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That’s OK, I’m a hitter, so I was never getting an invite anyway. 😁

Fun with Pythagoras, SSS edition: The Reds have scored more runs than they have given up. They are 3-7. The Rangers have scored fewer runs than they have given up. They are 8-2.

I think we can all guess what the Trump regime considers to be their real crime.

At least ankle injuries are relatively predictable.

So, nothing. I see. I was genuinely interested to see whether you would come up with any examples because I myself didn’t know of any. But it looks as though there aren’t any after all. At least not until someone can come up with some upon request. You also seem to have an awful lot to say about what I am (apparently some party hack) and what I want to believe. And not what I declaratively believe, but what I want to believe, which is some cute mind-reading ****. Not to put too fine a point on it, the other guy is what people who run out of things to say about the actual issues talk about.

Almost certainly not how the Tigers wanted him to approach it. Because that’s how he was approaching it for his three seasons with the team, and we all saw how much viscerally helped him. I think it’s more likely that someone had a CTJ talk with Tork, something clicked, he buckled down to review the info, made the adjustments that he made, and improved his approach and results; than that the team said you know what, we’re use gonna leave you alone and let you figure it out by yourself, he made his adjustments all by himself, and improved his approach and results.

I’m coming around to the camp of if you put your bat on the ball and you get on base, that’s a hit. Make them all earned runs. Really, it was more important when 30% of runs resulted from errors. Now it’s less than 10%. It doesn’t really matter that much any more.

He’s got the earnest scream for social media memes down pat.

I thought we wanted him for six years? If we really wanted him, we would have offered him his opt out after one year. Just sayin’. But I still think he wouldn’t have taken it, because he wouldn’t put up the same pinball numbers with us he will with Boston so he can take another bite of the apple next winter.

And I was among the loudest of them here. I want to know what the click moment was for Tork. Remember he was quoted basically saying he’s going to hit the way he wants regardless, implying that he was not going to take advantage of the data science the Tigers offer their players. I’d like to have been a fly on the wall at the moment he snapped out of that. I’m guessing it would have been early spring training in a CTJ meeting with AJ.

That’s what’s going to make the Yankees series so interesting: our immovable object of a pitching staff versus their irresistible force of a hitting roster.

If it weren’t for Sweeney hustling to beat that double play throw, it’s two outs and the game is tied on Tork’s hit … maybe. Sweeney created the conditions that led to the specific outcome we saw today.

This is Tork’s first real signature moment, and based on what he’s shown us this season, it won’t be his last. I’m really starting to believe his improvement is sticky.

Not only does nobody have to pay any of these 100,000 people to show up, I would bet that a high percentage of them would have paid ten or twenty bucks for the pleasure of showing up.

Yes, so, in light of what I posted, of course Perez has dominated Tigers hitters and reached his 23rd and 25th hitters of the game! 🙃

Yeah, at some point, you just gotta throw the kid out there and, as long as he's not overwhelmed start after start, let him work through it.

You sharp people have probably noticed I mentioned you watching a hockey player on your broadcast. But wait, how could I know that? Am I not blocked by MLB blackout rules from getting the Tigers broadcast when they play the team located in my market? Normally, yes, I would be blocked. But apparently, MLB is ****ing up their whole anti-VPN campaign. Starting a few weeks ago, I stopped getting mlb.com when I had my VPN on. No games, no lineups, no news stories, no nothing. Just 403 pages. I had to add a VPN extension to my laptop browser and split tunnel to allow it to ignore all pages located at mlb.com, which, OK, fine, I guess. But I still don't get Tigers TV broadcasts on my laptop browser when they play the White Sox because I am in Chicago. BUT: for some reason, that doesn't apply to iOS, aka my iPhone or iPad. Even with the VPN on, I still get TV broadcasts on my MLB app, although I still get 403 pages on the news stories on the app, which is super weird, but whatever. BUT: I also discovered, just today, that if I change my VPN to something outside Chicago—e.g., Charlotte—I can get the Tigers TV broadcasts on the MLB app on my iOS devices when they play the White Sox (or Cubs). It wasn't like that before, because iOS's geolocation told MLB I was in Chicago regardless of what my VPN said. So Tigers broadcasts had always been blocked by them. Until this season. At some point MLB is going to get wise to this and "fix" it so that I am denied my favorite team's broadcasts when they face my city's team, which serves their business model. But as long as they don't do so before 3pm, I should be golden for the rest of this game, anyway.

I think Dirks is nowhere near as good on TV with Benetti as he was with Dan on radio. I think it's because he and Benetti are the same age and have the same propensity for humor, so they end up trying to top each other and, in my view, it gets a bit out of control. Dan is all business, so Dirks was more business-like and therefore more listenable on radio. BTW, I feel bad for you people for having to sit through an interview with a hockey player during a Tigers game.

Holy **** on a stick, 100 million acres is more than 156,000 square miles. That's more than the size of Montana!

Do you project that McGonigle is going to rocket through Erie and Toledo to make the big club this season? That would be awesome, but man, that's a big ask.

If he really wanted Bregman, why didn't Harris offer him the opt-out he wanted after year one?

McKinstry plays too much because too many guys are hurt and he has to cover for that. He wasn't supposed to play this much.

I would love to see him put up an eight-win season this year. He's 33 going on 34, so it's kind of unlikely, although if he's gonna do it again, it's more likely now than later.

I meant the benefit of changing those seats to club seats to get premium corporate dollars this year (short term benefit) versus creating the impression of a unpopular team by showing seats that are mostly empty every pitch of every home game (long term detriment).

Yes, and batting him sixth is slightly lower pressure than batting him fourth, since more is expected out of a cleanup hitter than a #6 hitter, and a hitter might take failure in the cleanup spot a little harder, which might erode confidence somewhat. Perhaps limiting his exposure to LHP by his batting 25th in the game versus 23rd factored into the decision, although unless Martin Perez completes dominates Tigers hitters from the word "go", he probably won't make it to his 23rd hitter anyway.