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When you order an appetizer first and then your meal, and they bring them all out at the same time. This runs a close second to, you order a drink, they never bring it, toward the end of the meal you tell them that’s fine go ahead and kill the drink, they apologize for spacing out on it, and it shows up on the bill anyway. That one’s happened to me twice in the last month.

Well, then, that means I can actually watch the game. Cool. That also means he pitchers next Saturday the 12th, only two days off before the All-Star Game. Hopefully, though, they re-do the rotation so he comes back and pitches again next Friday, Saturday at the latest, instead of sticking to the next slot in the rotation, which would delay his next start until a week from Tuesday, minimum.

Get your hands on SNs from the 30s through the 60s, especially, and you will see what I mean.

Welcome to 2025, where you and I are the new deplorables.

All due respect, most of the rest of us could see very clearly that it was always coming to this, that it was only about the super rich getting the money and the rest of us getting the shaft. How many recent “respectable” Republican presidents (and Clinton) provided the uber-rich generous tax cuts while ballooning the deficit at the same time? It’s true—you can easily look it up. Here, I’ll even get you started on the first one: https://www.cbpp.org/research/the-legacy-of-the-2001-and-2003-bush-tax-cuts. The main thing that makes the Trump tax cuts different is that added feature of cruelty to poor people for sport.

It’s true, whenever I do research that leans heavily on SN, I notice a huge drop of in quality right around the time they started focusing on other sports in the 70s.

They shouldn’t have to give up much for a lefty-killer on the bench. I gotta believe as a World Series champ from just last season, and especially since his underlying numbers are better than his results, Flaherty has a very wide berth before he gets knocked out of the #2 spot for October.

I want to believe OBT are so young and pure of heart and full of competitive adrenaline that they would never dream of giving up even a single play to a prop bet.

FanDuel would not have even offered up the prop.

I remember at Tigers Camp with some players and other campers a discussion of the best pitchers of the 80s. Rozema was extolling the virtues of jack morris, and I said he was good but he wasn’t the best. Rozema asked, who was better? I said Dave Stieb. Rozema thought for a second and said, yeah, you got a point.

Pro tip: claims of receipts work better when your name is attached to them. 😉

Another Skubal game I will be on the road for or otherwise have a scheduled conflict with and will be unavailable to watch. That will make four straight Skubal starts, and six of the last seven, I will have had no opportunity to see him pitch, outside of stolen looks at snippets on MLB.tv. At least it will be a nice birthday treat to see him starting on July 11th.

We signed eight free agents on that list. Six of them spent 1989 as the last year of their career here, and one didn’t even make the team.

Beautifully put. This Tigers organization is like no other Tigers org in my lifetime. It is everything I have wanted to see in this team for at least the least quarter century. I’m glad I’ve lived long enough to see it.

Among other issues … 😏

Trumbull is gone because of Harris.

SportingNews has been a zombie site for a few years now. It’s a shame they have a great legacy name that they are soiling. Same with Newsweek and now Sports Illustrated.

YES! Exactly the plan!

Almost certainly not, but honestly, I hope so. I want to see players or teams caught throwing plays or games for gambling interests. How else do we have any chance to get this scourge out of the game, short of a player or his family being murdered by a disgruntled degenerate?

He’s an only child, so that’s probably part of it.

But can he romance a prop bet line?

I’m thinking about using the major AI bots to plan out a Route 66 driving trip for us. I want to hew as closely to the original road as I can possibly get. I’ve looked at a couple Route 66 websites and they are surprisingly incomplete when it comes to route planning.

Teams basically need three good starters to get through the playoffs, right? Given all the off days then, I think most teams going deep spread the vast majority of their starts among their top three. Our top two are Skubal and Flaherty. Yeah, Flaherty is not particularly good lately, or even this whole year, but unless he has an abject collapse, he’s pitching Game 2 of the ALDS. So, after Skubal and Flaherty, it comes down to Olson and Mize to fill the #3 and spot starter roles, depending on how each do in September. Only if one of them gets hurt or falls off a cliff after August 1 will we be in serious trouble in the rotation. So, unless either Olson or Mize come up lame at the end of this month, we’re not trading for starting pitching, either.

The Tigers are not trading for Ke’Bryan Hayes, Alex Bregman, or any other third baseman. We are #10 in the majors in WAR at third base. If we’re trading for a position player at all, it’s a shortstop, and with Javy having his resurgence, getting most of the starts at shortstop now and coming off his best month of the season so far, we’re not trading for a shortstop, either. We are set for position players. We are obviously going after shutdown relief help, and whether we go for a starter is going to depend in large part how Reese Olson is doing in three or so weeks. He’s back in the next week and should have three starts before we have to start thinking about burning up the phone lines for a starter. If he’s back and strong, we probably won’t feel the need to trade for starting pitching.

We do come out a little ahead although nothing like this. I don’t want to come out ahead in that way. I would give it all back to at least go back to how it was.