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Man, hell of a game. Looks like it might be a four-hour special.

Ohhhhhh s***

Might Jung have gotten the batter at first had he scooped it up barehanded?

Holy Toledo, Riley, what a nab!

On my god, a Tigers game where the score box is small and at the top and we’re not being bludgeoned by prop bet odds!

I’m starting to feel vindicated some!

So, Pete Rose. But, also, this: We are living in Biff Tannen’s America.

There is nothing Pete did to deserve exoneration, nor is there anything Chick Gandil and Swede Risberg and Happy Felsch did to deserve exoneration. Those guys actively plotted to throw a World Series, yet they got exonerated because Manfred had to twist logic into knots to satisfy one guy’s admiration for Pete Rose’s sleaziness. Bottom line.

He got way more of a career than a UDFA has a right to dream about. And he got paid three Ms this year, which is a nice consolation prize.

Ha ha ha ha yeah no

Their reward is coming here and slurping your libtard tears about stuff like this that matters to them not even a little.

Manfred refused to reinstate him in 2015 and 2020. I wonder what’s different this time? 🤔

Then it’s the journalist’s word against the administration’s, with division along the usual lines and nothing being conclusively resolved.

They’ll make it look like street crime and frame a man of color for it. Two birds, one stone.

Just as every analyst said all winter, but he has been even better than we hoped.

I'd rather be in my early 30s. 😁

If Baez's BABIP were the team average of .313 (giggity), his suggested slash line would be .252/.289/.383, which, if you'd told me coming into the season he'd be hitting this with plus CF defense to cover for the top three guys on the depth chart who were all injured, I think I would have been OK with that.

I don't know what you think, but even though I believe every administration fudges numbers here and there to make themselves look a little better, I can't help but wonder whether the Trump BLS is completely cooking these numbers.

uh huh

I don't believe we've touched on this topic yet, but I would not be surprised to learn that this particular group of "refugees" are the most strident, most vocal, most retrograde, most political white supremacist activists in South Africa.

The Tigers are 7-0 in his starts, so, so good indeed. Just about any pitcher is going to scuffle in his first extended exposure to big league hitters, but it's a little easier and more comfortable to work out the kinks at this level where your team is scoring six-plus runs a game for you.

I don't care how diplomatic Bregman is—he was never coming here this season. We've talked ad nauseam about why he chose Boston over Detroit, with the ballpark and the opt-outs offered being the biggest reasons many of us concluded as much. But I think another reason we really didn't discuss all that much was also the AAV. The Tigers' offer would have resulted in an AAV of $28.5MM, which ain't a bad day's work. But the Boston contract's AAV is $40MM, and even setting aside the opt-outs, it makes a huge difference in the setting of marketplace expectations going into free agency coming off a $40MM AAV versus a $28.5MM AAV.

I hadn't considered this but that makes a lot of sense. It must have been very isolating for Javy to be on the team last year as the only high dollar veteran guy, outside of Kenta Maeda who is both not Latin and not a hitter. Having a veteran on the team from that part of the world who produces at the plates and, bonus, Javy can bond with, could conceivably lead to both guys optimizing their performance. I know nothing about whether they actually are bonding like that, so it's all hypothetical to me. But it makes sense.

Someone here should educate Jamie Raskin about the fact that Trump is far too stupid to manipulate the stock market.

I think the other reason Jobe’s here is because at a certain point, a kid can’t learn anything more from mowing down AAA hitters, and has got to either sink or swim at the big league level.