8/30/25 7:15PM Tigers @ Royals

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

a run!

[oblong]

The ****ing run on contact play has been a thing since Lamont. Why?  I’ve never seen it work and other teams don’t do it as often.

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

6 minutes ago, oblong said:

The ****ing run on contact play has been a thing since Lamont. Why?  I’ve never seen it work and other teams don’t do it as often.

I'm fairly certain Dickerson was talking about it earlier this season, and he seemed to be saying that it was actually a net positive for the Tigers. I don't remember how he said that was measured.

just for whatever it's worth (which may be very little).

Edited Sunday at 12:04 AM by Crazy Cat Gentleman

[oblong]

5 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

I'm fairly certain Dickerson was talking about it earlier this season, and he seemed to be saying that it was actually a net positive for the Tigers. I don't remember how he said that was measured.

just for whatever it's worth (which may be very little).

I do recall him saying that. I don’t believe it. But I’m also not a know it all. If I am wrong so be it. 

[IdahoBert]

Did A. J. Pierzynski ever get into a big fight with the Tigers? 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Just now, IdahoBert said:

Did A. J. Pierzynski ever get into a big fight with the Tigers? 

I don't know, but I'm going to assume "yes" because it's AJ.

[IdahoBert]

2 minutes ago, oblong said:

I do recall him saying that. I don’t believe it. But I’m also not a know it all. If I am wrong so be it. 

I looked it up and supposedly it is a net positive not by a lot from what I can tell, but it is a positive. 

[Dan Gilmore]

An internets chip to someone that posts video of Barrett clocking AJ.

[IdahoBert]

Garcia HR. 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

boo, opponent HRs

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

2 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

An internets chip to someone that posts video of Barrett clocking AJ.

 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

ugh, the aspect ratio is all out of whack in that video.

[Tigermojo]

12 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

I'm fairly certain Dickerson was talking about it earlier this season, and he seemed to be saying that it was actually a net positive for the Tigers. I don't remember how he said that was measured.

just for whatever it's worth (which may be very little).

Yes because it could have been one run with two outs and nobody on base. Instead it was one out with runners on first and second. A three run homer would be very bad in that case. Tigers still managed to score a run.

[Tigermojo]

Toledo, Erie and Lakeland have all scored six runs. Bert has trained them well.

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

why is this review taking so long? I thought he was pretty clearly safe on replay.

[IdahoBert]

10 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Toledo, Erie and Lakeland have all scored six runs. Bert has trained them well.

Now we just need to get the Tigers score 6. 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Dingler cuts down another would-be base-stealer.

[IdahoBert]

Kolek is at only 59 pitches, he’s hardly had to work at all. 

[IdahoBert]

Jack is reaching the point where he usually starts falter. 

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, IdahoBert said:

Jack is reaching the point where he usually starts falter. 

yup. If he got you this far, book your profits and sell.

[IdahoBert]

really need to get Koyaanisqatsi out

[IdahoBert]

Big Foot is out creeping around and Jack is history

[gehringer_2]

54 minutes ago, oblong said:

The ****ing run on contact play has been a thing since Lamont. Why?  I’ve never seen it work and other teams don’t do it as often.

If you have base runners that can really stretch their lead down the 3b line  - without getting picked off a la Wenceel, then they have so little distance to go it's a tough out to make, but the Tigers don't really have that many base runners like that. It's also much better with a LH batter when the 3b is playing well off the line so the runner at 3rd can take that big lead. If you have Gleyber on 3rd and Tork at the plate? Fuggedabadit.

Edited Sunday at 12:52 AM by gehringer_2

[oblong]

35 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Did A. J. Pierzynski ever get into a big fight with the Tigers? 

It wasn’t a fight but I remember Craig Monroe hit a big home run, maybe a grand slam, and when he got to the plate to celebrate with the others AJ stood right behind was the plate after Craig touched the home.  The players were hugging and stuff and someone bumped into AJ and got mad. AJ being AJ he was a jerk to the point of still having plausible deniability.  “What?  I am just standing here where the catcher stands…” 

I aways liked him. 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

I remember in the early 2010s or so that there was a campaign to get AJ into the all-star game with the slogan "punch out AJ" (or maybe "punch out Pierzynski"). obvious double meaning there.