Tenacious D

You forgot, “give the Tigers hell, bro”

This team seems like it will either continue to overachieve through the playoffs, oblivious to this fact, or they will turn into a pumpkin and crash to earth. I’ll take the former, but regardless of the outcome, this experience should be transformative in accelerating their development. Building a winning and cohesive culture is an intangible that I think will pay huge dividends next year and beyond.

The remaining 2,500 were too hungover to make it to the game. Vegas, baby!

I wonder if the relationship had become too negative and distracting with Oakland fans? If they were only averaging 10-15K fans per game, they can accomplish close to that in Sacramento, which is more affluent and probably excited about having a MLB team for a few seasons. Ultimately, if they don’t end up in Vegas, this will drag out and become a bigger mess.

Yes, I should be set for tomorrow

Apparently the Cards don’t plan to bring Goldschmidt back. He had an off-year and might be slowing down, but probably the type of veteran insurance that might be worth bringing on, in case Tork remains inconsistent. Would not require a long term deal, and there might be something left in his tank.

AI-generated Howard? He already sounded a bit like a robot.

Btw, Canha, Chafin and Kelly are having a watch party on Tuesday afternoon if any one wants to join them.

Selfishly, I’ll be stuck at work and getting updates from my phone. But really sucks for kids who will be in class for at least the first hour of each game.

That sucks.

And the garbage cans are stored.

I still think of Mize as part of the core moving forward. Not an ace, but a solid starter. With that, I’d like to see him get the experience by being on the wild card roster.

Looks like we could be Texas bound. The ultimate David v Goliath showdown. At least we won’t have Greg Pappas returning with his passive aggressive posts.

Yeah, forgot about Reese.

Keider? I would have thought he would be the Game 2 starter. Looking like it will be a bullpen game now.

Where’s our Sunday Tork Bomb?

Carp! Gritty Tigs

You’re right, but I can think of 12 million reasons why he’ll get another shot in ‘25.

I suspect he’s done for this season, but they’ll likely bring him back next season to see if he can pull a Frank Tanana/Kenny Rogers season.

Not even close. I was making the case for preferring to face Houston. I think Burnes might be the second best starting pitcher in the AL, and he has owned us this season. Neither matchup will be easy. I do think we can beat either, though. We’re playing with house money, so there is no downside to this postseason.

I think part of Dombrowski’s lack of success drafting impact players was our typical draft position—we had a good record for many of his seasons. A couple of hits along the way, including Verlander, Porcello and Castellanos (the latter two fell to us prior to the current draft pool being established). He was also masterful at trading his prospect capital for established players that played important roles. Player development didn’t seem to be a strength or area he leaned into. But hard to argue with the results.

Nobody said that.

Maybe, but if we don’t score against Burnes, we will have wasted a Skubal start. It matters in a 3 game series.

I disagree. He purposely tried to manipulate the Tigers chances of winning. The honorable thing is to have the guy pitch when he’s supposed to. Would be different if they were playing for something, which they aren’t. Moot point now, but I thought it was bush.

Looks about right. I think they can reset after every round, so you basically want to optimize for a 3 game series. 12 pitchers seems right for 3 games.