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So this game begins at 4:40 PM my time in the mountain zone so I’m thinking that means the pregame show begins at 4:20 PM because after all as the saying goes, it’s always 420 somewhere.

It’s amazing he got the job without ever working for Fox News before.

Thanks to Trump’s tariffs we are now growing Popes in America.

He must be amazing at fast pitch softball.

Having been very badly bullied growing up in school, I do think Trump is a Nelson Muntz like character and a bully. A guy who gets off on deriding and degrading others, but also isn't terribly smart. That said, my experience isn't that bullies will backdown if you tell them no and/or fight back against them. Sure, some will do that. But in my experience, many bullies will just get twice as mad and become more lethal the next time you cross them. They'll torture you until you hit a breaking point and cannot function anymore. Trump isn't a smart person in-terms of book smarts or general intellect. He's a complete dolt in that regard. He does however have a certain people smarts and understands marketing and selling to some degree, though not in a way he could articulate coherently. Many of the people around Trump are not that smart either, but they understand bullying and submission strategy to a point. They are using him and manipulating him to do bad things and creating lasting damage to our country's democracy and democratic institutions. They are the bullies that come back twice as strong, twice as vengeful, and twice as determined to get revenge on you for standing up to them. It's partly why we see Trump himself and those around him acting so aggressive towards people they view as hostile to their agenda, i.e. the fake new media, academia, scientists, Democrats, etc. It's also why you see them throwing so many different things at the wall in hopes that something will stick and that you can't possibly stay caught up with all the chaos, craziness, and rapid fire changes they are enacting. They are torturing democracy, our institutions, and decent people until we hit our breaking point. Much like many bullies out there.

Toddlers know how to manipulate people too. That doesn't make them smart.

I know Revenge of the Nerds very well. Very well. The bleachers in Tiger Stadium was sealed off from the rest of the stadium. Underneath the bleachers in the lower deck was where they stored things so you couldn't go down there. In the rest of the stadium you had street level concourses/concessions as well as at the top of the lower deck. If you sat in the upper deck you used those. But if you tried to walk all the way aroudn the stadium they had chain link fences with an attendant near each side of the bleachers. It was like being in prison. It was the lower level concourses that had some hallways and doors that you could sneak through. It was cold and damp everywhere and had a smell mixed of onions/peppers/beer, and probably piss. Coleman Young famously shut down the bleachers because people were getting rowdy. We sat there for opening day in 1995, after the strike, and the season started later so it was nicer out. Things got crazy as fans were kind of rebelling. Women were flashing people. People ran on the field.

We would do that with Larry Herndon. We joined what was called the Pepsi/Tiger Fan Club. Have no idea what it cost, couldn't have been much, and you got a few Tiger tickets in LF and a gift. Larry would acknowledge us then we'd argue over who he was smiling to. Did a lot of exploring at Tiger Stadium as a youth. We found the clubhouse, then ran as fast as we could.

The difference between 2006 and 2025 is that in 2006 it always felt like they were lucky and would start to fade. This team feels like a really good team that came together faster than expected.

I wish I could’ve been a part of all this. Having lived in the West 2,000 miles from Detroit for the last 51 years, it wasn’t until 21 years ago with the help of the Internet that I stumbled across MTS and was able to reacquaint myself with the team of my youth. In the meantime this meant that by only reading box scores or seeing an occasional game on TV and never being within radio listening range I was essentially disconnected. But I enjoy hearing all of you relate your recollections from these times I missed and it makes me feel included. Although I have to admit that waking up every morning for the last 51 years with a range of mountains outside my window and an endless sky above has not been a bad trade-off. Now I have where I live and the Tigers too.

In their last 81 games, the Tigers are 56-25. A .691 pace. That's 112 wins in a 162 game season. Yeah, I think, maybe, the rebuild is over. 😆

Chet was always one of my favorite players, and we were spoiled watching him in Center for long. I met him once in spring training 1990, and he couldn't have been a nicer human being. I mean he went above and beyond for all the fans that day, took time to ask everyone he met and asked how they were doing, etc. Although he was clearly an established star in what turned out to be his last year, he made it feel like he was honored that you wanted an autograph and wanted to talk to him, not the other way around. That has always stayed with me, especially when I see someone in A ball snub a kid for an autograph. He was a class player, but also an exceptional human being. RIP Chet.

I don’t think this is satire.

Coincidentally, I’m graduating Saturday with my M.A. in Theological Studies from a Catholic college (Jesuit-oriented) at the University of British Columbia. My quick reaction. Most North American cradle Catholics will like this pick, many North American convert Catholics might not. Despite what you might see on social media, convert Catholics are a minority within the Church but are zealous and outspoken. Increasing in importance. Younger priests, like the pastor of my parish, also tend to be more conversativr, hence the re-introduction of things like a communion rail in some parishes. Going into the conclave, I saw him as one of the best candidates but thought his being American would rule him out. Fact he is so international though, even being a naturalized Peruvian after 20 years there, and is fluent in Italian and Spanish, made him acceptable. Choosing Leo as his name is the biggest indicator of his values, IMO. The most recent Pope Leo was in the late 1800s and was the father of modern Catholic Social Teaching. Overall, I like this pick.

Chicago produced a Pope before a 4000 yard passer

I talked about him in the game thread, but this makes me sad. The 80s Tigers will always be my team and he was one my favorites.

