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Thanks goodness Morris was never paired with Dan on the radio, but on occasion Monroe would be, and when I tuned in and heard that, my shoulders would visibly slump.

No. Win all the games.

Tigers still with the best record in the league, 8-2 in their last ten, 15-7 since the horrific swoon. i think we’re back on the horse.

Man, those are some sculpted eyebrows on Gleyber Torres!

Holy ****, did Ort really just throw a sweeper a foot off the plate on 3-2 for the game? Did he think every Tigers hitter is Javy Baez? Sorry, pal, only got one of those. But-bye.

Jahmai Jones is decidedly not Javy Baez. Didn’t offer at any of three yakkers and draws the walk.

That was a Javy at bat all right.

I like my chances!

I remember when Julian Tavarez pitched for the Cubs, right around 2000 or so. Game against the Cardinals. Batter hit a wicked fast one-hop shot that Tavarez olé-ed into his glove. The batter wasn’t even out of the box when the ball got to Tavarez, who just turned and rolled a grounder to first for the out. A lot of fans and the media catapulted a ton of **** his way over it. Me, I thought it was a smart move. The batter was out by a mile anyway, and by rolling a grounder to first, Tavarez removed the possibility that he would heave the ball past first Chuck Knoblauch-style and allow the batter to reach. Also, rolling it underhand is less wear and tear n the arm than throwing it overhand, and every little bit counts. I remember I just could not get anyone to see it that way. Maybe that’s what Skubal was trying to accomplish here.

This is game 128, meaning 34 games remaining. They would have to skip a bunch of start days for him not to get six. Plus, this is his 25th start, and he had 31 last year as well. Skubal is not a guy we have to baby.

Skubal now at 200 strikeouts on the button for the season. With six starts remaining, he’s got a decent chance at 250.

At the office!

Man, what a game. Now let’s clobber this bullpen starting now.

That Skubal throw to first … just … yikes.

Yeah, well, sure, Hunter Brown would get out of all those jams.

Or who likes basketball.

McStinky doesn’t stink!

I just can’t abide the name-calling, intellectual dishonesty, and blatant disrepresentation. If I want that nonsense, I’ll go someplace unmoderated, like Reddit.

I will trade you my Bet365 ads 30 times a game for your Josh Allen ad 30 times a game straight up.

Wenceel made the coolest-as-a-cucumber over-the-wall catch I think I’ve ever seen an outfielder make.

If I'm reading between the lines of Manfred's comments correctly, I'm thinking he wants the whole American/National League distinction to go away completely and teams to be placed in convenient geographically-driven divisions within convenient geographically-driven conferences and leagues, which would help northeast and Midwest teams and hurt teams out west. There will be a fight about that, I assume, with western teams resenting northeast teams getting cushy travel situations such as NYY, NYM, BOS, and PHI all in the same four-team division. What they should probably do is create divisions that has the most equitable travel arrangement possible for all teams. It will never be even steven, unless they move Seattle, Washington to another part of the country. But they could put, say, NYY and TBR in the same division and have them travel to each other more as division rivals. If Manfred were to get his way, though, and geography with a dash of division rivalry wins out, it could look something like this: League 1 (East) Conference A Division 1: NYY, NYM, BOS, PHI Division 2: WAS, BAL, PIT, TOR Conference B Division 3: MIA, TBR, ATL, Nashville Division 4: DET, CLE, CIN, CHW League 2 (West) Conference C Division 5: CHC, MIL, MIN, STL Division 6: HOU, TEX, COL, KCR Conference D Division 7: Vegas, ARI, LAA, Salt Lake Division 8: LAD, SFG, SDP, SEA This is what it would look like on a map: Yes, this would suck for west coast teams, especially Seattle, but just about any realignment in the wake of expansion will suck for west coast teams, especially Seattle. As things stand, it already does suck for west coast teams, especially Seattle, right now. (And also for Miami, although they've managed to win a couple rings down there anyway.) However, one of the things this solution would solve is the time zone issues where Texas and Houston now have to play so many more 9pm Pacific coast games within their division than other Central teams do, which, as a lawyer chasing the money, Manfred definitely has a hard-on to fix. In this solution, no divisional rival is more than one time zone away. I am doubtful they will go to an eight-team divisional setup, because no owner wants to have to try to sell an eighth- (or seventh- or even sixth-) place team to their target market in August and September. The only certain thing I would bet money on is that they will find a way to reduce the season to exactly 154 games, even if it results in a schedule that's unbalanced even within one's own division. The players desperately want it; the owners will accept it in exchange for a richer playoff schedule; and the fans will think it's way super old school cool. Win-win-win.

It's what happens when nobody wants you around them all day anymore, and you get paid a pittance to stay the hell away. 😁

Yeah, I've had it with the trolling and the intellectual dishonesty and the name-calling and the flat out lying. It won't end well. It never does.

He does not want people who put on a sash that says "police" on it to be held under any standard of conduct. He also voted for Harris, under whom the police would definitely be held to strict standards of conduct.