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Also, please please please please please keep Judge Cannon on the case.

I think the only people who have lost respect for Hinch as Tigers manager are frustrated fans. It's possible Miggy doesn't look up to Hinch, but then, Miggy probably doesn't look up to anybody. Otherwise, I'm guessing it's a lot of fans basically wishing Tiger players didn't respect Hinch so he'd get fired and we'd hire a manager they like while keeping the PBO who's currently working very closely with Hinch who was consulted in the hiring of the PBO.

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Lack of question mark is my favorite part

I think we already suspect Austin Meadows is never playing for us again, but that doesn’t mean we won’t pay him for another year next year via Baby Doc fiat.

This makes me wonder whether Austin Meadows will get a raise for his last arb year next year.

Comin’ in hot!

Which he's got a right to do, it's his business. And it's not even the money that bothers me—it's the reduction in functionality that galls me. The PC age has conditioned me to expect that functionality and options will increase, not decrease.

“Major allegations against the current president”

One key change they made a few years ago was to remove the functionality where you could run a query, then run a second query based on the results of the first query. For example, one run on all the players who played on the Tigers from, say, 2014-2022, and then a second run against the resulting list to see how they are all doing this season. I’ve been working on a research piece where I could use that capability, so I wrote to Sean and asked if I could get that kind of custom query. One of his staff replies, sure we can. Cost: $1,500. That’s fifteen hundred dollars. For a single, small custom query. You know, as though I am ESPN and I’m going to be trading off that information. I’ll see him at the Palmer House next month and make nice, but I’m a little sore that he’s taken the business in that direction.

I wouldn’t bet any money against that. I really don’t know who in the organization is responsible for it, but whatever the deal is, changing the broadcast situation is way way down the list.

I’m sure they will be keeping very close track of that and keeping us well-informed along the way.

And now we are watching them eat candy in the booth? Really?? Why do Bally and the Tigers hate their viewers and fans so much?

I don’t care if Todd Jones misses it—I don’t want to miss it! I hope the kids’ folks are in the ballpark and not at home forced to rely on a Tigers broadcast that’s paying attention to everything except his debut.

Welcome to The Show, Brendan White!

Why are we watching Todd Jones interviewing random bozos while the game is going on???

Coming off Strider, impressive

TORK!

I think it is borderline cruel for the governing body of collegiate athletics to celebrate someone’s mistake like this. If the guy had hit a legit homer that would have been all right, but this? Not cool imho

I really hate how they are just going after the money now. They more than doubled the cost, reduced the functionality in key ways, and removed access to the other sports. Just this past year for the first time, instead of charging $80 flat, they charged $88.40, because sales tax I guess. But it’s still useful, so I’ll still subscribe, I guess.

In any event, because I believe Torkelson's sub-optimal numbers are almost all the result of bad luck, I'm not thinking any more about criticizing him for it than I would criticize a guy at the craps table for rolling snake eyes. Now, his defense, on the other hand ... 😉

I agree: baseball is never a guarantee!

I don't think Trump is ignorant and stupid and nothing else. He is an adult man who grew up in America surrounded by people with varying degrees of cultural literacy. I don't think he grew up so bubble-wrapped that he could never have heard of any of the things we've all heard of. Surely he'd heard of Pocahontas the Indian maiden before, if for no other reason then he saw a porno featuring the character. If anyone in America had ever heard of one and only one Indian woman's name, it's Pocahontas, just like if anyone ever heard of one Indian man's name, it's Tonto. And people have defintiely heard of Indian names, because this is America and if nothing else, we've all watched TV and movies, and Pocahontas is a big part of the whole Plymouth Rock/Thanksgiving story. I'd bet Trump came up with the nickname, and I don't happen to think it's particularly clever, which itself tracks.

Your posts about him the past couple weeks or so have shown frustration that he has not turned his process into results, which is fair, but I also seem to recall you kept leaving it there, without saying you expect the luck to turn around, which struck me as your bottom-line assessment on Torkelson: all process, no results, which would mean failure. Glad you clarified that here. Sorry for jumping the gun on that.

"Pocahontas" makes me roll my eyes. It's middle school stuff.