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One of my prized possesions are these tigers seats. My kids were little and we did not have much disposable income back then and my wife almost killed me but the rest is history!

You know, if you run for office, that will be used against you one day.

Tin foil hate time: They leaked fakes in order to keep people from trying to find other leaks and/or discredit other potential leaks.

I have a pair also and the shipping $ to California had me sleeping in the garage for a awhile as well..😀

It's a flawed team with limited offense(by design). They need to win on the margins with pitching and defense until some of the offense shows itself. The margins stuff was bad today.

That was another pretty decent AB by Javy. He did not swing out of the zone, got the ball in play on a tough pitch.

His makeup is starting to run. I would increase the temp every day by 1-2 degrees and watch him melt.

I pass over a fairly busy rail line every day on the drive to and from work. Its a straight stretch in each distance and the commuter train which presumably is going to or from Chicago has to be doing 70 MPH through there. So, trains are to sound their horns when approaching these crossings. I oblige and honk back sometimes. It just seems the polite thing to do.

I'll never forgive myself for not getting some. My kids were also young and I had just had to pay for some things, including two tuxedo rentals for a wedding and at that very moment I couldn't justify the few hundred. I don't make that mistake anymore. I always tell myself "In 5 years I won't miss this money"

They need a complete reset moreso than any other NBA franchise right now even the Pistons simply because the Pistons at least have some growth potential with the young guys, the Hawks maxed out a few years ago and are now stuck in no mans' land. Trae Young is not a winning player, get what you can for him and move on.

Just please get rid of the WCF patch on there. So might as well have a patch that says SOL if you're going to continue to honor the worst owner in the history of professional sports.

I remember almost catching my first foul ball sitting in the front row on the first base side looking down the third base line. I could have spit on the home plate umpire from there. RHB hit a beeline right to me. Just as I was about to get my hands on it, a buddy of mine, who I treated to the game with tickets I got from my dad's work, reached over and snagged the ball from in front of me, then had the gall to giggle and laugh and say look dude I caught a ball! I mean, technically, it was fair game, I guess. But we didn't hang out much after that.

Some of the things wrong: If you go to PA to talk to a PA audience that is 2.5 hours away from Gettysburg... that would be like going to I dunno, Detroit to talk to people about Muskegon. If you talk to a PA audience about Gettysburg maybe celebrate the fact that the Union was saved there. Maybe not celebrate the confederate general who if he had only been better at his job might have been smarter about his disposition of forces. And General Robert E. Lee was a confederate general and therefore a traitor. Of course he wouldn't be in favor. Lee was not a leprechaun and didn't talk like he was worried about people stealing his gold. He lost his great general? Not at Gettysburg he didn't. He might have meant Stonewall Jackson who died in May 1863. Notable: Lee was never Bill or Ted from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" or a member of the Bluth family from "Arrested Development" and therefore did not say "Wow, that was a big mistake" Also, Lee ordered Pickett's Charge and the assaults on Little Round Top and Culp's Hill so he definitely did want his troops to fight uphill. Biden meanwhile just spent his Saturday night in the situation room of the White House coordinating with multiple allies and defeating an Iranian attack. He has been assembling coalitions in response to the threat to Taiwan and Russia's aggression in Ukraine. He may be older, but he's not a drooling adderal-sniffing idiot.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/dbacks-eduardo-rodriguez-60-day-injured-list.html dodged a bullet

Does Tork have a minus WAR yet?

I said it in a previous outing, but they can't hide him forever.... if he's gonna be here, they're going to have use him.

That's about as on-time as Mr. Tork has been all year.... just smoked that ball

Bad case of homeritis.

It's a really good question, but while Manning isn't the best pitcher ever, if Maeda doesn't improve and continues to maintain a 7-8 ERA, he's too good to leave down there. I don't know if that entails moving Maeda to long relief or what, but something has to give there.

find a reason to put him on the DL

Sounds like he'll be in the lineup tomorrow for GR

We consistently sign expired high priced talent.

Looks like I got here just in time for the good stuff!

Not sure why you keep harping on Greene when he’s one of the few non-black holes in the lineup.

Meatball Maeda

Leiter hasn’t had a good minor league career, so it’s already written in stone that he goes five shutout innings with nine K’s today.

Oh crap, looks like we're going to be tortured by CMOE today 🤒

Not sure which paper, but a reporter took Amtrak from NY to SF and of course the fuel use by the train per passenger mile was far higher than a plane would have been. By his numbers (which he didn't provide) 700 miles was the crossover where air was more fuel efficient than rail. With planes you minimize fuel use by minimizing takeoffs, thus efficiency goes up with trip length. The great unknown in the story was how full his train was for that calc. A SRO Acela on the east coast is probably very fuel efficient. A mostly empty cross country Amtrak not so much. The primary virtue of rail is it's scalability. Once you have a track you can move an almost arbitrarily large number of people on it at low marginal cost. Airports run out of gates and landing slots and those are very hard constraints. But rails need your entire urban geography to be conformed to where the tracks are, and unlike Europe, for the last 100 yrs in the US our urban geography was evolved in almost exactly the opposite direction. Big lift to change that! But urban light rail still seems to be the tech that can move the most people intra urban distances for the least cost and least congestion. I've always been partial to electric buses/trolleys. We still had them in Det when I was young.

