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And JAKE helps his battery mate ON A 3-0 FASTBALL!

Can I just tell you how happy I am Jake Rogers is on the playoff roster for the Tigers and Justin Verlander is not for the Astros? That’s a small measure of cosmic justice right there.

Thank goodness Meadows can scoot. That could have been another inning-ending double play.

How about Tork drawing a walk after starting out 0-2!

Thank you for reminding me I can pair the Sirius Tigers radio broadcast on my phone to my soundbar and sync it up to my DVR-ready OTT box. I got that done pretty quickly.

Five-pitch inning. I’ll take it.

OK, ESPN News, then. Or maybe ESPNU? How about Disney Channel or FX or FXX or Nat Geo? They'd have to give the game to someone in the family.

I look at this playoff roster and you know what I see? I see thirteen guys who played competitive baseball at the minor league level this season. That's exactly one-half of our playoff roster that was deemed not ready or not good enough to be on the major league team for significant chunks of the season. And I'm not even counting the guys who were injured and had to go to the minors to rehab so they could make their way back to the big club, specifically, Casey Mize, Reese Olson, Kerry Carpenter, Riley Greene, and Andy Ibanez. They were playing in the minors not to be competitive, but to work themselves back into shape to return to Detroit. Although, if we were to count these guys as well, that would mean 18 of our 26 playoff roster guys played in the minor leagues this season. And this also doesn't include Ryan Kreidler or Liam Hicks, who are actual minor leaguers named to the taxi squad. When you add up all the activity all these guys put in at the minor league level, it makes up more than a quarter of all the innings pitched and plate appearances the entire Toledo team produced all season. Has there even been a playoff roster in major league history that had this much same-season minor league activity as ours? Not only I would be shocked if there ever were, I think I would be surprised if any other team came within even three guys of matching this.

They would have to switch the game to ESPN2, I would think.

I do think he's looking ahead to your scenario, but I see Colt Keith coming in for Ibanez rather than McKinstry, who might come in for Sweeney. Also, Carpenter is definitely pinch-hitting for Malloy at some point mid-game.

Technically, it's not a cut and paste, it's a zoom. If you click the roster part of the tweet it will reveal the entire roster. Liam Hicks was part of the return from the Rangers for Carson Kelly.

They seem to be roughly the same to me, pitchers who can't miss bats and give up too many hard hits. The difference is that Mize does have better control of the strike zone and can get more ground balls. Also, as a former 1/1, he's going to get more leash to keep failing, although I'm thinking next year might be his last chance to finally put something anything together.

It was be a lot funnier if they showed them wearing polo shirts and wielding golf clubs.

Says who? Says Leersehn, a guy who sold a million copies of a book based on the exact premise that basically everything we knew about Cobb was made up?

I do not give much thought to Pete Rose and his hankering for underage girls for the same reason you mention: history is replete with characters, some of whom are the most celebrated people in history, who imposed themselves sexually on minor children. Thomas Jefferson, for example, start raping his enslaved concubine Sally Hemings when she was 14. The difference between Pete Rose and most of those other characters is that Rose committed the #1 mortal sin against his profession, the sin of undermining the integrity of competition by betting on games in which he had a duty to perform. This would be the rough equivalent of Thomas Jefferson committing a treasonous act against the United States. In that case, you wouldn't have to highlight the child rape at all, as it is irrelevant to the issue at hand. The treason would be enough. And so it is with Pete Rose: his treason against baseball is all that is needed to exile him into the wilderness forever.

Yes, we talked about this on the other board when he book came out. Here is where I came out on that. The book is a pretty good read, and I think it would make a good movie. But Leersehn did not do a solid job at proving that Ty Cobb was significantly different from how he'd been portrayed a century previously. He did confirm that Cobb was combative and likely to fight at the drop of a hat other some perceived slight. This was not uncommon at the time, especially among southerners, who live in a culture defined by honor and, more to the point, the defending of it against all slights, large and small. But Leersehn does not do a good job at proving Ty Cobb was not racist, which was the author's greatest claim while promoting the book. He took situations and quotes involving Cobb's father and took leaps to conclude that he was a man who wanted to see blacks and whites on equal footing in terms of opportunities to succeed and under the law, but did not deliver any quotes or citations affirming this was the case. Leersehn drew his own conclusion, and worse yet, wrote it up so that it read as though it was merely his own conclusion. Likewise with Cobb's own behavior, such as fights with black people, the author disregarded actual newspaper accounts in the Free Press which, at the time, reported straight up that as a southern man Cobb had a natural disinclination towards blacks which likely led to the fights. The author cited the Free Press's own racism in its general reporting about blacks, as though the paper was seeking to implicate Ty Cobb as a racist due only to his southern roots. Point being, the conclusion that Ty Cobb is simply not the racist everything thinks he is is based on nothing but the author's own conjecture, given without citations of confirming evidence, and to the point of contradicting the actual reporting of the time when it suits him to. In short, the author comes off a Ty Cobb apologist who is doing everything he can to exonerate Cobb's reputation. All that said, I do recommend the book. It's a fun read, and again, I think it would make a fun movie to watch.

Wow, that happened a lot faster than I thought!

I am holding out hope against hope that Baseball will one day abandon their cozy relationship with gambling, same as they did with cigarettes, once it becomes clear that gambling addiction becomes one of the greatest health crises of all time. Not today, or tomorrow, or next year, but perhaps five or ten or fifteen years from now. They won't be able to stop people gambling on games, because Murphy—just as they can't stop people smoking cigarettes while watching baseball. But I am hopeful that one day Baseball (and the other sports) will stop integrating gambling odds and come-ons throughout the product. Please feel free to hammer me now as being hopelessly naive.

Read some contemporary reports about Ty Cobb and get back to us on this.

Yes, of course there will be, and it will fail, same as with Joe Jackson.

I like Canha, Chafin, and Kelly just fine. They came here to do a job, to serve a purpose for us, they did, and now best of everything to them. We might get a major leaguer or two out of the returns.

No, but a President Trump would have, which might be Eric Adams' only way out.

Now that I can agree with.

Reminder: Pete did not get a "lifetime ban". He was ruled permanently ineligible, which survives his death.

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