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and unfortunately Grossman and Schoop currently have almost no value to move.

yeah - I disagree big time with Jack. In the modern era I don't believe it serves any purpose at all to send a tired, struggling pitcher back out for more. Pitching in this era with all the breaking balls is a physiologically destructive process. I believe that once a guy is at more or less at starters endurance, that he will never develop the ability to 'go deeper' by throwing more competitive pitches under stress. Run, condition, train, whatever to strengthen arm, legs, wind etc., but putting more high stress throws on a tired arm just loses games and degrades arm health. Not to mention this is a kid coming of TJ.

It's like disease that every manager develops once he come to Detroit.

I don't know if they get of out of this, or not, but he gave up 2 runs at Fenway through 4. The pitching is still not really the problem. Edit: LOL, so much for the reliever saving Alex...

Schoop not seeing the ball again. That has to be about the shortest 'pull out of a slump and fall right back in' in recent memory. Barnhart got a good pitch to hit and did nothing with it.

maybe try a 4 seam fastball next time?

Now he gets squeezed. Just what he needs.

is anybody even up? Cordero didn't go to 2nd. Break for us.

He can't locate the FB at all. His breaking balls have decent location but the FB are all cookies. Go figure.

lead off doubles are pretty much automatic runs for most teams.

OH boy

yes

Faedo needs a little better location when he throws that FB

I liked that Tork didn't give in on that AB after tagging that foul shot.

Is that a question or a statement? DirectTV is a streaming service - I can watch it on anything that has a browser, same as I can Amazon Prime. A Firestick is just an interface for a device that can't talk to the web directly.

you also have the over lay of the transition to maple bats. That also increased the number of hitters that could reach the seats. At some point the ball should have been adjusted just to match the harder bats, or maple could have not been allowed in the first place...

It is more wrapped up in the particular history of Tx.

Hmmm.... Is this one of those cases where if the Dodgers want him we don't want to be trading him?

who do you mean by 'we', the GOP or the citizenry?

I could still do 185 miles in 6 days on a bike, but I started that trip on foot you could just bury me at about Leeds.

I always like the explanation about crypto being the Millennial whiz kids revenge for having missed the tech revolution that made the lucky boomer whiz kids there at its beginnings into billionaires. That from the beginning cyptos were designed primarily as a vehicle to make its launchers rich, any other objectives/functions being secondary.

the only person I've ever met from Kaliningrad was an ethnic German. 🤷‍♂️

Funny thing, if I were to drop my DirectTV to the lowest service level (meaning I would lose Bally) and buy the Bally service separately, my total bill would......wait for it......end up exactly the same.

Cable cutters rejoice. Bally to launch its streaming service next week. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/other/2022/06/20/bally-sports-detroit-launching-subscription-service/7681616001/

the park is a lot bigger than Tiger stadium, but again, part of that is the rotation of the ball park. Summer wind in MI is prevailingly from the west so the wind blows out to left at COPA a lot more than it did at Tiger stadium. Tiger Stadium rotated to where COPA is would be a band box for RH hitters. Of course a lot people believe Tiger stadium was also 440' to dead center. It was not after some renovation in the 60's (don't remember the exact yearz) - more like ~425, which is pretty much what COPA is where the CF wall meets the LF/RF walls (maybe even 430). the 440 marker for Tiger stadium was for where the flag pole was, but at some point they put up a fence in front of that area to level it off which created a storage area and also removed the pole from being in play. CF originally went out to almost a square corner which was the 440'. That fence shortened the distance by about 15 feet, but they never changed the 440 marker on the wall which IIRC was just to the right of where the added fencing started.