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI Game Time Forecast: Parlty Cloudy 68 Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: Bally Sports Detroit Starters: RHP Dane Dunning LHP Tarik Skubal *Shame on me for not posting this pic yesterday.

True, but there is also a method to Hinch's madness. If you want players to believe that they don't have to worry about the outcome of their individual ABs, that they just need to stay with their plans, then for them to believe you, you have to commit to not sitting them every time their outcomes are bad, but the necessary flipside of that is you don't change your line-up plans just because someone has a good outcome day either. Now one can certainly say the whole idea is wrong and that riding hot hands is a better management strategy overall. But that's a broader discussion. I think Hinch is being consistent within the system he is implementing. IIRC, Sparky was big on giving guys off when they were on hot streaks. I was never really on board with that, but then again, I always thought Sparky was over rated as a manager. Not saying he was bad or anything, and he a huge personality, but a lot of guys could have won with the talent he had.

You would think so. But then again, I never attended Stanford so I sit in the bleacher seats.

There is a...according to some wag I taked to in the freight business a real increase in costs for goods in the part of Florida below Sanford (near Orlando) where the big freight lines stop due to the crappy conditions for rail south of there. I dunno if that is a real thing or just this guy talking. Freight is king. You do not want to get in between the freight rail companies and their stock prices or threaten to increase insurance costs. Particularly if you are warning them about the danger to moving hazmat through a built up area. They will fight that like mother bear protecting their cubs.

The reserved upper deck seats in Tiger stadium were all good. I miss that place. Too bad it couldn't be saved.

Doesn’t an enormous amount of goods still travel cross country on freight trains? Need to maintain and upgrade those systems, imo. While “people commuter” trains may be only reasonable in metro areas, (& mostly East coast), they’re important and will remain so.

TBF, not many twenty-year-olds can get promoted to the big leagues and immediately rake. Even Willie Mays was reduced to tears in the first couple weeks of his big league career.

Contrary opinion but I'm okay with a black jersey alternate. I think something like the model below, without the WCF, looks great as a once-a-season MNF look. I agree that the old black uniforms looked bad.

If only she understood the reference...or may she does and will wear it as a badge of pride

He might actually have been thinking of Armistead. He was in the movie and Trump might have focused on that. Brigade commanders are not usually what one thinks of in this regard. The Union lost a much more significant commander in John Reynolds on the first day.

he woulda ran faster if he didn't have all that disrespect all over his shoes

Toledo Suspended 2in down 1-0 Erie W 4-0 Lee 1/4 BB K 2B Allen 0/4 2K Workman 2/4 2RBI Lockhart 5IP 2H 6K Petit 2IP 3K WM W 7-5 Anderson 2/5 Turney 4/5 2RBI 2 2B HR Campos 0/4 K Pacheco 1/4 RBI K 2B Serretti 1/4 RBI K BB 2B Lakeland W 7-6 Clark 3/5 4RBI K Briceno 0/5 K Santana 0/4 BB K Hebbert 2IP H K

Oh, I think we're mature enough to handle "pains in the ass". No need to sugar coat it with "peas in a pod".

Naw, I think we’ll be over it by 2050, 2060 at the latest.

this story was wall to wall coverage on Fox

What makes me crazy is that Johnson had to finally get an intel briefing on the threats to Europe before he would support Ukraine aid. I wonder if that briefing included some veiled message about "we have seen how Putin likes to compromise members of both parties with salacious text messages he received from their personal accounts including accounts that the blackmailee might not have thought that any competent nation state intelligence service could easily find, like the ones you use to talk to your young male boyfriends about celibacy and the temptations of the flesh..."

Going to be an interesting season in Atlanta.

Man, I can’t stand bad defense. They’ve been better than I thought they on defense. This was a tough one to take. Todd Jones’ opinion of the glove being a counterweight was kind of interesting. I don’t know if that’s what caused the Skubal toss to first to be so wide. I’m also not sure Torkelson couldn’t have saved that out with better feetwork at the bag. But in his defense, that throw was really unexpectedly off and slow. I think Keith gets a bit of a reprieve as that final bounce did look bad. I don’t know, maybe he could have come in a step and cut down that hop from mid to short hop which might have avoided that error. Maybe he didn’t have enough time to do that, I’m not sure. To his credit, he’s looked fine with what’s been hit to him so far this season.

Skies are a little cloudy for Langford. 2 XBH (0 HR) in 55 AB not likely what a championship team wants in a production position like LF. I'd call it 50/50 which of he or Meadows get sent down 1st. Langford has the "we are not going to admit we were wrong" aspect going for him, Parker has the great D going for him. Still will be neck and neck I think. 🐎🏇