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I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed Tiger home runs until this game.

Rookie power!! Carpenter and Kreidler! Who needs early first rounders via tanking!

Maybe or maybe not. Doesn’t he like the cut of a dictator’s jib? Maybe it’s Israel? Saudis would sure like to know …

Good play on both ends of that Kreidler-TORK! joint. That notwithstanding, Eduardo getting squared up pretty good so far. Back to the iPad ...

Rinks Elementary was just south of 12 Mile and Lorraine in Warren. I still have flashbacks of playing WVAC baseball on their fields.

Cody didn’t like Al because he thought Al didn’t make himself available enough to the media, especially as the team was spiraling downward. Same as it ever was. Although this doesn’t mean Cody is wrong, necessarily …

Here’s a nifty chart, below. I just kind of short-hand memorize that someone’s children are siblings, each of their children’s children are cousins to each other, and each of their children’s grandchildren are second cousins to each other. Basically, my kids and my cousins’ kids are second cousins. I don’t memorize anything beyond that because it kind of doesn’t matter, at least for me, since I don’t even know any of my own second cousins. There was a physical therapist I was chatting with once who insisted that his cousin’s child was his second cousin, and I replied it was really his first cousin once removed, and this PT got really agitated during the discussion, in the way someone who has “known” something for decades gets when that “knowledge” is challenged. That’s the down side of chatting with PTs, I suppose. 😉

Birds of a feather … it’s eventually going to happen, anyway. I just hope I don’t live to see it.

Now one of 63 teams out of 2,632 in modern history to be shut out 19 times in their first 135 games. Only Derek Jeter’s 2019 Marlins had more among recent teams, 20 in the first 135 games. They ended up 57-105. The 2008 Nationals had 19 through 135 as well. They finished 59-102.

I think where bad coaching can manifest itself is when things start going wrong. A lot of players, perhaps most of them, already come into a situation with their own high level of hitting proficiency and when things are going well, everything is great. But eventually, everybody gets a hitch in their swing that gets reinforced with repitition, causes them to stop hitting the ball so well, and they start making more outs. When that happens, the ability of the staff’s hitting coach to identify and help them repair their swing is crucial. If he can’t do that, especially in-season, the hitter may be screwed until at least the winter when he has time to work things out for himself, or with his Driveline guy. And if everyone on a team gets the swing hitch bug at the same time and the hitting coach isn’t capable of helping, it might be a case of guys just trying to help each other out with whatever is helping themselves, but inevitably failing because every ballplayer’s needs re: hitting instruction are unique and different. I’ve been wondering for some time whether this is the case with the Tigers.

Say what you want about high cost and signal reliability and all that, but one clear advantage to having DirecTV is that I’ve been able to get them to throw me Sunday Ticket gratis the last few years in a row.

Maybe religion is involved?

Definitely might as well put in someone they won’t like. I don’t see how it will hurt us.

Trump sure got his money's worth out of appointing this LILF.

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You're right: I don't know anything about Slater, his management style, his relationship to the owner or his front office or the Cardinals manager, or any of it. Frankly, that's a pretty high requirement to hold me to in order for me to post an opinion about it. If that's the bar we're being held to, then heck, might as well just shut down the whole forum right now, because all it is is we members posting opinions about people none of us know personally. All I know is what I see on his topline resume, which looks very similar to Al Avila's in terms of scouting background, and speaking only for myself and what I would like to see, I don't want anyone whose background is primarily scouting to be the Tigers' next GM. We just had one of those, and I don't care for how it worked out, so I'd like to try a different direction this time. YMMV.

That's a fair reply—although I wouldn't hold up Brennan Boesch results as the goal, since he also had only the one decent production year that Baddoo has ... 😏. Point being, I don't think it's too much a surprise that Baddoo has done a faceplant this year.

There can be no way you seriously believe I was suggesting that they base their hire on maintaining their current system.

He lingered for five seasons in another organization, never getting above A+, so perhaps it's not so baffling when considering that?

Hinch and Garko are both very recently from outside the organization, as opposed to practically everyone at the top of the front office who has been ossifying there for a decade or two. I don't know what getting a third-party consultant to lead the search, and who does not have the intrinsic understanding of the Tigers' system that certainly Hinch and perhaps Garko do by now, would add to the process.

Stavenhagen confirmed on his podcast that both A.J. and Ryan Garko will be very involved in the GM search, and Petzold, Woodbery, and Beck have all confirmed that Ilitch said Hinch will be involved. Given the unique state of this team, particularly the incompetence of the ownership and front office in terms of how baseball is run today, as well as these two guys being practically the only key people in the organization having any experience at winning organizations, I'd be alarmed if they weren't involved.

His career looks not unlike Al Avila’s: scouting director background, emphasis in St Louis on player procurement, long tenure, zero mention of analytics or decision sciences—e.g., baseball man. His topline resume doesn’t seem to address the Tigers’ most glaring need, which is integrating analytics into performance analysis, biomechanics, and health recovery and maintenance. Thank you, pass.

Even with the benefit of a mental health leave available, a lot of workers aren't comfortable yet asking for one. There's some work to do to get workers comfortable with the idea. This might be one benefit in which the employers are actually ahead of the employees when it comes to acceptance. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/paid-leave-covers-mental-health-days-but-stigma-still-clouds-use