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I’ll bet all the GoT prequels and sequels will be just as great as season eight.

I’m sorry, I can’t figure out what you’re referring to?

I was talking about him exercising an out, not the contract ending.

Ausmus is your answer.

First of all I don’t think AJ gets fired until after at least three years, unless the Tigers have no confidence in the plan they just upended their entire development system to implement. If he leaves on his own, he already has another job. If he gets let go, I don’t think he’s on the beach for than a year before he lands on his feet. Major league managing is a very tight, regenerative community, and ruggedly handsome middle-aged men still have an edge.

I don’t see Lynn calling for Avila’s ouster. That would be access suicide. I do see him excusing Al (“Avila in August will be seven years into a makeover that demanded at least seven years to assess”) and attaboy-ing him for the limited successes he’s thinks Al’s had (trading Justin Upton for Elvin Rodriguez) as well as giving him full credit for the relief pitching success without even including the word Fetter anywhere in the piece. I do see Lynn calling for the trade of Tarik Skubal, though …

Austin Meadows had COVID back in July of 2020.

What’s our record when both teams score three or less?

Fuckin’ RINO after all … 😁

I want more

It will exceed my expectations if, upon conclusion, they refer a criminal indictment to Justice of Trump and his top architects of the plan to conspire to overturn the will of the voters in the 2020 election. It will fail to meet my expectations if, upon conclusion, they basically turn toward the electorate and say, "well, it's all in your hands now ..." And it will meet my expectations on the nose if, upon conclusion, they refer a criminal indictment to Justice of a few additional individual-actor red hats for the act of breaking into the Capitol on January 6th.

Looks like people in this forum are increasingly hopping aboard the First A.J. Hinch and the Horse He Rode In On train. I'm definitely not there yet, but I won't argue against it, because it's so hard to defend the historically-bad results so far. But I will say this: if this organization fires Hinch and all his coaches while keeping Al Avila, especially as the season is still in progress, that will be the final confirmation that this organization has no plan; that they never had a serious plan in place; and frankly, don't care enough about putting a consistent winning product on the field to put a well-thought-out plan in place and see it through. At that point, it would be obvious that they appear to care about winning only to the degree that they can do the bare minimum they can get away with to have some winning drop into their lap. That's what I would take away from a midseason firing of A.J. Hinch and coach(es) TBD. Speaking only for myself, if/once that happens, I would be hard-pressed to care about the direction of the Detroit Tigers organization anymore. I would still care enough to root for them in individual games I see, as I do with the Lions, Pistons or Red Wings, because of the city on the uni. But I will have no remaining faith that they'll ever be able to figure out how to get us back to contending for the playoffs consistently, except to luck into it by throwing a little money at it, a la the Papa Doc days. The only thing that's missing from that era is the one guy at the top who knows what he's doing who can make that happen.

A.J. Hinch is an authoritarian who is powerful enough that he can limit how much General Manager Avila and Owner Ilitch can speak to the press during the season. Hinch is also a weakling in the clubhouse who was passive in Houston while the team cheated in front of him and he doesn’t seem to be much different now. Yup, a guy like that is definitely terrible, all right.

We didn't. We drafted a "third baseman".

Wow, those 1908 Cardinals were as bad as my high school grade point average ...

In her defense, she is from Green Bay, so following a team like this is hard for her to fathom.

Me: (Tells wife stat of the day, above) Wife: “Wow.” Me: “Yeah, Tigers suck.” Wife: “Maybe you suck for following them.” Me: “ … “

Stat of the day: More than halfway into the month of June, the Atlanta Braves are averaging 25% more home runs per game (2.5) than the number of home runs the Tigers have for the entire month (2).

2019?

Find Paws for her, and she'll be delighted.

Domestic trauma. Who knows where that one is gonna go.

Best summer city in North America. Literally anywhere else is probably a good choice.

We are failing to score even two runs in 43% of our last 46 games? Christ almighty.