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Tigers are now 22-17 against teams over .500, only the Yankees have a better record. Also only 3 teams in all the majors have played more games against such opponents than the Tigers.

Doing another family related pet-sitting, this time with our 14-year-old family terrier Dino. Dino was found roaming the streets of Oakland, California 14 years ago and ended up being shipped to the Humane Society in Boise, Idaho, where our family adopted him. We think he’s half blind and he’s 98 years old in dog years bordering on senescence, but he actually takes the time to stop and smell the flowers every day. He just sticks his face in there and sniffs. It’s really quite fetching.

Brieske is risky.

To be honest, I root for KC when the Tigers stink. I've liked them ever since their fans gave Miggy a standing ovation when he clinched the Triple Crown in 2012. They showed a lot of class.

They retired his jersey? He has a career WAR of 12. Should we retire Omar Infantes jersey?

Around 10 years ago a French singer named Alizee was the talk of MTS for her performance of her song J’en Ai Marre, which I believe translates to I Love Tigers Fans. Her other big hit was Moi Lolita. This week, in a concert in Paris, Dua Lipa paid tribute to Alizee by singing the latter song on the 25th year anniversary of its release.

I remember earlier in the month Curtis Granderson, in an interview in which he was overall flattering towards the Tigers, said that in the coming weeks the Tigers “would finally be tested” - Texas, Boston, St. Louis, Toronto etc. I thought the Tigers had already had a normal enough schedule to date. But if we just look at the time since Granderson’s remarks, the Tigers have gone 13-7 versus Texas, Boston, Toronto, St. Louis, Cleveland, San Francisco, and KC. The last 14 of those have all been against teams over .500 and the Tigers have gone 9-5.

Dickerson on TV tomorrow. Yay.

When KC was making their run a few years ago, I really enjoyed the row of blonde Stepford Wives types that were lined up behind home plate. I thought Kansas City must be full of women like that, but when I visited there, that was not the case.

Sadly, we have to worry about it from Wacha.

Man, Perez came back at just the right time, didn't he?

I'm not necessarily saying the Central is better than East but to add to your post your buddy isn't the only one that lazily says things like this, I heard the national media say things similar about all central teams and how their record wouldn't be what it was if it was in the East. But here's the thing the Tigers are 10-2 against the East, Twins 9-3, Guardians 6-6, Royals 8-7 and White Sox 3-5 so collectively they have more than held their own against them thus far.

Beginning on the night of May 31, 1921, thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the city’s predominantly Black Greenwood District, burning homes and businesses to the ground and killing hundreds of people. Long mischaracterized as a race riot, rather than mass murder, the Tulsa Race Massacre stands as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the nation’s history.

The question is will the Nats do anything while they’re still affordable

Pete Crow-Armstrong is definitely another star. in the making

Is James Wood the next MLB superstar? 22 years old with a big frame and a great swing. This kid has a future as bright as anyone in the game and I’m not sure many fans even know what he’s doing right now. We also need to start talking about adding the Juan Soto Padres trade to the worst in history list. Padres got a little over a season of Juan Soto and 2 months of Josh Bell. Nats got: James Wood - currently top 10 in HR/RBI/OPS CJ Abrams - Starting SS and all star last year Mackenzie Gore - Solid LHP starter currently leading MLB in K’s Robert Hassell - mid prospect CF but he’s up in the bigs currently. Jarlin Susana is big armed pitching prospect they see as possibly a future elite MLB closer. Making the trade even better, Josh Bell signed back with the Nats and is at least ar the moment their starting 1B.

Some here may recognize this pedestrian overpass

In Cobb’s start last night he went two innings. He gave up one hit while striking out three batters. without issuing a walk. Over 24 pitches, 16 were strikes. Not a bad first time out..

How about Gene Kingsale playing on both the 2001 Mariners and 2003 Tigers. Talk about one extreme to the other.

Mariners just scored two runs to give them a 6–3 lead over the twins In the bottom of the eighth.

In a game that was like two guys wrestling over a bottle of MD 20/20 in a trash filled alley, the Orioles defeated the White Sox 2-1.

No. If I'm not moving Ivey in a deal for a star, I'm not moving him. Maybe if White was 27 and not 31.

