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Dan D is a very comfortable listen. Out of anyone we have doing radio or TV for the Tigers, I'd consider him the most solid and consistent. And he doesn't dominate the airways. He lets whoever is in the booth with. Bobby Scales doesn't do anything for me. For a bit, I thought it was Bobby Higginson. I think their voices are reasonably similar if I remember correctly.

Yeah, my list of bands that I’d pay to see (or more accurately- leave my house to endure the public) is dwindling. Cheap Trick and Megadeth are really it. I am going to see Geoff Tate because he’s performing Mindcrime in its entirety for the last time (allegedly). I don’t want to give that douchebag my money but, I so love that album, I’ll plug my nose.

BINGO! I can deal probably with one of them on the booth because both like having fun. But when they are together, it just gets too crazy. The snowball keeps rolling and sometimes they seemingly forget there is a game going on four three innings. Sometimes I think they do this purposely when they are on droughts for weeks. But here's the problem. Let's say the snowball is rolling on a 1 out of a 100 at the end of a game (100 being never stopping the snowball). By the end of this game they may be a 10. They don't start the next game at a 1 or even drag it back to a 5. You feel like it's a season-long battle to keep one-upping the other and so they start the next game at a 10 and before you know it they are at 100 and it just gets too crazy. And their only way to break it up is by bringing the same special guest booth member they've already had 10 times during the season. 🙂 When I see Dirks in different scenarios when Benetti is gone, I think he has the right blend. That's even true with Benetti. He's still going to force some silly pop culture thing he wrote down four hours ago if it fits or not, but one or two of those are fine. I get the feeling if I personally new Benetti, I'd think he's a great guy. He probably is. But in the broadcast, it just taxes me. And Dan Petry still can't cope with it all. Petry probably needs someone there to carry the broadcast because he is kind of bland to say the least, and Benetti does do that. But even then he needs to do it in doses. When he says something and you get the feeling Petry is clueless about what he's talking about, it doesn't help Dan.

We see Cooper, Weird Al, Godsmack, Poison, Def Leppard, Motley Crue and a few others pretty much anytime they come to the area. We are slowing down on that now because even getting tickets to see Cooper (he's still a great act but he is old) is in the $150 range. So, it's likely we won't see him after this show. And, we probably are going to drop other concerts we may have attended. We'd rather go to the UP for a weekend or something like that with our $$$.

After the All-Star Break is when I finally started watching other games a bit deeper than I typically do. I'm usually putting my TV on a soccer game, some mid-major college basketball game or the golf channel during the winter, but after the All-Star Break I kind of started watching more of the other teams in the Eastern Conference when I saw they were on. So maybe since that is still pretty "new" to my watching, I enjoy it a little more. But that said, so many of those games never have full teams playing anyway, so it's hard to understand what you are seeing anyway. I actually had the Lakers and Mavs on for a good chunk last night. I never watch Western Conference games like that, but just keeping any NBA game on is now starting to sink in my brain than it has over the last 10 years (minus the end of last season a little bit).

I am pretty sure they will add four more teams (which is too many) when they expand but I don't see them adding 8.

The financial stuff that Edman detailed matters in how the transaction was processed (cash deal versus player swap), but I question whether it had much if any impact on the decision to let him go. I would hope it didn't anyway. I think they have the most depth on the 40-man roster than they had in my lifetime and they don't have guys that can easily be dropped now. He's a reliever who may be useful, but probably doesn't have a great deal of upside.

That may be true, but I think what probably rekindles interest is the team doing well. That's what brings casual fans back. For example, people loved Mario and Rod and they embraced them. But, if 2006 doesn't happen like the way it does the fan base doesn't return to make that summer the high ratings the Tigers' broadcasts were. There may be an element of what you say is true, but I'd argue it's 80% winning baseball, and now that it's happened that makes people associate them with good times and makes people probably enjoy them more. That doesn't really happen when a team goes 70-92 every season.

There's nothing wrong with being in a bubble if your goal is to entertain yourself. I've resigned myself that I don't care anymore to hear what Tom Nichols or George Conway have to say anymore. it's just repeating the same thing over and over. I'd rather follow Noir Chick in Old Hollywood to see classic beauties of yesteryear or NASA **** or Codify

its all of a piece with the shrinking media alternatives to the voice of the oligarchs.

I have two accounts, one for baseball, one for politics, and I have cleaned the magats out of my political feed and don't have to encounter them. Some may say that's merely wrapping myself in bubble wrap to protect my snowflake sensibilities from alternative points of view. Me, I view it as simply avoiding people who throw bombs for kicks.

Rakestraw tore his ACL at Missouri too, so it wasn't just the sports hernia injury that he had.

By the way, here is how the red-pilled media are reporting the massive cuts to programs for people: Yup ... funded "partly" by "trimming" "certain" "healthcare programs". Meaning double digit cuts to "certain healthcare programs" like commerce, housing, interior, agriculture, labor, and diplomacy. Apparently we have an endless budget for death, but we simply can't afford life.

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For the record, I'm NOT trying to dumb on Holmes here. I think he is definitely more willing to flyers on these guys and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Generally speaking he's spending fewer assets to get them so, over all, I think it's probably work the risk. I'm just saying that I feel there's enough to a history here that a joke about a guy in the draft being more attractive to Holmes because he has an injury is on point.

While we are wasting our time chasing around cat pointer stories like Kristi Noem's husbands boobs and FEMA officials teleporting to waffle houses ...

If the goal is to find football players in their young 20s who have not suffered a serious injury in the prior ten years while playing a violent game at a high level, you're going to struggle to succeed. Double that if the goal is to find a cheap free agent who has played several years of professional football into their mid- to late-20s. I would also push back on at least some of these. Jamo has been a success. Chark was a success. Rakestraw's hernia happened with the Lions. He started every game his junior year at Missouri, and missed four his senior year due to a groin injury that to my knowledge has not reoccurred. Mitchell was a 5th round pick. Levi didn't miss a game at Washington. Paschal missed one game in his last three years at Kentucky. To the extent that Holmes may be a little more willing to take a high-ceiling guy with some injury concerns, I agree. But I don't think it's that pronounced.

but I question the effectiveness now. I still use the site but I'm finding it less useful for what I liked it for. If it's just a bunch of crackpot right wingers talking to each other, and arguing, then it's just an AOL chat room. I just it for entertainment and sports.

I don't think Benetti's national aspirations affect his willingness or ability to still do Tiger Games unless he wants summers off or to work less in the summer. The overlap with football and college BB is a short window.

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But he strikes out too much

Holmes has a history of taking flyers on guys who were injured or had regular injuries in the past Draftees: Jameson Williams - Torn ACL Hender Hooker - Torn ACL Ennis Rakestraw - Sports hernia surgery James Mitches - Knee/Leg injury Levi Onwuzurike - Chronic back issues Josh Paschal - Leg injury in his final college season Free agents: Emmanuel Moseley (x2) Marcus Davenport DJ Chark Isaiah Pacheco Even with more limited success of late in the draft, I don't think anyone is seriously questioning Holmes skill as GM. But I think it's fair to say that he has a history to looking to catch lightning in a bottle with guys who are injured. Beyond all that, I think it was mostly intended as a joke.

My guess is yes. Based on: Ernie - Blaha - Scully - Michaels - Raftery - Vitale - etc the great ones seem to go forever. It's a pretty sweet gig and you have an offseason to relax and recreate.

Max Sat DNP; Sun 2/4, 2B think he has 3 OF assists as well, still needs to improve the 50% ground ball rate, but great start, SSS alert obvi

Brad Holmes is getting excited!