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Maybe it's not the coaching, maybe it's the player. But sure, fire them all, I guess, and keep firing them until things improve.

Because they hate the team, hate the fans, hate Detroit, and are just evil as ****.

Maybe hitting instruction during a major league season is a little like navigating a ship in the ocean—the captain can turn it only a little a time, and not on a 180 standing in place. The coaching may have established a plan during spring of for Tork to take first pitches if they are not in his happy zone, and then think about looking primarily for pitches he can drive. But maybe now that it’s not working, it’s nearly impossible to change his entire approach on a dime right ****ing now, while he is facing flamethrowing big league pitching literally every single day. If coaching were to tell Tork, today, forget everything we told you this spring and simply change your approach immediately and swing at everything you think your bat can get to, not only is that going to call their entire coaching approach—one that is consistent with their organizational philosophy and that is working for other players on the team—into question, but it’s also going to butt up in his head against the instructions he got in spring that are still firmly in his mind, and create a confused mental state in which he is guessing and flailing on every pitch, instead of on mainly strike-two pitches. I’m not speaking as an apologist for the hitting coaches here, but simply to the difficulty of revamping an entire hitting approach which almost always either takes place at the big league level only during the offseason, or on an extended developmental trip to the minors, which Tork might well benefit from. The monkey wrench here is that we do not have a regular first baseman who can man the spot every day for several weeks while Tork is away completely remakin g his hitting approach, especially now the Canha is down. And just going out and acquiring the warmest body available and sticking that guy at first base every day at least until at the break is almost certainly not going to make Tigers fans any happier when they see the results. Go ahead and blame Harris if you like (and Hinch while yoou’re at it, because hell, why not) for not anticipating that Tork would completely stink up the joint and having a league-average starting first baseman just waiting around on the shelf to take over just in case, although I don’t think any team would have a contingency like that just ready to go. That’s a fan’s prerogative. But really, this looks like this is something Tork will just have to withstand for the next few weeks and try hard to figure out for himself at the major league level. This is definitely one of the hard parts of the game that every team goes through at some point.

OK, I quit, we suck. 😉

Fifth youngest team in the majors.

Maybe all the hitting coaches should be fired. Or maybe the hitting coaches are doing the right thing and Tork’s just too broken or even not good enough to execute the plan right.

Yeah, she’s a weasel, all right.

Tweet says it all.

I too have never voted Republican, although I did vote for Ed Clark for president in 1980 because he said he wanted to legalize weed.

Probably. A guy like that who lives at the far end of the forty is almost the textbook definition of fungible.

Plus Parker's crushing it in Toledo so he's probably earned another shot here.

gimme

All due respect, anyone who was objectively observing them from outside could see they’d been moving that way for decades. Once the deficit ballooned under Reagan, and then under Bush, and dropped hard under Clinton, and shot back up under Baby Bush, Republicans lost any credible claim to fiscal responsibility, at least if we’re talking about reality.

The evil and the damage done.

What an interesting tagline: “Rush in support now.” Is that what people support Trump? They “rush in” support? “Rush in”. Where have I heard that before? It sounds so familiar … “rush in” … hmmm … “rush in” … I definitely know that from somewhere …

She really struggled to remember her script.

“We never meant to hurt Mr. Andrews. It was a joke. Come on, lighten up, snowflake …”

“Yet another Crooked Joe Biden hitjob …”

And so it begins. Tork’s voodoo doll worked like a charm. Now we have to put him at first base and leave him there.

We might. Depends what the number of years at hand will be. I wouldn’t want to throw eight years at the guy just to get three our four out of him.

Maybe we can package him in July to goose up the return.

That’s true but that is what they’re planning toward, and the sign of a good front office team is moving to an effective plan B (or C, or D, etc.) when things don’t go as planned. But the good organizations somehow get good production consistently from a ridiculously high percentage of prospects, or at least they go on a good run of that for several years, so maybe we can manage to do that, too. That can’t all be random, can it?

Yes, I agree, although I also think they’re doing the best they can to make a historically-****ed organizational offensive regime right again. It was so rotted out, top to bottom, that it was never going to get completely fixed over the course of a season and a third. I also don’t think it’s even worth contemplating the idea that the Tigers will concentrate on getting hitters up to speed while ignoring pitching and letting that go to seed, as if they can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. That’s sad-sack loser thinking. I’m assuming it’s a new day for the Detroit Tigers, and I’ll continue to believe that until they prove to me that’s a mirage.

I have wondered whether or when the Internet Research Center, or whatever its equivalent is now, would flood social media with disinformative tweets purported to come from leftists, in an effort to compare it with how right wingers tweet actual disinformation, in a bid to both equivocate them and to remove friction from and stanch criticism of future right wing disinformation.

This is a perfect summation of what polls are and what they’re worth anymore. You get double credit if you came up with that on your own. This is a long way from my being able to use the 2008 polls to win ten bucks from a friend by predicting who was going to win and what the electoral count would be. I got 49 out of 50 states right.