Mr.TaterSalad

Without Woo, Seattle is cooked against Toronto's lineup.

Oh well. Great season boys. When they collapsed at the end of the year I thought they were going to miss the playoffs. Here they are, two playoff series later, proving me wrong.

Skubal is dealing for sure, but the bats are cold yet again.

I don't know what to make of Michigan. Obviously, our running game lead by Justice Haynes is very good. Our defensive front is very good. Our defense overall is good to great at time. I just am uncertain about the rest of this Michigan team and who Bryce Underwood really is. Bryce can step up in a big way on Saturday and establish himself as a really good QB in a short amount of time. If Bryce looks good, I think Michigan wins this one and pulls away with it. Even if Bryce isn't lightening the world on fire I do think we can beat USC on Saturday. If forced to make a choice, I would likely pick Michigan to win it. I think the winner of this game makes it into the CFB playoffs and the loser does not. So a playoff spot may well be on the line on Saturday.

I'd be more than happy running back a rotation of Skubal, Mize, Olsen, Flaherty, and Melton next year. Starting pitching isn't what I want us spending resources on net season, the upper and middle thirds of this lineup are areas of concern. I'm not paying a pitcher a big contract, sans Skubal reupping, before I go out and land at least one solid bat.

What's the deal with McNeil? It sounded like Campbell was optimistic about him returning very soon and then I see he is out yet again. Is he or isn't he coming back early? He will be a real difference maker, and a big assist to our battered secondary even, once he returns.

Warren Moon was the last QB to get in without a ring. Goff is as good right now as Moon ever was. Probably better.

Also, which ones in these pictures of actual footage from January 6th were FBI Agents? Someone please tell me. I'm waiting for Lieutenant-Detective Frank Drebin to come in and do his great police work since he knows they were all just FBI Agents. Was it all these people smashing down windows to get in? Was it any of these people smashing through another window with flag poles and objects? How about these people fighting with the actual police, breaking down a barricade? Was the FBI fighting actual police officers? Was it this person, using bear spray towards police, was he an FBI Agent? Was it the guy here in the red hat, in the corner of the photo, and the people standing behind him who smashed a police officers head into a door? Was it this gentleman, Richard Barnett, who put his feet up on Speaker Pelosi's desk?

Why do you keep pining for child perverts who walk in on teenage girls changing in the dressing room at a beauty pageant?

You're like that scene in the Sopranos where Ralph tells Paulie that last year he believed there was a flying saucer over East Rutherford. You believe anything Trump tells you, without question. Once again we get to debunk your factually incorrect posts. So here it goes. ❌ Claim #1: There were FBI Agents embedded on January 6th who stirred up trouble. This is just made up by you and by Donald Trump. There is no proof that there were FBI Agents embedded on January 6th, causing trouble. You have no proof of this and neither does Trump when he claimed it. There were bad people, who were supporters of President Donald Trump, who insighted an insurrection and a coup against the United States government in an attempt to stop the Electoral Count Act and keep Donald Trump wrongly in as President of the United States. Furthermore, MAGA can't even get their and lies story straight. It was a false flag event. No wait, it was the FBI Agents doing all the damage. No wait, these were just peaceful tourists, visiting the capital. No wait, it was secretly Democrats. No wait, there was violence, and it was Nancy Pelosi's fault for not calling in the National Guard. The constant changing of the narratives and lies makes it a hard flow chart to follow. ❌ Claim #2: Crime and disaster caused by open borders because of Joe Biden. Undocumented immigrants cause less crime than American citizens overall and as a percentage of their population. This is not my position, this is what real word facts tell us and as we know, facts > feelings. Not that you'll bother reading it and changing your position. But you can find data points backing up my claim here, here, here, and here. This doesn't even mention the fact that crime has been going down for over a decade and the Covid crime-wave, that largely occurred under Donald Trump, has also been going back down to pre-Covid levels.

Christ, even Tucker Carlson sorta gets it. Even he is beginning to recognize how bad and oppressive this administration is getting under Trump.

Trump has lots of weird fetishes: Joe Biden, his daughter's body, teenage girls, anyone that's not his wife.