Tigers wobble for the first time since the opening weekend - losing 3 straight at home to last year's division winner - and respond by thumping out 5 straight wins. The lead that had narrowed to 3 games is back up to 6.5 games. That's what championship contending teams do.

Consider that the Tigers are playing at what seems like an out of their minds level and are on pace for 106 wins. Now try to imagine how Seattle - after losing ARod and Junior in the two prior seasons - won 116 games.

Royals lost!

and hopefully back on the radio after that.

Dingler converts the pat.

Dingler with a three RBI day

Statcast has Carpenter at 62nd percentile for arm strength, although they have him at 34th for arm value. I guess that means he’s not accurate, or maybe he’s late on the transfer. His real weakness, ironically, is range. A guy with good range might have made that catch on his feet. By the way, at some point, Statcast is going to have to add jump to its defensive stats. That would seem to b an easy one, they certainly already have the data in house. Maybe they could add route to ball and throw accuracy.

The Art Deco logo is ugly af.

I think the KC connects are boring. I’m just disappointed they didn’t have Dayglow pinstriping on the Tigers motor city connects.

Riley in no hurry at all to field that ball

Lockerroom cancer bribes kids with gifts as hush money.

Would be nice to see Tork do something special in this at bat.

also would have been nice if Wenceel had enough arm to at least keep the runner at 1st.

When I was visiting a friend in KC six years ago I was staying at a Holiday Inn, not far from the ballpark and I was the only person there who wasn’t there to go to the ball game and it was really cool. Couples, families with kids, everybody wearing jerseys everybody ebullient, “hey we’re going to a ball game!“ It was really great seeing the support the Royals get. All of these were people from out of town who had to drive a ways to get there.

I would guess the elimination of MiLB bottom rungs has widened the gaps between the remaining levels - the net effect being AA is now further from the Majors than it used to be.

Carlos and Jason is one of my favorite broadcast pairings

The reason why is because TJ is very tough to go thru and I doubt any pitcher wants to unless they have to.

Jason and Carlos tonight.

Nah, I think we all knew that his 5/19 response wasn’t how he felt. Today’s is.

In an amazing coincidence, the two teams anointed most by God are on Apple TV tonight as the Yankees play the Dodgers in Los Angeles. Three hours earlier, two lesser sub-.500 teams, one based in Massachusetts and the other in Georgia, play each other, wasting their’s and everybody else’s time.

I love this thread ❤️

It’s the worst race of the year without rain.

Today is the 8 year anniversary of the death of the last man to walk on the moon. Gene Cernan. I always loved his words as he was walking back up the ladder, which are on his gravestone below. His first spaceflight was Gemini IX and he nearly died. He was to do a spacewalk and they were still learning the ins and outs of how it worked. He didn't just go outside like Ed White did. He had tasks to do. What they didn't know was it was critical to have things to hold on to. Any time you put pressure or tried to touch something, you'd get pushed away. He exerted so much energy just trying to move that his visor repeatedly fogged up. His heart rate got up to 180 bpm. He was finally ordered back in. Before the mission the commander Tom Stafford was pulled aside by Deke Slayton for a morbid one on one talk. He told him "If something happens to Gene, you have to cut him loose." During all of the mission planning that kind of thing wasn't discussed. They had a lot of trouble getting back in as the spacesuit was inflated and space was so tight inside. They almost couldn't close the hatch. Or if Cernan blacked out or whatever, there was no way to get him back in and you can't re-enter the atompshere with the hatch cracked open and a body out there flapping around. In all likelihood if something like that did happen they would have tried everything until both astronauts died. For the later lunar missions they did train so that the one guy who didn't land on the moon could fly back by himself in case of a tragedy. That peson had to know the spacecraft more than the other two who could focus on the moon landing aspects.

I think All in the Family could still get made today. Archie was the punchline. It was written liberals. You can quibble whether it would be on broadcast TV rather than a cable network but Fox shows Family Guy. But the 70's had a lot of shows that tackled issues that we take for granted today, like women in the work force, divorce, etc. It's not that we aren't allowed to make those shows today it's that we don't need them as much and the media landscape changed so much that our nightly shows don't serve that kind of purpose anymore.