9/24/25 6:40 Tigers @ Guardians

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Adullin said:

Nothing but quit in this team. 

It is fair to ask if in their efforts to filter player procurement through the 'good guys in the clubhouse' lens they forgot to obtain the requisite percentage of junkyard dogs to bite some kneecaps.

[Tiger337]

It's hard to care right now, but Oakland is up 2-0 vs. Houston in the 5th.  

[lordstanley]

4-0 Athletics. The turtle race for the final wildcard spot is on.

[papalawrence]

12 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

4-0 Athletics. The turtle race for the final wildcard spot is on.

9 more outs. The kitties are going to back into the WC

[lordstanley]

While nowhere near as bad as the Tigers' collapse, and with the security of a playoff spot locked up, the Jays have fallen apart too. From a 5 game lead with 11 games to go, to tied with the Yankees with 4 games to go. The Jays have lost 6 of the past 7. 

 

 

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

If you have a torrid summer fling with a hot co-ed but you broke up after Labor Day, 10 years later will you be able to put the ending out of your head and just remember the good times? Probably if it was an amicable breakup, like if the Tigers lost a pennant race that was close and hard fought the whole way. But this collapse is the equivalent of not only her breaking up with you, but doing so after cheating on you with some loser dude. Hard to erase and move past that. 

Lol..yeah. I just take solace in the fact that it's only a marketing artificial divisional race. I mean, I never thought this Tiger team was the best team in the AL and I didn't like people calling them that. They were the team with the best record for a long while but the defending AL champs would be considered the best team until they're defeated. The defending champions.

And with so many divisions, and wild card teams, making the playoffs has gotten less glamorous. Winning the pennant is winning a league championship. 

Cleveland got real hot at the right time and we went ice cold at the wrong time. Historic comeback and historic collapse.

[SoCalTiger]

I'm just numb. Not comfortably either.

[lordstanley]

On September 5, the Mariners lost for the 6th time in 7 games. Since then they have gone 16-1, Raleigh hit his 60th tonight and they just clinched the AL West. First division title since 2001 and only 2nd playoff spot since then. The Tigers are mathematically eliminated from the bye, lol 

 

Edited September 25 by lordstanley

[romad1]

Woke up an hour early and this team was on my mind.   The failure of this entire team will indeed linger.   

Pre-post-mortums seem way too drastic but... does this team win another game this year?  

[Motor City Sonics]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Woke up an hour early and this team was on my mind.   The failure of this entire team will indeed linger.   

Pre-post-mortums seem way too drastic but... does this team win another game this year?  

This idea that the Tigers could contend next year is nonsense.   They're completely broken now.  They'll never get this stench off of them

1964 Phillies - never did anything again

1969 Cubs - never did anything again

1978 Red Sox - totally different team by the mid 80s

1987 Blue Jays - Took them years to recover

 

Nope, this team is finished -  Might as well trade off the core pieces and get more prospects because this is a team of losers, and I don't want them around anymore.     Nice stats, guys.    Yeah, Stats !  Riley Greene,  Nice player, sure, but he's a loser.   Spencer Torkelson, loser,  Kerry Carpenter, loser.  Get rid of them all.  Rebuild.  Hope the next batch, the 2027/28 batch has more guts then this bunch does.  

 

And Hinch?   Yeah, nice little run for about 9 months, but he's cooked too.   Might have been more lucky than good.   

Edited September 25 by Motor City Sonics

[romad1]

32 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

This idea that the Tigers could contend next year is nonsense.   They're completely broken now.  They'll never get this stench off of them

1964 Phillies - never did anything again

1969 Cubs - never did anything again

1978 Red Sox - totally different team by the mid 80s

1987 Blue Jays - Took them years to recover

 

Nope, this team is finished -  Might as well trade off the core pieces and get more prospects because this is a team of losers, and I don't want them around anymore.     Nice stats, guys.    Yeah, Stats !  Riley Greene,  Nice player, sure, but he's a loser.   Spencer Torkelson, loser,  Kerry Carpenter, loser.  Get rid of them all.  Rebuild.  Hope the next batch, the 2027/28 batch has more guts then this bunch does.  

