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After an awful swing earlier in the AB, Vierling muscles one into left for a rib. One-run game.

Tork with another four-hit game. Dag.

Another El Mago play, not enough to keep Brieske from continuing to rediscover his 2022 form and give up another run.

Hard pass.

Listened to Stavenhagen’s pod this morning and he talked about how Haase had become a sourpuss in the clubhouse because of his struggles. Understandable since he’s human, but that wasn’t going to help him stick around.

Is Al Avila coming back?

That’s OK, Eric Haase would have whiffed on that same pitch.

I ❤️ Michael Fulmer.

Remember that guy who left the Astros for the Cardinals and hacked into his old employer’s database, get busted, and was sentenced to four years prison? Now this. People switching teams must take copies of proprietary information with them all the time.

They’re not serious journalists. They’re beat writers who depend on access.

She’s got a puncher’s chance to get there.

You went to St. Dennis? I went to Foley, a lot of St. Dennis kids went there.

Totally agree, and either way, you will be entertained.

Part of his problem was the generally poor route he took to the ball, something he does more than we’d like to see.

Both Riley Greene’s diving catch and Javy’s diving stop made ESPN’s top 10 plays tonight.

Javier Baez. Love him or hate him, you will be entertained.

Whoa, Tommy Pham going off like this … And can’t let it go …

Not sure what the Carson Kelly move is about, exactly, if not shuffling the deck chairs until Dillon Dingler or someone we don’t know about yet arrives sometime next season or 2025. It’s pretty clear Haase is toast but he couldn’t be optioned, so they had to DFA him to clear active roster space. Kelly has no more future here than anyone else, even Rogers, so I don’t see them pushing out Jake in favor of Kelly for the 2024 season. Tigers might want to see whether they can squeeze a year of 2021-level performance out of Kelly before they move onto to the next catchers phase.

😂

I love that ballpark. What a money-grubbing money-grab, but really, do we expect anything different from people who have way, way more than it all?

I agree with the premise although I’d flip it around, since the Angels got there first.

Air and Water Show starts today. I’m close enough to the lake so that planes routinely buzz the house. For three days a year, it is super cool.

This matters in terms of stability of the world, but to Trump world, diplomacy is de facto weakness, so they still see it as a Trump win and Biden loss. The trick is, getting people to vote for the stability of the world.