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Because of Rosh Hashanah I won't be able to see game 3. They better finish it in 2 games. Get 'err done!

Tickets were still very affordable in 2006. Beers weren’t $16 a pop and a hat didn’t cost $45 at the team store. Prices have skyrocketed for the average fan. It’s harder to do more than just one game a season for many especially with families.

This team seems like it will either continue to overachieve through the playoffs, oblivious to this fact, or they will turn into a pumpkin and crash to earth. I’ll take the former, but regardless of the outcome, this experience should be transformative in accelerating their development. Building a winning and cohesive culture is an intangible that I think will pay huge dividends next year and beyond.

They're just jealous that they didn't realize they could impact the path of a hurricane with a sharpie first.

Well NOBODY knows more about Hurricanes than he does. NOBODY. Not the people that study weather for a living. He knows more than they do too.

For an optimistic take, I like the Lions tonight for a variety of reasons. Enough to justify bullets. The offense still has a lot of untapped potential, even if the defense takes a step back between the injuries and in facing All Pro Lion Killer Geno Smith. There were comments made by the team in the preseason about games that they had circled. The three that come to mind are this one, the Cowboys, and Thanksgiving. It's a new coach in Seattle, who I personally don't think is as good, and definitely isn't as experienced, as Pete Carroll. The Seattle defense has not played an offense nearly to Detroit's caliber. I would go as far as to say that Detroit's offense on its own is probably better than an All Star offense comprised of the best players Denver, New England, and Miami had available when they played Seattle (i.e., minus Tua). I think they may be caught on their early season heels by whatever Campbell and Johnson dial up. It's a primetime game. In regular season primetime games under Dan Campbell, the Lions are 6-1 and should be 7-0. The only loss came at the hands of Brad Allen in Dallas. When the lights are brightest they show up the mostest. All that is to say, I like the Lions a lot. I wouldn't even be all that surprised to see a similar offensive explosion as we got against Green Bay on Thursday Night Football last year, where they took a 27-3 lead into the half. It's possible that Seattle is better than I am giving them credit for, but I think we see Detroit football at its best tonight.

That’s not the issue. Biden and Harris are avoiding the area right now so as to not take away those resources. Trump had to race in for a photo op and hog the resources.

Good news- my aunt has very mild covid, so since you all post here- that counts as close contact with me and that means you need to stay home from work to isolate the next 72 hours

Two ways to look at this: Astros have played in 7 straight, at least, ALCS. They are seasoned vets who know how to win and will take charge. Astros have played in 7 straight, at least CLS. They are old and worn out and arrogant and the Tigers will sneak up on them. Of course, that's talk radio analysis. Astros won 88 games, Tigers won 86. It's baseball and anything can happen in a 3 game playoff series. Any team can beat any other team this week. There's no grand conclusions to draw. Our team made it. Enjoy it. Whatever happens.

This is an important game. They come back from the bye week and have 4 out of 5 road games against very tough teams. Its been a different NFL season so far and very difficult to predict who is truly a playoff team. There are going to be a lot of Lions fans that are going to have to see a therapist lol.

I'm old enough to remember all World Series games being daytime affairs. No playoffs, win your league and advance, none of this division hooey. Thankfully someone always managed to sneak a transistor radio into class. Occasionally a teacher would bring a TV into class and declare a "reading period".

Who would have thought Cleveland, KC, and Detroit would comprise half of the 2024 AL playoff participants? BTW, the Tigers finished 20-12 against the AL East. Been a while.

Minute Maid Park - Houston, TX Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: ABC Starters: LHP Tarik Skubal LHP Framber Valdez

I wish I knew who he bet on tonight. His last one has got to come in.

Before I left for work today, I looked at our calendar hanging in the kitchen and noted Rosh Hashanah this week. In no way, shape, or form did I expect that to brought up in a baseball thread. Funny how those ironies present themselves sometimes.

Will there be a Tar-ik Sku-bal chant at Ford Field tonight.

I think there are a lot of people as you describe, but I also think there are a lot of people who vote for him because everything they've seen about him makes him look tough and cool, and there are also a lot of people who vote for him because he's entertaining and makes them laugh, and there are still other swho vote for him because everyone they know are voting for him, and yet others vote for him because they are afraid of the outside world he is describing to them. I think people vote for him for all kinds of different reasons.

I can’t wait to watch this tomorrow!

I do want to point out Micro knows a thing or two about this subject matter. You'd be wise to defer to him here. If you aren't familiar with his professional resume leading up the reconstruction of the levees in New Orleans and handling many hurricane aftermaths...

6-3 Mets! What a turnaround. If the Mets win, are they allowed to drink champagne between games? Could be a fun 2nd game to watch the Mets play wasted.

