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What the **** is Graham Starr and why the **** should we care what he thinks about any of this? I refuse to believe he speaks for all liberals here.

It's one of my favorite books, too. 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 - “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.”

I love that the season is starting, and especially this season, when there is so much more hope for the sustainable future of this franchise than at any other time in my lifetime. I don't love that the season is starting on a Thursday. I believe baseball season should start on a Monday and end on a Sunday. That Monday should be a practical national holiday. They can make it happen by adding three off days to the season, which the players should like and the fans wouldn't mind so much. This year, they could have started it on April 1, and ended it on October 6. I love least of all that Opening Day is on Sweet Sixteen Thursday, and that the sports world will be focused on basketball instead of baseball. Again, Opening Day should be basically a national holiday, but at the very least, baseball should have the whole day to itself. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, Manfred.

Yes, although there is some overlap in the idea, my map is about only the most common names for counties, not every county name that is duplicated across the states. Basically, it's any county name that's in ten or more states.

Do people still believe voters are going to willingly and in great numbers power Trump and The Party to an electoral sweep? Seven-plus months out and already we are seeing strong evidence that a nation previously thought too apathetic and self-absorbed to care what happens to it is starting to wise up. I think there are only two ways Trump can take power at this point: He changes his messaging dramatically for the last seven months to appear as a normal politician, leading everyone to fall prey to collective amnesia about him in the interim. Violent overthrow of the electoral system and along with it the country, by the MAGA minority. Which do you think is more likely?

You misspelled “when”.

People are beginning to pay attention …

All we need are nine of him and we’ll be all set!

Home run hitters drive Cadillacs. Doubles hitters drive Fords.

Nick Castellanos famously hated hitting in Comerica because he couldn't jack bombs as reliably there.

This is my hack at creating my first-ever map over at MapChart.net. This is a map of the most-named counties in the US and where they all are. You probably could have guess that Washington is the most common county name, with 32 different counties named that. There's a whole bunch of them centered around the states that came into the union in basically the 1800 to 1830 range, my guess being that the Revolution was still in living memory and honoring its heroes through naming rights was a top priority. As the nation pushed west, county naming imperatives apparently changed. California has only one county among the most common names, and Arizona and western Texas have none, probably because original Spanish geographical names survived. Anyhow, it was really fun to put together and took me only about an hour to learn how to do it and then create the map.

Tex Avery foresaw the 21st-Century media landscape a half a century before anyone else did. 😉

Tigers will be 84-78.

To me, the most interesting thing to watch will be how Baseball wiggles out of this scandal of their own making unscathed and without punishing Shohei Ohtani, the golden goose on which the entire future of the game resides; and whether they can sell the sacrifice of one Ippei Mizuhara, a complete nobody, as the only remedy necessary to completely cleanse the game of any perceived stench arising from dirty gambling, while maintaining the sweet aroma of clean gaming. I would not … ahem … bet against Baseball on pulling this off.

He can expect his arm to fall off by August.

I guess this is the kind of thing being a terrible team for so many years can result in. Maybe once we start winning, we can stop hearing the breathlessly-tweeted exploits of subreplacement ex-Tigers.

Park factors are based on Tigers and opponents at home, versus Tiger and opponents on the road. Park factors have little if anything to do with how good or bad the players on our particular team are. In 2012, Miggy’s Triple Crown year, Comerica’s HR park factor was 95 for just that year, and 96 on a rolling 3-year. In 2007, the HR park factor was 112 for that year, but 96 on a rolling 3-year. So there are spikes here and there on a season-to-season basis, which is why they do a rolling 3-year park factor to smooth out the spikes. On the whole, throughout history, Comerica has suppressed homers, and it has been well-known to do so. It’ll be interesting to see whether that changes in the next couple years with the asjustments to the fences last year, and I hope it does, because when it’s time for us to go after a difference-maker, I want great hitters to want to sign up and hit here.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a beat writer crush on former Tigers nearly as much as McCoskey does. It practically makes me blush every time I see it.

Fair point. Here is the 2023 data only: So instead of Comerica being dead last for home runs over a three-year period, they were 24th just for last year; and instead of Comerica launching home runs at -21% below league average from 2021-23, it launched home runs at -10% below league average in 2023. Where does that leave us?

Al Avila did try to build a team he thought would slap the ball all over the field. How did that work out for us?

This isn't the first article from seven years ago that doesn't agree with my current way of thinking!

Nobody is lining up to go to loser franchises, which is what the Tigers are and will continue to be regarded as until they start winning. Then let's talk.

Perhaps you read that from a beat writer? According to the same table above, Comerica's park factor for runs scored is 94. Just eyeballing it, that looks like it places them sixth from the bottom.

Oh ha ha, it was Wentz that was mentioned. I read it as Vest. I always mix up those two on paper. Yeah, Wentz has been ****ing terrible during his career here. No way we get anything for him unless he can pitch more like Vest.