Motor City Sonics Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Tenacious D said: Have tickets, too, but bailing due to the heat. Hope you see a good show. I saw Wilco in Chicago last year and it was this exact weather, enjoyed the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeattleMike Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 35 minutes ago, chasfh said: The Ilitches bought the team in 1992. They have owned the team for 34 first-round draft picks, and 23 of those picks have been right-handed pitchers. They selected six straight RHPs over a five-year stretch in 1994-98, five RHPs during the four-year stretch of 2007-2010, and four more RHPs in four straight years 2015-18. They used their two first-rounders in 2021 on RHPs as well, so they are in the middle of a RHP streak now. That’s downright pathological. Who could ever forget the all-college-relievers draft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 How in the Hell are there 4 teams with a lower winning PCT than this? I guess it must be Chris Fetters. We'll lose him soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 There is one undeniably great thing going on right now........................This board lets us fucking swear. If ever there was a year to need that.................. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 1 minute ago, Motor City Sonics said: How in the Hell are there 4 teams with a lower winning PCT than this? I guess it must be Chris Fetters. We'll lose him soon enough. It is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 How's the District Detroit coming along? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casimir Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said: How in the Hell are there 4 teams with a lower winning PCT than this? I guess it must be Chris Fetters. We'll lose him soon enough. No, its all Hinch, remember? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casimir Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, mtutiger said: Who here wants to keep Al? Nobody. But go ahead, @chasfh, defend your post. Edited June 15, 2022 by casimir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dtrain72 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said: How's the District Detroit coming along? Chris is either a grifter or a functional idiot...not sure what's worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 1 minute ago, casimir said: Nobody. But go ahead, @chasfh, defend your post. Folks getting chippy here! 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dtrain72 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 52 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said: Nope. That's the worst time to panic. Soooooo, when would there be a time to panic? Not many other options in lieu of this current diaper fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigeraholic1 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 I hate to put a wet towel on all the optimism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dtrain72 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Just now, Tigeraholic1 said: I hate to put a wet towel on all the optimism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Take a walk around the District Detroit at night and whistle, you'll hear your whistle echo off the buildings and the parking structures because there is nobody else there to absorb the sound. I love that they guy won't give in on selling the house. Good for him. To hell with Chris. I miss Dad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casimir Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, chasfh said: Folks getting chippy here! 😅 No, seriously, the floor is yours. Go ahead and out who wants to fire Hinch and retain Avila. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdog Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 I’m not in panic mode. This team is awful and the current gm created the issue. He has never built a winning org on his own and I see no evidence to let him try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casimir Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 1 minute ago, kdog said: I’m not in panic mode. This team is awful and the current gm created the issue. He has never built a winning org on his own and I see no evidence to let him try again. Yup, time to scrap it. If the new GM wants a new manager, so be it. I would hate to lose Fetter in the process. He should probably be untouchable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said: I hate to put a wet towel on all the optimism. so will he change his delivery when he comes back? If he does, will he be as effective? Edited June 15, 2022 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said: Take a walk around the District Detroit at night and whistle, you'll hear your whistle echo off the buildings and the parking structures because there is nobody else there to absorb the sound. I love that they guy won't give in on selling the house. Good for him. To hell with Chris. I miss Dad. so I grew up in NW Detroit and there was a good size shopping area at Grand River and Greenfield, anchored on the three corners by a Ward's, a Federal's, and Hughes and Hatcher men's store. The Ward's and the Federal's had parking lots behind the buildings. Someone had a house in middle of the Federal's lot they wouldn't sell. It must have stood there in the middle of the parking lot for 20-30 years. Somebody died, the house was finally torn down, but not long after the whole shopping area was toast anyway. In the end it didn't bother anyone. Edited June 15, 2022 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 19 minutes ago, casimir said: No, seriously, the floor is yours. Go ahead and out who wants to fire Hinch and retain Avila. Cas comin' in 🔥🔥🔥! He smells blood! 