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Here is my seat for Monday’s Game 2, featuring the stylings of Tarik Skubal!

The kids love him.

Ibanez definitely has value for a contender.

MLB posted the entire top of the 8th inning with DDs call overlayed.

Progressive Field - Cleveland, OH Game Time Forecast: 68 Sunny Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: TBS Starters: LHP Holton RHP Tanner Bibee

I can’t believe I have to go all the rest of today and all day tomorrow until there’s a game on Saturday and then there’s another off day on Sunday!

I saw some criicism of both Hinch and Harris, but I don't remember anyone here saying that they would get fired. Not on this site anyway. Sportz isn't here anymore.

Micah Parsons week-to-week with high ankle sprain. PFT reports they are considering resting him for the next two weeks until their bye. He may not play against Detroit. Demarcus Lawrence on IR. Detroit has not forgotten last year’s game. I agree this will be a statement game.

The other good news is Cleveland only has one lefty starter and it’s Matthew Boyd. Predicting a Kerry Carpenter ALDS MVP incoming

i've never seen a manager take a team to 31-11 and a playoff spot with basically one starting pitcher. one and a half good starters? its been amazing what they've done.

Because social media. Look, if there is a shortage, there's a YouTube on how to MacGyver a snow blower and a garden hose into a bidet, so everyone should be fine.

ive always been in the "managers dont really matter until the playoffs" camp, but this year's performance by hinch was master class.

Right, what the Tigers are doing is unprecedented.

I still kind of can’t believe they won. I left Comerica Park on Sunday thinking that was it. I figured Houston’s experience would win out, and it almost did. That’s playoff baseball. One play in each game is the difference. This team is so much more fun to watch than what we had. Even the good old days. It is easier to accept a 25 year old in his second year striking out than a 35 year old making $18 million. The drama of these games cannot be undersold. This series validated these guys. They didn’t back into the playoffs. They won their games. They weren’t a “just happy to be here” team that to lucky. They beat an org that was a playoff institution and won their own division and more games than the Tigers. The wins weren’t flukes. They grinded out the wins the same way Houston would have had they won the games. You don’t mash your way to wins. You beat throws. You make the routine plays and catches and get the random hit with a guy on base. You get the key DP. LFG.

I remember, in the old days, I assumed we were all seeing the game at the same time. Figured maybe a 5-second delay or so from people in the ballpark. I'd bring my radio to the game and it would be described exactly the same time I was seeing it. Now? My tv feed was 20 seconds behind the MLB At Bat radio feed. The MLB app was showing pitch results about 2 seconds before I heard the radio feed. The Canadian TV stations were showing the ABC feed about 5 seconds before my ABC station was. Sirius XM in my car or via my ios app is a good one minute behind the TV broadcast feed.

In 25 years when people look back on this run they’ll say, “Well, they did have Skubal, Greene, Carpenter, and Meadows.”

I hadn’t run across that wow thank you so much for posting it. I listened to it on the radio in my car but wow.

There’s no place like home.

The Tigers are 79-60 with Riley Greene, 53-36 with Carpenter and a remarkable 56-27 with Meadows. With all three on the roster they played at well above 100 win pace.

Yes, this playoff run kind of takes the cake for being unexpected and redefines the word “miracle“ for baseball.

Not that it means anything but just thinking that this is the first playoff series the Tigers won against a non Yankee or A's team since the 84 World Series. Also just thinking about Detroit sports this year, from 2014-2023 Detroit sports won zero playoff rounds, this year they have now won 3 and 5 if you include Michigan football. After a decade of misery we finally have stuff to cheer about!

vs. Setting: 10/06/2024, All Day Long Site: Living Rooms Across America Weather: Between 20-120 degrees, probably Opening Spread: Lions -3.5 All-Time Series Record: Bye leads, 39-19 Last Meeting: 11/05/2023, Lions won 5-4 Bye Week (0-0) Head Coach: Chris Kirkpatrick Projected Starting QB: J̶u̶s̶t̶i̶n̶ ̶T̶i̶m̶b̶e̶r̶l̶a̶k̶e̶ Joey Fatone(?) Last Week: 31-23 W @ Hartford Blues (Exhibition) Looking Ahead to Week #6: Sunday v. Chiefs, Rams, Dolphins, and Vikings Your Detroit Lions (3-1) Head Coach: Dan Campbell (4th Season: 27-27-1) Projected Starting QB: Jared Goff (9th Season: 69-51-1) Last Week: 42-29 W vs. Seattle Seahawks (3-1) Looking Ahead to Week #6: Sunday @ Dallas Cowboys (2-2) Elsewhere in the NFL Primetime: Buccaneers @ Falcons (TNF), Cowboys @ Steelers (SNF), Saints @ Chiefs (MNF) 9:30am: Jets @ Vikings (in London) 1:00pm: Ravens @ Bengals, Panthers @ Bears, Bills @ Texans, Colts @ Jaguars, Dolphins @ Patriots, Browns @ Commanders 4:05/4:25pm: Raiders @ Broncos, Packers @ Rams, Cardinals @ 49ers, Giants @ Seahawks BYE: Chargers, Eagles, Titans

I don't like all the days off in the playoffs. I wish it was more like the regular season. I understand they have to have a day(s) off when a series season ends early, but there is no baseball reason for an off day on Sunday. It helps the Tigers because it allows Skubal to pitch in more games, but in general I dislike it.

