8/4/25 6:40PM Twins @ Tigers

[GalagaGuy]

And the Mets just imploded in extras.  🤬

[IdahoBert]

13 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Guardians blew a 5-0 lead and just had the go ahead run at third in the ninth and didn't score.   Mets batting in the bottom of the ninth.  

Tied going to extras

[romad1]

Bleeping Mets didn't get it done. 

[IdahoBert]

Guardians won the game but too bad so sad for us. We can’t expect other teams to do the heavy lifting for us. 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

What's worse, Johnny Kane's moronic giggles or Todd Jones' stutters? The Tigers need new post game show hosts. Those guys are unwatchable.

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. The teams and players are worth billions, the business of covering all the millionaires can't afford people who speak in complete sentences.

[oblong]

Carpenters HR was as epic as any I saw from my seats from Prince or Victor or any visiting player. I legit lost it in the air as it went up right in front of me. 

[IdahoBert]

7 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. The teams and players are worth billions, the business of covering all the millionaires can't afford people who speak in complete sentences.

Yeah. I like Daniella though. She fulfills her role quite well. 

[Tenacious D]

Yes, Daniella is solid.  I like Johnny, too, though.  Not a fan of Jonesy.

In case you all were wondering.

(I’ll share my thoughts on each of you later tonight after my 4th Old Fashioned)

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Yes, Daniella is solid.  I like Johnny, too, though.  Not a fan of Jonesy.

In case you all were wondering.

(I’ll share my thoughts on each of you later tonight after my 4th Old Fashioned)

Kane is not untalented, but I don't get where all the giggling comes from when he does baseball. It's like there is a bottle of nitrous oxide at the ballpark with his name on it.

[IdahoBert]

The Tigers like announcers that are amiable and don’t appear too stuffy. I’ve watched other teams broadcasts, and some of them have announcers that seem kind of uptight and officious wearing crisp suits and affecting a kind of propriety that seems archaic and alienating to a younger generation. The Tigers are going in a different direction.

God knows the ads on mlb.tv are trying hard not to be too officious where they’re constantly making jokes about d*ck pics. Apparently every woman on earth would never date a man unless she saw a picture of his junk in advance. I think it’s conceivable this might be an overstatement of the actual state of affairs.

[romad1]

Listening to Scott Bentley because I enjoy having some noise in my headphones at work in my shoebox of a cubicle while I do the last 2-4 years before retirement.   From this I remember that this game last night was a lot less of a sure thing than it seems at the end.  The whole first game of a home stand sluggishness thing is a constant.  Not sure if that is lack of prep or they were too busy at the signing event that afternoon or what.  

 

[romad1]

Boy this team is not the same without Kerry Carpenter.  I think they could survive a week without Riley and a week without Tork but without Karp they really drop off. 

[alex]

9 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

Yes, Daniella is solid.  I like Johnny, too, though.  Not a fan of Jonesy.

In case you all were wondering.

(I’ll share my thoughts on each of you later tonight after my 4th Old Fashioned)

They are both quite talented and dedicated IMHO. I enjoy them. Johnny knows many on the team it seems. He will do the extra work to help fans learn more ex his previous podcasts whether it is Jack's mom or Englert's meditation and training, Chaffin & Alexander on the farm, Jake at a restaurant, etc. Their hearts are into and it shows for both of them. We ALL have quirks, mannerisms and personalities or moments where we make a mistake or two while working. There is no perfect. 

[casimir]

9 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

(I’ll share my thoughts on each of you later tonight after my 4th Old Fashioned)

Well...?

[Sports_Freak]

11 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Yeah. I like Daniella though. She fulfills her role quite well. 

She gives good interviews. I just wish it wasn't duing game action though.

[Sports_Freak]

11 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Kane is not untalented, but I don't get where all the giggling comes from when he does baseball. It's like there is a bottle of nitrous oxide at the ballpark with his name on it.

Exactly. He fills in for George Blaha on Piston games and he does a very good job. Somebody needs to tell him to talk without the giggling and he would be fine.

[ben9753]

I wonder what Harris does with Greene long term. He has power, but doesn't exactly fit the "command of the zone" mold that Harris declared would be what he'd build the team identity on.