They all know who rump is and they already like him, or at least the idea of him, so an interview is not necessary. Trump is like God in a very basic way: everybody who believes in him has a very personal idea of what he is, or what he'll do, and that he will do all the things they like and none of the things they don't like. You hear this if you've ever listened to interviews with red hats: the red hats who want the deportations are salivating at the prospect of them, and the red hats who don't care for the deportations will say, oh he's just blustering, he won't actually do it. Abortion is another issue like that: the people who want to ban abortion insists that he will sign the bill when it comes to him, and the people who don't want it insists he will veto the bill. And all of this despite what he actually says. Everyone believes in the personal Trump they have in their head, and while they all might want different things from him, the one thing that connects all of them is that they will vote for him.

I don't know if it's true, Kris said he didn't remember it but he forgets things (He was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's and Dementia and it was Lyme Disease) but his wife remembrs things and she relayed it. I'd like to think it's true. He also "rescued" Sinead O'Conner when she was getting booed at a Dylan tribute not long after her infamous SNL appearance.

You forgot, “give the Tigers hell, bro”

The remaining 2,500 were too hungover to make it to the game. Vegas, baby!

I'm not expecting us to win the series, but then again, I wasn't expecting us to be here in the first place. I look at this roster and it still makes no sense to me.

Our ace in hole, ironically enough, may be AJ Hinch.

I’d say don’t let the door hit you on the way out but you know that door’s getting a hit off Miller.

My high school history teacher brought at TV into history class for the 1984 Tigers world series run. He simply said: "History is in the making", turned on the TV, and sat down to watch with us.

On the Ken Burns Country Music doc they spend a lot of time on Kris and Bobby McGee in particular. He was hanging around the studio doing janitorial work and the bosses didn't want him hanging around the studio. Johnny liked him for some reason and told him to stay. After he started writing songs Fred Foster, the owner of Monument Records suggested a song with a title based on a secretary there, Bobby McKee. Kris mishead it and wrote it as McGee. He gave Foster a writing credit for coming up with the name. Roger Miller recorded it and it didn't do much. When Joplin recorded it, and died before it's release, Kristofferson said "After that I never had to work again". Kris was a Rhoades Scholar and english lit guy. The song is based on a Fellini movie for God's sake.

This is a tough one to call. I don’t have a very good read on what to expect tonight. The only thing that I’m really sure about is TP wrecking the game thread with his constant whining and complaining about the best coaching staff this franchise has ever seen.

Yes, I should be set for tomorrow

An absolute must read piece on Skubal and his family by Stavanhagen. Pieces like this make the subscription worth the price. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5804270/2024/09/30/tarik-skubal-tigers-cy-young-brother/

Featuring Kenta Maeda as Jek Porkins

This year's Tigers remind me of the rag tag collection of kids that blew up the death star

Btw, Canha, Chafin and Kelly are having a watch party on Tuesday afternoon if any one wants to join them.

home game against an nfc opponent, this is a big game for detroit. need a win here. need to keep up with the viqueens.

Post season schedule;

To me Arnold has looked much better than Okudah ever did. Yeah he is handsy and definitely needs to work on that but he consistently is in position to make plays but unfortunately for him just hasn't made them enough. But the fact that he isn't getting ran off screen like previous DBs we had is a positive as far as I'm concerned. You figure sooner or later he will adjust to the NFL game and/or start getting the benefit of the whistle, and if that happens I think he will end up being a good one.

Me and Bobby McGee, For The Good Times, Help Me Make It Thru The Night, Sunday Morning Coming Down. Just a few of the great songs he penned. Singer, actor, pilot. RIP Kris Kristofferson

And the garbage cans are stored.

Rookie cornerbacks take some time to start getting respect from the officials. It's just the way it is. They can get away with more in college and they didn't play against all the talent that the NFL has. And the game speeds up. Arnold will be a very good player, eventually. Fans just need to have patience with the kid

Their emotional finish reminds me a little of 1987. Hopefully, their post-season is better this year. The difference though is that 1987 was the end of an era making it a bitter defeat. This year should be the beginning of an extended era of good baseball, so if they do bad in the playoffs it won't sting so much.

I post a lot of clips, and I know people get annoyed by Acyn and Yashar Ali and Aaron Astor and Filipowski clips and all But, at a very basic level, if any of us were conducting a job interview, we would never hire someone who sounds like this.

Yes... Butler NJ- about 30 minutes from my town. A friend lives in that neighborhood. We get bears in my town also, but seeing 5 of them roaming is unusual.

I think it’s time to put Kenta out to pasture. edit: wrong thread. But my point stands.

I knew it! You are TP after all! 🙂

My only care on this right now is the hope we are picking 31st or 32nd.