Tiger337

It's so nice to see real baseball in extra innings.

Tough luck that inning, but to be fair the Mariners have had some warning track outs tonight.

Damn, he caught the ball with eyes closed (just about).

Senor Smoke? I am sorry, but there is only one Senor Smoke. You can't take that name.

OK, I have youtube tv, so I guess I can watch.

I can't keep track of any of this. I never know whether I can watch games until they start.

calling Sue old or being old?

That is 56 years and 11 playoff appearances. I would say they deserve it.

Like most baseball playoff series. I look at Seattle's line-up though and it looks better than either than Cleveland or Detroit. I don't think Seattle or Detroit is the same offensive team they were in the first half. Your point about Skubal rings true though. Aces have greater value in the playoffs. Instead of pitching 20% of the games, he is pitching 40% of the games. For what it's worth, FanGraphs World Series win odds: Seattle 17.7% Deroit 5.8%

I think Seattle is the favorite, but it's 5-game series and Skubal is pitching 2 of those games. Anything can happen

Seeing Jim Cowan in this thread makes me realize he has not posted for a few months. Is he OK? Has anyone been in contact with him?

They,ll need to hit too. It will hard to limit Seattle to one run per game.

Sounds more like a Randy Smith trade - trade with Houston where lots of mediocre players are exchanged.

Not quite as bad, but Bobby Boniila is one of my favorites. He is still being payed by the mets

Most of those were predictable due to injury history, body type or in Hamilton's case a drug problem. The only one that seemed like it might be a good idea at the time was Rendon.

I knew about it because the Tigers lost five players in the expansion draft: Dan Meyer Frank MacCormack Dennis Debarr Dave Lemancyck Bill Laxton I thought Meyer was going to be good, but he never developed. The only one that amounted to anything at all was Dave Lemancyck who have a couple of decent years and a bunch of bad ones. I remember reading in TSN that MacCormack had some kind of beef with Mark Fidrych. As soon as I saw that, I knew he was a loser. The first player picked in that draft was Ruppert Jones (from the Royals). He, of course, later became a member of the 1984 Tigers.

There is no way they use him in 1 and 4. They won't use him on three days rest because he's never done that before. Believe me, I miss the days of pitchers going on 3 days rest sometimes and pitching complete games, but it is a different game today. I actually think there are still pitchers today that could pitch more games, more innings, but those days are over.

That mostly takes the stench out of the late season collapse. Not totally because I care about the regular season and I wanted a division title, but they are now in pretty much the same position as they would have been without the collapse. This season will no longer be remembered by most fans as the biggest choke ever. So, now we can relax and enjoy the rest of the post-season!

My measure of a great season is the Tigers still being alive on my birthday.

It's about time!

But then there is big drop off at shortstop.

He probably wants to keep his glove in the game.

Correct and if he had better hitters, he wouldn't do things like bat a fourth outfielder in the middle of the order.

Not only that, but he keeps hitting him third.

I think they were in a position with the Skubal two-year window where that kind of move might have worked out well. With just one more year of Skubal, I thkink this off-season would be too late for such a move.