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He'd thrown 50 pitches since Tues/Wed. Two days off not a bad idea.

Did you know that the Toronto pitcher's last name was the same as the Tigers catcher's first name - that he doesn't use, and that the pitcher doesn't use his first name either, even thought that name is no connection to anything else?

Well, that sucks. At least Kirk couldn’t waddle all the way to second on that.

I take it back. I do want the $5 million.

Petry wears on my ears. Nothing wrong with what he says but to me his voice is just tiring to listen to for two hours. And when he get wound up he shifts into "verbal diarrhea" mode were he just starts filling every single second and I find that doublyfatiguing. When he goes there it's worse than Dirks and Benetti in terms lacking any restful silence.

I always liked Austin Jackson as a player, and I’m sure that he’s a swell human being as well. Kind to his wife, good to his kids, loves kittens and puppies, all that. But as far as that podcast, Tigers Territory, is concerned, the value he adds as a third wheel is exactly zero. He provides no insights at all from a player’s perspective. Everything he says on that pod is the same overview from 40,000 feet that you can hear from a guy in a bar. Arguably worse, he never mentions any specifics about players or games or performances. It’s like he doesn’t do any homework at all, maybe not even watching the games themselves. Every time he speaks, it’s four solid minutes of clichés and generalizations. I feel less knowledgeable about the Tigers when he’s through talking. I acknowledge that as an ex-Tiger he will always be lionized on his pedestal by Kieran and Cody on the pod, but man, is it ever a slog to have to listen to him talk.

I'm holding out for free Jamoca Shakes

I like Benetti/Petry and Dickerson/Dirks.

The promotion of this rivalry series on the broadcast is nauseating. This isn't college football. In baseball, you grind it out for 162 games. Stop forcing rivalries. Just let it happen.

Rafael Devers, meanwhile….

I’m not your Buddy, Guy.

I hate being walked off. I feel like a Boston fan....😅😅

These umps are terrible.

Screw the human element. Robot umps now.

Please score a few runs...

Beau blows.

Reese is pitching a Cy Young game. He’s pitched to the minimum. I would love to see him at least start the seventh.

Would like to see a double play to make up for that 12 pitch leadoff at bat

I like the Benetti/Petry and Dickerson/Dirks combos. Proper blends of humor and actual game focus.

I just checked their website. It's Barbie Day today. They deserve to lose just for that

Not surprised, but this terrible start is not just on him. How about losing your ace and your top power hitter and replacing them with next to nothing. GM should be out the door too.

I'm pretty happy that Harris didn't sign Santander this offseason.

We have the best record in Baseball and El Mago leads the team in War rating at 1.9 Which is more surprising ? Please do not wake me up.

Eric Lauer, a former first round Padres pick and a lefty, will be starting for Toronto today. He was most recently a starter in the International League and has been in three relief appearances so far this year for the Blue Jays. I don’t think this is pitching chaos. His nickname according to BR is Gomer. He’s definitely not a “rookie“ but most of our guys have never “seen his stuff.“

Yes but that voice makes my ears bleed

I don’t think there should be salary caps or floors without the audited books of all 30 organizations being completely open to both sides. Only this will enable the possibility of a fair distribution of the money, especially in an industry whose monopoly status is protected by legal precedent. But as long as only one side—meaning Owners—has the ability to see the books, salary restrictions are always going to be favorable only to Owners. Otherwise, Players are going to be negotiating in the dark, and I don’t believe that’s fair.

All they do is stay 5 games back of first place?

Feiger Law is the Minnesota Twins, apparently.

This is Canada’s Victoria Day long weekend. Wearing camo to defend Queen Victoria’s honour.

It's a gimmick. Free fries and sell $15 worth of other food. Arby's made money on that deal. 🤣🤣

Man, Arby’s must be getting their clocks cleaned this year on their Instant 3 Play promotion, where they give free curly fries to everyone who comes in the Arby’s whenever the Tiger score 3 runs. Next year they’re going to have to change it to Instant 4 Play.

A case could be made that Javy is doing as well as he is because he’s finally happy with where he’s playing. If he’s forced to move to third base, he might become unhappy, and as all of us know now, an unhappy Javy is an unproductive Javy.

Extend him!

I'm not your pal, dude

The biggest difference is equal revenue sharing. There is nothing you can do to overcome the fact that teams generate $300 mill+ more in revenue than others.

STINK BOMB

I’m leaving pretty quickly for the rest of the game. My oldest daughter is inviting me over for Middle Eastern food tonight. Have a great game and go Tigers!

The Blue Jays announcers are making the point that the Tigers are not stealing many bases, but they’re one of the best base running teams in baseball in terms of going from station to station.

It’s all about selling some goofy ass hats. They look like 💩

We are in a tariff war with Canada, haven’t you heard?

The biggest difference between teams in terms of income is local TV deals, the Dodgers get nearly 250 million a year for theirs while a team like the Tigers is like a quarter of that. Even if you want to throw out the Dodgers as an anomaly the difference between some teams and others is still 50 to 100 million dollars with some cases even higher. That's 2-4 high priced free agents difference right there. It will never happen but if they were to pool up all the regional deals and split them evenly between teams then things would be alot different.

I have 3 that sit next to me and have for over 10 years now. There's a lot of them. Even beyond WIndsor.

People talk about the strength of the schedule but sometimes it's not about who you play but when you play them and the Lions have the most "rest days" in the NFL. By rest days it means how much longer it has been since you played vs. your opponent. The Lions have an NFL leading 5 games where they play teams coming off Monday Night Football which is a big advantage. Also only 1 game all season will the Lions be coming off less rest than their opponent and even that is only a 1 day difference. https://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/betting/teams-hurt-helped-nfl-schedule-rest-disparity-2025/

I'm old..I like Benetti and Dirks..and Daniella.

The hand he's gonna get when he steps up to the plate today. It's gonna be a standing O for him. My how things have changed in 6 short weeks.