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I do wonder whether a strong secondary reason Manfred allowed scumbags like Chick Gandil and Eddie Cicotte back into the game was because Manfred was sick of the Hall of Fame kicking the can over to Baseball when it came to this Rose guy, since they could be all like, hey man, don't look at us, Baseball banned him, we're just complying with their thing.

Tigers and Guardindians were never really rivals because they never fought each other closely for a pennant, or if they did, it was 100 years ago and not recently. Now that they had the playoff series last night, that should goose the rivalry by a good deal starting next week. And I'm gonna be there for Friday's game!

It’s a cheap solution, but you could pull up the Tigers radio feed on your phone and sync it to the Blue Jays video. It’s not very bespoke but that’s what I’m probably going to do.

That's good, because I hadn't stopped calling it HBO Max.

We already know he literally singled out the Tigers. The question was, did he tell the Chicago and Toronto media that he thought all winter that he was going to become a Cub/Blue Jay?

Now that you mention it, it might have been a hat tip to AJ, whereas there's nobody in Toronto or Chicago he's connected to like that. Still, that doesn't mean Bregman's is de facto opening the kimono to show his true feelings. His goal was clearly to get back on the market next winter, since he turned down a bigger contract without an option after 2025 for a smaller contract with an option, and based on his own history, he was not likely to put up the same numbers in Detroit to go into that market than he will in Boston.

I like the ice cream analogy. Dan Dickerson is homemade chocolate fudge swirl peanut butter ice cream.

Man, tough customer! 🤣 Let me try again: Puppies are cute.

Did he not?

I’m guessing that the heart of the “personalized fan experience” is an algorithm optimized to maximize your opportunity to bet on props based on the history of your interaction on the site.

They’ll just use prison labor for it.

I think one thing we can all agree on is that it’s fun to see Alex Bregman watching the team he spurned beat him and the team he chose.

That could just be a case of 20-20 hindsight diplomacy. He always raked at Fenway and not here. Right-handed power hitters who want to goose their stats don’t want to come here.

It’s a lot easier to give Vierling the whole 20 games while we are winning games without him.

If we’re grooming him for a trade, then we’d better send him down so he can start raking and up his trade value.

Probably All-Star break, he goes up.

He reiterated this in the TBS postgame.

Nm wrong thing

Players in general prefer night games over day games because (a) it’s cooler at night and the sun’s not there to get in their way; and (b) most games are already night games so more night games keeps them on a more predictable schedule for their bodies.

When I went to Tigers fantasy camp in 2007 and I was having joint pain in my thumb while swinging a bat, they gave me a thumb guard to use, which felt so weird that I just said **** it and dealt with the pain.

I miss Indiaks

This is the Javy Game™!

How can this not be our year?!?

Holy. Mother. Of. GOD!

Javy—justify my love …