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And, also, don't let Cleveland's bullpen make an appearance. 😏

One more dollar in salary!

I can't imagine any scenario in which Scott Harris bails on the stabilized Tigers to go back to the hot mess that is San Francisco.

I absolutely 100% believe that.

To be clear, I agree there was a lot of wishcasting here well into this year that Harris hated Hinch, Hinch hated Harris, Ilitch hated them both, that one or both of them were going to get fired, and that Leyland was going to came back on his Marlboro horse and save us all. OK, I made up that last one. But the rest of it, pretty true for certain posters. But I don't think there was ever any broad agreement or consensus here that Hinch would get fired anytime soon. Speaking only for myself, not only did I never think that even for a nanosecond, I've actually thought at points that Hinch might ascend to general manager under Harris, and that someone else, possibly George Lombard, would become field manager. I think that far less now. But even if the Tigers had gone 20-20 in their last 40 games and finished 76-86 instead, I would never have believed that Hinch was in any danger of losing his job here. If that were to happen, I would have despaired for the direction of the franchise, as I did once it became clear that Avila was never going to take analytics seriously.

No, I don’t think so.

As we all know as media-savvy consumers, there is a race among the beats to be first reporting the final, and there is nothing in it for Elon to create a delay function on his platform.

Here is my seat for Monday’s Game 2, featuring the stylings of Tarik Skubal!

Yes, and also, pinch hitting and defensive substitutions, as well as picking the right guy to open. A.J. is hitting on all cylinders right now.

I wouldn’t have though Mark Meadows cared about Mike Pence enough to confront Trump over it.

No doubt. Tell you what, though: when A.J.’s active managing comes up snake eyes a couple games in a row, the board is gonna go right back to that hoary old solid gold biggie, Fire Hinch and the Hitting Coaches. 😏

Maybe not. He’s on the Network a fair amount, so he may not want to give that up. The Tigers may go outside the family for a permanent color guy next year.

Exactly. Not every team can put together a reliable bullpen they know will crush it every game, and in fact SSS randomness will lay such plans to waste pretty often. It happened to work for us this time. But hey, if Cleveland and Minnesota and Kansas City want to try to copy that and go long with it next season, they are certainly welcome to try. 😁

The Twitter alerts that come in before I can see or hear the plays on TV/radio are what gets me. I frequently watch TV while interacting with you guys on my iPad, so it’ll be two outs in the ninth, I’ll be waiting for the resolution, and then one of the beat guys will tweet the final, and the alert pops up before I can see it play out on TV. It’s gotten so persistent that I have turned off my Twitter alerts on the iPad, and I flip over the face of my phone so I can’t see the alerts there either.

And Bobby Scales with the underrated follow-up! I’ve come to like him a lot better this year.

Oh, Ken … Ken Ken Ken Ken Ken … 💀

Yes, life is good right now, isn't it?

Seven straight ALCS appearances. Who cares about that anymore!

Of course one of the last outs is Parker Meadows doing one of his patented center field catches.

I don’t know, I’m thinking the frog is still alive in the pot after this. It’s all as though nothing works, and the Supreme Court will merely find a way to stop it.

Really? Because OOTP guys do.

Is Olson in the pen? I don’t know, maybe …