2025 Detroit Tigers General Discussion Thread

[romad1]

i'm tracking that this was a weird hit job on the Tigers as they started a series in NY.  Someone in the Athletic felt they needed to piss off Tigers ownership with things that happen every day and to every level of America (NO POLITICS).  Glad the Tigers thrashed the Yankees for 2 of 3 but no chance that was related to any reaction in the clubhouse.  

[Edman85]

6 minutes ago, oblong said:

I think the article's point to link this to the Tigers is a bit of a stretch.  This is a corporate culture issue within the Ilitch Organization.  These are people who could be doing jobs anywhere.  It's not about the baseball team, even if their current role relates to that job at the time.  It's not the late 90's Tigers on the team plane harassing flight attendants.  Even the Maybin and Monroe things are throw ins.  Maybin didn't do what he did because of what happens in offices across the street.  The Monroe situation appears to have gone nowhere and the team took that as a chance to cut bait with a story they didn't want to be a part of.  Again, that's not because Bob in Accounting made a comment about Jan's butt.

I think any investigation into a large conglomerate in this country would show this taking place.  It's not condoning it obviously but when shown a group of 1,000 men there's still pigs around and that's the case with Ilitch Holdings.  

 

Depends how many of the women who came forward are on the baseball side. I do know the woman who was in the analytics department, who had gotten some pub several years back, left the team sometime in 2023-24. Giblin getting bumped up to VP after being Menzin's subordinate is interesting to me as well.

I don't agree that this is a New York hit job.

To my original point, if there are rumblings about a woman being thrown down the stairs by a team employee, the local media needs to get on that and chase it down.

There is clearly still a problem. They are retaliating against Stavenhagen, for example. Gustafson seems like a bad egg.

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Edman85 said:

Depends how many of the women who came forward are on the baseball side. I do know the woman who was in the analytics department, who had gotten some pub several years back, left the team sometime in 2023-24. Giblin getting bumped up to VP after being Menzin's subordinate is interesting to me as well.

I don't agree that this is a New York hit job.

To my original point, if there are rumblings about a woman being thrown down the stairs by a team employee, the local media needs to get on that and chase it down.

There is clearly still a problem. They are retaliating against Stavenhagen, for example. Gustafson seems like a bad egg.

How are they retaliating against Stavenhagen?

[Tenacious D]

22 minutes ago, chasfh said:

How are they retaliating against Stavenhagen?

Cody, on his podcast today, said the Tigers didn’t invite him to their press conference this week when they addressed this.

[gehringer_2]

59 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Cody, on his podcast today, said the Tigers didn’t invite him to their press conference this week when they addressed this.

Society can't function when everyone is this greedy, and what I mean is that if the members of the press don't have enough solidarity with each other to boycott the event in support of one of their members who is singled out, then they all deserve to be divided and conquered. But they are too willing to see one of their own go down to make a nickel.

Of course the problem is that even if they all deserve to go down,  damn-little good that does the public.

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Society can't function when everyone is this greedy, and what I mean is that if the members of the press don't have enough solidarity with each other to boycott the event in support of one of their members who is singled out, then they all deserve to be divided and conquered. But they are too willing to see one of their own go down to make a nickel.

Of course the problem is that even if they all deserve to go down,  damn-little good that does the public.

Access is everything in competitive for-profit beat journalism, sports or not. How many media outlets banded together to protest when access to White House press conferences was yanked from AP? Divide and conquer simply works.

[Edman85]

If their instinct is to yank access after a negative story, it makes you wonder what else doesn't get out. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

[oblong]

They dont need local media anymore.  They tolerate it but what they used to get out of them justified the sacrifice of being on your toes. But now that they have their websites and networks the papers aren’t a necessity to sell the product. Nobody is reading anyway. 

[Tenacious D]

28 minutes ago, oblong said:

They dont need local media anymore.  They tolerate it but what they used to get out of them justified the sacrifice of being on your toes. But now that they have their websites and networks the papers aren’t a necessity to sell the product. Nobody is reading anyway. 

Which is why the local beat reporters have to capitulate to the teams they cover.  Their profession has become democratized via podcasts, websites, social media, etc and they have to hold on to a regular paying gig as long as they can.  It’s no wonder why many of them have their own pods, too.

[Shinzaki]

Skubal is ok!!!!  May not even miss a start!!

[Tenacious D]

On 9/13/2025 at 1:32 PM, Shinzaki said:

Skubal is ok!!!!  May not even miss a start!!

Fake News!

[Edman85]

11 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

Fake News!

?

[Edman85]

Per transaction logs, Hurter up and Hanifee down.

[Tenacious D]

Hurter?  Never!

[Shinzaki]

Hurter?  I've never even met her...

[Sports_Freak]

Does Cleveland have a make up game that's not showing on their schedule? They've player 149 games with 12 games on their schedule.

[gehringer_2]

45 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Hurter?  Never!

swap a guy that will fail against RHB for a guy that'll fail against LHB. Why not?

[Edman85]

24 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Does Cleveland have a make up game that's not showing on their schedule? They've player 149 games with 12 games on their schedule.

Doubleheader Saturday

[oblong]

I’m honestly not sure if I knew they were different pitchers.  

[Tiger337]

3 minutes ago, oblong said:

I’m honestly not sure if I knew they were different pitchers.  

I will always associate those two names with each other.  

[oblong]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

I will always associate those two names with each other.  

I was like that in ‘87 with Eric King and Mike Henneman. 

[Tenacious D]

37 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

swap a guy that will fail against RHB for a guy that'll fail against LHB. Why not?

Hurt her?  Never

Kind of disappointed

[Sports_Freak]

59 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Doubleheader Saturday

Ahh...that is on the schedule. Letters too tiny...lol. DH against the Twins. It may have playoff implications. Or even seeding.

Edited Tuesday at 02:57 AM by Sports_Freak

[papalawrence]

Cleveland still sits 3 back in the WC race. They'll be very focused and Detroit needs to be ready to play. 

[chasfh]

13 hours ago, Shinzaki said:

Hurter?  I've never even met her...

Doug Fister is ROTFL at this one.