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When I was a kid, we had no internet. I had to wait until Friday to get all the stats in The Sporting News.

Did you take this picture from inside a microwave?

Chris I. just doesn't want to spend any money /s

Bread wrappers over your feet before you put on your moon boots. The upper crust wore the national brand names. My 'hood was full of store brand bread wrappers.

I view this factoid as a positive. .500 baseball for an extended period of time is a real triumph for this team, given the injuries and obvious roster deficiencies. I believe the Tigers are 2-games under since starting the season 2-9. Can’t be too upset about that.

That was eery. I don't want to see that happen to anyone.

I recall pouring over stats in the Sunday papers. The league qualifiers were sorted by AVG and ERA. Seems so primitive. And Baseball Weekly (makes sign of the cross), God bless the old Baseball Weekly arriving on Wednesdays. Those stats were almost a series too old, but damnit if they weren't worth studying anyway.

Old enough to remember bread wrappers over shoes

You had an elevator? We had to shimmy up a rope to the fourth floor. The stairs stopped at the second floor

We didn't have a servant's elevator in my building. We had to ride up in the same elevator car with the unwashed. Luckily there was a velvet rope to keep them on their side.

So this happened last night and The Bear fans can appreciate. Couple of my buddies are bike builders. So we just get back from a ride and Rick said he has a client coming to pick up his latest build. Who is waiting at the shop door? Matty Matheson! Here are some shots of the build, the bike is a 1966 Shovelhead.

They've had two horrible streaks during the season...the start and the 9 game losing streak. Aside from that, it's been a mid team

The Upper Peninsula has historically fielded a number of hardball teams every year for decades. Guys in their twenties, thirties and a few in their forties would form travel teams and play out their baseball fantasies in front of avid fans. Back when I was in my forties or fifties, Felch (near Iron Mountain) had a great team. They had a Sunday game scheduled and word was that former Tigers John Hiller, who played regularly for Felch, had invited Fydrich to pitch for Felch. My cousin and I, not really expecting that to be true, took a ride down there to catch the game. I don't recall the score but Felch won and that's the only time I saw "The Bird" live. It wasn't long after his major league career was over and his "stuff" was still pretty good.

Am I the only one who couldn't care less about Hunter Biden? I don't care if he goes to prison or gets some sweetheart deal from the feds. But its so heartwarming to see Republicans agreeing with the notion that no one is above the law. I'm sure they'll be consistent no matter who is on trial.

Coming soon to Allen Park.

He didn't get to 1.05%, so it doesn't matter, he's a miser who doesn't care /s

teddy is likely waiting for someone to get hurt in training camp.

Deuce probably knows of some family friendly brothels.

Same here!

looks like Trei was pissed Wenceel got promoted to Toledo

Ah the summers in Fallujah..

I loved Christmas. Our hair shirts were trimmed to a much more comfortable length.

My kids complained about our vacations being boring. I sent them to Fallujah.

Hopefully that lazy and inaccurate narrative will start to go away.

Buyers are trying to bargain bin shop before the deadline. I don't need your pitchers, I just got a crappy starter and two subpar relievers. Would you take my unranked prospect for your number one starter though? I don't need him but I'll do you a favor.

Ahh - you mean in terms of Hinch trying to send Harris a message? Yeah, that is certainly one angle on it. But jeesh, he can't just pick up the phone and ask? But to follow on that aspect, you can go the other way too. The story would run: Hinch has a soft spot for catchers - Haase has worked hard to improve his defense, Hinch appreciates that, is pulling too hard for him and maybe got too soft-hearted giving him chances to pull out of his slump. Either take you think might apply - and maybe in some sense both - it wont go in my book as one of his best moves as a manager.

Dude, its 26. Get with the times, old man. 😁

Jake (2/4 HR) was the next batter, then the top of the order. You'd flat out send Nevin roses if he walked Cabrera to get to Jake. And the "2 for" made no sense anyway - if Cabrera gets on there happens to be a catcher that can't hit with good wheels available to PR. Hinch had a brain fart and then fed the post game crew some CYA BS, and being well trained in Detroit sports lap-dog journalism they happily slurped it up. Look, I get that the team should not be acting at the GM level with any illusions about the playoffs with respect to personnel. But that is a very different question then whether you still have an obligation to do you damndest to win every game on the field.

Mistakes were made behind him, but he was also hit hard. He wasn't as sharp as he has been in other games.