Might as well leave them sleepless at night worried about when Skubal takes the bump.

You're right. I'm a sax player, also didn't start playing til my mid 50s. When I do play now I rely too much on sheet music, can't improvise to save myself. It's probably because I was trying to play catch-up in a couple of community bands.

Yeah...that was fun to read just now! I'm glad you found it and shared it.

I have zero fears of winning non-Skubal games. I have no trepidation about the bully. He’s such a weapon that I think it’s smart to maximize it as much as possible in a short series. I don’t want to even mess around with the chance of getting down and not having him as an option if our back are against the wall.

I've got about 30-some years into the instrument now too..... and I've long thought if I had to do it over again I woulda/shoulda played piano/keys. That said, if it's too late to call the audible.... Folks are right about lessons. I didn't have any lessons until about 2 years ago, and they were extremely helpful. But there are different kinds of lessons..... Some folks teach songs, and even take requests.... like you have a fav song and they'll figure it out and teach it to you. This can be good b/c it can be motivating to learn songs that you love and show off to your friends, but there's a limit to it. I think some sort of hybrid where they have songs and also teach scales, arpeggios, and CAGED would be the gold standard. Or maybe teach the songs in the context of scales, arps and CAGED so you can generalize what you're learning to other things. That was what lessons did for me, he tied all of the scales and CAGED and whatnot together for me. When I called him to set up lessons, he asked me how long I was playing and I said over 25 years and was was like.... You Should be teaching.... and I said... yeah no **** that's why I'm calling you right now. Don't forget to budget for an amp as well. Positive Grid Spark has some pretty cool lil amps that are super versatile and seem great for beginners. I'm a hard core guitar snob cork sniffer as Biff calls them (very fairly) so I'm not too informed on what's a good beginner value but I think Squire is as good as any for that purpose.

I get this, but if they pitch Skubal in 2&5 and then go LWLL so he only pitches once, it doesn't really inspire confidence that they would have pulled out a game five if you could do it all over and have him pitch 1&4. He won't play in three games this series. They can't go 0/3 in those games, no matter what order they come in. For at least one game, the bullpen will have to carry them. If they can make that happen in game one, I give them an 80% chance or better of winning the series with two Skubal starts to go.

Drew Koch (are all Kochs delusional?) wrote that Tals Hill story, saying Mize or Olsen would start game 2 for us and that we had burned through a “ton” of relievers to finish game 1. Clueless on so many levels. I wonder if the Astros players felt the same sort of dismissive attitude, based on how they have historically succeeded so often. They may have thought they were playing the June Tigers, not the August/September/October Tigers. I recall Hader pulling out his batter chart to see how he should pitch to a Tiger (don’t remember who), as if he had slept through the pregame review for pitchers. On to Cleveland and victory!

My wife works at a major retailer and one of her many jobs is to source the toilet paper. 98% comes from the US or Canada, and the TP does come from China is currently tariffed at 35%. Also, the China TP is way below the standards Americans are use too. Many things may be affected, TP is not one of them.

To be clear, I agree there was a lot of wishcasting here well into this year that Harris hated Hinch, Hinch hated Harris, Ilitch hated them both, that one or both of them were going to get fired, and that Leyland was going to came back on his Marlboro horse and save us all. OK, I made up that last one. But the rest of it, pretty true for certain posters. But I don't think there was ever any broad agreement or consensus here that Hinch would get fired anytime soon. Speaking only for myself, not only did I never think that even for a nanosecond, I've actually thought at points that Hinch might ascend to general manager under Harris, and that someone else, possibly George Lombard, would become field manager. I think that far less now. But even if the Tigers had gone 20-20 in their last 40 games and finished 76-86 instead, I would never have believed that Hinch was in any danger of losing his job here. If that were to happen, I would have despaired for the direction of the franchise, as I did once it became clear that Avila was never going to take analytics seriously.

Yes, lessons are definitely in the cards. We will seek out a teacher in her same demographic (another piece of advice I received).

MAX is carrying all AL playoff games including the pennant championship series. It’s a very serendipitous situation if you already have MAX.

hmmm...maybe he just did.

Fascinating thread.

Yep and we got vest, Andy Ibanez, Parker Meadows and oh yeah Tyler Holton. So same

Bert—please finish your manifesto and come back ASAP

Remember last summer when all the talk was how about far the wonderful rebuild of the Orioles was so much better than that of the Tigers. Ok, it probably is, with 101 wins last year and a more talented roster. But it is ironic that the Tigers - who were only 5 games behind Baltimore this regular season - are still playing and the O’s are done.

Good times for Detroit sports once again.

Totally amazing how he is still with us. Also totally amazing what has transpired in the last 100 years.

As a Canadian, I believe I would be legally obligated to watch curling in that case.

Spring Arbor, MI college team erupts on Ibanez’ hit.

This is fantastic. Congratulations to the Tigers & all their fans. 🎉🐅❤️

Betting on a game in which a player has a duty to perform, putting him in the position of losing the game in the service of a bet, is a bigger disservice to the game. It is, in fact, the biggest disservice to the game, which is why it is the only infraction that earns anyone who does so a declaration of permanent ineligibility.

No. Reduces travel days. They thought the one game WC format was too random and they could add another team by making them just a best of 3 at the higher seed. Otherwise schedule goes on too long. I’m ok with it. Want a home game? Win more.