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We are gonna get off to a rough start because of our super-tough early schedule so we should remember that when we start out something like 12-28.

As did we all.

While we are on the subject of suck …

Well, that sucked.

Here’s the down side of watching Tigers on MLB.tv: the delay is long enough that I get Twitter alerts from all the beat writers telling me play outcomes before I see them on the screen.

Welcome to the Show, meat. TORK! Seemed kind of pissed at the Tampa bullpen for not moving out of the way of that foul ball he fell just short of.

DCCC should collect a bunch of these screenshots, right here, and feature them on ads next year. They could probably do fifty different executions, easy.

That’s the kind of catch that confirms for you that we’re going to lose.

Me too, I like his contributions. My only technical ding is that he talks quickly and quietly, which can be tough to hear on radio. Hopefully they iron that out with him.

I was there once, in 2001. I didn’t love it because it’s humongous like an airplane hangar. But at least it’s not an antiseptic dome like Tampa, or the Homerdome was. I was surprised when they opened the roof one night game, game time temp was over 100. Surprisingly not uncomfortable. Milwaukee has a covered stadium that has the general feel of Arizona but not so big. I like watching games there, especially on 41-degree April days.

Flip side: I don’t love watching the Tigers cycle through three outs in four minutes. 😏

Maybe Amezaga hasn’t switched his mode to “regular season” yet.

Four innings in the books in just 57 minutes. I can get used to this pace.

He should have been, and Amezaga was completely on it and said nothing!

Turn on Dan and Bobby. You won’t get that nonsense there.

Riley with another soft batted ball to the right side but ends up on base again. Need for speed.

Completely agree. A guy on my bowling team said last week he thinks Tampa has the best covered stadium in baseball. I smiled, nodded, and bowled my frame.

I don’t think Baseball wants to abandon the #13 DMA in the country in favor of the #27 DMA. I think they would rather keep a team in the #13 DMA and expand to the #27 DMA.

The one thing from 2003 I really liked is how we won five of our last six to keep from breaking the 1962 losses record. God, what an organizational albatross that would have been.

I wonder how much these lawyer firings within Trumpworld is meant simply as a tactic to delay the process, with the ultimate goal of getting to and winning The Election before anything can happen. I assume because the system can’t allow Trump to go unrepresented, they would have to pause the process to allow him to get lawyered up again, on which I also assume Trumpworld would drag its feet and delay delay delay until the heat to act gets too hot.

To your point, one can have the goal of working toward a fascist Christian autocracy and still not give a crap about Christianity, or even know anything about Christ. Christianity has evolved away from being a religious calling and more toward being a divisive political cudgel. To that end, I am increasingly seeing people refer to themselves in on-the-street interviews, social media, etc., as being a “Christian”, or a “follower of Christ”, or quoting non-sequitur Bible passages in their profiles, things of that nature. That is generally the first thing they want you to know about them. My reaction to that is, if they have to sell me on what a good person they are by telling me right off the bat that they’re a Christian, before I learn anything else about them, then I immediately have my doubts about how Christ-like they are. They usually preface something Christ would never say with this selling point.

I don’t know how much more of a drop-off Schoop can have from last year. A big one would put him in Christian Pache territory and have the Tigers considering DFA’ing him after all. I think he rebounds to at least halfway back to average, which still isn’t good, but possible. I’m thinking TORK! will have a good season and, bold prediction, Riley has a legit All-Star year. They will be two highlights. Javy will be MVP-level for 300 at bats, Schoop-level for 200 more, and somewhere in the middle otherwise, so he’ll be a net gain. Haase may drop some, but Jake will be a big gain over Tucker. One of Maton/Vierling will surprise with a good year while the other one struggles. Carpenter’s bat will keep him the job all year. Austin Meadows is the only one I’m not sure will recover. He hasn’t been good at all this spring (still no homers!) and I’m betting on a hunch he will see significant IL time, but we have more OF options than before to cover him. Miggy will be ziggy. The pitching is a complete wild card to me. Fetter’s work with the bullpen last year was outstanding, but. Can’t be sure it wasn’t lightning in a bottle, and this corps looks more tattered. The rotation could go either way, too, although it’s hard for me to see how it could be worse, since all that’s really different is we won’t have a half season of Skubal this year. The pitching, I think, is what could make the difference between us pushing 80 wins and pushing 100 losses.

HAPPY OPENING DAY! No, I am not kidding you.

If you believe Baseball Reference, Willi had 1.2 WAR in 392 plate trips last year, which is basically the level of major league regular over a full season. Sure, he’s probably never gonna walk, and he’s almost certainly never going to be a perennial All-Star. But if he can stay versatile and average even 1.0 WAR a year, he can find work into his 30s.