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Barry Weinberg told us the story of Yogi Berra, hanging out at St. Louis' spring training and talking about how he just shot a commercial for that insurance company that he called Affliction..............Nobody knew what he was talking about until he mentioned the duck and everyone was like "Oh..........Aflac" and then he said "Yeah, they got 3 of dem ducks, but none of 'em really talk".

The judges would have also accepted “Schmertification standards.”

@Tigeraholic1 posted this in the Sept 27th game thread but I think it's a worthy inclusion here:

All your sucky grammar are belong to you.

Then there was August 11, 1994. The last day of the season because the strike was coming. The Tigers were playing the Brewers that day and Bill Wegmen was warming up in the bullpen and my other friend Steve, who's 6'8" is calling balls & strikes as he's warming up and Wegman stops and looks at Steve and Steve says "lets see a strike", so Wegmen rips a strike and Steve says "that was beautiful". No issue, right. Nope, Teddy Higuera comes up to us and starts yelling at us and his accent is thick so we are not sure what he's saying but he's just really pissed off and the ushers come over to us and tell us to go to our seats. Well our seats were given to us by the Brewers broadcasting guys -- we were right behind home plate, about 20 rows up. We decided that every single pitch Wegman threw, we'd yell out BALL, which is what we did. The ump turned around and yelled that he didn't need our help. Even Lou Whitaker tried to shoosh us. We didn't care, they were going on strike and we didn't care if we got tossed. We never relented. The whole game. I am sure everyone around us hated us, but Higuera pissed us off and we were angry about the strike. The best thing Wegman had going is that the Tigers had Mike Moore pitching and we got clobbered that day, 10-4 or 10-5, something like that.

I like Alexander. He feels like a throwback, a lefty whose fastball tops at 89 and who throws offspeed crap all day. He is a nice contrast to the max effort flamethrowers and I want to reserve the number 4 spot in the rotation for him. He is the sort of guy about whom they used to say "He screws up your timing for a week".

Cabrera now with 26 hits in 21 games in Sept, good for a 347 BA. He got to this form just a couple of weeks too late to get to 3000 this season.

Wild juxtaposition honestly

Trading Mize right now would be asinine.

You still have phone books?

the bengals are terrible. lions can win that game. they can beat the eagles and steelers too. those teams arent very good either. i'd give the lions a 50% chance against cincy, 20% rams, 50% eagles, 40% steelers, 20% browns.

Brandon Inge could hit a ball up to the highest point of that dome with a fungo bat. He could also dunk a basketball, bowl a 300 game, impregnate your sister, and unite all the Christian denominations.

Can the candidate debate be him and a bottle of weed killer on stage?

That's the death of Professionalism. Certification standards, Certification Schmandards

I've had this tweet bookmarked on my toolbar for a really long time. This is what was apparently "tough" for the cameras:

Imagine thinking what he did for the cameras w/ Putin was "tough".

I guess I don't remember him being tough for the cameras. He is pootins bish thru and thru.

Rusty.

I saw that the Cardinals won their 17th straight so I decided to look up longest win streaks in MLB history to see how it stacks up. Before doing so Oakland's from Moneyball obviously came to mind but I wanted to see besides that anyone has won this many and I saw that Cleveland won 22 in a row in 2017. I have no idea why I have absolutely no recollection of this. Perhaps cause most of it was in September of that year and I and most of us on here were too busy discussing the Verlander trade and us going in the tank to think about that but wow that caught me completely off guard when I saw that. Like I have ZERO memory of that.

I get the open concourse and sightlines was all the craze at the time so you weren't going to just build a carbon copy of Tiger Stadium like the Yankees did but I wish they incorporated some aspects of the park, like maybe having one side of the outfield have the bleachers and overhang of Tiger Stadium like how Texas did with their old park.

My best friend's family owned a bar called Kenilworth Pub in Dearborn. They now own The Biergarten, also in Dearborn. I don't know why but at some point Oakland A's people started hanging out there while they stayed at the Ritz in Dearborn. We all became friends with the A's trainer, Barry Weinberg. Barry would always get us tickets when the A's were in town. One Sunday we had tickets for an A's game with Mark McGwire was still with them. These were tickets on the first base side, but we always like to sit in the first few rows of the right field upper deck. The old stadium they didn't really check, it was rarely full. We have the one guy who is always late and not 10 minutes late, like 45 minutes late, to everything. We are on our way to the game and 1st inning Tony Clark hits a home run, right to our seats. We get to the stadium, it's the 2nd inning and we are in the hallways in the lower deck, we stop to get beers and dogs and on the TV we see another HR go right to our seats, so we all rip on Steve and he unleashes an obscene-laden torrent at the top of his lungs at us (because we stopped for food and beer) that echoed through the corridors so loudly that security almost threw him out of the park. I swear that when they leveled the place and tore down that hallway, the last whoosh of air to escape still include echoes of Steve's tirade.

Steven Spielberg wanted to direct the 2nd Jaws movie, but his vision was actually a prequel and it was going to be all about the Indianapolis (the story Quint told in the original movie). That would have been pretty awesome. Who could have played young Quint? Ian McShane comes to mind. Why couldn't Spielberg do that now (with a young actor from today)?

LaRussa is a drunken hemorrhoid.

a couple things: look who has been coaching the lions. no one i would define as a "radical thinker" other than maybe schwartz, but he never had the temperament to be a head coach. all that being said, the lions should have won that dallas game. it was literally stolen from them.

Sir this is a Wendys

Absolutely. The Blame the QB crowd was so predictable and stupid.

So, question for you.................This salad dressing with the vaccine in it, is this only for oil-based vinaigrettes or more cream-based dressings like Ranch and Russian - and do they have the Vaccine Dressing in Low Fat?