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Agree. I hypothesized that exact thing here myself and believe it’s the way that pitching has developed that leads to more injuries, making the improvement of medical systems to deal with that more crucial than ever.

LOL! Good one! No, seriously. Which young developmental players are you referring to?

Which young developmental players are you referring to that were on the bench in July?

Between the firing of the old guard under which these injuries happened and the investments the club has been making in the infrastructure of the team from top to bottom, the team agrees with you and is not sitting back and hoping things normalize themselves by sheer change of luck.

If you're honestly asking the question "Who made those calls? Avila? Or Hinch?" about how prospects were developed or whether they were or were not brought up on time, then you're not sure. That means you think Hinch might be making those calls over Avila's objections. If you think that even might have happened, then yeah, it looks like you might want to blame Hinch for it. I can tell you right now who made those calls. It was Avila. That's why he got fired. Finally. Thankfully.

If there’s blame to be levied on Hinch for the terrible performance of a substandard roster of players such as the 2022 Tigers were, I honestly don’t know what that would be. I don’t know why we would blame Hinch and not Avila for the late call up of Kerry Carpenter to the majors. Hinch is the field manager of only the big league club. Avila was the executive vice president and general manager of the entire organization. Why blame Hinch and not Avila for that non-callup? Why blame Hinch, the guy who wasn’t even managing the minors leaguers, for the stalled progress of the minor leaguers, and not Avila, the guy who brought all those minor leaguers into the organization and (purportedly) oversaw their development? I don’t really get the idea behind that. Nevertheless, that’s what’s happening. Maybe it’s because A.J. Hinch is the guy fans see on the TV every night while the Tigers are en route to yet another 96-loss season, while Al Avila sits in a suite, or in an office on Montcalm, out of the view of the camera. Maybe it’s that people blame the guy they see. Maybe it’s because in that way, A.J. Hinch is the face of the organization. I guess I can see that part of it. I guess all we can do at this point is wait to see what happens next. I hope you’re rooting to be wrong on this. Because if for some inexplicable reason you’re right—which, I can’t even imagine how that can even be—then really, god help us Tiger fans.

Speak for yourself … 😁

Totally fine, I get that. You don’t know, and to be fair, I don’t know, either. But I have this feeling, based on nothing more than what I’ve read about his tenure here through the prism of my sabermetric readings over the years, and I believe he is the real deal for us. I’ll take the blame for the whole thing if I’m wrong.

Honestly, all due respect to 84, I don't think the concern is legit. I firmly believe Hinch was merely playing the hand dealt to him, under a system he was forced for a time to work under and which he, I believe, worked from the inside to help overthrow. I think Hinch has proven that he is the opposite of stick-in-the-mud jockhead anti-analyticism. If people still want to blame him for the garbage Avila put on the field and the strategies that Avila, I believe, demanded, that's fine, they're certainly free to. I would strongly disagree with a take along those line. I know it's always hard to believe that a new day is dawning right in front of your eyes, because after being burned so many times before, no one wants to be made to look the fool for emotionally going all in on it. People want to be regarded as wise, not foolish. But I believe, 100%, that new day is dawning, and I myself am willing to risk being seen as that fool. Anyone else with me on this? Because if I am alone on it, that's OK, it wouldn't be the first time.

You're welcome.

I think All In The Family is in the conversation for greatest, most influential sitcom ever.

Am I missing out on a new orthodoxy? So hard to keep up when you're out of the country on vacation ...

Well, if we're doing sitcoms now, this has got to be near the top of anyone's list.

Is that what you think?

Bold prediction: based on the articulateness he has demonstrated this offseason, once he retires, Eric Haase will become Dan Dickerson’s sidekick.

Speaking of tall, and separate from your comment about the Jimmy McNulty casting because I also can't think of anything but The Wire in anything I see him, what is the deal with casting Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Di? I know Di was pretty tall, but she wasn't 6'3" like Debicki is, who completely towers over literally everyone else in every scene she is in, and it is completely distracting.

My critique was not grmupfarty. I love hip hop. This particular thing just didn't grab me, and I also have a technical issue with the live performance of fast singing in an imperfectly acoustic theater.

One-word verdict on the new Night Court: Avoid.

I am a musical guy, and I crapped out on Hamilton maybe third song in. I will grant that it’s fresh (or it was in 2015, at least), but it simply didn’t grab me, probably for the reasons you list out here. I can’t imagine how awful it would have been had I dropped a couple hundred bucks for a seat in the back of the theater just to hear words bouncing all over the place due to imperfect acoustics. Spam-a-lot was that for me, and Hamilton is twice or three times faster.

I think it’s because, unique to Republicans, Trump’s power comes from his fanatical base of voters and the power brokers have to kowtow to that, whereas for just about every other Republican, their power comes from wealthy and corporate benefactors, and voters are ignored except at election time.

Translation: they were looking only for lefty leakers and couldn’t find any, so … 🤷‍♂️

I think George Santos has become a huge distraction from this Congress, and based on what I know about the current iteration of The Party, I can’t say for sure that it’s not on purpose.

I with you on the anger, but I would bet that most of the people who voted him in thinks he’s just dandy because they love slurping the lib tears being shed over it.

Yeah I saw this on Fox News. loljk