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Jason Benetti belongs to the world.

Who’s still complaining about Mark Canha!

I like Benetti all right, and I’ll tune in regardless of who he has with him, but Dickerson with his all-business approach is the only guy who can make Craig Monroe listenable.

I disagree that a 1/1 draft pick is no better than a lottery ticket. There have been disappointing and even spectacular failures at 1/1 for a lot of teams, not just the Tigers (Matt Anderson, anyone?), as at any other pick. But the hit rate on 1/1 picks is good enough that I think it’s reasonable to be disappointed if Tork craps out with a 0.0 WAR career—meaning, for the part of his career he spends with the Tigers. Now, the 9th pick in the 2018 draft? Definitely a lottery ticket that came through.

Almost certainly.

What’s Benetti doing today? Calling an Iowa State women’s spring volleyball game?

Red hats truly, honestly believe that The Trump administration will work for them and elevate them above their enemies, but it didn’t happen last time because the commie Democrat party thwarted them at every turn. This time it’ll be different, and that’s why they are jacked about Project 2025. The red hat rank-and-file doesn’t care about democracy because democracy is how black and brown (and red and yellow) people achieve equality with them. Red hats don’t want equality, whether under the law or in any other way—they want supremacy, like their grandaddies and great-grandaddies had when, you know, America was Great. And that’s why they are badmouthing democracy as a concept more and more. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/trump-maga-democracy-fraud.html

Players win games. A.J. Hinch loses them. 😏

I would be more than mildly disappointed because Tork was a consensus 1/1, and we all expected better, much better, than a coin flip career from him. I’m coming around to the idea that Tork may not amount to anything after all, and by now I won’t be surprised if that’s the outcome. But I would still be sorely disappointed because, after all, we tanked like a mother****ing anchor to get the guy in the first place.

I definitely remember Deano. Met him during Tigers Fantasy Camp in 2007. Great guy, salt of the earth. You can talk to him about anything, and we basically did.

Not uncommon in baseball. Despite the myth among some fans that players start slacking off or malingering once they start making any money, almost all players are hardwired to be warrior competitors who are driven to excel on nothing more than its own terms. That competitiveness and drive were how players were able to rise through the ranks to the majors over lesser players in the first place. So playing through injury with an eye toward prevailing over adversity is a pretty common thing in the game, particularly among players who are one bad streak from seeing their careers end, which, if you think about it, is most players at any given moment. It may be worth noting that Foley was an undrafted free agent who bloomed after college, so I hypothesize he might be more susceptible to simply losing it than those who had elite skills since childhood. Remember, too, that he is already 28 years old and that’s about when baseball aging starts calling for many.

I agree, and you may not be saying this, but just because he’s not the permanent solution to help us contend for the next half decade doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have brought him on board to help us be more competitive right now.

And yet you continue to make whoever the **** this Crump is the point.

US and Israel against the world!

Does it make any difference that he's dot and not feather? 😉

Especially when DeSantis weighs in on it, thus giving state approval to the shooting.

I like complaining better. 😁

I've dealt with the Mouse in my job as media buyer, giving them money on behalf of clients, so I'm hoping I have some juice left to save me. 😁

I got a sawbuck saying otherwise. Fun fact: McKinstry has never had better than 79 OPS+ in any season, and his number is at its worst this year; plus, he has played only 15% of his total defensive innings at shortstop, the equivalent of thirty big league games, at sub-DRS levels. Have we already forgotten how he's butchered third base and second base already this year? I get that people are frustrated and want Javy Baez out of there RIGHT ****ING NOW!, but I promise you that you will be just as unhappy with McKinstry playing shortstop even most days. Same with Urshela: hitting poorly this year, fewer than 10% of his big league innings at shortstop, also sub-DRS, older than Javy and playing hurt. You would hate seeing him there game after game. Seems as though fans might have reached the fling-it-against-the-wall-and-see-whether-it-sticks stage. Next up: the fire-Harris-now-because-he-can't-find-shortstops stage.

You misspelled Tiger's in the thread title. 😉

The 1901, 1902, and 1903 Tigers would definitely like a word with you and your AI. 😁 Speaking of which, why does every AI song or poem read like it was written by a Disney studio fugitive?

I believe a key reason Avila got such a long leash from Tigers fans, and Harris is getting a way shorter one, is that Avila failed using tried and true baseball methods of scouting and drafting and roster construction, the kind we all grew up reading and learning about, which traditional fans are far more likely to forgive; whereas Harris is the first guy bringing what is considered newfangled new age thinking to Detroit, even though the better organizations started moving to such thinking as long ago as a couple of decades. This isn't anyone here in particular, but a substantial percentage of fans are still holding out for Harris/Hinch to get ****canned and Doombrowski/Leyland to make their triumphant returns.

I don't see how any narrative can make it any worse than a cop broke in and shot an innocent guy dead in his own house. Although I do agree that even reporting the story empowers "copoligists" when it comes to public discourse, and that relates to Oblong's police state grooming theory, but I don't agree with your attempt to shift the focus of the story to some civil rights attorney.

Here’s a great YouTube map showing locations of the top thirty restaurant chains. Even many of the national chains have a regional emphasis, notably Dunkin’.