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The OLine was always my general reservation with those teams. I wanted Raiola gone pretty much from the time he arrived. Was hard for me have confidence in any Lions management that was satisfied to keep bringing him back, and Reiff too for that matter. So OK, they weren't *terrible*, but the OLine was never going to be a team strength with that crew either, and I think that has to be the goal. Converesly, I'm pretty confident Holmes and co. gets it wrt the OLine. That's why this feels different to me - better team build concept in place.

Markets are nice when they work:

Interesting observation.

Sportz could talk baseball, but he seemed to get it into his head that it was up to him to defend the purity of the board againt heathen know-nothings - whatever. I'm going to be clear that I'm alleging nothing here () but Sportz' behavior on the board got to the point where it reminded me of someone who on too many occastions had had a few too many before logging in.

You have to be impressed. The Okwara deal is a good marker. Not that it was an earth shatterning deal or anything, but just because finding common ground on an agreement like that requires finesse - I bet most orgs would just have cut him and then would have had to go find someone else comparable to sign for depth. If the Lions end up getting more cap relief than a cut/new sign would have gained and Okwara gets a fair deal - Win-win.

And the thing is, transitions like that can take time to bear out even once you have the mechanics part down. If a guy has always thrown a flat FB, he had to learn to keep it down in the zone. If he learns to get high backspin in it, he has to learn to throw it up in the zone as a backspin FB thrown at the bottom of the zone is often a serious mistake. So all that muscle/perceptual muscle trained to throw that FB low has be retrained to throw it up.

I believe Dan said he started ST with a 2 for 15. He is now 12/40, which makes it 10 for his last 25, or 400. Nice area.

Miller and Maybe both younger than Cabrera and both 2 yrs into retirement. Of course, to be honest, so should Cabrera.

you mean Maybin? Yeah - he needs to learn to get his thoughts into shorter sentences. Maybe Dan can get him a little timer....

It's some kind of miracle how much better everybody's batting gloves stay on this year isn't it?

Torkelson 2/2 so far today.

LOL - just got surveyed by MLB. You'll be glad to know I told them to deaden the damn ball! And shitcan the gambling advertising. (of course I would say to shitcan any advertising so the topic on that question was almost immaterial on my end...)

I'd be all in for that.

IDK, this site says he had 21, MLB WBC site says he had 11. (????) http://hosted.stats.com/wbc/teamreports.asp?tm=16&report=stats

I think you can be a decently productive offense with 2 week slots in the batting order, but that's about it. And of course no team has any good excuse for one of those spots to be at DH. In the Tigers case they have $40M excuses, but they still don't add up to a good excuse.

I think they they are set up pull the trigger on Schoop pretty quickly if he doesn't hit. Between Palacios, Lipcius and Kreidler as options I don't think we are going to have to live through Schoop 2022 V2.0.

Notice how Roy Cohn intesects both Nixon and Trump and even Reagan via Rchard Casey.

So if I had to guess today - Torkelson is looking promising, Greene will be fine, Maton looks solid, Jake and Haase appear on track, Javy performed to his normal level at WBC. The other 4 lineup spots still looking pretty sketch to me.

He's the current version of Buck Farmer. A guy who never pitches quite as well as his arm entices you to believe he should. He's still on the young side so they'll keep giving him chances to improve the stuff to the level of the arm - if he's at AAA that's painless enough.

Long COVID maybe...

Tigers try to send the runner home from 3rd on a steal attempt from 1st to 2nd and he's out by 5 ft on the return throw. Tigers declining the Cards' offer.

Cards seem to agree. Trying to give the game back in the 7th

Torkelson leaves for PR after singling. 2 for 3 today and the non-hit was reaching on an error on a gb at 105 mph. I think he is ready.

Brieske gives up a run on 2 H and BB but throwing hard - hitting 97 with his FB.

TORK! bomb to RF on a 94 mph 3-2 *FB*