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That was brilliant. I don't think a slow motion replay was shown on the broadcast. I suspect Torres felt the runners hit hit the bag before the ball hit his palm and that's why he continued the play. And everybody else on the field followed suit. The rundown was set up, even Skubal charging towards the plate. Such a heads up play by all involved. How often does that situation arise? There was no delay on the Tigers.

I hadn’t thought of who would be pulling double duty in the field. I’m fine with Baez doing the SS/CF thing. I’m not worried as much about someone like Torkleson playing both games at 1B. Thats going to be a lot of land for Malloy to cover, but he’ll have to handle one of those games. It’s too bad they don’t make the first game a 1p start. Sure it’s 11a local, but they do that in Boston for Patriots Day.

Vierling up as the spare and then Jung down after the doubleheader? I would think Greene might DH one of those games. I don’t think he had a rest day going into this series. But now with two days off, that aspect might not matter. But that’s a lot of OF to cover for a guy that they’ve wanted to be mindful of. That’s probably not the best place for Vierling to start his season at, but it would serve the greater good.

I wouldn’t be adverse to Cleveland winning. Seeing the tall front line win would be fun and I thought adding Hunter was a good move. Plus after seeing some of the, shall we say, slight nudging of the Knicks where applicable in the first round, I’d welcome all of the teeth gnashing about weak TV ratings in a Cavs vs Thunder finals.

He might’ve been a neighbor of mine. I might’ve bumped into him at Stanley’s getting the kielbasa for Christmas this past offseason. I wonder if he was an altar boy for the Polish masses?

^ This guy gets it. ^

AI needs to incorporate more random CAPS LOCK and !!!!!!

I think there might have been some discussion about Santander as a fall back option to Bregman strictly for the hitting side. I think there was also acknowledgment that it’d be tough to figure out playing time among OF/1B/DH after signing Torres which pushed Keith to 1B, not knowing what to expect out of Torkelson, wanting Carpenter to get more time vs LHP, Greene playing everyday in LF, using the DH slot as a partial rest day, etc. But he was never an obvious target for the Tigers. There was no serious discussion about what we’re seeing out of Torkelson, Baez, and McKinstry. I guess there was some hope for Torkelson to become serviceable but I don’t think it was widespread.

Haha, how fun. There seemed to be quite the Tiger contingent behind the dugout.

Maybe he was shocked that he recognized you from this forum?

Yeah, I have some older relatives that are very Catholic, including one who is a deacon, and I know they voted for Trump in the past. Between this stunt and the recent commentary by the cunt from Georgia, I'm curious how they try to explain this away. And however they try, I ain't buying it.

So maybe that’s the real reason Dombrowski moved Suarez for Simon.

It should be a 3-3 series heading to New York tonight. A few things go different and they could actually be in the second round right now. These are things that absolutely LOL to think about heading into this season. Cunningham is not a perfect player, he’s not at his max capacity yet. This current core, if there is one, isn’t complete yet. There’s still work to be done. As buddha said, growth isn’t always linear. Hopefully there are a few moves to be made to augment the cast around Cunningham rather than just sitting back and hoping for maturity amongst the youngsters. But this was a delightful season, no question. Pro teams should play to win championships, but I’m quite content with what they accomplished this season considering where they’ve been.

I know there’s all sorts of curiousness about his future, but I’m just kind’ve enjoying the right now.

Did I hear it right, Jansen hadn’t pitched in over a week prior? And not due to injury, just out of not being used? Seems to be poor pitching management.

If McKinstry isn’t careful, he’s going to have to reroute his all star break vacation to Atlanta.

I believe Pope Frank would approve. I think I mentioned this before, but when I was a kid, I had a button with a picture of Pope John Paul Jr in a Tigers hat and the inscription of “Bless You Boys”.

I think I might’of missed an announcement.

On a day where Kahnle and Holton struggle, the Tigers still win two games. That ain’t bad.

You know, maybe you should post this more often?

Oh, he’s real. And he’s spectacular.

The run is unearned, and we can debate about that, but do people know he also has to forfeit the post game orange slices? I’m not sure folks know about that aspect of the rule.

It had an element of 3Bdude to it.

So that chopper to Torkelson where he threw the runner out at home rather than take the out at second allowing the runner to score….. that kind of loomed large, eh?

Told ya.