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all granted - and of course today just to prove the exception to the rule, Tork, Greene and Ibanez were the only guys on base twice, two of whom are locks and the third is getting pretty close.

I sense things are shifting though. Pitchers are coming to camp already throwing at full velo, and it at least seems to me that the arrangement where our starters play your starters for 5 innings or 3 AB is becoming more the rule, so there are fewer AB by established vets against scrub pitchers or top pitchers against AA scrubs - at least trend wise.

Ray Lane was another guy who could do pretty much anything at any kind of game pretty well. He was one of the group of ne'er do-wells my uncle ran with at MacKenzie HS in the late '40. I remember the two of them running into one another and having a laugh at a Red Wings game at Olympia. Seemed like a totally regular guy. Speaking of Olympia, there's another funny thing - Olympia was built by a bunch of Detroit guys with no particular Greek connection that I know of, and the Wings were already at Joe Louis when Ilitch bought them from Norris, but Mike Ilitch went for the obvious Greek connection to Olympia and adopted it as his Corporate entertainment signature, which now all seems like it was completely inevitable.

couldn't/wouldn't throw a breaking ball strike to a LHB, everything was outside. Tiger starter batters haven't looked all that great all week. They were making Suarez look like Cy Young today of course.

This could get pretty funny.

George and Ernie worked broadcasts together in the early 60's. As a kid I had a hard time keeping track of which of the two southern drawls was which. This thread led me to a story written by Lynn Henning a few years ago - almost all of which I already knew - except the part that Mel Ott had been Van Patrick's partner in Det before Kell. Had no idea Mel Ott had ever worked in Detroit. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2020/08/28/they-werent-close-but-kell-harwell-era-broadcast-booth-bonanza-tigers-nation/5616546002/

I will raise a toast to the day Elon finds out that in his case too, ETTD.

Tampa regional population is somewhat bigger ~ 3.1 vs 2.7 million - then again, traffic in Tampa is so terrible I don't know what proportion would actually have practical travel times no matter where they put it. But this thinking is probably all obsolete. What they care about now are how many 7 figure corp boxes they can sell and the TV rev. I doubt the prole fans in the folding seats move any needles for team economics anymore.

because he's not making the team at 3b and they are just giving him regular PA until he gets sent to Toledo?

I've looked hard at Mazdas in the past, but the A^2 dealer being crooked as they come always trumped the car. They are now out of business.

$100K is couch cushion change for an NBA team. The league will need a bigger stick than that to get anyone's attention.

this is the kind of thing where if it happened to an NFL player back in the day, a teammate would have braced himself and given that arm a good yank. it would either fix it or it would be surgery......😱

Raymond and Larkin need the puck to be effective, but since Tyler B was traded they don't seem to be to able find a player with the speed to play with them who has the grit to go get possession. When Larkin and Raymond have to spend all their time just trying to get the puck, they don't accomplish much.

Aside from now having Musk's stink attached to it, the style of the Y, the most common one, has not aged well IMO. Looks like an aging starlet that's done too much collagen.

Riley's the only guy close to Parker's jump and he doesn't have as much closing speed and they don't want to play him there more than part time anyway. Until Parker is back I'm going to guess he gets moved over there in the 7th for defensive purposes in a close lead game on a regular basis though. Also worried about Wenceel's propensity to be involved in collisions if he is out there a lot. Kriedler is probably the 'safest' option but you know he's not going to hit so even if they start him out there they are going to have to give it up.

FWIW -I was talking to a buddy whose been in Tampa for long time and works in the NHL/NFL/MLB sports scene there (sports med). He thinks with the St Pete deal finally dead they are just going across the bay where they should have been to begin with. I had forgotten that they built the Trop without any commitment from a team and it sat pretty much empty waiting. My guy said a team in St Pete never made sense in the local geography/market but since St Pete had built the park, they got the nod despite the locals knowing it couldn't be a long term success. Sort of what we've all heard but interesting to hear it first hand from a local connected to the business.

I know, I was trying to resist the temptation to bring up Parker - but it can't be avoided.

No, I didn't say that - in fact I said somewhere today that not counting on Tork was completely justified. In the bit you refer to I had shifted away from the specific (Tigers) to the general (team managements in general). Do you actually consider Torkelsons '23 to be 'turd'. I'd like to have more guys lay some of those!

still missing too many pieces. There was a point in 2019 I though they might only be a couple of players away - turns out it's going to have taken more like a dozen.

Yeah - javy was quoted in the story as saying he's always wanted to play some CF. Who knew?

You mean giving up three even strength goals in one period doesn't cut it?

good outing for Montero. Kreidler and Dingler and Guenther helped their causes. Everybody else pretty meh.

Schumer claiming today that his initial stance against the CR was a short term tactic aimed at helping the House dems peal off some votes and stop or modify it there. Even accepting that as true however, his Spidey sense for the harm this backlash is doing his caucus versus how much was accomplished in the House (nada) certainly was a fail.

So what’s the deal with Joey Barts renaissance in Pittsburgh?.His career was dead and buried in SF.

Petzold says Perez, he’s probably got that right.