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correct, either of a couple guys hitting the ball out of the park down on Monroe street? No need for any of that! Seriously though, Hinch's total obsession with having total pitching match-up flexibility when his team is being shut out every other night and he can't give the relievers he has enough work to be sharp, has become beyond baffling.

All I can say is that every ex-player who looks at a slumping team will always say - "they are pressing and you can't play when you are pressing". As counter intuitive as it may seem the most important thing Hinch can do as a manager is find a way to get the guys to take it less seriously. You see a sullen bench right now and that needs to be Hinch's job 1.

yup - plenty of room for improvement at both ends.

It's seem there are three separate business that combine for entertainment delivery. The hardware end to get the content to your eyeballs, the distribution end to get the content to the people who can broadcast it, and the content creators. The industry seems constantly in flux as big investors try to package them together different ways and the inherent centrifugal forces between them spin them apart again!

Cabrera leaves another 90 feet at the buffet table....🙄

Timing was good on the breaking ball he just pulled to third (98 MPH), but noT high enough.

LOL - Shep and Morris spend his AB talking up Willi and he K's for them.

Hill makes a good play, Hill makes a bad play. That's the kind a play you see when a team is pressing, trying to make something happen that isn't there. Peralta gets out of it anyway.

and of course it would have been such a mistake to stretch out Peralta to start when Mize and Manning went down since he only has a 0.00 era and 10K/IP. This is the first season since Ausmus was fired when there are so many decisions being make that reek of trying to be too a shade or two too smart instead of just taking the obvious route to the best likely performances.

Reyes wasting time at Toledo - just hit a HR. Clemens 1/2 hitting 300.

He's not seeing speed change so well. The breaking balls he's swinging at are in the zone, but he's out front.

it's easy to get critical when things are crappy, but what else is there to do: so, ever notice how many little malapropisms Shep commits? They are mostly subtle like misplaced verb/noun/tense agreement or phases that start out going one place and end just slightly somewhere else. Not that big a deal but a little funny in a guy who has spent so many years in radio. You expect that more from the color guy.

Shep with the excellent news that Hinch says that the Tigers have a 'full bullpen'. Pretty pointless when you have no hitters.

We are going to lose 4 of 5 to the fricking Oakland A's aren't we?

You mean you are being spared any Johnny Kane remotes? Good on you!

I thought Wentz had 95+, not seeing that tonight.

so he threw to pretty much exactly the same spot three times in a row to Nuese. That's what happens.

and it's Yzerman picking.....

A little bit inside joke, but still has to be one of the best broken link pages on the 'net.......

Nope. Think: DEEEE-TROIT BASKET-BALL!!!!

don't tell that to John Mason.....

But, IIRC he is also the 1st position player in the 1st 20 picks of his draft to have been promoted to the majors, they Tigers might be a little ahead of themselves with him.

apparently this did not go well.

im·plo·sion /imˈplōZHən/ noun an instance of something collapsing violently inward. "the star undergoes a violent implosion caused by gravity" a sudden failure or collapse of an organization or system. "a global financial implosion"

and you can count on him doing his best to keep it that way.