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I’m thinking the PAC Dozen need some more flair. Chaminade, Alaska-Fairbanks, and a Canadian college or two would be fun.

Just not on windy practice days.

Millennials don’t work overtime, duhhhhhhhh……

It would be a missed opportunity if Duran Duran isn’t handling one of the Star Spangled Banners this weekend.

Just for full disclosure, that's not me.

Good day to start up another winning streak. Carpe diem, morans.

Six Pac?

Opening Day is in 195 days.

Probably true. This is one they shouldn't have lost. Yes, its tough to sweep any MLB team, even the Rockies or White Sox. But there's not much margin for error right now. Taking series gets the Tigers to 85-77. That would mean Minnesota would need to go 6-10 or Kansas City would need to go 4-11 in order to open up a wild card spot for the Tigers. Its not an impossible proposition, but doubtful nonetheless. Hey, its September and there's still a chance. Who saw this at the trade deadline?

What took so long? What's with the lollygagging around getting today's game thread together? The boys are in a playoff push! A game efforts from everybody from here on out!

To the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song, a 3 year rehab.

I go in hot/cold spurts with sudoku. I'll binge for a week and then leave it alone for two weeks. Something like that. There's a tetris/sudoko combo type of game that I've been playing lately. A 9x9 grid where you place the shapes to get 9 in a row vertically or horizontally or fill in one of the 9 different 3x3 boxes on the grid.

I like this. I'd suggest Carpenter is fine in a corner OF although certainly no equal to any of those three you mentioned. So I'd be comfortable with him spelling in either corner or RF when Vierling plays CF to give Meadows a day off. Perez on the bench or maybe just use the Ibanez/McKinstry type for in game OF depth when needed with Perez on call in Toledo for when an injury arises.

I've always liked Lindor. All other things being (relatively) equal, I think I'd always take a SS over a CF.

I was my parents' child. Ugly or not, they took me.

And I think Baez' contract is in that discussion as well.

I don’t understand what this has to do with my comment about Skubal being pushed back a day? Sure, due to the tiebreaker the Tigers are 4 games back. They have to finish with a better record than Minnesota (or Kansas City which seems doubtful) to make the playoffs.

Sure, that’s why I mentioned a division series game or two rather than a wildcard series game.

If it’s a 5 man pitching staff without jostling things up, whoever starts tomorrow gets the last game of the season. Put another way, whoever starts tonight and tomorrow get 4 starts, and the other 3 slots gets 3 starts. Baltimore isn’t the team that the Tigers are chasing. Minnesota is the team to get. I’m not worried about him starting against Baltimore or any of those 6 games for that matter. Get him the 4th start.

Hold on. What if those dogs and cats are actually some of those students that schools had to start stocking kitty litter and chew toys for? Is this now a crime against people?

I sometimes ride my bike around a mall area where there is a population of Canadian geese. They can get quite hissy.

So, anyone else curious how the Tigers' PR department and ticketing/ballpark operation folks are feeling about the possibility of a division series game or two? Gotta think there's some hopeful prep work going on, eh?

Did you mean dead goose? This is interesting to me. I don't know if its goose hunting season or if Canadian geese are a legally huntable bird. I was on the road in northern Ohio this past Saturday morning and noticed a couple of guys with a dog in a farm field, one of the guys carrying two dead Canadian geese. I think I saw rifles, but wasn't paying too much attention to it. So, I ultimately don't know how the geese ended up in the that individual's grasp. I was really more interested in getting to the destination for the day. But, if it is Canadian goose hunting season in Ohio, and the picture as you suggest is the culprit, how have the two not been tied together as at least a possibility?

I see what you did there. Pun acknowledged.