8/20/25 1:10PM Astros @ Tigers

[Tenacious D]

My mental health needed this sweep.

[Shinzaki]

[romad1]

4 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

My mental health needed this sweep.

Very very true.  It is a demonstration of good baseball late in the season against a nominal "good" team that had some mojo reasons to want to play us hard.  They collapsed and we did the opposite. 

[romad1]

Montero is an Arbiter from Halo? 

[IdahoBert]

Tigers didn’t score their first run until the fourth inning in the first game and only scored in the 10th of the second game. It was really nice not to have nail biting suspense this time.

[lordstanley]

Tigers sweep the Astros who are now 6 games back of the Tigers. Philadelphia just finished sweeping Seattle who are now 7.5 games back of the Tigers. Toronto dropped 2 of 3 to last place Pittsburgh and is now 1.5 games back of the Tigers. Cleveland, having only managed a split so far against Arizona, is 10.0 games back of the Tigers. Only the Royals have kept pace with the Tigers but the Royals are 9.5 games back of the Tigers and verging on irrelevance.

Edited Wednesday at 08:14 PM by lordstanley

[papalawrence]

Morton in his post game interview - he might be the most chill guy to don a Tigers uniform. Very grounded person. Glad Harris grabbed him in the final minutes of the deadline

[chasfh]

I still feel pretty good about this post.

 

[Tenacious D]

3 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

The age gap between me and Morgan is the same as the age gap between the end of World War I and when I was born. That’s a kind of sobering thought.

Too much math 🧮 

[IdahoBert]

Just now, Tenacious D said:

Too much math 🧮 

Yeah, I deleted the post because I realized it was too obtuse. 

[Tenacious D]

1 minute ago, IdahoBert said:

Yeah, I deleted the post because I realized it was too obtuse. 

Great—now I have to break out a dictionary.  Your posts are becoming increasingly difficult for me.

I yearn for the simplicity of your 6 runs requests.

[chasfh]

5 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Great—now I have to break out a dictionary.  Your posts are becoming increasingly difficult for me.

I yearn for the simplicity of your 6 runs requests.

At least he didn't say it was abstruse.

[IdahoBert]

30 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Great—now I have to break out a dictionary.  Your posts are becoming increasingly difficult for me.

I yearn for the simplicity of your 6 runs requests.

 

25 minutes ago, chasfh said:

At least he didn't say it was abstruse.

For clarification, I was whining about being old. When I think of Morton being old as a player, but 30 years younger than me that doesn’t seem so bad. But when I think of myself being born 30 years after the end of World War I, which might as well be ancient history, now that makes me feel old. I thought I was not being very sharp and the point. 

[gehringer_2]

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

At least he didn't say it was abstruse.

One of my dear departed Mum's favorite words.

[chasfh]

19 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

One of my dear departed Mum's favorite words.

One of my friends know I'm adamant about the difference between "obtuse" and "abstruse", and he always uses the former to mean the latter, and I make a show of getting all mad about it, and we have a good laugh. But yeah, he's still a **** about it. 😁

[lordstanley]

Guardian lose on a walkoff . They’re 10.5 games behind now. 

Edited Wednesday at 10:13 PM by lordstanley

[romad1]

7 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Guardian lose on a walkoff . They’re 10.5 games behind now. 

I laughed hard enough to toot when I saw that! 

[Adullin]

Blue Jays lost again

[RandyMarsh]

The Royals have moved into 2nd place now after the Guardians lost. 

[holygoat]

12 hours ago, casimir said:

Give 'em the chair!

Ah yes, who doesn't get nostalgic for the days of Shep demanding that opposing players be electrocuted after striking out?

[lordstanley]

So Morton has made 4 starts for the Tigers now, going 6 innings in 3 of them and giving up 1, 6, 0 and 2 runs. Total of 22 1/3 IP, 3.63 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 29 Ks. He has had only one bad inning, no?

Edited Thursday at 12:42 AM by lordstanley

[4hzglory]

14 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

So Morton has made 4 starts for the Tigers now, going 6 innings in 3 of them and giving up 1, 6, 0 and 2 runs. Total of 22 1/3 IP, 3.63 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 29 Ks. He has had only one bad inning, no?

Yes, and with the swing and miss as well as experience as a reliever, he gives a lot of options come postseason.

[lordstanley]

21 minutes ago, 4hzglory said:

Yes, and with the swing and miss as well as experience as a reliever, he gives a lot of options come postseason.

And I think Morton indirectly makes the bullpen stronger by freeing up Melton to get in relief innings for now instead of being used as a starter. Which in turn means Melton might be available as a starter come playoff time, if Hinch so chooses.

[chasfh]

I don’t see us starting Melton in the postseason if we don’t start him for the rest of the regular season.

[holygoat]

Nice to see Morton rub salt in the wounds of the Astros.