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I've been watching him since Politically Incorrect. I think he overdoes outrage at the left, mainly because the hard left is not nearly the equivalent to the hard right in power or influence, but I still watch him.

So funny you say that because when my wife and I are at a restaurant and they're dragging their feet on getting our meal to us, she'll tell me to go to the bathroom so we can get it sooner.

McStink Bomb!

Look, Bert, we love you and everything, but ... can you take the hint, pal? 😉

Yeah, i don't disagree with that. Coming into the game 12% of Keith's PAs are against LHB, vvs 22% of all Tigers PAs and 26% of all AL PAs. It's not as though he's being sat against all LHP starters, necessarily: Keith has started 61 of the Tigers' 76 games, which is not exactly a platoon situation. And he is sucking wind against LHP, which raises a chicken or egg question. He didn't have that split last year in Toledo. So, who knows. I would think he is sitting against some LHPs, and maybe getting pinmch hit for late in the game when LHPs come in. But I agree that he needs to see them more. He did just get a wind-blown pop-up double against the LHP Shuster, so ... baby steps!

No guarantees ... 🤓

Well, you had to know the Tigers were ready to bust out and score nine in the first less-than-two innings.

Almost as though they have no idea what they're doing

I am tempted to root against them when they wear those things. Honestly, I am not against the jerseys so much, although I have always disliked dark pants to match the jersey, which makes them look like pajamas. But those hats? It's almost as though there had a deadline to meet, and 15 minutes before the presentation, someone from the design agency who got the job says, "holy sh*t, we forgot the hat!" And they draw up a quick hat design and the team leader says, "Make the Detroit in italics and tell them it's like racing or something". And they sold it through because Asia Gholston was paying more attention to TikToks during the presentation, and she waved her hand and said "fine, whatever."

OK, these are the real Chicago White Sox.

Almost as if he's not a good pitcher ...

My first computer in 1992 was a Packard Bell 486 sx20 with 2 mb RAM and 40 mb hard drive which, along with a monitor and printer, cost close to $3,000, or at least I think I remember it doing so. Maybe I'm misremembering ...

The other thing with Flaherty specifically is the health question. He had a back thing earlier this year and a rash of shoulder injuries from a couple years ago. I don't think any team is going to pull the trigger until as close to July 30 as they can get. I don't think the Tigers are going to be offered a bag of balls for Flaherty unless the entire seller's side of the trade market collapses, which I don't even know how that happens because there will be more buyers than sellers. (There is even some question about whether the Tigers will be buyers.) And even if by some weird reason the market were to collpase, I bet 10 to 1 that Harris would hang onto Flaherty versus accepting a bag of balls. This will not be a salary dump mandate like Verlander was. Flaherty would be the #2 SP on the market, so if we don't get solid offers for him, then no one is getting solid offers for anyone.

This strikes me not so much as an "or" as it does as a restatement of what you quoted?

Yes, Republicans, stop using Bill Maher as a reference point! Stop it! Listen to your leader! Eyes on the ball! What’s wrong with you!

Yes, Harris has the responsibility, and he’s working through it now, still trying to figure out which players are redeemable and which are not. There are a lot of detritus we have already let go since 2022, and there will be more. That process is going to take more than a couple months into the season, though. I’m guessing he doesn’t think it makes sense to start releasing guys en masse and run a revolving door of players through the team and releasing more guys if they can’t make it within a week. Guys like, say, Malloy, who some posters here were ready to cut bait on right away after clamoring all year for him to be promoted. Revolving door roster management would be chaotic, and that would make us all unhappy, too. It’s OK for our patience to thin dramatically with every loss, and that’s OK, because we have no responsibility for this organization. All we want is win, now, and wake me when that starts happening. That’s what fandom is about. It wouldn’t make any sense for Harris to operate the business like that, though. He has to be deliberate, thoughtful, and measured in how he guides the evolution of this team, and given where the organization stands, he has to prioritize long-term objectives over short-term objectives. We don’t have to like that, and we always can take a break and quit paying attention for a while any time we want. Harris doesn’t have that luxury. The tricky part for him is determining when the short term is so borked that we have to do something off-plan NOW to address it. Apparently, he doesn’t think we’re there just yet. But if this recent malaise keeps up much longer, I would bet we’re getting close to something.

I think it’s less a matter of counting on Tork than it is giving him every chance to succeed. He’s proven he’s got awesome hitting talent in there somewhere and the Tigers are doing everything they can to unlock it. The most horrifying thing would be we release him after this year, he catches on with someone who unlocks him, and he comes back to beat us over and over. I think if he continually shows nothing by the middle of next year, then he’s out, but not before then.

That’s what they’re working on. There’s really not much to work with.

I’m not sure what kind of clarity people are looking for on Tork, but if the thought is him getting ****-canned, it ain’t happening. Even if he stays in Toledo and slashes .200/.250/.300 for the rest of the season, he’s coming back in the spring at the very least. It would be a shocker of historic proportions for him—a 1/1 who has already had a modicum of success in the majors—to be done done at 24. I would expect to see him on the field at Comerica agin, maybe even this year after a meh performance in AAA, but almost certainly next year coming north, albeit with everybody’s fingers crossed. Here’s a wild idea: maybe we see Tork in a change-of-scenery trade this winter where we take someone else’s failed project in exchange for him. Just spitballing a name without thinking too deeply about it, maybe Henry Davis of the Pirates. We could probably use a catcher, too, and the Pirates have no future at 1B at the moment.

Live free or stay put.

I read it more as they just couldn’t get to the changeup, or to the fastball for that matter. That looks more like a competency problem than an approach problem.

It’s getting harder to keep the pig still for the lipstick.

Oh I remember Melissa. I was on the old board, too. 😁 That pic, though … just … *swoon*