buddha Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 2:04 AM, kdog said: Why would Avila take responsibility for the major league team? The future is somewhere in the minor leages...you can see it right? Expand i left my binoculars at home. Quote
Tigermojo Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 Avila followed the George Castanza plan to do the opposite of what Dombrowski would do. The result is a good bullpen with a bad everything else. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 The skinny on on Skubal is that it's a bone bruise on his leg, but when he threw his glove on the dugout floor he tore his rotator cuff. 2 Quote
mtutiger Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 2:39 AM, gehringer_2 said: Tiger's finished with 3 hits. one walk Expand Just imagine if Tork had been sent to Toledo... lol Quote
sabretooth Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 1:54 AM, buddha said: avila should resign. its his team and its sucked every year he's been gm. Expand Amen. This team is his Opus Magnum after 5 years of tanking, and they are going to have to be awesome to reach 500 for the year. Avila had his best offseason and hes still a joke. Quote
sabretooth Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 2:25 AM, Tigermojo said: Avila followed the George Castanza plan to do the opposite of what Dombrowski would do. The result is a good bullpen with a bad everything else. Expand Some people around here have consistently claimed that we better off without him. Quote
gkelly Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 And other news around MLB...other teams manage to get hits. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 2:43 AM, mtutiger said: Just imagine if Tork had been sent to Toledo... lol Expand Willi is on a 1/12 and that was a swinging bunt. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 3:42 AM, gehringer_2 said: Willi is on a 1/12 and that was a swinging bunt. Expand in other words he's one of their hottest hitters.............. Quote
KL2 Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 2:50 AM, sabretooth said: Amen. This team is his Opus Magnum after 5 years of tanking, and they are going to have to be awesome to reach 500 for the year. Avila had his best offseason and hes still a joke. Expand So signing a bunch of free agents doesn't automatically make you better, competitive or more enjoyable to watch? Huh who would have thunk it? Oh wait Quote
SoCalTiger Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 1:12 AM, gkelly said: I know everyone likes to be hopeful, but did you really think the Tigers were going to be anything better than a 70 win team? Expand I did. I thought .500 was in reach and they would be in playoff "contention" most of the summer. But I am a Fan not a scout. Quote
SoCalTiger Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 2:15 AM, mtutiger said: Expand Cody is the best Tiger beat writer. $10 bucks for the Athletic is way better than $10 for the News or Free IF your just paying for the sports. Quote
SoCalTiger Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 2:46 AM, mtutiger said: lol Expand Burn announcers instead. Start with Jack but no need to stop there... Quote
SoCalTiger Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 3:42 AM, gehringer_2 said: Willi is on a 1/12 and that was a swinging bunt. Expand That's good news. Better to deal with bad news quickly. He can take a few others with him when he leaves... Quote
sabretooth Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 (edited) On 5/21/2022 at 4:44 AM, KL2 said: So signing a bunch of free agents doesn't automatically make you better, competitive or more enjoyable to watch? Huh who would have thunk it? Oh wait Expand So tanking for 4+ years doesn't automatically make you a championship team? Huh Oh wait....nobody actually ever argued what you said above. Edited May 21, 2022 by sabretooth Quote
gehringer_2 Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 4:52 AM, SoCalTiger said: Cody is the best Tiger beat writer. $10 bucks for the Athletic is way better than $10 for the News or Free IF your just paying for the sports. Expand News and Freep are free to me - the SO is a newspaper junkie. 1 Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 (edited) On 5/21/2022 at 2:02 PM, sabretooth said: So tanking for 4+ years doesn't automatically make you a championship team? Huh Oh wait....nobody actually ever argued what you said above. Expand They needed to sign free agents because the guy in charge since 2015 can't produce viable position players unless he drafts 1st overall Edited May 21, 2022 by Motor City Sonics Quote
chasfh Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 1:27 AM, gehringer_2 said: LOL - McCosky already has a story up at Detnews.com that tells us ...exactly nothing. LOLOL - Not to be outdone, Evan Petzold also with a story up at the Freep. That ....you guessed it....tells us exactly nothing. The "sports *reporter*" species has become extinct without ever even getting on the endangered species list. Expand Not surprising, seeing as they both get all their information from the same sources. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 So we don't know the extent of Skubal's injury yet? Gotta be career threatening because it happened this year, right? Quote
chasfh Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 4:53 AM, SoCalTiger said: Burn announcers instead. Start with Jack but no need to stop there... Expand You got it all backwards. With the team threatening to lose 100 games again, they need Jack Morris in the booth, and they need Kirk Gibson in the booth. Anything to take the focus off the current team and put it on the 1984 glory days instead. Remember when … 1 Quote
chasfh Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 (edited) We all know that Al Avila will never resign. And most of us also know that as long as Baby Doc Ilitch is in control of the team, he is never going to fire Avila. It’s a loyalty thing. Like they say in Goodfellas, it’s among the insiders, the front office lifers. It’s real greaseball shit. Edited May 21, 2022 by chasfh Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 4:54 PM, chasfh said: We all know that Al Avila will never resign. And most of us also know that as long as Baby Doc Ilitch is in control of the team, he is never going to fire Avila. It’s a loyalty thing. Like they say in Goodfellas, it’s among the insiders, the front office lifers. It’s real greaseball shit. Expand I can imagine it now..............Al calls Chris from a phone booth outside the Air Line Diner to ask how the contract talks with AJ Hinch went and "Ah, we had a problem............and we tried everything we could" "Whaddaya mean?" "You know what I mean, he's gone" "Wait" "He's gone and there wasn't nothin' we could do about it, he's gone.........that's that" Quote
gehringer_2 Posted May 21, 2022 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 4:44 PM, chasfh said: Not surprising, seeing as they both get all their information from the same sources. Expand It's pretty bad when the 'retired' freelancer nutball is still doing a better job than the regulars. Quote
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