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Well, I would think you sue an Alex Jones as much to put him out of business as to collect big $$ for yourself. I suppose it will depend a lot on how skeptical the bankruptcy court is. A tough judge could make sure there are no assets left for the parent Co to reorganize easily.

Maybe doesn't top this, but I'd rank 'Patriot Act' up there pretty high.

Ya think? More than any other thing in the Avila/Hinch 'era' this is telling me they have no clue what they are doing.

just another (soon-to-be-ex) tiger.

pretty strange - still no update for this to the Hen's roster or transaction page.

LOL, Okay!

Chafin and Fulmer won't be hard to lose, but for the same reason the return is not going to do much to turn the team around either. If they manage to be an average hitting team next season I think the odds are it will have more to do with guys already in the system being better (or making the team) than anything that happens this weekend. I don't have any thing against them making trades, but I get the sense people are over optimist about the potential results.

So far the Tigers have 16 pitchers with more than 30 IP, only two with more than 60.

the trick is guessing which half to trade.

Tigers can't trade their way to any major improvement in the roster. They don't have that kind of depth. They'll trade relievers for a bat and next yr they'll score 40 more runs and give up 35 more.

This is just there to get Manchin buy-on on the rest of the energy plan, and to be honest, I will say there is a good chance any out year expenditures on oil programs disappear should the Dems win a bigger majority. ...just sayin'

OTOH, how likely was it that a guy whose timing and pitch selection is messed up was going to unwind it instantly just by decreasing his latitude by one degree? You can look at it as two competing ideas about his problem. If he hadn't gotten into bad habits, if he was doing everything the same as he was before he was called up, then sure - he'd go to Toledo and instantly be back to where he was, but the implication of that would be that he simply couldn't hit MLB pitching doing the things that had gotten him to the big leagues. I don't think that is a conclusion I'd like to see verified. OTOH, if he was a player who had gotten out of sync with himself, who had things he had to fix to get back to better, you might expect him to have work through that over some time even once the pressure of facing the best pitching was reduced. I'm here all week. Try the veal.

he's been on base 6 times in his last 5 games. You gotta start somewhere.

I always thought moving Norris to the pen was a mistake. They did it because they thought he got too amped up looking forward to his starts, but it seemed to me that for a guy with problems repeating his delivery, longer outings working across the range from fresh to fatigued would help him learn how to get into a groove better. But at 30 the die is probably now cast for him - improving the way he pitches now has to be a long shot - whether working short or long.

clutch matters! But seriously, a couple of leverage walks in a couple of days is the kind of sign you want to see that the Tork we are looking for is still in there.

At Toledo: Kreidler 2/4, 3B BB. Torkelson 0/4 but a bottom of the 9th walk to keep the line moving when Toledo was trying to mount a come back. (Game ended with Davis up again with the winning runs in scoring position but no walk off for Brendon tonight.)

Jimenez. Never would have thought it. Never did think it. And they will probably trade him.

does it ever work? Once in half a dozen tries?

Brayan getting a lot of help from the Ump, but lost that one anyway.

missed it by THAT much!

I don't know how guys can play baseball all their lives and not know how to run to 1st.

The silver lining for the Dems will be if voters assume that just because Gasoline is coming down, everything else will too. It might - but the truth is gasoline prices move almost independently of the larger economy. Gas can come down and 'core' inflation (whatever you take that to mean!) may still be going up, down or sideways.

I've missed seeing anything about him recently- still recovering from the off-season surgery or something new?

so what's Matt Boyd doing now-a-days. If they don't trade Fulmer they can still put the 2016 band back together!

AAA survey says $3.80 in GA today....