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In Avila’s defense, TORK! was the consensus 1/1 that year. Most if not all of the other 29 teams would have taken him that year.

What if the problem is not the coaches, but the hitters themselves?

I can’t tell—is that actually Ivanka on the far right, or a creepy look-alike?

I’m aware of A Gentleman in Moscow and I think the premise has promise, although it’s not on my radar to watch soon. I’m of two minds when it comes to historical fiction. I like the historical aspects, of course, and I’m always assessing how true to life the presentation is. But I’m invariably disappointed because there always seems to be some B story that overshadows the events that I am interested in, e.g., “Love in the time of the Russian Revolution.” In that way, it almost seems like bait and switch. They hook me in with an intriguing historical premise only to disappoint me with a pedestrian B story that could have taken place in literally any other setting. (Honestly, I have no idea whether that is what “Gentleman in Moscow” is. It just happens to be proximal grounds for my example.) I think the historical fiction I like best is about ordinary people who live through extraordinary times and how they deal with it, as long as the events swirling around them are true to history, and the focus is on their interaction with the events and not some personal story unrelated to them. I’m far less enamored of the kind of historical fiction that weaves fictional characters into the actual events themselves, particularly when they interact with real historical figures. That strikes as more indicative of what’s going on in the creator’s mind than in what actually went on in history, and I’m not a fan of people just making up stuff that comports poorly with reality.

Twins really struggling with PFP today! Also, as much as I hate the whole sliding-into-first-base idea, this was a situation in which it actually made sense to do it.

Imagine the field day traditional fans would have with this idea! 💀

McKinstry on the bench looking at the iPad trying to figure out how he could have possibly given up that bomb.

This is the Zach McKinstry game. Unfortunately.

The Tigers probably have the unique distinction of causing the same player to be DFA’ed from two different teams in the space of nine days.

Needed Urshela at third base for that. ****.

Walked a run in and no one in the bullpen. This is Lange’s game to let get away from us.

That was a lot closer at the plate than I would have like, but TORK! scores the run! KEEEEEEEITH!

I hope burning Chafin with an 8-run lead yesterday doesn't come back to burn us today.

I will say that I really love seeing these local commercials, such as for Victory Motors in Chesterfield, Wyandotte, and Royal Oak, on Tiger games I see on my MLB Extra Innings package, rather than MLB forcing a blocking of local commercials and putting on bland and generic spots for old people drugs or, worse, Draft Kings. It’s the complete opposite with MLB Gameday Audio, in which not only do they block local radio station ads and play the same four spots over and over for Chicago-based companies when I listen to Tiger games at home, but no matter where I go in the country, I don’t even get what the local ads would be. Instead, the same four spots for Chicago-based companies follow me all over the country. Terrible.

An amazing unassisted double play by Colt Keith and Dan Dickerson couldn’t even call it because they had to have the sideline reporter in the stands fulfilling what I assume is a contractual obligation of some sort by talking to some Oakland University basketball players instead. What are we even doing here?

I think the plan might be to play Greene in whichever corner is the bigger, based on which stadium we play in.

Duplicate post mishap.

Either the years of substandard coaching in the minors screwed up Parker Meadows, or he wasn’t all that good a hitter when we drafted him. Either way, it’s not as though he was a kickass hitter all through the minors, so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise when he has an execrable stretch in the majors. Fingers crossed we get him straightened up and hitting lasers somehow; otherwise, we may have to tamp down our hopes for him on that side of the ball.

Well, Joey has had a pretty good five innings and he’s added a tick or so to his pitches, so OK, I’ll wait and see. Young guy, he could still turn it around. Vest, on the other hand, is this close to letting the Twins get within a slam.

Well, we now know Colt Keith can make solid contact with a 73mph heater.

Have I ever told you how much I ****ing hate position players pitching?

Yeah, that makes sense. Hopefully when we have a 10-0 lead in the fourth. And really, besides him, there are no super obvious weak links in this entire pen.

I wonder whether McCann was the objectionable one because the umpire started pushing him away, and not Adames.

This is the first time I have ever heard Wenceel Perez’s name said out loud. I always wondered whether it pronounced “Wen-SEAL” or “Wen-SAIL”. I never even consider how Benetti said it: “WEN-sell”.

I don’t know that I like Chafin here with two games on tap for tomorrow. This garbage time moment is tailor-made for Joey Wentz.