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TORK! is pretty decent at scooping throws, which is a big part of first base defense, but it's not the only part. When it comes to batted balls, he has poor range and poor reaction times. The Vogelbach double yesterday is a good example of that. And while he has improved on popups in his area, they can still be a bit of an adventure for him, plus he has a bit of a noodle for an arm, even for a first baseman. Fortunately, relatively speaking, first base is the one position on the diamond you can hide a poor defender as long as he has a good bat. We just have to get him a new bat, is all. 😁

Maybe although I don’t see any checks being written until his empire goes into receivership after he’s dead.

Really fascinating. I’m not sure what time period this represents, but I would think our United Kingdom portion is either smaller here than it was on a previous map, or smaller than this now.

That would actually not surprise me.

Man, the Cardinals with yet another late-game loss. Let the Angels score three in the ninth on two homers to blow the game. They’re now 10-21 and in last place by at least three games. Gotta tell ya: I like it. It’s about time for those guys, finally.

I saw the first six innings before I had to go out of pocket, but they were basically the best six innings I’ve seen this team play this year, especially at the plate. It’s nice to get glimmers of the hopeful future like this.

Totally your prerogative as a fan. Just know that you will be welcomed back with open arms when he starts raking.

Tyler Alexander with the win. He threw one pitch.

Oh my goodness, that was a professional-quality save right there. This is exactly what I’d hoped to see when I started stumping last year for him to become our closer over Soto. I have never done the Adopt-a-Tiger thing, but I might just have to adopt Alex Lange now.

OK, here we go: Alex Lange’s high-leverage save opportunity. first one of the year. Make it rain, baby.

My gosh, Riley Greene’s grounder was the ultimate productive out!

Do we know that Skubal and Mize weren’t hurt because of the prior regime’s poor processes? I don’t I think I know that.

Yes. Bad design led to the bad developmental processes that led to their once-great and promising hitting going down the toilet. We are only one regular season month beyond it now, and in no universe was all of it going to be totally fixed by now. We can blame the players for it all if we like—that’s a fan’s prerogative. Me, I’m going to give them until next year to start showing us the consistency we have been counting on them to provide us. If they’re still like this by the end of next season, I’ll jump on your bandwagon.

I would also stipulate that Chris Ilitch was definitely shamed into canning Al Avila, too, not because Avila was incompetent per se, but because his incompetence was (finally) making Baby Doc look bad. It didn’t matter so much that the team was losing and the organizational infrastructure dissolved into shambles as long as the money kept rolling in, but once the national writers, led by Ken Rosenthal god bless him, started absolutely filleting the the entire organization from the owner on down, that’s what finally got the owner to act.

Bad luck is the residue of bad design.

Speaking of hard to fathom, try this on your imagination: my dad was twenty years old when he stepped into the Dachau situation. What were you doing when you were twenty? I don’t know you or your background, but I’m going to take a flyer on the answer “nothing even remotely close to this.” Me, I was ****ing around most of the time, which my dad’s service ensured that I would have the freedom to do if I so chose.

You misspelled “grief”.

Right, because all eight of them are in the United States.

I think these days, it’s more “can’t” than “won’t”. In any event, I think the Tiger fan base is more nostalgic than just about any other in baseball except the Cubs fan base. (I know Cubs fans who are still against the lights!) It’s why we have had all these ‘84 Tigers all over the broadcasts for years. And 1984 was thirty-nine years ago! It’s not as though there were 1945 Tigers littering the ‘84 broadcasts.

All three of those runs should be earned now despite the two errors.

Wrong game

Again, I should be horrified by this why, exactly?

Craven, because that's a choice.

I was just going off what the website cited it as. It's possible the map was published in 1934 without being updated from an earlier published version.

My dad was on the detail to clean up Dachau in 1945-46. Or, more exactly, he was on the detail to force POWs and the local townspeople to clean up Dachau. He did not talk much about it, but what little he did say was truly horrifying, and I've always thought, if that's the part he was willing to share with us, I can't imagine how horrific the parts he kept from us were.