Tell me again why we wanted Gibson over Lyon. Also, Cossa must be lightyears away if he's far behind this performance from Gibson.

I am really trying to be positive about this team but it's hard. It's playoff baseball and it's been enjoyable to watch. But this team was so dreadful the last 30 games and so pedestrian the last 50-60 games. With the historic collapse they had to close out the season it is hard to get out of this negative mindset and just be blindly enthusiastic and ra-ra. I'm trying though, I really am.

But the Tigers lineup simply isn't hitting lately, outside of two games. Our lineup has averaged on 3.87 runs per game over the last 30 games. They are averaging 3.86 in the postseason overall. Maybe I an unfairly comparing two different things by holding Skubal to one standard and our lineup to another. I have just lost faith in this lineup at this point in the season to put together back to back games of real productivity.

I think 1-800-Call-Sam Stadium has a nice ring to it. 😒

Skubal against the Mariners this season is 0-3 with an average of 3 runs given up per game. I think if we regress to our mean as of late and the Mariners play their average against Skubal they'll score between 3-4 runs. With the way this lineup has been hitting lately, 3-4 runs may be all it takes.

I thought it was vaccines that caused autism, no? That's what the right and anti-vax HHS Secretary RFK Jr. had been telling us for years. “I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated." - RFK Jr.

I expect a loss here because I believe yesterday was an anomaly and a mirage. This team is still bad at hitting. They still have poor approaches to the plate overall. They still press and swing at too many first pitches. They still strike out a lot and leave far too runners on-base, in scoring position. They still have issues with their bullpen. Yesterday was fun and I enjoyed it. Friday, I feel will be a reality check and a regression back to the mean. Skubal being on the mound brings me some level of confidence, but not much. His stats against the Mariners this season are atrocious. This season he has a 4.58 ERA, a 4.9 FIP, a 1.41 whip and averages less than 6 innings pitched per game against Seattle. A few years back Nelson Cruz was the Tiger killer and he just had our pitching staff's number. It feels like the Mariners have Skubal's number for whatever reason. Maybe it is because he is from Seattle and the pressure feels different? I don't know what the reasoning is, but the numbers aren't good. I want to be proven wrong. I hope to be proven wrong. I want to win this game in the worst way and go onto the ALCS. I just don't have a good feeling that it will happen. I feel like I am backed up by the statistical norms of the last three months of baseball that this team has played. In a sport where statistics and measurable analytics matter greatly, the math points to us losing.

Don't forget about supporting rape and walking in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant.

You voted for a man who walked in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant and who was on the flight logs and best friends with a child pedophile. Furthermore, the man you voted was accused and convicted of rape. Yet, you have no problem with a grown man walking on on teenage girls changing or rape as you still voted for him. I'll take your bait on Joe Biden and the Epstein files. The contents of Ashley Biden's diary have not been fully verified, just that there is indeed a diary out there that belonged to Ashley Biden. Furthermore, we have no idea if the shower story is true, nor the age she was when if it actually happened. Obviously, if an adult parent is routinely showering with a child that's a significant problem. It's also a significant problem if the child is older and doesn't have some sort of disability that requires assistance bathing. Regarding Epstein, I know that I was calling for the release of information on Epstein, including a potential client list, during Biden's presidency. There were others I know in my left and Democratic circles of friends that were wanting the information made public as well.

The President you support is a loon, it's been well documented. He's also a child pervert who walks in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant. He was also best friends with a child pedophile. Last I checked, Marjorie Taylor Greene was not best friends with Jeffery Epstein and did not walk in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant. Is she a loon? Yes. Is she right about the government shutdown? Also yes.

Oh, now when she doesn't march to the Dear Leaders talking points we can have her? She's right. She understands who has the majority in the Senate with 52 votes. The Republicans can open the government with their votes alone anytime they want with the nuclear option. It's on them for not using it. She gets it.

5/3 Field or 5/3 Park sounds so underwhelming. At least with Comerica we've grown accustomed to it and can even nickname it Copa. I don't think I'll ever call it 5/3 whatever, just like I never called Pine Knob DTE.