Tiger337

Yeah, Dirks is probably my favorite Tigers analyst now.

Given all the other ststs we have now, you could completly drop batting average and not lose any important information about a player. However, I would take Von Joshua's 1975 season over anyone in the line-up right now.

One thing I've noticed lately is Dickerson talking more about things like veteran leadership and clubhouse presence. I wonder if he has been told to tone down the stats and talk about old school stuff more. Or maybe some of his partners don't respond well to stats, so he tries to get them engaged in other ways. If that is the case, it backfired with Andy Dirks a couple of weeks ago when Dickerson talked about the importance of shut down innings and Dirks told him that innings after the team took the lead were no different than other innings. You always want to keep the opponent scoreless.

Best young talent since the 70s...This is probably true, but the bar is low.

Positivity is better than negativity, but it seems like blind faith at this point to think that Avila's plan is still going to work out.

Well, there is nothing we can do about it, so we have no choice but to be patient. However, I also remember you practically guaranteeing that Avila's plan was going to work and you had our championship team all set up with Wentz and Faedo in the rotation and nine hot prospects in the starting line-up.

All of the small sample size numbers could be noise.

McKinstry hasn't hit this month. Just a slump or have they caught up to him? Maybe Maton or Vierling is the next one to get hot for a month.

There are 4.3 million NRA members.

You said for six years that they only way to win in today's game was to tear everything down and re-build and where did that get them? Now, you want fans to be patient and hope for luck and magic?

LOL, have you noticed how much I can't stand Trump? He is possibly the worst human being in US history. I hope he spends the rest of his life in a max security prison (he's not going to any prison ever). But the Clintons still suck!

And if she never said it, she might have won too.

LOL, never said they were the same. Trump is an absolute psychopath piece of trash. Clinton is just a run of the mill corrupt opportunist politician, but I am not a Deomcrat and don't have to like everyone who is a Democrat. Somebody retweeted her tweet today about selling tee shirts. I thought that was cheap given the timing. It was cheap regardless - selling tee shirts based on something you did which was illegal.

Lorenzen actually pitched pretty well tonight, but didn't have a seventh inning in him. You can't really say he was left in too long though. He cruised through innings 3-6 and his pitch count count was low.

Hey, I am not giving up on Torkelson. I like him. I am just not particularly encouraged by his results to date.

Hilary Clinton is too. Another narcissist. She is selling "but her e-mails" tee shirts and we wonder why not enough people take this stuff seriously.

I certainly haven't given up on him, but you would think he'd at least go on a lengthy hot streak at some point. I'd rather he have good hard hit% and high barrels than low ones, because it gives me hope. The statcast numbers are nice indicators, but not guarantees of future results.

Baddoo looked like he pulled a hamstring.

DBacks broadcaster#1: You don't see many clean-up hitters bunting. DBacks broadcaste#2: You don't see many clean-up hitters batting .166 either.

There was a video of him on a phone call telling John Daly stuff what he discussed with Putin. One of Daly's friends recorded it. I doubt any of the things he told Daly were actually actually discussed with Putin, but it's still ridiculous. He said that he threatened to blow up Moscow and that set Putin straight.

Torkelson is not a very high bar at this point. He has not shown any sustained success in the majors at all. I know he hits the ball hard, but at some point those have to result in actual hits and extra base hits for it to be useful. Otherwise, the conclusion may be that they know where to play him.

And they'll do it again. The more controversial he gets, the more the media likes him.

"not just for me"

I don't think their approach is the problem. It's lack of talent.

That is the biggest deal as far as I am concerned. It is where he clearly tried to overturn the election and was caught on tape. Everybody talks about Jan 6, but it's what happened before that day which is more important.