 

And Hinch?   Yeah, nice little run for about 9 months, but he's cooked too.   Might have been more lucky than good.   

The Twins had a crap end of season collapse last year and they are broken now.  

I don't know what spark they need but whatever the gritty Tigs were they ain't that now.    I could point to losing Olson and Jobe and never getting anything out of Alex Cobb.   At one time in this season we were clearly better than the Yankees who just blew past us. 

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[Sports_Freak]

8 hours ago, papalawrence said:

9 more outs. The kitties are going to back into the WC

If Boston is locked in at the #2 seed, they may save their pitching..

 

[Sports_Freak]

33 minutes ago, romad1 said:

The Twins had a crap end of season collapse last year and they are broken now.  

I don't know what spark they need but whatever the gritty Tigs were they ain't that now.    I could point to losing Olson and Jobe and never getting anything out of Alex Cobb.   At one time in this season we were clearly better than the Yankees who just blew past us. 

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Meh...we had a better record than the Yankees but we never had a better team. And losing Olson hurt but it's the lack of scoring runs that hurt us the most. The whole lineup went into a late season slump.

[oblong]

This team is not making the playoffs.  

[Tiger337]

10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

It is fair to ask if in their efforts to filter player procurement through the 'good guys in the clubhouse' lens they forgot to obtain the requisite percentage of junkyard dogs to bite some kneecaps.

I joked about that early in the season.  The team has no personality.  The look like a white suburban middle class travel team.   I don't think that is why they are losing, but it makes for less entertainment.  

Edited September 25 by Tiger337

[tiger2022]

9 minutes ago, oblong said:

This team is not making the playoffs.  

They have a great chance.  More because Houston can't win a game than anything the Tigers will do.  They have a 1 game lead over Houston and own the tie- breaker.  Houston has lost 6 in a row and Brown just pitched.  Houston will need to win 2 more games than Detroit in the final 4.

Detroit will likely back in to the playoffs and play Cleveland in the first round. 

If Detroit can win just one more game, Houston would need to go 3-1.

 

Edited September 25 by tiger2022

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

6 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

Detroit will likely back in to the playoffs and play Cleveland in the first round. 

Well doesn't that just sound super fun.

[romad1]

Just now, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Well doesn't that just sound super fun.

Your avatar matches my mood today.  

[romad1]

17 minutes ago, oblong said:

This team is not making the playoffs.  

if they win another game I'll be surprised.  If they make the playoffs it will be one of those fluky 1990s Lions teams (save the 1991 season).  One afternoon of pain and frustration to punctuate the pain and frustration of September. 

[tiger2022]

I could see them going 0-4 and still getting in because Houston can't win games either.

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

Just now, romad1 said:

Your avatar matches my mood today.  

Ha! Yes, I guess it is representative of our current state.  I've stopped watching the games and only occasionally check the scores. That helped a bit. And I've been able to catch up on some shows that I have fallen behind on. Up next: Alien Earth.

[romad1]

4 minutes ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Ha! Yes, I guess it is representative of our current state.  I've stopped watching the games and only occasionally check the scores. That helped a bit. And I've been able to catch up on some shows that I have fallen behind on. Up next: Alien Earth.

The lead girl (she's like 30 in real life) Sydney Chandler (daughter of Kyle Chandler) is adorable.  She must struggle through life with the affliction of her perfect features. 

Overall it has a lot of interesting stuff.  Well conceived. 

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

9 minutes ago, romad1 said:

She must struggle through life with the affliction of her perfect features. 

I can relate.

[kdog]

I don't think they should overreact to this collapse because it's very strange that everything has gone wrong at once.

I think they got a little high on their supply with all of the pitching moves and roster chaos. Eventually, they had no answers for any of it. They need to stabilize a few more positional players and redouble their efforts to get more pitching depth.

2024 Pitching chaos basically killed about 5 guys with injuries. That's hard to recover from. 

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, Edman85 said:

2003 adjacent...

Not exactly true. That team won five of their final six.