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I found this 8 x 11 photo I took with my first digital camera (It was huge and used discs). I wondered when it was. Thanks to Baseball Reference I was able to figure it out - very quickly. The only season Dean Palmer played for the Tigers while they were at Tiger Stadium was 1999. I went and looked at all the Box Scores from night games when the Indians were in town and only one had the corresponding inning-by-inning run count indicated on the LF scoreboard. This was September 23, 1999. Dean Palmer batting against Charles Nagy in the 3rd inning. Tony Clark was on first base. Dean lined out to RF. The Tigers won that game 7-5. They had only 4 more games at The Corner and I went to all of them. Man, I love Baseball Reference.

I decided to do a Google Street view tour of East Garfield Park and even the little orange Google guy got shot and robbed.

So heyjackass.com is a real website. I thought Buddha was just being a dick.

I see you Jim Price.

San Francisco up 23-7 with about 20 minutes left in Jerry World. Always a fun tradition to watch Dallas be eliminated.

I never was huge on collecting autographs so I have close to nil... However, a huge exception is that I put together a complete 1953 Topps set and, therefore, when they came out with the Archives reprint set for 1953 - I, like countless/ numerous others, chased after every living baseball player that was in that set, for an autograph. I've got all autos that are possible from that set. Although I did not get all of the following autos myself (including the graded "Authentic Auto" by PSA or SGA of Mantle, Mays and Aaron), her are a few of those cards: Tigers or Tiger-related (Groth and Virgil Trucks had just been traded to the Browns... for nothing good... notice Groth says Browns but is wearing a Tigers cap):

Deserve's got nothing to do with it

Are the Sabres playing under 25% capacity limits, lol?

suffice to say, i dont agree with almost all of this post. lol. tater, you and i come from different perspectives. but we can both agree that america has a long history of racism that has created the structural disadvantages that help create the black-white inequality we see today. at least i think we can agree on that. 🙂

I couldn't find a family friendly picture for that.

So let me get this straight... the same people who bitch and moan about lax enforcement of immigration law in this country find it a crime against humanity when other countries execute immigration law as they see fit?

I don't plan that far ahead.

Not as many pitched every fourth as people think. There were maybe one or two pitchers on a staff that did that consistently. They sure pitched a lot of innings, but with fewer home runs, they were less stressful innings. Pitchers could coast in certain batters and save their best stuff for key spots. Maybe they can offensive and defensive teams like football. 😃

I'll stop with these... 1936 National Chicle "Fine Pen" premiums of Hank Greenberg, Goose Goslin & Roger Hornsby":

1935 (4-in-1 with Mel Ott) & 1936 (Pepper Martin) Goudeys, 1955 Bowman Ernie Banks and Mickey Mantle, and a 1929 Kashin (R-316) Pie Traynor:

Some pins from 1910 (Sweet Caporal Tobacco) and 1932 (Tattoo Orbit Gum), a couple of Cracker Jack cards from 1915 including Rabbit Maranville, and a few 1933 & 1934 Goudeys:

Some other Tigers odds and ends (the stamp in the middle is a George Burke photo stamp of Jimmie Foxx, obviously not a Tiger), surrounded by two unused World Series tickets from 1968, a W-517 of Lu Blue (another Browns in a Detroit cap!!!), 1955 Topps Doubleheader J.W. Porter and Mickey Cochrane from 1936, R-312 Premium series:

Interestingly, in 1941, because of the war breaking out for the U.S., Play Ball experimented with pure paper cards instead of cardboard (not certain how cardboard was part of the war effort, but, anyways...); very hard to get these paper cards in any decent condition, but I did get a few:

Livonia and Northville and the "I-275 corridor" have a significant Japanese presence. Its not nearly as big a deal as the Polish in Hamtramck used to be but it is there. Probably, there are more Indian born than Japanese actually but the Japanese/auto industry interaction is real.

Pitchers not being able hit was not as big of a problem when the DH was first introduced in 1973. I always thought it was fun that some pitchers could bat and some couldn't. A pitcher could really give himself and his team an advantage if he could hit. I guess it is worse now because pitchers have not batted their entire life and practically all of them are anemic.

This is accurately portraying how the alt-right want this to go.

Was going to get a couple of Elton John tickets at Comerica Park. The advertised price was $55 each. I expect fees to be added. The fees were $48. I can afford that, no problem, but sorry, I refuse to pay that kind of fee. I just can't do it. Wouldn't even be a physical ticket. $43 Convenience Fee. What the fuck does that even mean? Convenient for whom? It's just wrong. Those kind of fees should be included in the advertised price. It should be a law. By the way, I do get free tickets to a lot of shows becsuse of radio, so maybe this has been going on for a long time. When I bought Wilco tickets for Chicago last year it was $16 in fees. Not happy with that, but I can deal with that. But $48? Not a chance.

The DH is no longer an experiment. It is the state of the game. Every league above high school uses it. Only two leagues in the world do not. Pitchers will never get any better at hitting for a simple reason: they never work on it. Why should they? They never hit in college, they never hit in wood bat leagues, they never hit in foreign rookie leagues, and they never hit in the minor leagues. Most pitchers hardly step to the plate even in the major leagues. Of the 901 current active pitchers who have played in the majors, 242 of them haven't logged even a single plate appearance, and exactly have of them have three or fewer career plate appearances. Why bother working on your hitting if you're basically never going to hit? Every moment a pitcher works on his hitting is a moment spent not working on his pitcher. It would be a waste of his time. The only pitchers who have the luxury of working on their hitting are those who receive guaranteed multi-year contracts with National League teams. Sure, it was fun to watch Jon Lester work hard so he could get his first big league hit and home run, but he still ended up hitting .115 for his career. And that's what a good-hitting pitcher hits. Too often, too many pitchers try to make outs, on purpose and sometimes under manager's orders, to preserve his health for his pitching. They'll swing half-heartedly at pitches not intending to hit them (which would be a disaster because they might accidentally get a hit and have to risk injury on base), or more likely, just watch three strikes go right down the pipe. Some people might find that charming, but I think trying to make out makes for a dishonest at-bat, and I don't find it charming to watch the guy at the plate try to make out on purpose. Bring on the universal DH.

No one impressed by the Jobe how about a slightly older 1907 Ty Cobb?

Nothing that comes out of his mouth should be trusted and we should keep saying it. Even on rare occaions when he tells the truth, it is for self serving reasons. Every con artist has to to tell the truth once in a while. It's part of the con. He is the biggest con man in US history and the number of perople who have fallen for his act is stunning. His supporters and apologists should be reminded of that at every opportunity.

Too bad he couldn’t make one of the greatest defensive play calls in history to get them out of that mess.

I can't believe there wasn't a question about cargo shorts.