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Old friend of our starting for the Cubs tonight.

We don’t have to take him, do we? 😏

I think the players being so young with very little MLB experience is a factor in players buying in to Harris and Hinch’s program. They’re not far enough along in their careers to have egos so big that they can reject it. And the one guy who might be best suited to do that was so terrible the past couple of years that he could not reasonably fight them on it and come off looking good.

While I think he might still lose enough votes on the margin that he'll lose to what white cis "Christian" man the Republicans run, especially if that man is not Trump (which would bring center right voters who bailed on this election back to their ticket), I do admit that 2028 may be a different animal from what 2025 is now, so it's wait and see for me. I do think it's willful to ignore that too much of the American electorate votes against immutable identifications they don't like for no other reason than that.

Coo coo ca-chu

Two out of three from the “best” team in the National League. And we put up a six-spot against the lowest-run-allowing pitching staff in baseball. AND we shut them out. AND Reese Olson. AND we’re shorthanded so many regulars. I mean to tell ya … We’ve got to start getting serious national media love for this, don’t we?

When I was in between colleges I worked at a place called Duff’s Smorgasbord, a competitor to Sveden House. It was located on Van Dyke between 11 and 12 Mile. People would pay an admission price to come in, find a seat, then go to the food wheels to pick up their dinners o and sides and desserts. It was all you could eat all the time, and there would have up to half a dozen bussers (or “busboys”, if your prefer) walking around at all times passing by tables looking for dishes to clear. That was me. I was about 20 or 21. Again, in between colleges. My favorite day to work was Sunday, because the black churches in Detroit would let out about 100pm or so and a lot of folks would come to Duffs in their church finery for a family meal. I saw so many regulars that I learned their names and stories over time. I could ask follow-up questions based on what we talked about weeks before. I remember they were such fun people to talk to, so genuinely nice and friendly. Or at least it seemed so—it was the early 80s, so maybe their antennae were up higher then and they may have been more cordial to me because of my whiteness, but I think they also appreciated that I was so into chatting and joking around with them that it felt like true friendliness to me. It was not a place where people tipped, but some of them would throw me a buck here or there. It was my favorite grunt job of all, and i had a whole bunch of those before I started office work when I was 25.

Fair point!

Wow, just a phenomenal start by arguably the lowest-profile guy in the rotation.

Man, Javy is rocketing up the center field depth chart today!

OK, try again: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET202405140.shtml?__hstc=205977932.1377b18de91767275975f4a4ca4e5597.1732978134135.1745431473617.1745433887012.104&__hssc=205977932.4.1745433887012&__hsfp=3110353702

If we keep scoring runs late like this we might have to bring in Maeda for garbage time … 🦆🦆🦆

Why can’t they go after both? 😉

This run is big because it gives Reese a few extra minutes to catch his breath for the eighth.

Wow, that faceplant has got to be an error on Gonzalez in right field, right?

Here’s his best game so far: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET202405140.shtml?__hstc=205977932.1377b18de91767275975f4a4ca4e5597.1732978134135.1745431473617.1745433887012.104&__hssc=205977932.4.1745433887012&__hsfp=3110353702 Eight innings, three hits, no walks, no runs, six strikeouts. And he got screwed out of the win because this was the offense before August 11.

Reese Olson is pitching a masterpiece, and in fact, he is in a position to throw a Maddux here.

It’s a Dixie thing.

I’d totally vote for Lauren Underwood. Pritzker would never go to the Senate. Why should he go from being the billionaire executive of one of the most important states in the union to being one of fifty mopes tilting against the windmill? I don’t know that he wins a presidential campaign, though, for three reasons: (a) he’s Jewish; (b) he’s enormous; and (c) he’s Jewish. He is emblematic of the Democrats’ dilemma.

There has got to be something in their literature that promotes culling the population of “weak” and “stupid” people. There has to be some connection based on between that and their choice of cuts.

I’m pretty sure they think of RW media as being on the team, since it serves such an important role as a conduit between them and their handlers.

Our boy Malloy!

I don’t think the choice is between tear it down and build for the future, versus go for it and ignore the future. I think that’s a false choice that prior front offices conditioned us to accept as the way things should be. And to be fair, that was the case at one time. But I don’t believe it is now. And as great a pitcher as he is, I don’t believe we’re in a “Skubal or bust” situation, that he is necessarily the linchpin of our contending for the indefinite future. Sure, we’d like to keep him for a few years after 2026, ideally for the rest of the decade. But I’m with what Ed suggested: if we try to sign him for good money and ends up walking anyway, we take the comp pick and trust our pitching science team to build a winning rotation without him.

Aw man, you mean by listening to Dan and Bobby on the radio feed instead of Benetti on TV, I’m missing out on Indy Car talk? Darn.

Can the Tigers both score and also threaten but do not score? Because I feel like they just did both.