Tiger337

I have no special memory of my first live game. It was at Fenway, but I don't know when it was. What I do remember was becoming a Tigers fan. We lived in Massachusetts, so everyone in the neighborhood was a Red Sox fan. However, my father was a huge Cardinals fan, so I learned to hate the Red Sox in 1967. I was a Cardinals fan for a while, but my father told me I couldn't be a Cardinals fan because that was his team. The Tigers were good, so I chose them. As my family was spending a week in Cape Cod, I was listening to the games on the radio with my father. I think there was one TV game. In seven games between the Red Sox and Tigers, I remember the Tigers going 5-2 winning the middle 5 games. This would make it August 9 - August 18, 1968. I remember it as a 7-game series, but it was really back to back weekend series. I have no memory of the Cleveland series in between. Anyway, my team beat my father's team in the World Series and I never turned back.

I saw "Fluharty 5.40 ERA" and though "****, didn't he just pitch?"

At that time, I had high hopes for every player that was called up.

My MAGA and semi-MAGA friends are more proud of the fact that Trump "doesn't take a salary" than anything else about him. They think they are going to get me on that every time.

Tork might be batting .180 and can't field, but he's clutch. That's something you can't teach.

It has always been that way and always will.

I don't know either. If seems like when my fantasy baseball players comeback earlier than expected, they usually have a set back which keeps them out longer than originally expected!😀

Never say never about marginal prospects finding themselves for a period of time, but I agree Workman is very unlikely going to be involved in any decision to dump Torkelson.

What exactly have they achieved in Epic Fury that they didn't already claim to achieve last summer?

I have long thought that range is one of the most underated things in baseball. Range is to run prevention what getting on base is to run scoring.

No, a lot of them aren't, but the ones that are viewed as geniuses by fans tend to fall out of favor over time. There are very few that are universally admired throughout their whole career.

coaches, managers, GMs, all geniuses until they're not.

Well, he is a pitcher.

He definitely looked safe, but camera angles are tricky and the views I saw all had the glove partly hidden. I think the intention of the replay is to overturn calls which are so obvious that there is zero doubt. This was close to 0 but not 0.

As a former 1B, I am always protective of 1B's including Torkelson, but I agree it doesn't matter for a fan how they get rid of somebody who doesn't contribute.

I don't think the Tigers hitters are playing below their optimum as a group. The following players with 50 or more at bats have played ABOVE their PECOTA projections: Greene McGonigle Dingler Baez AS EXPECTED Carpenter Keith Torres Torkelson BELOW EXPECTATIONS Vierling McKinstry Perez Jones Lee They are just an average offense with some injured players right now. They are not going to carry a team which has been decimated by pitching injuries.

Right, The experience would not have been complete without a correction from Shelton.

yes, I just looked it up and it's grass ****. I can't remember whether I pronounced it as a French person or an ignorant Bostonian.

The Tigers are just 1 1/2 games away from the 3rd wildcard spot!!!

They've been making moves every other day.

Gratiot. I should have known better because I took French in High School.

Last time I went to Detroit, I stayed at a hotel on Gratiot Ave. I got scolded by Shelton for mispronouncing it.

I never heard that expression until I just saw it over and over again in a book recently: "The River" by Peter Heller. Excellent book by the way. I thought it might just be a made up expression for the book, but now I know it's for real!

I didn't say it was a crapshoot. Clark has a much better chance of succeeding than Workman or Jung or Hao Yu Lee. It's silly to even talk about that. However, I don't expect him to contribute much in the near future and there is no guarantee of future stardom, much like Torkelson, Greene and Mize when they were coming up. MLB is hard. I think it's unlikely that he becomes a below replacement bust too. In fact, my expectations are close to the ones you mentioned. The range of possible outcomes is wide though. Don't forget Jobe was universally regarded as one of the top couple of pitching prospects as recently as last year. So, he's not a lot different from Clark in that respect. How do you view Olson and Jobe?