Sports_Freak Posted April 6 Posted April 6 Did they paint arrows on the RF foul pole for Carpenter yet? 😅😅 Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 6 Posted April 6 The Mud Hens are playing the Round Rock Express in Texas at 2:05 PM today. Quote
chasfh Posted April 6 Posted April 6 1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said: No getaway. We remain in Detroit to face the Yankees. All night games...temps in the 30's. The White Sox are the getaway team, so their lineup is even less major league than normal. Quote
chasfh Posted April 6 Posted April 6 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tiger337 said: Have him in the line-up at all against LHP may be a confidence building move which I am glad they are making. Yes, and batting him sixth is slightly lower pressure than batting him fourth, since more is expected out of a cleanup hitter than a #6 hitter, and a hitter might take failure in the cleanup spot a little harder, which might erode confidence somewhat. Perhaps limiting his exposure to LHP by his batting 25th in the game versus 23rd factored into the decision, although unless Martin Perez completes dominates Tigers hitters from the word "go", he probably won't make it to his 23rd hitter anyway. Edited April 6 by chasfh Quote
Sports_Freak Posted April 6 Posted April 6 5 minutes ago, oblong said: Jobe isn’t fooling anybody. Rushed to the majors. He has really good stuff, just raw. Jake should be catching him, an experienced catcher may be better for the kid. Quote
Nate7474 Posted April 6 Posted April 6 Go look at Verlander’s first year. That’s where I see Jobe at with struggling to put people away with 2 strikes and allowing hitters back in the count. Also Skubals first year where he gave up a lot of home runs. Jobe is going to struggle from time to time but he absolutely needs to be in the major leagues learning. With smaller amount of minor league teams the gap between mlb and aaa has never been bigger and his stuff is to good there. 1 Quote
monkeytargets39 Posted April 6 Posted April 6 That throw from CF on Javys single was embarassing 1 Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted April 6 Posted April 6 2 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said: That throw from CF on Javys single was embarassing The way the White Sox play baseball is embarassing. So, Taco Bell's Deluxe box is now just the 'Luke Box. Millennials are too lazy for the De ? Oh wait, they can't spell it. Kris Draper on the broadcast to give excuses why the Wings haven't made the playoffs in a decade. Quote
Chopper Posted April 6 Posted April 6 Am I the only one getting tired of Dirks? Yap yap yap. He's a Craig Monroe clone. He just doesn't say "damage" all the time. Quote
oblong Posted April 6 Posted April 6 I won’t claim to be an expert but I don’t see what more time in the minors does for him. **** or get off the pot. I’m not criticizing him. Baseball is hard. The other teams, even the bad ones, are best than what he would see down there. Quote
chasfh Posted April 6 Posted April 6 2 minutes ago, Chopper said: Am I the only one getting tired of Dirks? Yap yap yap. He's a Craig Monroe clone. He just doesn't say "damage" all the time. I think Dirks is nowhere near as good on TV with Benetti as he was with Dan on radio. I think it's because he and Benetti are the same age and have the same propensity for humor, so they end up trying to top each other and, in my view, it gets a bit out of control. Dan is all business, so Dirks was more business-like and therefore more listenable on radio. BTW, I feel bad for you people for having to sit through an interview with a hockey player during a Tigers game. 1 Quote
monkeytargets39 Posted April 6 Posted April 6 Ugh Tork just got that off the end of the bat a little bit Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 6 Posted April 6 That bottom of the third went from being very promising with two guys on and no outs to absolutely nothing. Quote
Sports_Freak Posted April 6 Posted April 6 11 minutes ago, oblong said: I won’t claim to be an expert but I don’t see what more time in the minors does for him. **** or get off the pot. I’m not criticizing him. Baseball is hard. The other teams, even the bad ones, are best than what he would see down there. That talent has to be up here and learning on the fly. Every outing is a valuable learning experience for him. Quote
chasfh Posted April 6 Posted April 6 1 minute ago, chasfh said: I think Dirks is nowhere near as good on TV with Benetti as he was with Dan on radio. I think it's because he and Benetti are the same age and have the same propensity for humor, so they end up trying to top each other and, in my view, it gets a bit out of control. Dan is all business, so Dirks was more business-like and therefore more listenable on radio. BTW, I feel bad for you people for having to sit through an interview with a hockey player during a Tigers game. You sharp people have probably noticed I mentioned you watching a hockey player on your broadcast. But wait, how could I know that? Am I not blocked by MLB blackout rules from getting the Tigers broadcast when they play the team located in my market? Normally, yes, I would be blocked. But apparently, MLB is ****ing up their whole anti-VPN campaign. Starting a few weeks ago, I stopped getting mlb.com when I had my VPN on. No games, no lineups, no news stories, no nothing. Just 403 pages. I had to add a VPN extension to my laptop browser and split tunnel to allow it to ignore all pages located at mlb.com, which, OK, fine, I guess. But I still don't get Tigers TV broadcasts on my laptop browser when they play the White Sox because I am in Chicago. BUT: for some reason, that doesn't apply to iOS, aka my iPhone or iPad. Even with the VPN on, I still get TV broadcasts on my MLB app, although I still get 403 pages on the news stories on the app, which is super weird, but whatever. BUT: I also discovered, just today, that if I change my VPN to something outside Chicago—e.g., Charlotte—I can get the Tigers TV broadcasts on the MLB app on my iOS devices when they play the White Sox (or Cubs). It wasn't like that before, because iOS's geolocation told MLB I was in Chicago regardless of what my VPN said. So Tigers broadcasts had always been blocked by them. Until this season. At some point MLB is going to get wise to this and "fix" it so that I am denied my favorite team's broadcasts when they face my city's team, which serves their business model. But as long as they don't do so before 3pm, I should be golden for the rest of this game, anyway. Quote
chasfh Posted April 6 Posted April 6 17 minutes ago, oblong said: I won’t claim to be an expert but I don’t see what more time in the minors does for him. **** or get off the pot. I’m not criticizing him. Baseball is hard. The other teams, even the bad ones, are best than what he would see down there. Yeah, at some point, you just gotta throw the kid out there and, as long as he's not overwhelmed start after start, let him work through it. Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 6 Posted April 6 So the White Sox have a sacrifice bunt to move the runners forward and a sacrifice fly to score a run so it sounds like the not very exciting White Sox of the 1960s. Sometime during then, they were freezing baseballs too. 1 Quote
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