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Umpires really getting themselves on shaky ground - now they're taking on Donnie Kelly. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38187886/mlb-looking-social-media-posts-involving-rays-wander-franco

I don't know how many eyeballs Yahoo reaches anymore, but Dan Wetzel chimed in with a column they won't like https://news.yahoo.com/sports/not-a-cheeseburger-comment-suggests-the-ncaa-is-hellbent-on-hitting-jim-harbaugh-hard-015020596.html The weakness for Michigan if they really wanted to go to the wall for JH in court (not suggesting they would or wouldn't, but who knows?) would be that he's such a long way from a 'beloved member of the coaching fraternity" type where UM could expect any additional inside political support from other institutions.

We heard some kind of fast fighter aircraft fly over earlier in the day - like as not that one. Pilots bailed into the lake and were fished out. The MIG found the parking lot of an apartment. Just think, we may get a Farmer's Insurance commercial about the claim for a pickup truck taken out by a MIG.

Toledo with an 8-4 win. Keith 2/4 2B. After scuffling a bit getting his feet wet at AAA for a 607 OPS for July, he has found his footing with the turn of the calendar page - 951 OPS so far in August. Lipcius and Nevin also with HR in that game, Wenceel with 2 BB.

Russians lost another MIG. This time over Ford Lake in Belleville!

there is a point where the dumpster diving is just additional distraction. Tigers are there.

They're earning this loss.

ERod napping out there?

Hard to see why they picked him up in the first place - looks like a throroughly uninteresting player.

It wasn't as much Vest as I thought Wingenter would be the 1st man off the boat just because they only have 2 left handers. But I was forgetting they had picked up Vasquez.

This team doesn't seem to adjust very well. They lost the opening game of their last 7 series.

your're just saying that because he hit his 1st AAA HR tonight.... 😉

Possible. Radiation is more closely associated with leukemia and myeloma, but if he believes it's karma, that's all that matters.

are you referencing the NCAA infraction case? LOL - this could fit the old Nasrudin story. Maybe if Harbaugh drags the case out for another year the NCAA may be dead before then.....

Maybe we can expect that if Harris keeps up his penchant for cruising the waiver wire? Of course if they become a better team waiver opportunities should decrease and then the churn at AAA would slow down again.

Brieske gave in to letting Cassus set the rhythm in that AB. He should have been changed up on his timing a little.

that's one of those "it's a homerun everywhere but there" hits.

I think chasing K's is what gets Manning in trouble - he throws sliders to chase S&M but his slider isn't good enough to use that much. I don't have the count but my impression is he used the FB more today.

So did we see the shot of Manning in the dugout. Not even in a sweat - looked like his pulse was maybe 45. I mean it's great he can go out there and throw so free and easy for over an hour, but could he be better if he let himself work a little harder? Maybe that's just what he is, but you just wonder.

If you take Torkelson's HR rate for the season, it's about 1 per 27PA, but in the last 3 months he now better than 1 per 20PA.

Would be nice if we could get this this Torkelson and this Manning for a whole season.

LOL - good thing Ibanez was where he was! That was 96 right at the bottom of the zone but down the middle. Low is good but keep it out of the middle.

Doesn't matter who the manager or GM, it seems like there is one player every year that the Tiger brain trust falls in love with for totally unexplained reasons. This year it's Maton.

Manning is frustrating because when the fastball is there, his stuff does play, but I don't get why a young healthy guy has 3-4 mph just disappear from his FB from start to start.

Manning featuring a 96 mph heater today. Where was it last time out?