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No room at the inn here.

McCullers must have ****ed up some guys’ parlays.

Also he’s been calling more plays wrong before they happen and he has to reverse himself. Maybe we just didn’t notice it before.

This raises the question as to whether something is wrong with the incentives as they relate to competitive balance. Too many teams are happy to phone in a team because they make scads of money and increase franchise valuation substantially almost no matter what they do. I don’t know that a simple salary cap and floor will do much to solve it, since such organizations will simply spend the bare minimum of the letter of the law, and still fail to invest in the coaching, development, and performance science teams need during this era to compete effectively.

This was pre-WGN Superstation.

The Cubs called up Cade Horton, their #2 prospect, because they’ve lost Justin Steele and Shota Imanaga to injury. They started the game with an opener because, for better or worse, they did not want Horton opening up his career against Lindor, Soto, and Alonzo … ahem … right off the bat. It kinda sorta worked.

Manning is done.

Riley go BOOM!

One of the things I like about Dan calling the game on TV when Jason‘s gone is that I get to watch it on the DIRECTV satellite instead of on MLB.tv. The commercials are just so much better. Every half inning break on MLB.tv, I see a bet365 ad. It just makes my soul leave my body to see them.

Doesn’t have to be either or. Could be all of them.

Flaherty’s gotta be tipping.

I experienced the same thing for Game 163 in 2009. I was about maybe 10 minutes behind live. Tigers and Twins tied in the 12th. Twins had just intentionally walked Ryan Raburn to load the bases. Then the phone rang: it was my good baseball buddy. I knew he was calling me because the game was over and he wanted to talk about it. I let the call go. Then Inge came up and I saw the ball graze his jersey, and for a second and a half I thought, oh my god, we won, we won, he called me because we won! But then, of course, they didn't call the hit by pitch, and at that very moment I knew we must have lost. Sure enough, Inge forced Miggy at home, Gerald Laird struck out to end the inning, and I didn't even bother watching the bottom of the inning, because I knew the game was over since my buddy had called. I looked up the result and called him back and told him this story.

That is simply otherworldly.

My brother likes doing that with Lions games, too. I don't like that because then I can talk about the game with people, or follow up on something I see online, because spoilers.

Religion is a personal thing, and a social thing, for some, but for too many people, religion has become a political thing, a way to create an air of exclusivity for only a certain type of Christian, and exclusion for everyone else who will not comply.

Coincidentally, I heard on the tigers territory pod that his recent run is also 50 strikeouts against one walk! That’s like a doctored OOTP pitcher.

I love Mickey, but there’s no way he pitched every pitch with anywhere near the same intensity that pitchers today do. The only other possible reason is that today’s pitchers are far, far weaker than pitchers from fifty and more years ago, and that does not pass any reasonable smell test.

Except the speeders couldn’t hit and the hitters couldn’t speed. 😉

This is not unlike the way the ‘84 Tigers kept winning and winning, and still could not completely bury the Blue Jays early. Those guys were playing almost .700 ball by early June and were less than a week’s worth of games behind us.

These were Leyland’s batting orders in 2011, going 1 to 9 left to right. There’s room for only ten names, so there was an 11th guy who batted 2nd. The guy not listed here is one who’s also become prominent on Tigers media lately.

Had to be 2014. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/index.fcgi?date=2014-05-18

TBF, 1968 was really a pitcher’s year like no other.

This is not at all a comment on Tarik Skubal or anyone else’s private views at all, but—I really hate this haircut which is inexplicably popular right now.

It’s almost as though they are basically Tracy Ullman in a bathrobe coming out to the TV audience shouting “GO HOME! GO HOME!”

It took only 20 or so seasons of analytics infiltrating the game to get teams untracked off the tried and true-ish.