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I also believe Dirks is a solid second banana. He is at least as honest an assessor of what he sees on the field as Jim Price is, and I value that in analyst.

Maybe Hinch should’ve kept Vest on the chess board. 😝

Dan Dickerson called that a two-run double before walking it back as a one-run ground rule double. It seems to me like he’s botching more calls like that, although maybe you guys think he’s botching it just as much or even less. It’s just my impression is all.

I don’t think Wentz is better than Vest so I’m OK with Vest opening.

I don’t know, Hinch and Harris seem too much on the same page for Hinch to be let go for no other reason than losing 90 games with arguably the least-talented team in baseball. I think they’d have to have a major falling out philosophically for that to happen.

You’re not wrong about Harris being unable to find a better replacement for Candelario, but he really doesn’t have much leverage to do so.

I think it was a bad decision to get rid of Candelario, and I thought a case could be made for keeping Willi Castro. I don’t know what to think of Kody Clemens yet.

If the Tigers have settled into being the Royals, what do you see as our best hope for the future? What would have to happen, organizationally, for things to turn around? Or is the organization solid and it’s a matter of tweaking current philosophies, strategies, and the like? Is it possible for us to do a 180 from where we are now and still win a pennant or a ring in 2023?

By this do you mean Candelario?

Why would Eduardo Rodriguez leave?

By this do you mean you believe it’s a 50/50 roll of the dice that Harris might be the equivalent of Avila in level of acuity as a general manager? Or are you simply saying there’s no absolute guarantee that Harris would be any better than Avila was?

Tell me I was wrong about him.

Spencer Turnbull has roughly the same odds of making an impact for the Tigers of the future as Austin Meadows does.

Just remember that Luis Arraez must hit .400 to deliver roughly the same run production as .272-hitting Yordan Alvarez.

What are the chances these are Russian “supporters”?

He’ll claim fake news when reminded of it next week.

I do think there’s a pretty good chance we may have seen the only game in history in which the catcher committed two catcher’s interferences and hit two home runs in the same game.

Pretty good find and this would help explain if he starts slipping.

We have ****ty players on the roster now.

Wait until you get the tweet that both Candelario and Paredes make the All-Star game.

The wow just wow part is how away he is going to get with it.

I guess he could, but I’m not holding my breath on that one.

He missed an entire year of minor-league seasoning and was rushed up by a GM desperate to look right. He had fewer than 700 plate trips in the minors and still less than 1,400 as a professional overall. His growing pains are all coming at the major league level. I’ll give him until about 2,500 plate trips before I conclude he’s just not gonna make it. That’s basically end of next year, his third year. I’ll grouse about him until then, but I won’t give up on him completely until then.

Are “superbowl” and “Redwings” and “alot” also one word to you? 😉

For a moment I thought that last word was “bat****”.