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I agree with Gary Cohen here, but the comments are just wild.

I'm sure they'll celebrate, although it probably wouldn't be with the wild abandon of the 2024 celebration.

They are literally inviting some hella motivated viewer to bomb the UN.

Oh, shiit, here wo go ...

There's no such thing as momentum at FanGraphs!

Maybe it's worth remembering that it was grit that the Tigers won with last year and the first part of this year, and not so much talent.

They will celebrate twice as hard for overcoming such a horrific stretch that everyone was convinced would doom them.

Maybe Al Avila's talent wasn't the way to win after all? 😉

Why not? Does he really have anything to lose at this point?

lol almost

Remind me again who the FCC commissioner was who called for Gina Carano's firing?

It's a recipe to end, or at least severely debilitate, civilization entirely, so he has that power. I have an honest concern as to what he might do once he realizes he's not long for this world.

I think it’s just the frustration of being asked the same question about the same thing over and over. Riley just wants that part of it to be all done. It’s not a good look, but not everyone can handle themselves with the media flawlessly.

If Ilitch fires Harris and or A.J. for nothing more than how this season ends, I will despair for the future of this franchise.

I was there for that. I never felt so much like the team on the field didn’t even want to be there.

If Sunday’s game doesn’t matter, I wonder whether Skubal even pitches it?

I don’t think I’d like to see officials who are not on the field just suddenly stopping play because they think they see something. I think they should be brought into the play only if players, coaches, or officials on the field appeal to them. Until that occurs, I believe the game belongs strictly on the field.

Two soft hits and nail a guy bunting in the face? Now I know we’re done.

It takes, like, 15 seconds.

It will go just as fast as you saw them go in spring training.

By the time the deal goes through and they take control of the Tenga stations, the Kimmel thing will be a distant memory, supplanted by hundreds of subsequent horrors big and small, and all super important for one news cycle.

It's worth remembering that Sinclair and Nexstar cover only small fraction of ABC's potential nationwide audience, and that most of that audience reside in small markets. They have 56 of ABC affiliates in the 210 markets, but only 14 of them are in Top 50 markets, covering 8.6% of US TV households; while 14 more are in markets 51-100 covering 3.4% of US TV HH; and the remaining 28 are in markets 101-210 covering 1.2% of US TV HH. So, 56 of 210 markets sounds like a lot, and it's not nothing, but grand total, the "ban" covers only about 13.3% of US TV HHs, which is fewer than the number of TV households in the New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago DMAs combined. It's because Sinclair and Nexstar focus on affiliates in small markets, many of those in deep ruby red areas, populated by people who probably didn't watch much Kimmel—or other late night talk shows—in the first place. So in the final analysis, all this posturing by the companies is for the benefit of an audience of one, and by extension, for both the minions who work for him and the red hats who idolize him.

I forget—which FCC commissioner was it who publicly called for ABC to remove Roseanne from the show?

I think you get two wrong challenges before you don't have any more. So theoretically a team could challenge every pitch in an inning and continue to do so as long as the umpire is always wrong, or at least not wrong more than once.

There might well be something to the idea that the rest of the league is simply catching up to Tigers' pitching, particularly the bullpen. So many of last year's better performers were new to the league, so it might also be a matter of the league getting more looks at them the next go around.