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13K and maybe we get extras to go even higher.

bottom line though, ungovernable country proves ungovernable. No doubt Afg is tragic. Plenty of doubt we were ever actually going to change that. If there is a fault, it's not enough exit visas provided. If you can't make the country good enough for the people, at least let as many of the good people out as you can.

got gas for $3.95 today. (well I cheated a little, had some Kroger points)

In the immortal worlds of Dandy Don, "Turn out the lights, this party's over...."

Fulmer's seems to be a good dude, maybe not the sharpest knife in the drawer....

shake off your catcher 3 times, give up a hit on 0-2 to load the bases

Looks like Fulmer doing the same.

word order in English is important. Skubal really came to the dugout after the screw-up at 2b and said "I'm tired of this shit". Hinch thought he said, "Shit, I'm tired", and took him out.

BR has him at -7 Rdrs. Go figure.

the irony is that it may well have been the US withdrawal that led Zawahri to let his guard down enough to be hit.

they were shifted to the left side. It was the 2b walking away with his back to the runner.

my bad, that was Schoop. I thought by the body style it was Harold, who is at 1b of course. Harold does go to sleep on plays though.....

that's one of the things that keeps Harold from being a viable everyday player. He just goes to sleep on occasion. Doesn't excuse the bad throw, but the play should never have happened.

That was a long time coming. Note to Putin on US attention span.

He was batting a buck fifty last time I looked.

Making room for a minor league addition? Robson (and Mariot) are gone also apparently. Toledo OF is getting a bit thin.

I love Soto's arm, but if I were trading for him, his career walk rate would be a red flag. It's a little better this season, but any scout watching would know that that is only because he's not trying the throw his slider much recently. He's living on pure velo, which is great, but how many more seasons can a 27 yr old guy throw 100? Maybe Greg is a freak and can keep it up. We hope so. But if he loses a couple of MPH he needs that slider and are you then looking at 5.5BB/9IP again? That's the kind of calculus that you hope doesn't sway a GM if you are trying to trade him!

Likewise. With the conventional wisdom being that relievers are unreliable, Hader now has a 4 yr track record, and he doen't walk as many as Soto.

two came near the end of outing, he had one BB at the end of 3 IP. He's probably rates as the longest of long shots in their system now, but in a season like this that's the kind of stuff I find it entertaining to check in on.....

Tales from the Crypt: Franklin Perez 3.2 IP, 1H 1ER 3BB 4K

I'm going so I can vote for all the anti-Chris Taylor dems on the city ballot.

Maybe it's been there for him for so long it's become like background. The family has owned the Wings all of his adult life, the Tigers now for 30 yrs. I wonder if for C I "there is always next year" is cooked into his world view and he is too zen about to be the more aggressive owner people want. And if the team is on a reasonable financial footing the just reduces urgency even more.....

But as of the end of Spring everyone loved the deals for ERod and Baez and the Tigers had built a bullpen after years of trying, etc., and every one thought the Tigers were finally on their way, even if Baez was only a stand-in for Correa. Since then, absolutely everything has come up weeds this season and everything looks different. But firing people now (except Coolbaugh! 🙄) is probably pointless. Let's see what he does this off-season. And to be honest, even now, the problem is guys not playing up to their expectations. Normally, the heat for that falls on the manager and coaches, not the GM. In that regard we have a bit of an unusual situation here. TBH, I've been less upset with Avila's 'GM' moves that in the lack of accountability for the hitting and the inconsistency of objectives such as we are seeing with Baddoo. Still, if everyone stays in place, I won't argue he is too wed to Avila to get this right.

I think we're arguing two different points. WCF was a rich kid party boy who drank too much and never applied himself to anything in his life - he was basically Atanis. You can criticize C. Ilitch's team management as much as much as you like, but from all evidence he's doing a better job of running a multi-billion enterprise at Little Caesar's than WCF ever did in his dreams. That's why the comparison doesn't hold up. IOW, we may not like the way C I has managed his teams, but the idea that he is incompetent or an un-serious person or can't run a business as a parallel to WCF as a general proposition doesn't wash. Maybe he hasn't taken enough interest, maybe he's already written this year off. In the end it how much does it matter why the team loses if they keep losing? The fact is there is nothing they can do at the deadline or the rest of this year that is going to significantly change their timeline now. That said, I'd still like to see Coolbaugh gone.