[Klondike]

28 minutes ago, ben9753 said:

I wonder what Harris does with Greene long term. He has power, but doesn't exactly fit the "command of the zone" mold that Harris declared would be what he'd build the team identity on.

It's alrght have one of those guys in the line-up. I'm sure Harris is not that thick as to give up on a potential 40-50 hr player because he's so anti home run/ strikeout. Green also plays a decent defense. 

[gehringer_2]

29 minutes ago, ben9753 said:

I wonder what Harris does with Greene long term. He has power, but doesn't exactly fit the "command of the zone" mold that Harris declared would be what he'd build the team identity on.

Last season his walk rate was the highest and his K rate the lowest of his career. If anything he was trending toward that Harris profile. This season it's going down the crapper. Sometime a player just makes the wrong decisions for his off-season work and doesn't find out until it's too late that he went the wrong route. The other possibility is that he isn't 100%. He was actually fine right up until the Washington series DH when he hit the 2 HR in the first game. His K rate was up, but not drastically. But he hasn't been the same player since that day. Either the 2 HR got in his head (which seems unlikely for a guy with as many AB under his belt as Riley - you'd think he wouldn't be swayed to change his approach by one game) or he tweaked something in the OF that day and has kept it under his hat and tried to play through it. I could see Riley not wanting to take another trip to the IL.

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, ben9753 said:

I wonder what Harris does with Greene long term. He has power, but doesn't exactly fit the "command of the zone" mold that Harris declared would be what he'd build the team identity on.

Not trading away prospects is the 1st clue. The Tigers won't be signing any long term contracts to players. 

[RatkoVarda]

Greene, IMO, will not age well - old man skills and old man body.

[Tiger337]

6 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

Greene, IMO, will not age well - old man skills and old man body.

I agree.  He is still just 24, so he should have plenty of time left.  but he's probably not a good candidate for one of those 10-year deals as a free agent.  

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, ben9753 said:

I wonder what Harris does with Greene long term. He has power, but doesn't exactly fit the "command of the zone" mold that Harris declared would be what he'd build the team identity on.

I've been thinking about this, too, and I don't think he's as untouchable, or as certain of a long term deal here, as I once thought. He's controllable through 2029. It would be weird to trade him any time soon, since he's a three-to-five-win guy, and I don't expect we will be selling at deadlines for the foreseeable future. Maybe it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I don't see what such a trade looks like, except as a challenge trade of our slugger for your established starter. But our organizational depth at outfield as it currently stands might rule out backfilling internally if Riley goes anytime soon, since we are so stacked at catcher and infield instead.

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I've been thinking about this, too, and I don't think he's as untouchable, or as certain of a long term deal here, as I once thought. He's controllable through 2029. It would be weird to trade him any time soon, since he's a three-to-five-win guy, and I don't expect we will be selling at deadlines for the foreseeable future. Maybe it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I don't see what such a trade looks like, except as a challenge trade of our slugger for your established starter. But our organizational depth at outfield as it currently stands might rule out backfilling internally if Riley goes anytime soon, since we are so stacked at catcher and infield instead.

isn't every shortstop in the Tigers system just an AJ Hinch nod away from being a CF?

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, Klondike said:

It's alrght have one of those guys in the line-up. I'm sure Harris is not that thick as to give up on a potential 40-50 hr player because he's so anti home run/ strikeout. Green also plays a decent defense. 

Riley is going to have to solve the swing and miss problem with giving up much on power. He is 5th percentile on that, and 10th percentile on contact overall.

As for defense, "decent" is probably the nest way to put it. plays like the diver on Saturday notwithstanding, he is solidly middle of the pack when it comes to turning around routine plays regularly, and on plays with 2+ star degree of diffiulty. He's got decent reaction time, but so-so burst speed and below average routing to the ball. He is 10th percentile on arm run value, though, and 20th percentile on arm strength. Bottom line on him is, he is acceptable in left as a 24-year-old, but the physical skills he has that we expect to deteriorate is going to show up in reduced defensive utility long before his controllable years are up.