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Loss. i’m not angry. I’m beyond being disappointed. I’m glad I could share this season with people who share the same affliction and affection from which I suffer so greatly. As Tiny Tim says, God bless us all

So, I'm just sitting here thinking that It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. I dunno, just a thought I came up with right off the top of my head.

Dan Dickerson saying what he really thinks of game 5;

In about another inning or two, Skubal should be good to go again

Nah. I'm rooting for the Bluejays. Just to irritate a certain element. "Oh Canada....."

If you can't score more than 2 runs in 15 innings, you don't really deserve to advance.

I’m kind of grateful the season is over. A baseball season is like a lifespan with ups and downs, excitement disappointments, victories, and defeats, but when it ends there’s a sort of peacefulness about it and also there’s another one to come. I’m grateful for what they gave us early on and disappointed about the way it ended, but I’m not disappointed about the lifespan of this season itself. It’s generally more excitement than I could generate on my lonesome.

Oh well. Great season boys. When they collapsed at the end of the year I thought they were going to miss the playoffs. Here they are, two playoff series later, proving me wrong.

I’m glad it wasn’t a walk.

sick of Naylor

The guy is amazing. We are so lucky.

Do you still fry ants on the pavement with a magnifying glass on sunny days?

He thought he was off mic. It is now one of my favorite baseball memories.

Someone in East Lansing needs to get Johnathan Smith Brenda Tracy's number.

I’m not saying he isn’t good or isn’t an all-star caliber player. All I’m saying is that there are key things that make me think as of now that he’s not worth a long term deal and trading him right now would get us a good return that could potentially improve the team now and in the future. His K rate has ballooned to 30%. His walk rate plummeted. He barely OPSd .800 while having career highs in doubles and HRs. His defense in LF also fell all a cliff this year. He doesn’t move well—he has a history of lower half injuries, so that’s not likely to get better. He slashed .218/.279/.694 in the second half. Is that closer to what he is becoming? He needs to make A LOT of adjustments and improvements for next year to get back to being a 5+ WAR player. if you can offload him to a desperate contender now and get a good package back—I’d do it.

It's more like 26-29. Once they hit 30, hitters typically head down hill. Greene doesn't profile like a young player. He gets injured a lot and isn't very graceful for someone who is such a good athlete, so he doesn't appear to be the type of hitter who will age well. The excessive strikeouts are not a good sign either. It seems as if he may already peaked defensively. He should still be good the next few years, but doesn't seem like a good candidate for a deal with takes him into his mid to late 30s.

But that's the problem with legal gambling in sports. If there is any doubt about whether games are fixed, there are going to people who believe it is fixed and the more they make gambling an accepted part of the sport the larger this group is going to become. So, then even if there is nothing being fixed, the game starts to lose credibilty. This is why there should not be a partnership between MLB and gambling organizations.

If one of several players had just gotten one hit at various points in this game then Seattle fans are bitching about their team like tiger fans are. That’s baseball and that’s playoff baseball. I reject the sports talk show takes. The other team wants to win too. They have good pitchers. We have good pitchers. This wasn’t some blowout. We held their guys. They held ours. We made defensive plays. They made defensive plays. At some point there’s a break. This game and series was a coin flip. You don’t need to make any grand conclusions because of it. You don’t alter a blackjack strategy because of a few hands.

salty Dan!!

I’ve got the UN on line two saying this may be a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Like tears in rain

So what? Dingler is on second base. That doesn’t mean anything. He might as well be on the ****ing moon.

Good thing he’s a good defender

Acquire runs geniuses

They suck worse than us!

TROY MELTON!

have to walk Raliegh?

“Stood there like the house by the side of the road”

Holy crap Will vest, did we ever need you there! OK, AJ, who's up next? Please let it be Tommy Kahnle with an eight-run lead!

SCORE RUNS DUMMIES!!!!!!

What in the mother of God was that thing in the Mariners sweater???????

What was that they just showed on TV? Looked like rocky horror picture show. Or some 81 year old celeb with too much work.

Skubal certainly put to rest the notion that he can't handle big games. That was incredible. The way he was throwing tonight, I imagine he was gassed and used himself up in the 6th. So, I'm not questioning that move.

Legendary start by Skubal.

Dan D’s call of the Carp-bomb Carp HR in Game 5.m4a

Hitting in front of Carpenter proved to be a wise choice........

If this game gets too tense I can always switch over to HBO Max that now has Demi Moore’s care free, feel good movie THE SUBSTANCE which I saw at the theater and left clicking my heels and feeling optimistic about life’s possibilities.

He’s hitting in front of Carpenter

Nice area.

Dan’s off the cuff remark brings me joy. Everyone feels this way.

I find it hard to believe that one bat could’ve made that much of a difference. I remember when the Tigers added Prince Fielder to an already strong lineup and if memory serves me right it was like throwing a quarter cup of water into a full bathtub. It didn’t raise the level much.

Kahnle with season on the line? Most of us were surprised he was even on the playoff roster.

All timer there

Are you suggesting this is not a great game? I think it's one of the most exciting games I've ever seen.

haha, Dan just said they had their "second 7th-inning stretch".

Come on! My daughter's getting married tomorrow. I need sleep!

NOT Senor Smoke

Hit the ball into the grass you lint lickers.

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