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they may need to go back to pitching chaos before the playoffs!

sounds like he had his head rest down and got a case of whiplash as a consequence.

his last two outings at Toledo were 1 IP as an opener and 3 IP in middle relief. Make of that what you will.

Speaking of QB's, I'm surprised that statue of Bo in front of the football bldg didn't melt itself right into a puddle watching a Michigan coach let a freshman QB in his very first game throw the ball all over the field from all kinds of rolls and sprints. 😂

None-the-less, I would note the deep numerological significance of the sum of the digits of '42' being '6'

we had the answer when it was at 42, but couldn't let it be.

NFL should be starting today.

Poseurs is a good word for it.

LOL - and we thought the Neo-cons of the Bush admin were over their head with 'nation building' in Iraq.

RE: Johnny Kane Story in today's Freep by Siedel - mostly about Benetti but in the course of it he says that the reason that Kane is basically out with the Tigers except for the occasional drop in is that the Tigers wanted someone for that slot to do both Tigers and Wings, but Kane is committed to the Pistons during the Hockey season and wouldn't give it up (because he is probably angling for Blaha's gig - so why would he?). So maybe not some kind of performance issue as much as just a career choice conflict. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2025/08/31/detroit-tigers-turn-broadcast-chaos-into-mlb-gold-with-jason-benetti/85872012007/

CBS has game stats. Underwood is 20/29 243 1 TD , 0 INT

there is helmet to helmet contact. At minimum he gets a PF for the body slam.

Tigers had some bad BaBIP luck on shots down both lines that were fielded so I don't feel that bad about hitting, and Flaherty was fine. But jeesh, Holton is just bad news recently. 18 base runners with 4 bombs in August (12.2 IP) and only 6K Lange has had three outings in Toledo, one clean, on he gave up a run on a solo HR and then walked two, tonight he struck out the side.

If you have base runners that can really stretch their lead down the 3b line - without getting picked off a la Wenceel, then they have so little distance to go it's a tough out to make, but the Tigers don't really have that many base runners like that. It's also much better with a LH batter when the 3b is playing well off the line so the runner at 3rd can take that big lead. If you have Gleyber on 3rd and Tork at the plate? Fuggedabadit.

yup. If he got you this far, book your profits and sell.

This is sort of what make football interesting (to me). It's how many different levels of things all have to work. All sports are about talent, but football is highly dependent on team precision as well. You can waste the value of a lot of talent if guys don't stick to their assignments and/or those assignments are not well designed. OTOH, sometimes coaches need to bend the system they want to play to allow for a player with a unique skill set to give them the most value. And sometimes good players and good coaches just don't work together (e.g. Goff/McVay). All adds to keep things unpredictable.

Pitchers are never good investments, but they are sometimes necessary investments!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Will Vest (the good one).

Origen, an early church father often credited with a major role in establishing the 'Canon' of the current Bible, and maybe the pre-eminent scripture authority of his day, came very close to an explicit belief in re-incarnation. One the reasons he is no longer on any currrent Church's 'must read' list. 😱 Another example that when we look back through the fog of 2000 years we many not being seeing what we think we do. Also the number from Russia is interesting. For two reasons: 1st that a lot of non-European Russia is notationally Muslim, but apparently not very! And second - that Putin's projection of himself as the great defender of Orthodox tradition doesn't seem to be doing much for belief in the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy 🙄. Yeah - who would have guessed that?

If we don't blow civilization up or fry it into a post apocalyptic stone age, and the history of this America eventually gets written for posterity, it will go down as the 1st post industrial society to succumb to mass cultural insanity. There is no euphemism for where we are - as a whole this society has lost any semblance of sanity - if you define sanity as the ability to recognize and stop a self-destructive downward social spiral. We glorify death instead over life, ignorance over of knowledge, conflict over of comity, the noxious over the wise, the trivial over the valuable. I wish I knew where it came from, I certainly didn't see it coming 30 yrs ago but it must have been there coming down the tracks.

The people who are complaining are people who just disagree with the Tigers operating principle. You have options as a team ownership: If you have the income you buy everything you want (NYM, NYY, LAD); or you build for a target window and go all out to win in that window (Tigers for a while under M Ilitch) and accept that you are going to leverage your future for your present; or you try to create your highest sustainable level of performance and hope that gets you a shot at the brass rings often enough. Those are choices that orgs make. Harris is on the third track. Many, many, fans want the 2nd track. But they should save their angst or just root for a different team, because if that is what you want, Harris is guaranteed to disappoint you every time. He's not on that page, and it's not by accident or incompetence.

RE: Veryzer's shape: Found a story written about Veryzer after he had been traded to Cleveland. Apparently he had put on weight in Det on the theory he'd could hit more HRs. He said in the story that he reported at 195 lb in 1976 and the Tigers didn't like it. He said he lost the weight but got traded anyway, but subsequently was playing at 165 for Cleveland. I don't remember him as anything but ordinary in the field. The knock was he was supposed to be able to hit - as he hit pretty well in the minors - 843 OPS at AAA before his call up. But he apparently forget his bat at Evanville because it never showed up in Detroit. https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-tom-veryzer-is-a-diamond-on-t/32825779/

You know where you will find a lot of mental health issues in America? Look among the homeless. Probably a higher proportion of damaged pysches there than anywhere. You know where you don't find a lot of mass murderers? Among the homeless. Why? Because they can't afford to buy or have places to store guns and cache ammo. QED.

I can take or leave Bobby. Mostly it's about rhythm. He hasn't seemed to have developed a smooth one yet - but that's the kind of thing that may improve with reps.

both very true. I actually don't like radio PBPs who betray emotional involvement in the game. That's one of the things that Harwell (and Carey as well) had such a genius for. You could never guess the score of a Tiger game listening to Ernie's tone or delivery - (though he made sure to tell you regularly - I think he once said that early in his career he keep an egg timer in the booth to remind him how often to give the score). The value in that is that it's a lot easier to listen to the losses!