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Someone with photoshop skills change this to say "How wet was my driveway"

According to weather.gov it appears that rain is coming at 5pm and not earlier but i've heard that story before. 

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From the MLB app this morning:

These April surprises have held up in May

The Tigers’ offense is legit

Much like last year, when the Tigers made a shocking late-season turnaround to reach the playoffs, their pitching staff appeared to be the clear strength of the team heading into 2025. After Detroit fell short in its pursuit of free-agent third baseman Alex Bregmanover the winter, the club entered the season with much of the same lineup that scored the 11th-fewest runs in MLB a year ago.

But while the Tigers have again been effective at run prevention, it’s not the pitching that’s driving their rise to the top of the AL standings -- it’s the offense. (OK, Tarik Skubalhas been pretty awesome, too.) Getting unexpected contributions from Spencer Torkelson, Javier Báez and Zach McKinstry, Detroit’s offense ranks fourth in the Majors in runs per game (5.07) this season, and only the Cubs and Dodgers have scored more runs in May.

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So many fans wanted to fire the hitting coaches all last season. I thought it was more a lack of talent thing. Turns out it was a little of that, plus talent needed to develop and/or get unlocked. A lucky month here and there doesn’t hurt.

I wonder how much influence Gleyber Torres, a hoary old 28-year-old veteran professional hitter, had on the other guys, in terms of professional approach to the job and whatnot.

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3 hours ago, chasfh said:

So many fans wanted to fire the hitting coaches all last season. I thought it was more a lack of talent thing. Turns out it was a little of that, plus talent needed to develop and/or get unlocked. A lucky month here and there doesn’t hurt.

I wonder how much influence Gleyber Torres, a hoary old 28-year-old veteran professional hitter, had on the other guys, in terms of professional approach to the job and whatnot.

Probably having a positive impact.  The guy takes a lot of pitches and doesn’t seem to get fooled much.  Especially earlier in the season, I felt like the top of our lineup was skilled at running up pitch counts for the opposing starters.  And if you have guys being more patient to take a walk or wait for their pitch, you end up with more base runners, which only helps the subsequent batters in the lineup.  Miggy always said that VMart provided him with protection which led to him seeing better pitches to hit.

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So tomorrow’s a travel day and Tork and Javy sit. AJ knows better than me. He’s a Stanford graduate with a psychology degree, neither of which are distinctions I can lay claim to. 

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