Brian Love

Engineering prof, author of 2 books including a biomaterials text & “Corked, tales of advantage in sports”. Lucky 4 2 great kids & wife. Hate the drive thru!

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our recent story on what's behind baseball's home run surge is out https://t.co/GANUmBsvPU via @ConversationUS

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@Castellani2014 Mission accomplished.

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@tigers Torkelson has finally made it to the top 10 in strikeouts. It took real dedication and a 40% K rate over the last 6 weeks to zoom past Riley Greene. He’s only 4Ks away from the top 5.

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@NormOrnstein @MSNOWNews Call it 52 minutes just to acknowledge the commercials and give the viewers a break.

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@trulineapp @tigers @whitesox Its at this point I the game that you start thinking about the new ways that the Tigers will fish this game away. It's been a remarkable May.

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@Castellani2014 He didn’t seem to need any help from the tigers hitting coaches and they seem to be leaving him alone. He is also not stubborn to keep doing the same thing when what he is trying isn’t working. He’s resourceful.

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@jacquie_rn @ProjectLincoln He’s had such a challenge facing reality. Death has a way of making things real. Hopefully someone has the guts to tell him to his face to get his affairs in order.

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@jacquie_rn With or without the LVAD strapped to him?

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@tigers Wasn’t he just on the IR list for this in April?

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@TigersJUK Just what is the conditioning program in Detroit? We know there’s no hitting coach or they’d be better. Now they drop like fireflies. Surprised aj hasn’t pulled a hammy walking out to the mound.

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@TigersJUK I feel badly for a majority of the players having to buy into a failed system. Chris fetter, yes. But guys like Ike parades have exposed the flaws in the DET system not objectively evaluating talent and not advising players on how to actually get better. They don’t know how.

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@Castellani2014 Maybe the reds want him!

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@tigers 8 of the 13 position players are below the Mendoza line. It isn’t a matter of not playing competent players. There isn’t anyone on the bench who is a better bat.

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@TigersJUK 84 cubs went to the playoffs and management brought back all the key starters. In 85, by June 1, the entire starting staff was in the DL. A lot of similarities. Oh, the 85 cubs were terrible that year.

[Nicki 🫧🪷 @nickimoraa]

My son was 15 when he asked to sleep over at a friend’s house “with a few people over.”
I said no.
He stomped upstairs like I’d ruined his entire existence.
About twenty minutes later, my phone rang.
It was another teenager.
This child actually introduced himself like he was calling HR.
“Hi, Ms. Taylor, I just wanted to know why Jacob can’t come tonight.”
I told him I didn’t know the parents, I didn’t know who would be there, and I wasn’t comfortable with it.
Long silence.
Then he goes, “Well… everyone else’s parents said yes.”
Okay? Congratulations to everyone else.
Then he tried the guilt trip. “Jacob said you never let him do anything.”
Sir. You are literally a sophomore in high school. Why are we holding a board meeting about my parenting decisions?
I repeated no.

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@TigersJUK It’s shocking to see that the twins have kreidler now playing center field and he could not hit above the Mendoza line in 4 years with Detroit but give him a real hitting coach and he’s hitting .293 with 2 home runs already this year.

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@Castellani2014 What is malpractice for the tigers is that they keep putting him out there and they have done nothing to make him better or he is too stubborn to listen.

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@idk_anymorebru @IffyTheDopester Like golf, baseball is a game of inches. The 5 b/w the temples. He doesn’t have much there. the problem is that hitters don’t get better in DET. They are as good as they come. Fetter has made pitchers better. The batting coaches stink. Cabrera didn’t need to improve

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@TigersJUK It’s striking that he actually never got better in all his years with Detroit. Either he’s stubborn or Detroit sucks at position player development or both. That is one gaudy K rate this year for him.

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@TigersJUK Sadly, the trainer had no way to talk skubal into walking off. Maybe fetter could have. Trainer is getting paid maybe 150k. Skubal. How much. 25 million?

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@Castellani2014 They might be activating you by the 7th inning.