drives is over .700.

I honestly think Mark Fidrych might have had something to do with popularizing self-serve gas. I remember back in that magical year he had, there was a huge feature story on him in the Sunday Free Press, I think it was, and there was a picture of him happily pumping gas into his own car, and part of the story was how salt of the earth he was to want to have to do this for himself, like, look at this guy, this great big league pitcher, he's not putting on any airs. It looked so cool, at least to 15-year-old me.

He's our Devil We Know.

McKinstry is so interesting because I always thought of him in the vein of, say, Mike Fontenot: a fine guy to run out there for 250 or 300 ABs, but once you give him 500 or so, then you start to see all the things he can't do, and every day. Some guys are just made for the utility role. Of course, Fontenot had only the one really good year as a utility guy, and McStnky had a better year at 500 ABs for us in '23 than he did with 300 ABs for us last year, so, what the hell do I know.

Bregman is hurt now, so I'm not sure I would trust him to be healthy the rest of the season. If defense is your thing, Suarez is not your guy. Unless you're fine punting on defense for sure for the promise of better offense? That would be the Gleyber Plan at a different position. I'm starting to wonder whether the situation we have for third base isn't good enough to take us through this October.

This might be a close proxy to what you're looking for. They don't break out subs versus starters, but overall, Tigers are second in baseball for most different position players played during a season so far: This one they do measure. Not the most, but fifth out of 30 is a lot: Although this may be more a function of not having eight solid reliable starters we can run out there day after day, as the Cubs (29th) do.