One of the last home games of 1991 was heavily-attended as Cecil Fielder was on Home Run 49 and nobody had seen 50 in years. Ron Cameron asked me and my friends "Are you here just to see Cecil hit No. 50?" and I said "No, I'm here to see Chet hit No. 5". And Chet did just that. Loved him. Always seem to play with a big smile on his face. Didn't seem the least bit jaded. I know his last years were a terrible struggle and I am glad he's not struggling anymore. One of the most underrated Center Fielder's in MLB history, but not in these parts.

I thought Kane came across pretty shaky his first season here, not to mention the fact he was having to fill the shoes of the great Shannon Hogan but after a bit of time and getting used to him I grown to really like him. I found him to be a bright spot during those dark Shep, Morris and terrible Tigers teams days.

He said four perfect innings

Carpenter or Malloy leading off means Hinch uses leadoff hitters different too. I guess we can't argue with the results.

Dirks on the radio tonight with Dan. I‘m a fan.

I like Dimitri Martin’s comedy routine, where he says he drives up to the dispensary and sees people lined up going in and thinks to himself “you know people we don’t look good as a team.“ from experience I know this is true.

Skub is dealin’ 9 up 9 down

True as so much of this is, I do think we've seen some evidence of trump backing down on certain fronts, such as the DC pick just the other day, and Maine last week pushing back on education freezes, and we may see him back down on Harvard yet. Either way, one thing is true: if Trump pushes and you don't push back, he will destroy you. So, might as well push back, because nothing to lose.

Doesn't scare me any!

I'd take them over Trump though.

I think he's dumb in the sense he's not well read or curious about things. But he's not dumb when it comes to presentation and marketing. When we writes something on social media and everybody goes ape ****.... that's intentional. He knows people will make fun of his spelling and mixing things up. I think Bill Maher was right in many ways. What helps him with a lot of his voters is the fact that in the 4 1/2 months how many times have we seen footage of him in the oval office and all of that? Probably more than we saw Biden doing that in 4 years.

Look up, look waaaaaay up.

It was one of my first failures as a father. When we moved to Chicago in the early 90s my wife's office had an outing to Old Comiskey Park. To my chagrin he became a Sox fan. Early in our relationship I told my wife, who had the more promising career opportunities, I'd follow her anywhere. As long as it was a National League city. (My Western Pennsylvania roots, plus nearby Salem Va hosted the Pirates Carolina League team at the time) When she called me one day to ask about possibly moving to Chicago my first thoughts were "UGH, Not the Cubs!"

Toledo L 12-0 Lee 1/3 BB 2K Kriedler 0/1 3BB Owens .2IP 3ER 3H BB Erie W 4-3 Anderson 1/3 RBI Campos 0/3 BB 2K Sanchez 1IP H BB K WM L 4-2 Briceno 0/4 2K Castillo 4.2IP 7H 3ER BB 4K Lakeland W 5-1 Rainer 1/4 2K Fana 0/4 BB 2K Rucker 0/3 2BB K Gipson-Long 1.1IP 3H 2K FCL L 9-7 10 Inn. Jimenez 2/5 3RBI HR K R. Ramirez 2/5 Diaz 3.2IP 3H 2ER 3BB 6K Rogers 2.1IP 3H 2BB 3K

Yeah, Al Avila did such a good job of stocking this team with prospects and all Harris had to do was come in and push the button. Sheer genius.

The 2025 Tigers and 2006 Tigers were both 25-13 after 38 games. The 1968 Tigers were 24-14. The 1984 Tigers were 33-5. The 2003 Tigers were 9-29.

Per the wrap up on mlb.com Right-hander Keider Montero was called up from Triple-A Toledo to be the 27th man for the doubleheader, and he started the second game.

Tied for wins in MLB 2nd in MLB in runs scored 1st in +DIFF

you can trace all that back to the challenge at 1b

I was old enough to love the Kemp-for-Lemon trade when it went down, because even though I really liked Kemp. I liked Lemon more despite him being a ChiSox. Chet will always be one of my all time favorite Tigers. RIP.

Colt's seasopn has been an Odyssey.

Boom goes the dynamite! Or oxygen canister!

apparently the pope's mom worked in the library at my daughter's high school. which is like 1 1/2 hours from dolton. this is great news for dolton. before today, dolton was known for their maasively corrupt and ridiculously trashy mayor tiffany henyard. now it will be known as the home of the pope! dolton is a MUCH different place than when he grew up. hardly any catholics anymore. all the old churches and schools of his youth are gone. it was a typical working class immigrant south side suburb. now its 90% black and very poor.

very underrated player in his day. rip chet.

Biden's gonna pay a big price for Trump's insensitivity towards Joe Sixpack

He truly is as dumb as a brick.

Marty Castillo's Home Run and diving double play come to mind too.

Even dismissing that this is Aaron Rodgers who's more than a bit of a diva, I'm never too keen on forming an opinion of a contentious event based on one side of the story. It's human nature even if the best of us to think that we were in the right and that we said the right words and acted the right way. We've only got Aaron's side of things. We don't know if it's accurate or what the mood was or the mannerisms involved. I will say this: I think we all pretty much assume that Saleh was fired at the instance of Rodgers, and if that's the case I think Glenn went into this wanting certain "concessions" from Rodgers. Essentially he wanted Rodgers to defer to him, and that's 100% reasonable. I'm guessing that Rodgers didn't defer to Glenn in the way he wanted and Glenn wasn't willing to risk getting undermined from a old diva QB. I'm also guessing it more body language/mannerism/attitude vs. what was actually said.