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Well, if you were amused by that, you will go into hysterics over this: After being on the phone with Apple for well over an hour, after getting passed to three different people for whom I had to describe my problem from scratch all over again, after having gotten to a senior advisor who asked me to wait on hold while she was to check into something ... the call got cut off. Square one.

We are orange. I wonder whether we are ever even yellow.

I call Apple because I am having a syncing problem with my iPhone. While you wait, they give you choices of music to listen to: (1) modern pop music; (2) classical; (3) jazz; or (4) nothing. Definitely not modern pop music. And the jazz, which I like, I was afraid it would be some soft R&B or what they used to call "smooth jazz", Kenny G stuff. Not a fan of that either. So I selected classical, hoping I would got the kind of string quartet music you can push to the background while you do other things. Nope. Turns out what they call "classical" is John Williams-style movie music, with huge orchestras and endless flourishing crescendos, which I didn't even think was possible, since you typically need soft passages in music to set up the crescendos, and there were no soft passages. It got so bad I ended up hanging up and starting over, and choosing "nothing". So, the peeve, I guess, is organizations that have no idea what classical music actually sounds like.

Thank you, Donald Trump, for reinforcing our border with the military earlier this month after President Illegal Alien refused to.

Ha haaaa! I know right! I wouldn’t say I would be thrilled with a 75-win season, but almost regardless of how many games they end up winning, I believe in the direction this front office is taking the organization. Anything can happen and I could be disappointed, but I am willing to put my faith out there and risk getting dragged by the cool kids here for it. 😁

With the win today against the M’s, the Tigers have now completed that tough 40-game stretch to start the season that we’ve been talking about basically since last October. We finished this stretch 18-21, with one game postponed until July. That’s a lot better than the 12-28 I had thought would be the acceptable floor. Not only did we beat that record pretty well, but we have looked very, very good at times while doing it. I still like my 75-win prediction.

It’s OK we got one of the three. We didn’t get swept, and it kind of looked like we might earlier in the game.

Walks continue to be a problem for Lange, and I guess that’s to be expected to some degree given how electric his stuff is.

Eugenio Suarez is having an MVP season for my OOTP team, but we need to get him on a double play right here.

Here comes my first ever AAT to try to close it out.

Shreve gets Kelenic swinging, then Ks Haggerty and gets Crawford on a lazy flyout. Hinch’s chess move to replace Foley works. 😁

Miguel Cabrera has been even worse than Schoop. He is definitely falling off the planet at the end here. I think we might start seeing the one-game-per-series thing plus the occasional garbage time pinch-hitting appearance from here on out.

As bad as Maton has been at the plate the past couple of weeks, Vierling has been even worse. We don't have a whole lot of options beyond those guys, at least not quite yet, so grit your teeth and hope for the best.

The story is from 2020 while he was “sitting president of the United States.” Fat lot of good this did.

I’m not worried about this rotation because this isn’t the rotation they are planning to contend with. It’s a stopgap rotation. If/when everybody we’ve pinned our future on is healthy, then I’ll be worried if they’re performing like this.

Remember, too, that we are still in that tough stretch of 40 games to start the season. We still haven’t gotten to the Pirates, Nationals, Royals, and White Sox, and they’re up next. Those are teams more at our level or even lower, and I think that stretch of twelve games might be as illuminating as this stretch of forty is.

I don’t think they know what a good OPS vs a bad OPS is. I would be willing to bet that over half of all baseball fans have never heard of OPS. I am amazed to this day when I find a baseball fan who still hasn’t heard of Baseball Reference, but I think there are more of those folks out there than we deep baseball fans who’ve used it for two decades can imagine.

Good thing it’s only 3:30pm. Go on outside and enjoy the rest of the day.

Well, that sucked.

Lemme guess, false flag, right?

Booooo Hinch chess moves relievers no runs he sucks fire him go tigers

He will almost certainly throw his next pitch in the minors, but in the meantime he will accumulate major league service time while he is on the major leagues IL, which would not have been the case had he reported to Toledo first, then went on the minors IL. Apparently Turnbull’s service time is close enough where it might make a difference in how soon he can become a free agent. As for Boras, I don’t know where he fits into the equation. Trumbull met with Harris, Hinch, and Fetter after his terrible start on Saturday and they identified some things they want Turnbull to work on in the minors. Then, according to Harris, shortly after Turnbull left the room he called back to say he was hurt. The Tigers optioned Turnbull the next day. Nothing happened for a couple days, then Turnbull hired Boras on Wednesday. Boras says he expedited the medical review and then the Tigers put Turnbull on the IL on Thursday. Meanwhile he accrues major league pay and service time. I’m getting a feeling Turnbull was kind of dicking around with the Tigers for a few days, they went back and forth discussing who knows exactly what, Turnbull then officially hired Boras, whom Turnbull may or may not have consulted with beforehand, and then Boras put pressure on the Tigers to rescind the option and put Turnbull on the big league IL. From Turnbull’s standpoint, it’s the more lucrative, advantageous move. From the Tigers standpoint, I gotta wonder how appreciative they are of Spencer Turnbull as an integral part of the team. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the Tigers try to get him as healthy as possible and then offer him in a trade package, although I don’t see how he can headline any trade himself.

Players play hurt all the time, especially players without long-term security whose career prospects might be affected by a single bad performance. In addition to having warrior mentalities, they also don’t want to be seen as malingerers not to be trusted to go to battle on the field, and who could moved off the roster in exchange for someone who will be more reliable. That’s a big part of what keeps guys playing hurt. I’m not sure how effectively Turnbull could fake an injury enough to fool Tigers medical staff, but it is a pretty canny tactic to come clean with the owie before having to shuffle off to Toledo. I think Turnbull is a man with agency and knows what he’s doing, so good for him. He has to act in the best interest of his and his family’s future.