gehringer_2

the reason tanking is worse is because everything they have done to try to reduce tanking has had the result of increasing the number of teams willing to take a shot at the first pick. It's a counter-intuitive thing. Teams tank normally if there one player head and shoulders (in Wemby's case, literally) above the field. If they just went back to worst record gets 1st pick, there would one, maybe at least two teams fighting it out to be worst, and everyone else would play on because they know they have zero shot at #1. And the one team that tanked would get the player so it would be one time thing for them. The objective evidence is that the 'fixes' have all made it worse, but no-one figures out that the answer to that is dump all the fixes.It's the lottery itself that encourages more teams the take their shot at a ~10% (or whatever) chance.

Freudian typo!

let's hope he doesn't leave the rake there.

we use too much 2,4D, but so does everyone. For my money it's a bit insane to plant grass and then put poison on it to stop things that naturally grow in grass from living there (e.g. dandelions). YMMV.

The only positive take away tonight was that Madden saved the BP for the next few days, if they can hit enough to take advantage.

No pixie dust this season for McKinstry or Jones, Javy and Torres down, Keith in some weird place, nothing from Jake, neither Torkelson nor Green have been consistent. They are what they are, which right now ain't much. It's been Kevin and the eight dwarves.

No, in fact IIRC - they kept that fact that there had been complications in Bonderman's outlet surgery under wraps for years.

Strike one to McKinstry was also ball -.....😡

Non competitive AB by Torkelson there.

Madden out for a 6th inning. If he doesn't give up a run he will have pitched a quality start in relief. EDIT: and there it is, 6 IP / 3 ER.

Matt chases two ball 4 fours to strike out.

Madden threw 4 great innings. Unfortunately he was in the game for 5.

The are not a 'very good hitting team' though - they are a pitch 1st team, so when the pitching isn't there, it's gets pretty rough.

I think it's been the book on the Tigers for a while that they will take strike one most of the time. Certainly been true tonight - though Tork swung at the 1st strike this last inning.

I think they are already in the care of a registered nurse anesthetist.

Wenceel had two good pitches to hit in that AB, took one and fouled the other off. Too many Tigers getting good pitches and either missing them or taking them.

so any word on Carpenter?

can you even say the Tigers Threatened when there is so little chance they would have scored?

going to be a lot of this over the next month or so. Amazing how fast a team can be gutted by poor health.

funny that one of the things that Harris said in one of his pre-season interviews was that more contact is good but that two of the highest contact teams last year had bottom offenses because they had no power so contact just for contact not a good way to go. Seems his own team apparently not taking his advice.

well, they can't have a 1st place to last place year - because they didn't finish in first.....

I get that physiologically some guys can't have great arms, it's more that you never even seem to see guys improve from where they start out. I guess by the time we see them in the majors it's water under the bridge.

Victor is about as much a mismatch to the players in the league today as Wilt was when he first came into the NBA.

absolutely this is exactly the downside risk, and I think there is precedent in the way Dem voters failed to energize around Clinton or Harris or the 2022 Senate races.. Thankfully the ongoing poll results do seem to be moving the other way - for instance Dem enthusiasm appears to be running ahead of GOP enthusiasm in OHIO. The problem there is that primary and by-election results are not all that much to hang your hat on, even if they do point in a positive direction. It's too easy to see Trump somehow extricating himself from Iran, gas prices falling, some stupid Dem misstep, and all of a sudden all is forgiven.

Black in the US are more socially conservative than the average white progressive, maybe even more than the average white liberal. It comes down to the argument about "order". People suffering life in highly disordered places like US urban cores, develop an appreciation for order that can seem paradoxical to the rest of us when the agents of order are also usually the agents of repression and abuse, but life is complex. Mainstream Black America doesn't want fewer cops, they want better cops.