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Because of a flight delayed on my way home from Europe, I had to unexpectedly spend last night in Minneapolis and am at the airport now. I spat on two of the hoodies and clipped my fingernails into one of the mugs. It is a playoff race and we all have to do our part.

Such a great night, such a great comeback such a great surprise. Where I live in Idaho, it’s raining for the first time in months and I love the pattering sound of it, probably something the rest of you from more rainy climates consider banal. But after weeks of 100° days and choking, smoky skies from range and forest fires, the sound of the rain is intoxicating. It’s like listening to an ASMR rainfall recording on YouTube. It’s a perfect night with the Tigers winning and finally, rain. “And that’s the way it is,” as my good friend Walter Cronkite used to say.

What a ****ing great game to win.

Casey - I believe in you. I know that you're in your recovery year and you aren't going to be 100% of what you can be until next season. Some are starting to call you a bust. I don't believe that. You may never reach that 1/1 status people want, but I still think you'll be a plus pitcher in the league once you're completely comfortable in your new elbow. But tonight...............be the 1/1 we all hoped for. Think Rick Porcello in Game 163. That game he went 5 2/3rds - 4 hits, 2 BBs and 1 ER with 8 Ks. I don't need all the K's, but if you could stiffen the sinews and summon up the blood. ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, DEAR CASEY, ONCE MORE !

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Last year I brought up the pitch clock having an effect on radio broadcasters, meaning they have to hurry up, or cut back on some things, like setting up the situation, giving hte count, etc. I wonder if that's related to Dickerson's work? Throws them off the rhythm.

I'll believe he is going to prison when he is actually in prison.

I’m dedicating this season to Bert, who has personally experienced seeing Ty Cobb play at Navin Field all the way to Zach McKinstry at Comerica Park. No one deserves this more.

with a very few exceptions like Joaquin Benoit, the problem was never the pitchers, it was the batters. They could give the pitchers all the time they want and the game time wouldn't change much as long as they make the batter get in the box in 8 (?) seconds. They call the system a 'pitch clock' but the timing that made all the difference was on the batter. So a little semantic misdirection at work.

Watched a recap on youtube and at one point, I think it was after Vierling drove in the 7th run, a KC announcer said something like "we haven't seen these Tigers before, these Tigers have teeth." Was interesting to hear an opponent comment on how the Tigers are playing different these days

How can we depend on Trump keeping the country safe if he cant even keep his country club safe?

Mission 2. Check

Plus we got to see Jake Rogers chihuahua running which appears that it should be accompanied by Bennie Hill's "Yakity Sax"

At least this will make the comeback all the more exciting.

I don't like it in general...but I can temporarily enjoy it. It's nothing like the 1987 race, but I'll take the cheap thrills of a wild card race over the past several years.

Amazing how many people Trump surrounds himself with are just, on a basic level, terrible human beings

If you're talking about for the first round of the playoffs it wouldn't matter if we caught KC or not we'd still be looking at 3 on the road. In fact it may be a tougher task if we got to the 5 seed since we'd either have to face the Yankees or Orioles who both have a better record than the Astros who we'd see if we got the 6 seed.

Was right there with you but admittedly I didn't think he'd be a Pro Bowler right out of the gate but I was confident that he could step in and atleast be solid, especially in the right situation.

It is so, so great to see my team enjoying playing for my team.

The ironic part is that when baseball hit the scene in the 1870s, it was seen as a fast, rough-and-tumble game full of running and energy, like nothing American or other industrialized countries had seen at the time. Games routinely took a little more than an hour, and even while Ruth roamed the landscape, many if not most games came in under two hours.

I also think this latest Tigers playoff drive has them all giddy. I'll allow it.

Now why would the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager? OK, I admit, dumb question.

Casey would be a good candidate to use an opener so he could come against the bottom of the order and settle down.

Has anyone checked to see if Rashida Tlaib’s pager has exploded?

This is hilarious. Over 1000 armed pagers used by Hezbollah were detonated by Israel after they somehow infiltrated the network. Wonder how many got their balls blown off.

Very helpful

Doesn’t that seem like just forever to play a game nowadays?

I hate her so much.

Only the Phillies and the Dodgers still have a mathematical chance to get to 100 wins. It would require taking 10 of 12 for the Phils, 11 of 12 for the Dodgers. Given the hot starts by a number of teams this season I'm surprised no one is going to end up having that kind of year.

So Keith in the middle of another huge DP in the 8th. Stat nerds having trouble deciding about Colt. BR Rrds still hates him - has him at -10. At Statcast he's up to +3 OAA. He made some errors early but is currently on a 27 game errorless streak. I think he's going to be fine there. Of course, I'm only slightly biased.

You called it!! Thank You!

This game is simply epic. I will admit I kind of faltered in my faith after that grand slam. But our team did not.

this team. this team.

After that grand slam, we outscored them 7-2. Skubal tomorrow. Forget the Twins, let's catch KC AND the Twins! 😁

Cora is the worst. He can’t be back as a base coach next year.

Beau knows 100 mph. THEN we get the DP.

substitute 3B coach saves the Tigers a run

In the real world, one of the social workers at my kid’s school is from Detroit and Charlie Gehringer was one of her uncles. For years, her whole family has been honored with box seats on opening day because the Tigers look out for these families of former greats, especially Hall of Famers.

No W for Lugo right ?

In Bert we trust.

Colt !!!!!!! BOLT !!!!

Just like Larry Bird.

Perry has announced a 90 day solo acoustic residency at the Garden Room of the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, CA.