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I keep wondering how many AB they are going to give him before pulling the plug. He hasn't even given us a tease of there still being anything there. Doesn't have a HR, hasn't even had a two hit game.

well, that puts him right in the Piston's wheelhouse.

guess not.

can we PH for Schoop?

Hard to believe but Torkelson leads the team in RBI.

Not enough life on the FB to get away with throwing it over the plate. Means a pitcher doesn't have much room for error.

sort of implies that you have to let batters be the hitters they are if you want better results. It you want a team that walks more, go find hitters that walk - but if you try to make the hitters you have into hitters that walk, you will just get hitters that don't hit either.

I think there is some aspect that plays into this from the other side - Faedo is pretty much completely rehabbed at this point. Giving Turnbull some additional 'rehab' time in Toledo dovetails with a chance to give Faedo what is probably close to a make or break MLB audition for him. The decision is probably 80% about Turnbull but when you can make a move that serves multiple objectives it all adds to the mix.

So there was a cop on the scene when this started and at least 7 still perished before the 'good guy with a gun' could engage the situation.The sane members of society need tell the gun nuts to just STFU with their asinine argument that enough guns in the 'right' hands is anything more than total lunacy as a method for acheiving public security - it's being disproven with tragic results almost daily now.

Most of the of data we have today was not collected in any organized way before the financial restructuring in the wake of '29 crash. At best the data prior to that is yearly estimates instead of quarterly so today's 2 quarter contraction definition can't be properly applied. Wikipedia's statement about '26-'27 is that when Ford shut down Model T production completely for more than a year to build the Rouge Plant for the Model A, that it was probalby enough by itself to have created a contraction.

Dan seems to do alright extending commentaries through multiple batters. Plus on the radio, on pitches that are not hit, which is most of them, the listener has no idea if Dan is giving the pitch in exact real time so it's pretty easy to slide a few seconds here and there to finish a thought and when I listen to him while watching the video - he does exactly that. It is probably tougher for the TV guys to work around each other - or it should be, but we know Bally is all too happy to miss a play in field while Trevor or the guys in booth are mugging for the camera and yukking it up.

Faedo hasn't gone more than 4 inning this season. Going to be more BP work tomorrow.

Tigers needed 43 games to win 15 last season. 11 games ahead of that pace

How 'bout them Tigers?

TORX!!!!

Short is the quintessential 4A hitter. Can feast at AAA, can't do much of anything at MLB.

Maybe Diaz and Faedo both make the trip from Toledo to StL

Pretty fabulous play by Short and Torkelson - too bad it still wasn't enough.

Hinch playing double or nothing. Cisner will ether get a K or give up a dinger.

Terrible play. Don't know what Hinch is arguing - you *can* still block the plate if you already have the ball, and he did.

He and Dickerson are starting to develop a nice raport though - there is some potential for them to work into a good team.

TorX swinging at the 1st pitch. See ball - hit ball.

The problem with a pitcher as color is that pitching tends to be only thing they talk about. Petry tends to this side - plus it's disappointing he doesn't fix his verbal 'ya know' tic. It's not that hard to do if you are at all serious about doing the job well. Morris, for all his other faults did at least talk about position play a little. Catcher - a la Jim Price - is probably the best you can do if it's going to be an ex-player. Close to the pitching but still has a hitter's perspective.

this is not even the first phosphorus attack by RF of this conflict.

Channeling your inner Tim McCarver?