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Thank you for this, but there’s more. Beyond just not being able to make chicken salad out of chicken **** on trades, as well as an owner who is just now waking up to the effect his baseball business unit is having on his entire enterprise, there’s also the fact that Scott Harris couldn’t simply sign an impact player or two as though he could just go to Walmart and pick them up off the shelf. Players are sentient human beings who have a say in where they sign, and no decent player would have chosen to come to Detroit and lose big, instead because of going literally anyplace else and winning, or at least losing less. The sad fact is that Al Avila’s Reign of Error basically destroyed this franchise, and it’s going to take probably half a decade to get it on its feet and start to contend. And I know a lot of fans refuse to believe this, but we’re going to have to do it without being a team that impact free agents are willing to sign up to play for, or being able to make good trades due to our lack of organizational depth, for at least two years.

I really like this idea and will wish upon a star until it happens.

I think it’s fair for Hinch to try different guys in different situations early in a season to see who can do what, particularly when you have a roster that is basically turned over from the previous year. But he definitely should have saved Lange for the ninth for this game, because we really needed to win this game. And every game until we win again will also be this game.

Holy shit, Matt Vierling, trying to steal a base and going in standing up so you can get tagged out? What the everloving fuck … ??

Umpires 1, Tigers 1, Blue Jays 0.

OK, E-Rod, we got you your run. It’s all on you now.

I wasn't. I thought we gave up too much. But I also thought it was better that we got someone to start on the big league club than to keep Paredes languishing away in Toledo.

It was known back way back when.

I think what he's saying in the article is that the staff doesn't going over the numbers in depth with him, but instead give him some high-level tactics that the data indicate that he can work on.

What improvement through analytics is supposed to do is for the hitter to practice committing changes in approach to muscle and reaction memory so you don't have to think about them when you're at the plate in a game.

Game is at 7:07 pm ET.

Looks like High-A Mason Englert showed up tonight. It would be 9-0 except for a single hit. I’m out.

I agree that their careers were not the equal of Nick, but they were all named All Stars, and I know that was the criterion MCS established.

I remember On TV! Channel 20, right? 😉 Yeah, for some inexplicable reason, the syncing last year between radio overlay and the video was perfect for road games, but the overlay was a split second before the video for home games and you could hear the crack of the bat before seeing it. I think they pretty much fixed that now.

Nick Maton trying to prove me a liar with that jack! Go on, Nick!

If you're on MLB.tv, you can do a radio overlay and listen to Dan Dickerson.

It is approaching worst-in-history territory. Listening to Hawk Harrelson was not nearly this bad.

Well, now, after that Kiermaier catch, to rob the homer off Kerry Carpenter, there is no way we can win this game.

Man, I spent ten accidental seconds on MLB.tv listening to Craig Monroe growling about the opposing pitcher "walk[ing] the walk" and "talk[ing] the talk", and man, I couldn't reach for the switchover to the radio overlay fast enough. You people who live in the Tigers territory—I feel sorry for you.

That's how I interpreted it—or misinterpreted it, if you prefer—so OK, I'll concede. If we're going to offer up one-time position-player All-Star-with-another-team Nick Castellanos as counterpoints to the original post, then we might as well offer up one-time position player All-Stars-with-other-teams Eugenio Suarez, Avisail Garcia, and James McCann as well, and, probably this year, Willy Adames.

MCS specified All-Stars, and these four guys were all named to the All-Star team while they were still Tigers, and all four after Fryman. Know who wasn't? Nick Castellanos.

Al Avila, Robert Fick, Brandon Inge, and how could we forget Curtis Granderson, for cry eye.

They’ll just keep pushing it down until they get enough bodies to reliably put four or five pitchers in every game. Every organization has at least 20 pitchers on their 40-man for that reason alone. Some have as many as 22 that I’ve seen. Did some guy in the back of my bullpen get hurt? That’s fine, bring up another one. What, he’s gotta go on the 60-day? Fine, move the next pitcher in line onto the 40 to replace him. Teams have plenty of fungible arms they can throw at that strategy. And just think how much money they’re saving merely by moving the bottom of the 40-man in and out of the active roster.

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My first car, a '73 Vega, had AM-only installed in it and I got a cheap converter aftermarket unit installed so I could get FM (in glorious mono). My mother, on the other hand ... when the lot of us were passing through our teenage years and many of us would borrow her car for whatever reason (our dad would never, ever, ever even consider letting us borrow his car), she actually paid extra to remove the standard AM/FM stereo to replace it with AM-only radio. Two reasons: (1) she hated when her sons would borrow the car and leave the station on WABX going full blast when she started it up; and (2) she didn't particularly care for music, anyway, so she had no use for that newfangled FM.