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Coincidence or did Chas know something? Were any unusually large bets placed before this game?

One thing Trump has in common with engineers is that he thinks he is always right.

I got that for years. It was hokey by today's standards but is was great for a youg baseball fan growing up in the 70s.

Fidrych is still the only MLB player to appear on Rolling Stone

Maybe, but being a mob boss is not the same as being an engineer.

My fantasy league switched back to wins this year depite my protests, so I am forced to care about them in a selfish way. Also, Valdez is on my team.

Valdez looked like he was struggling tonight, but survived five innings.

TSN was the best. There is nothing like it today. I appreciate the immediacy with which we now get news, but the quality is bad.

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Did he have anything to do with the process at all other than bullying and threatening people?

Trump engineered it or someone else did it and he took credit for it?

I don't know if he would have totally flamed out since he was still good in 1977 before the injury, but he might never have lived up to the expectations set in 1976. He was a finesse pitcher rather than a dominating pitcher, so I would guess that he would have had a hard time sustaining the success he had in 1976 for very long.

Fidrych was cruising along until this game right here: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL197707040.shtml All of the sudden, he gave up 6 runs in the 6th inning and was never the same after that. I don't know whether it was wear and tear that finally gave out, but the career ending injury seems to have happened in the 6th inning of that game. He tried to work through it in the next game versus the White Sox and was terrible.

He can't engineer anything. He may have great instincts, but anything that takes intelligence is beyond him. Getting some thugs to help him limit access is more his thing. More fun for him too.

He was fooling around in the outfield catching flyballs. Rusty Staub warned him, but he did not listen.

The story is that Fidrych injured his shoulder compensating for a knee injury suffered in Spring training. My suspicion is that his arm was abused during his rookie year and that ultimately led to an injury.

June 5, 1976 Tigers 3 Rangers 2. Fidrych pitched an 11 inning complete game versus the Rangers. Blyleven also pitched a complete game. No relievers or extra inning ghost runners needed. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX197606050.shtml

It is interesting that agnostic is allowed but atheist is not. In the past, I have often seen Christians regard the two as equally "bad". I have always thought that every person with any curiosity at all must have experienced some agnostic thoughts in their lifetimes.

You can never ever have too many starters.

The dirt on him might be that he had a competing rape factory. The hints are there - his modeling agency for girls and girls working at his Maralago spa. He got mad because Epstein was stealing his women.

I never saw that one before. Thank you. I love his interviews - so genuine and unscripted and of course the Massachusetts accent!

yes, this site is the best place to get news, facts, opinions about the Tigers. It's why I come here so frequently.

Mize could have a short DL stint. Of course, that assumes no setbacks which is not a very safe assumption for him. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/tigers-casey-mize-trending-toward-short-il-stint/ "Mize (adductor) tossed a bullpen session Tuesday, Chris McCosky of The Detroit News reports."

That reminds me how Jeff Leonard was called "penitentiary face", even on national broadcasts. This was widely viewed as funny at the time. Even though I don't think it was mean spirited, it was surely racist and wouldn't be allowed today (at least not on national TV). Just now, I was reading that Dave Bergman was the one who came up with that nickname. He was previously called "prison face", but when he told everybody, he wanted to be called Jeffrey instead Jeff, Bergman changed in to "penitentiary face"

Or sometimes it's just fans stuffing the ballot box for players on their favorite team. yeah, this is worse than the Hall of Fame!