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I think this one is outside Comerica.

Lakeland, outside of the stadium. We all pitched in and Huey and his wife had it made. Yoda was living with them back then and helped too if my memory serves me correct.

I agree with you. I think it’s clear it was Chas saying that the tigers were sabotaging their broadcast tech. I didn’t mean to suggest you were implying that.

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The pitching is a bit scary. Let's hope the big league guys stay healthy. Max didn't play Wednesday, was that just a day of rest?

Well that's no fun at all.

Where is this?

Yes, on looking at the thread you are correct. I didn't mean to imply that - the opposite really - more that the Tigers aren't doing anything just because they have little reason to. MLB is running that show and whatever is happening there is probably out the hands of the Tigers, and the Tigers concern level about any error there isn't going to rise that high because it's not that big a piece of the total audience. If the glitch is unique to the Tigers, and esp if it's at home games, it's probably a matter of something like a data kludge they had to build in a hurry between HW they had in place and the MLB system. Something that might not be there if they had had more lead time on the transition. The Tigers were very late to the party, the last team that MLB got into place IIRC

Now that the opening day salaries are out, I feel pretty comfortable posting this. I still don't know major league splits of guys who started in the minors or cash amounts recieved for Smith and Malloy, but here is roughly where we stand. Player Framber Valdez $36,466,899.38 Tarik Skubal $32,000,000.00 Javier Baez $23,333,333.33 Gleyber Torres $22,025,000.00 Jack Flaherty $17,500,000.00 Kenley Jansen $11,000,000.00 Justin Verlander $10,013,204.43 Kyle Finnegan $9,500,000.00 Drew Anderson $7,000,000.00 Casey Mize $6,150,000.00 Riley Greene $5,000,000.00 Colt Keith $4,773,750.00 Zach McKinstry $4,200,000.00 Spencer Torkelson $4,075,000.00 Will Vest $3,950,000.00 Kerry Carpenter $3,275,000.00 Matt Vierling $3,255,000.00 Jake Rogers $3,050,000.00 Tyler Holton $1,575,000.00 Enmanuel De Jesus $1,300,000.00 Beau Brieske $1,157,500.00 Dillon Dingler $834,900.00 Jahmai Jones $832,200.00 Reese Olson $818,100.00 Parker Meadows $805,300.00 Connor Seabold $800,000.00 Brant Hurter $796,200.00 Trey Sweeney $788,700.00 Troy Melton $785,500.00 Jackson Jobe $784,300.00 Bailey Horn $784,100.00 Kevin McGonigle $780,000.00 Wenceel Perez $764,521.93 Keider Montero $760,499.84 Sawyer Gipson-Long $398,462.43 Ty Madden $380,700.00 Brenan Hanifee $324,829.00 Grant Holman $300,615.45 Jace Jung $127,100.00 Drew Sommers $127,100.00 Yoniel Curet $114,186.10 Hao Yu Lee $63,600.00 Thayron Liranzo $63,600.00 Jake Miller $63,600.00 Eduardo Valencia $63,600.00 Trei Cruz $63,600.00 Tomas Nido $0.00 Burch Smith $0.00 Tanner Rainey $0.00 Bryan Sammons $0.00 Konnor Pilkington $0.00 Troy Watson $0.00 Scott Effross $0.00 Ricky Vanasco $0.00 Corey Julks $0.00 Jack Little $0.00 Tyler Mattison $0.00 Tyler Owens $0.00 Sean Guenther $0.00 Dugan Darnell $0.00 Matt Seelinger $0.00 Dylan Smith -$96,601.60 Justyn-Henry Malloy -$100,000.00 Eduardo Rodriguez -$933,333.33 Player Salaries $221,895,066.95 Pre-Arb Bonus Pool $1,666,666.67 Player Benefits $18,000,000.00 CBT Payroll $241,561,733.62 CBT Threshold $244,000,000.00 CBT Room $2,438,266.38

Is there a reason they didn’t bring up Cossa to play one of the last two games?

The self-own never ends.

Thats the trump foreign policy for sure.

Real men day trade pink sheets.

Was Zach McKinstry's injury bad? I wasn't watching live and just found out about it.

Clippers lose and are in the lottery, but the pick goes to OKC. The Thunder have a 7% chance of moving into the top 4. That changes to 9% if Phoenix loses on Friday.

I think you guys are talking about different things. Maybe I’m wrong, but G2 is simply referring to the general delay in providing the live game broadcast (tigers channel being shown on directv, comcast, spectrum, mlb, whatever) from the source (real life), relative to the shorter delay for over the air radio. Based on this conversation I’m envisioning G2 describing what happens what you set your radio next to your tv and turn up the radio volume and mute the tv (which I have definitely done in the past). Chas appears to be referring to the feature on mlb.tv services where you can select between listening 97.1 Dan or Benetti via using the audio overlay feature provided by the app. That said, I have experienced poor video/audio syncing on the mlb app for various teams and sources. Sometimes the delay is the source audio. Sometimes it is the overlay. I don’t think I have ever experienced 10 seconds. I find it to be consistently inconsistent for multiple teams/games. Usually the video broadcast audio is fine (but on rare occasions it has been off). The radio audio overlay seems to be 50/50 whether it will sync. I don’t believe that the tigers are somehow adjusting the “dials” in the background of their mlb.tv hosted broadcast to make a niche feature less functional so that more people will listen to benetti’s ad reads when watching the game on mlb.tv.

So if Montero pitches really well again, do we even want Verlander back in the rotation?

This team, the way it is now, isn't going to scratch and claw for anything. They're the softest Wings team since the 70's. Las night they could have gone out and played for pride, but instead got destroyed because they have no pride. Mo is the only one I care about. They can trade every other player and I wouldn't care, because they don't seem to.

Not meant to be an invitation to violence... "Who will rid Michigan of this meddlesome rain?"

I had a memory from my childhood of being at the Detroit Catholic Social Services pancake breakfast around Christmas one year. This would be in the 1970s, i'm about 10 yrs old. We are there because my mother, a neo-natal nurse, has signed us up to be foster parents for a 10+ year stretch of having infants in the home. We've already had them for a few years at this point. Generally one-two babies under a year old in the home at any given time and usually for just a month or so each. Occasionally we would have one for somewhat longer, we'd grow attached to those. Much harder to deal with.. Anyway, at the pancake breakfast all the kids were given door gifts wrapped up in nice shiny Christmas paper. I, for some reason, did not like the first one I got and went to the lady at the table who was giving them out. She told me she couldn't take it back unless it was wrapped. I went away to an unoccupied table to sulk but then noticed that the table cloths were made of festive looking Christmas paper and had tape holding the paper to the tables. I was able to rewrap the present with this table's paper and tape which did not look exactly like the ones that were being given out but technically it was now wrapped. She exchanged it with a "you got me" laugh and I got a cool Spitfire model airplane that helped me celebrate Christmas for me by strafing imaginary German soldiers for the rest of the morning. FTR, family is very much not Catholic. Mom was the daughter of a baptist pastor and Dad is very Anglican/Episcopal.

I don't recall seeing back-to-back plays at the plate like that before, certainly not with the flare of the slide by Baez.

pro life my ass

It was one of the worst days of my life. Towards the end of the day when it became clear that the absolutely most impossible thing, the most awful thing conceivable had happened, I don’t really have the words to express what I felt. This photo I assembled years ago captures the place Brian occupies in my grasp of our collective memory.