chasfh

This baseball is a humbug game.

Yeah, strikeouts are bad.

I don’t think Sweeney is going to be on the playoff roster. But then, if we don’t start winning again soon, ain’t no one on this team gonna be on a playoff roster.

Jesus even when we get a lead off runner on, Braves get a tailor-made DP on the next pitch on a hit up the middle. Then the third baseman makes a diving play on a sharply-hit ball headed for left field to get the third out. When that happens to you, you’re not going to win the game.

Hinch wasn’t one of the cheaters. He simply took the fall for it while the players who worked directly with the front office on it went scot free.

Are Hank Greenberg and Rudy York the only two before this?

Holy ****, a fourth ambulance chaser advertiser?? Someone called “Ven Johnson”?? Detroit’s economy obviously still sucks ass.

What, another ambulance chaser advertising on Tiger games? That’s three now, isn’t it? Who the **** is Mike Morse?

Goddammit, was Javy actually pulling up as he was crossing first and getting thrown out by a hair? Did he have a prop bet on the bat bat?

When the Tigers are getting their asses handed or them like this, those city connects look doubly stupid on them.

I remember that, and it's paved the way for the next charge of same. The argument, specious as it is, has a long history in this country: when black people boycotted offending companies during the wane of the Jim Crow era, they were also referred to as "economic terrorists".

WGN-TV, the once-vaunted once-superstation once owned by the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper), is now owned by Nexstar. How the mighty have fallen. Not unlike WJR-AM.

Better hurry, because I don't believe you're going to be able to do that kind of thing for much longer. The regime will designate boycotts as "economic terrorism", or some such rot. And in a very certain narrow sense, it is economic terrorism. But it's not illegal. Not yet.

Sure, I get exactly why they are doing it. That's not the mystery. The mystery is, how did we as a collective country let everything crash this far this fast. I think we all intellectually knew that democracy is fragile, but I don't think any of us truly understood that American democracy was this fragile, like an eggshell.

Seriously, how much time do any of those Republican "lawmakers" spend making any law?

Not to worry, he'll repent.

I do know this, and the point of my post was not to ask why my jurisdictions charge me sales tax if they don't even have a presence here, but that the fact they can charge it is literal theft because I get nothing back for it. It's essentially a junk fee.

How does that help us re Sweeney now?

Can they refile in another jurisdiction? Can the Supreme Court overturn the striking of the suit? There's got to be a way they can subvert justice on this, right?

I think we're really good this season—certainly good enough to be a .556 team overall, even if we're not as good as were were through July 8, or as bad as we've been since August 24. Honestly, I wouldn't expect us to be dramatically better next season than this.

Got it. Sorry for the confusion. Stupid common Spanish names ... 😉

I don't know, given that you're a regular on this sidebar, that looked about as direct as it could be without flat out @ing you.

Because there's nobody else in the system we can easily replace Sweeney with? TBF, Sweeney has started only 17 games and had a mere 67 plate trips in the entire second half, so it's not as though it's going unnoticed.

If you mean up the most games before losing a pennant or division, that might be right. I can't find any other team up as many as 14 and ending up out of first place. If you mean the most sudden collapse at the end of a season, you would be definitely be correct, if we do end up blowing it. The gold standard has always been the 1951 Dodgers, who were up 13 on August 11 with 47 games left on the schedule before coughing up the pennant (or having it stolen from them) by Bobby Thomson and the Giants. Entire books have been written about that collapse (in part because they were the Brooklyn Dodgers, natch). By contrast, the Tigers were up 11-1/2 on August 23 with 31 games left on the schedule. A slightly smaller number than 13, but way fewer games to blow it in. So yeah, I believe we would supplant those Dodgers as the worst late-season collapse ever.

It is also dependent on who the opposition is, what the score is, how many runs you've scored that inning, and what inning it is. Also agree that the double play comes onto the table, but also, a potential triple play if it's a sharp line drive to anyone on the infield, especially the third baseman playing in.