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Looks to me as though he might be conducting an open audition for his next fascist daddy.

I know, I like when Dave quizzes ex-players about their own careers like this.

In preparation for tonight's game—or maybe not—here's a fun interview of Dan Petry in FanGraphs.

Ballmich must be lighting votive candles due to this news.

One other problem is the expectation that pitchers must elicit swing and miss with every hitter and strike out 10+ guys per nine, versus lucking into five strikeouts per nine while serving up pitches and saying here you go, hit it and get yourself out by the guys behind me.

That’s what I was implying with Flaherty, too. If he’s done done as some insist, who starts in his place who’s going to be better for sure? Keider is already up. Who else is there? I think Flaherty’s history is such that he’s earned at least five more starts to show he can be at least good in more games than he’s bad. It’s a low bar but to Lee’s point, there are too many pitchers and not enough pitching.

He was 30 years ahead of his time. He had his best year with us: 1992, .247/.337/.547, 32 bombs, and 919 innings of arguably average defense in right.

Apparently, Gill did not get the memo that the current term of art is "mentally retarded."

I'm guessing "soon" means two weeks.

So we move Flaherty to the pen and he's replaced in the rotation by ... whom, again?

Has anyone started watching The Audacity on AMC? I saw the first ep this past week and ep 2 dropped last night. I’ll put it this way: I’ll give it one more episode to show me why I should care even a little about any of those characters.

I prefer stats to anecdotes.

Ah well … Tigers are now 0-4 in those cheap-looking dark blue jerseys.

Tying run at the plate in the person of Dillon Dingler!

East Africans are uniquely built for marathon running. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.305.5684.637

Tiger should’ve worked on that defensive play this spring.

That makes sense, and never once did it occur to me as a possibility

So every game in the second inning Dan Dickerson does a live read called Dollars on Deck, and then he refers to something that sounds like “blockbusters”, but not really. It also kind of sounds like “black busters” and r “Blake busters”, but he says it so fast that I can never pick it up. Anybody know what I’m talking about, and what it is he’s actually saying here?

Is the final result of more walks and fewer strikeouts in exchange for far fewer homers and lower wRC+ acceptable? I ask because that’s what’s happening so far.

This is like praising the person who bought the cake ingredients at the store, instead of the person who baked the cake.

Tigers through April 9 (4-9): 19th in pitching 14th in hitting 18th in base running 25th in fielding Tigers since April 9 (8-1): 1st in pitching 12th in hitting 19th in base running 30th in fielding

This is another distraction.

I think they’ll be released. The regime will orchestrate a big build-up to it, and we will be riveted to a date that will come and go with either no release, or a release of nothing-burger or already public documents, and we’ll all be grousing and joking and laughing about the ongoing clown show while countless more deaths and billions more in thefts occur in the background completely unnoticed.

Maybe we should start a sort of behind-the-scenes thread where this kind of thing gets highlighted: while we’re being distracted and outraged by stupid **** like Doctor Jesus memes and fake bible verses and Trump hitting on UFC fighters, serious **** like this and timed bets and billion-dollar transfers to offshore accounts are happening essentially unnoticed.

Not bad for a crap lineup. 😉