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the left/right thing a starting point for that.

Petry wears on my ears. Nothing wrong with what he says but to me his voice is just tiring to listen to for two hours. And when he get wound up he shifts into "verbal diarrhea" mode were he just starts filling every single second and I find that doublyfatiguing. When he goes there it's worse than Dirks and Benetti in terms lacking any restful silence.

He's going to play some short also - Sweeney has only had two days off and the most likely future is that McKinstry will cool down and see his PT drop off more to where it was expected to be. I know Hinch loves him some Andy Ibanez but his spot could be at risk also.

Did you know that the Toronto pitcher's last name was the same as the Tigers catcher's first name - that he doesn't use, and that the pitcher doesn't use his first name either, even thought that name is no connection to anything else?

but tomorrow we faced the dreaded TBD. Toronto's last resort will be to find some arm the Tigers brain trust has no scouting on

He'd thrown 50 pitches since Tues/Wed. Two days off not a bad idea.

On the rehab front it's all good. Vierling in CF for the Hens, had a hit, Jake 2/4. Wenceel went 2/4 with a double and McGonigle had a hit.

Javy is going to volunteer to go to 3rd with Parker comes back, because that's Javy.

amazingly. I think Kirk has lost weight since last year....

Tork didn't eat his Wheaties this morning, lots of fly ball with just short a little juice.

someone had to fill Angel Hernandez' shoes.

got to get rid of these crappy umps. Flaherty should have been out of that inning with a K of Vladdy. Clear as day.

100 mph EV out. 🤷‍♂️

exactly.

I agree in the past that's been true, and under normal conditions a lot of Canadians would come to Det to see the Jays. But cross border travel is way down, and I wouldn't expect baseball travel to be immune.

Does 'promotion' money have to be adding in as it accrues or do team's get a pass on that - i.e. for each day Montero spends with the Tigers he's getting the major league min instead of the AAA min?

Jake played for Toledo tonight but Vierling and McGonigle both sat.

It's the IP era and everything is buffered to some random unpredictable degree. Even the over the air radio is not a reliable 7 seconds any more because the audio gets to the transmitter by IP and can/does get buffered on the way there. Often the gameday cartoon is the most *live* thing I get. So for instance, the other night, the over the air radio was about 15 seconds behind gameday and my Direct TV was another 20 or so seconds behind the radio. So at least 35 seconds from fact to video - maybe more as I have no way of knowing how far behind gameday might be. If I try to run gameday audio vs the Direct TV video, the Audio is usually, but not *allways* ahead. The buffering on Direct TV makes no sense at all. I sometimes start watching the recording of a game in progress, excising the commercials to eventually catch up. When I get to 'real time' on the recording I might jump back the the 'direct' program, and it will say 'live' but pick up 30 sec behind where the recording in progress already had been! Makes no sense at all, ever. I don't even have a way of checking the broadcast against live at the ballpark as I don't have portable FM radio anymore! When the games were on 'JR we always had a pocket AM radio on hand to get Ernie's explanations of anything odd that happened on he field.

can you bring up the video feed on one device (e.g. laptop) and run a different game day audio from another ( e.g. phone)?

and again, people personalize it based on an owner's personal resources, but it doesn't really work that way. The league doesn't allow owners to subsidize their teams with outside income even if they wanted to - the team has to have the income. The owners demand of each other that they keep their teams solvent because that is what protects the market value of franchises, and every owner is vitally interested in maintaining that. And if a team's revenue falls to where it can't maintain solvent operations, it gets moved.

what's fair to the players is to get a % cut of the gross revenue. That works in the NFL, but Baseball owners have never been willing to be transparent. But even that doesn't work until you have revenue equalization/sharing.

is there a soul anywhere in hollywood with an original idea anymore?

'68 Tigers out homered the next best HR hitting ateam in the league by 40%, and were the highest total scoring team in the AL, so with scoring being low to begin with, that long ball advantage did play very well late in games. Funny thing for that era was that they where a poor BA club. But oddly enough, they walked a lot and combined with hitting the long ball they led the league in -- you guessed it - OPS! And we could have felt good about that instead of obsessing about the teams poor BA - that is if anyone in '68 had had a clue what OPS was.....

I've seen a 2nd OF complete a catch maybe a couple of times, but never a play at the wall like like that. It's usually more mundane - two guys are coming toward each other around mid-depth and the guy that called for it botches the play but tips it up to where the guy that is ducking under/away manages to grab it before it lands.

well,close. He played RF on the 13th, DH'd again on the 14th (today). So maybe RF tomorrow.