Toledo L 14-7 Meadows 1/4 BB K Malloy 2/5 K Keith 1/4 BB 2K Sands 1/4 3RBI HR Perez 0/4 K E Erie W 7-3 Cruz 3/4 2 HR 3B BB 5RBI Bigbie 1/5 K SB Jung 0/3 Serretti 0/2 BB K Mattison 1IP K WM L 4-1 Campos 0/3 BB 3K Allen 1/4 K Gold 1/4 K Turnbull 2IP 2H 1K Lakeland W 9-8 Stephenson 2/4 2RBI BB 2B SB CS Kriedler 0/3 BB K Bastidas 1/3 Santana 3/4 RBI HR 2 2B Sequera 2/4 3RBI HR FCL GM 1 L 15-12 Gil 5/5 3BI 2 2B Briceno 1/4 BB Perez 1/3 3RBI 2BB 2SB Diaz 2/4 BB FCL GM 2 W 4-3 Gil 2/3 2RBI HR 3B BB Briceno 1/3 RBI Perez 0/3

Don't forget my guy Doug Jones. That dude kicks so much ass

In a season where I didn't have much in the line of expectations, a 50/50 chance in any ballgame is an oasis from the past several years. Baseball generally is a 50/50 proposition, but obviously the Tigers have found the under more often than not. So, seeing prolonged stretches of .500 is better than what we've had. And, yes, in addition to the injuries digging into the roster, the roster at healthy isn't really set up for success to begin with. I think a lot of folks understood this as a bit of a transition or evaluation season, or some such thing. It sucks because we're desperate for a winner, but given the changes made very late last season and into the offseason, well, OK, fine. But show the fans something next season. Address the offense. Cabrera, to his credit he's hit reasonably well enough this season, is a PH only hole on the roster that can be used for an actual full time player. Make that happen. Maton, McKinstry, Ibanez, and Short cannot all be teammates next season unless they are the absolute end of the bench rather than everyday/platoon pieces. Greene, Torkelson, and Carpenter can go everyday and I think its fair to assume more maturity in their games. Baez will be back. I think Vierling shows enough of a complete game to be an everyday player. Rogers is showing he can be a primary C. That's 6 spots of a lineup, 5 everydays and the primary C. Now, it isn't what I would suggest should be the top 6 of the order, not at all. But in the American League Central, I think it can be a start to a competitive team next season. Can they acquire a bat(s) for the top 3rd, middle 3rd, bottom 3rd of the lineup? A leadoff hitter ahead of Greene and a proven RISP type of hitter (if one exists) to hit 4/5? I don't know.

Are we "showcasing" Haase? LOL!!!! Like showcasing Grossman last year. I think that this sort of move is how you start to lose the clubhouse. All the players love Haase, and it isn't his fault that he got sent up there where he couldn't succeed, but the young players have to be side-eying him now and thinking "I thought we were trying to win?".

It is my unsolicited opinion that most of the posters in this political forum would like the movie Oppenheimer. I just watched it and I thought it was really good.

Have to pinch hit Cabrera for Maton, right?

Nice to smack the **** out of Estevez

playing the IF in there? Righhhhhht.

Rodriguez doing his best to lower his trade value. Maybe he wants to stay?

brian kelly kills a kid. georgia has more speeding than daytona speedway. but michigan gets a coach suspended because he bought a kid a hamburger and then wouldnt kiss the ncaa's ass over it.

and not to lose the forest for the trees, I just read that by 11/2024, the 2016 electorate will have rolled over by 52 million voters. No matter what else is happening, for the R's to still have a shot you would have to assume that purple trending boomers are turning hard red as fast as hard blue millennials are entering the electorate, and I have my doubts that can be close to true. I know well enough that people have been predicting demographic armageddon for the GOP for a while now without it coming to pass, but we've never had the young side entering cohort be so monolithically on one side.

Charlie Kirk 😆

I’ve told this story before, but the MNF Fidrych game was truly one of the most memorable days of my childhood. Last day of school, 3rd grade or Grade 3, had been the Friday before. I was turning 9 in two days so we held my birthday party in the lower deck in left with Family Night tickets. My parents, a couple of uncles, a few of my friends. I was a baseball nut/nerd then so knew all about Fidrych’s progression over the past two months and so was excited that he was the starter. But having been to weeknight games several times in the past, we were expecting a crowd of 20,000 or so. When we got there and saw our normal parking lots full and then the throngs walking over the pedestrian covered overpasses we were stunned. But boy did that ratchet up the excitement. For a few minutes we were worried that the game was sold out, as that was the rumour, but managed to buy tickets. I remember almost everything about that night. Especially the curtain call. Went to many other Fidrych starts in 1976 and 1977, I wish more radio or TV broadcasts of his starts were available.

Shep doesn't bother me as much as CMOE does.

Yeah, you need to make the most of your draft picks which Weaver struck out with in his first draft although I'd say that Stewart is fine for a #16 pick while Presti has been a drafting savant for the most part. With that said, he had a Paul George to dangle for a major return just as Orlando had with Vucevic and Gordon, Houston with Harden, San Antonio with Murray, Utah with Mitchell and Gobert etc. Then again, you need to draft and develop well to turn these guys into assets but still... Weaver was a victim of the previous regimes failures, speak of Mitchell for example.

hollinger in the athletic on the summer league underachievers: pistons frontcourt also a special mention for jaden ivey playing poorly. i would put an asterix on that. ivey played poorly when duren and wiseman were on the floor at the same time. no spacing. and everyone's play decreases when wiseman is on the floor because he is a black hole on offense and oblivious on defense.