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I didn't even entertain the idea of taking him out after the sixth inning, but maybe you are right. I don't know. I don't think it hurt to try to extend him an out or two more. I guess we can argue it almost cost the team the game, but if we lost, I wouldn't have been upset with keeping him in. I would've done the same.

I haven't legitimately watched a TV series since Breaking Bad. I started watching Better Call Saul, and it was fine, but somewhere down the line I lost interest in it. I'm sure I'll see the end one day. I was really upset that Gus wasn't the one that got the spinoff show. If there was ever a cooler villain than Gus, I don't know who it was.

I mostly read six-month "books" I have of old Sporting News newspapers these days. I'm reading one with 1965 papers in it right now. I wish something like TSN still existed today, especially the way it was before I started subscribing at 9 in 1978 to it. I thought that it was the greatest sports publication in the history of man back then. But when you see the detail TSN had with baseball (and the minors) even just 5, 10 or 20 years earlier, gosh was it awesome. I have an SABR subscription so whenever I feel the urge I'll go through a year's worth of Tiger articles, PDF them and put them in a notebook to read. They are great for my Tiger replays. ------- I just started reading a book that focuses on Greenberg's 1938 season (there was a previous book that focused on his career) and I was reading that until I misplaced it. I'll find it again. Until then, I'm starting to read a book on Boots Poffenberger. If you don't know who that is check into your 1930s Tiger history. 🙂

Really wish Hinch had taken the ball from Montero after the 6th. Maybe with a 4 game series coming up, they were trying to preserve as many bullpen innings as possible.

I think it's worth the gamble. The possible strike probably made this easier to make it happen.

Now that the Wings are done (maybe some Pistons playoff games will be broadcast there), what is the station doing? I wonder if they can steal some Mudhens games. Maybe they can show some 1980s roller derby matches.

Went home and split my work shift to watch the second half of the game. Glad I did. Fun one to watch.

They’re good enough, they’re smart enough, and gosh darn it we like them… for the most part…

This fits here. A buddy of mine told me today he took his car to the dealer for routine maintenance. Oil change, tire rotation, inspection, the normal X you pay for the checkup. They couldn't get his tires off without ruining the lugnuts so they had to replace them. $322 for those fine little puppies - all 20 of them I think - if it has 5 nuts per wheel. That's a quick $16 buck a nut. That's ****ing NUTS! Pun intended. 🙂 An automotive lugnut is made by cold forming a round piece of steel by force and spit them out by the hundreds or thousands per hour. Probably cost the car companies pennies each. They ship in bins by truck from satellite suppliers to the automakers. And sometimes they do a secondary operation. What is happening here; marketing decided they need really nice chrome lugnuts to look pretty, so they stamped a chrome plated cover over the cold formed nut since it's grey and ugly. Over time, the cover expands, and the guy in the dealership can't get a socket and air wrench on the lugnuts to get them off. Really dumb idea, but they did it anyway. Another case where marketing overruled sound design and engineering and the customer eats the cost of their greed, stupidity, or both.

They may never lose again.

there is a lot of money at work in Virginia. The Yes vote leads the polling but you have to worry if the assault weapon stuff might bring the crazies out to register a protest.

Clemente vs Lolich 71 ASG Tiger Stadium Can someone tell me how to embed tweets? https://x.com/BBGreatMoments/status/2044900642548801566?s=20

****in A! This is all nuts. Markets at all time high while the world burns and the observers don't know rather to **** or get off the pot.

It might rain earlier in the day, but at game time it’s supposed to be cloudy and in the low 50° range. So this game is doable.

Mize vs Suarez

If we keep that up, we’re 90 win team.

we are now a winning team again.

Chasfh - Yes, I *do* absolutely believe that the radio broadcast has done time compression/expansion to lengthen the commercial breaks in the past, but I do not know if they are doing it now because I haven't checked this season at all. There have certainly been times when I've had MLB audio going with the gameday cartoon or even the video broadcast that I had previously synced and the cartoon has made a pitch or two or the video returns before Dan comes back, and then magically the radio catches up. Using the gameday cartoon is not really definitive proof since we know that has random buffering or entry glitches all the time, but I've seen enough in the past to be reasonably persuaded that on the audio side they are playing games in the time domain. IIRC I even stop watched the radio breaks and they where exceeding 2min at innings when they should not have. I had forgotten about that in the earlier discussion - since as I noted, I don't have enough of an issue with the current videocast to be doing what you are doing anymore. That makes me wonder if they only do it on the audio fed to web-stream, or if it's in the OTA source as well?. I suppose if it's the same commercial grid it must be in the original broadcast, but I don't know for a fact if the commercials OTA are the same as in the stream feed. It's a huge temptation since with digital audio It's trivially easy to speed up or slow down audio while holding the frequency distribution perfectly constant or just slicing silence, making it very hard to detect by ear.

Well, of course.

I like her too and I dislike most politicians.

He is a doctor. The patient has Covid. That is why he's shining a light up his nose.

For me it was that the streaming audio was behind enough that I could pause the directv feed via the built in DVR by a second or so. I couldn’t use the radio because that was far ahead of the satellite feed. But the streaking audio was a different story and allowed for easier “pause-play” on my direct remote until it matched.