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God damn that warrior mentality, trying to push through the pain and getting hurt worse because of it. Especially true for a guy who's going to get every chance to succeed.

Well, A.J. has to work here, so what else is he going to say, right? But as long as he gets major input on getting this franchise's processes out of the red and into the black, I can't see him bailing on us. I believe if he does bail on us, it will be because promises to him were broken.

Mize picked up the splitter again on his own during the offseason.

They need every possible vote.

Feels like the least likely scenario here is that this is all an honest mistake.

"We need to do a better job with mental health" = "we need a more effective way to blame Democrats for mass shootings".

I'd think at that point they would have to assume multiple bad guys, right? If they can't identify exactly who the extra armed people are and what their purpose is, what else could they do?

Doesn't he say stuff like that on the TV broadcast when he's doing color there? I'd be really surprised if he doesn't.

I think the parents' issue is: why are the cops not going in to engage the shooter and rescue children while he is inside murdering them? And if the cops are not going to go in to do it, someone has to go in to stop the guy and/or rescue children. Otherwise the shooter is going to murder all the children.

Until he was ten, by which time he'd already grown to 6'1" and 210 lbs.

Almost a Little League Home Run!

He's even top 20 on RA9-WAR, which is results-based and doesn't adjust for BABIP or LOB%. In other words, as good as his results have been, he's actually been a little unlucky. Speaking of luck: Justin Verlander has a 2.8 RA9-WAR with a 1.5 WAR. Two reasons: (1) .195 BABIP; (2) 95.7% strand rate.

It definitely should have been double errors on Segura and Herrera, but only Herrera got dinged for one.

So ... what's the latest with Casey Mize?

These are sample jock talk statements. I can't remember exactly what he'd said but they ere statements along those lines. Dan also responded with silence when, with a 3-0 count on Eric Haase with one out in the ninth, C-Mo said something like, "Would I give him the green light on 3-0 here? You bet I totally would" in a heh-heh-heh-type voice, sorta like, yeah, E-money, you a playa, kick it. We can't see Dan's eyes during the broadcast, of course, but they might have rolled just a little after that one.

One of the things I liked about the radio broadcast yesterday is that whenever Craig Monroe trotted out his jock talk crutches—“he’s a professional hitter”, “he just knows how to win”, “he gives 110%”, etc.—Dan would respond with silence.

Fine by me. The Tigers could get Billy Ripken and Herschel Walker to do the games if they want, and as long as I can layer Dan Dickerson on top of the video, it’s gonna be all right.

I don’t think the Tigers are willing to shrug their shoulders and say oh well the season is lost. Heck, it’s not even Memorial Day yet. Technically anyway, we have a lot of time to come back and win the division, plus the front office basically indicated earlier this year that the rebuild is done, or at least turned the corner. So they can’t just throw all their kids into the pool just to see who drowns and who floats. They’re still trying to get back in it to win it. I think that’s why they’re rushing Manning back in without the at least one more rehab start he probably needs: we’re getting desperate to win. I don’t necessarily agree that’s the best approach in this particular instance, but I totally get why they are approaching it as they are.

This is Texas, right? He can still be AG if he is disbarred while in office, right?

“Just think about how much they woulda won by if the machines weren’t rigged!”

“Well, come on, the parents and the kids look like a bunch of illegals! What do you expect the police to do! Build the wall!”

I went to some minor league stadiums last week, Birmingham and Nashville in particular, that have apartment buildings that overlook the open space of the ballparks. Seems like it would be so easy for an Oswald-level sharpshooter to pick off six or eight or more people from one of those apartment windows before being caught up with. And of course, there's always the rooftops that have a clear open view of Wrigley Field. Just go up to one of them with an AR-15 and let 'er rip. If someone wanted to create a bunch of chaos all across baseball after their suicide-by-cop, that would be a certain way to do so.

Slashing .333/.367/.556 in his last nine games. How great would it be if this is his turnaround at the big league level, the way he turned around after starting horribly slowly at every level before this?

I feel like avoiding the sweep in MInnesota is a moral victory all in itself.

And there's Tork getting the final out on the same kind of play he was spinning around and dropping balls on the first couple weeks of the season! Ballgame!