🤣🤣🤣 There are posts in this forum that have called for the head of A.J. Hinch without any mention that it is Al, not A.J., who is the architect of this roster and system as of today. You seen these posts around here. I trust that you're not going to insist that has never happened so I won't have to produce any for you. I was one of the guys replying to these folks to remind them that A.J. is doing the best he can with the crap talent and all the injuries, and I've taken a lot of fire for that. My read from those posts was that they thought the situation the Tigers are in now was mostly or all A.J.'s fault. Of course, it's now several weeks or so after all that started and now it looks like everyone is finally getting on board with the truth: this tire fire is entirely Al Avila's responsibility. A lot of people still want to fire A.J., which I get because we're all mad and that'll scratch our goddamned itch, but now some here want to fire everybody, including Ryan Garko, who has been here for nine months. I don't think it makes sense to fire one guy who's been here for nine months and another guy who's been here for a year and a half when this failure has been, to be generous, five-plus years in the making. Now please, put the billy club down and take a breath ... 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 25 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said: Take a walk around the District Detroit at night and whistle, you'll hear your whistle echo off the buildings and the parking structures because there is nobody else there to absorb the sound. I love that they guy won't give in on selling the house. Good for him. To hell with Chris. I miss Dad. Mike was a bigger slumlord than Chris. Mike promised a whole mess of development around Comerica. He owned all the vacant buildings behind the Fox that he left to deteriorate to the point where the only option was to tear them down. He even tore down the Madison-Lennox hotel to make room for a parking lot before the Super Bowl despite people wanting to develop it. Mike gets a free pass because he saved the Fox and spent on the teams. Don't forget, Mike had owned the Tigers for 10 years when they lost 119 games in 2003 and had losing seasons in 12 of 13 seasons prior to 2006. I could certainly do without the whole Illitch clan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hongbit Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 It’s not Hinch’s fault but I’ve got no issue firing him since he’s going to leave on his own this off-season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: so I grew up in NW Detroit and there was a good size shopping area at Grand River and Greenfield, anchored on the three corners by a Ward's, a Federal's, and Hughes and Hatcher men's store. The Ward's and the Federal's had parking lots behind the buildings. Someone had a house in middle of the Federal's lot they wouldn't sell. It must have stood there in the middle of the parking lot for 20-30 years. Somebody died, the house was finally torn down, but not long after the whole shopping area was toast anyway. In the end it didn't bother anyone. dude, you are old. lol. 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 8 minutes ago, chasfh said: Cas comin' in 🔥🔥🔥! He smells blood! 🤣🤣🤣 There are posts in this forum that have called for the head of A.J. Hinch without any mention that it is Al, not A.J., who is the architect of this roster and system as of today. You seen these posts around here. I trust that you're not going to insist that has never happened so I won't have to produce any for you. I was one of the guys replying to these folks to remind them that A.J. is doing the best he can with the crap talent and all the injuries, and I've taken a lot of fire for that. My read from those posts was that they thought the situation the Tigers are in now was mostly or all A.J.'s fault. Of course, it's now several weeks or so after all that started and now it looks like everyone is finally getting on board with the truth: this tire fire is entirely Al Avila's responsibility. A lot of people still want to fire A.J., which I get because we're all mad and that'll scratch our goddamned itch, but now some here want to fire everybody, including Ryan Garko, who has been here for nine months. I don't think it makes sense to fire one guy who's been here for nine months and another guy who's been here for a year and a half when this failure has been, to be generous, five-plus years in the making. Now please, put the billy club down and take a breath ... 😁 some folks on the board will always hate hinch because of the astros thing and will look to anything to fire him and claim he "cant control the clubhouse." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 4 minutes ago, Hongbit said: It’s not Hinch’s fault but I’ve got no issue firing him since he’s going to leave on his own this off-season. why do you think he'll leave? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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