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God bless you, my brother! I was worried I would have to do this, which I didn’t particularly want to do. But if you need to take a vacation sometime and it’s hard for you to work this in, message me, and I’ll do whatever I can to pick up the slack. The game thread has been one of those constants in the various iterations of our family, and I’m glad that you’re holding up your end of this tradition.

I wouldn't compare Trump to Hans Solo. He's more a combination of President Skroob and Pizza The Hut from Spaceballs.

What a glorious thread to see HAPPY NEW YEAR ! Here's a Tigers-Padres moment from history

PER A SEARCH ON THE INTERNET- On Thursday, March 26, 2026, Jason is scheduled to call the prime-time matchup between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers at 8:00 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Because of this national assignment, Dan Dickerson is expected to handle the play-by-play for the Tigers' season opener against the San Diego Padres earlier that afternoon.

Let's get it on!

This is a lot more fun than the first game in LA last year.

Technology can do a lot of amazing things..but it can't do the impossible

and I made it back into the correct thread…

6 runs already. Is Bert still in the other thread talking to himself?

I said this after last season, but I think Torkelson is going to have a huge year just because they won’t be able to call him out on BS strikes this year.

You bet it is!

Oh, Javy—never change.

Go Tigers!

Indeed. Its like Christmas and my birthday and a baseball had a baby.

I like opening out west. Get a game on after I'm done working, then some later games on the weekend. And my wife is going out of town.

Bert—will call you in a few so we can stay up for hours speculating about how the game will go. No sleep for us!

I can't wait to see how Athletics' tickets are priced. Game ticket $17. View of the field $40. Early arrival fee for entrance more than 30 minutes prior to gametime $20. Stadium resort fee $60. Entertainment fee $20. Mobile ticket access fee $15. Total $172

Is this really happening?!?! Must win, amirite?

Hard at work

For 2021 it took three years to know on McNeil. In 2022 it took three years to know on Williams and Joseph. In 2023 it took three years to know on Campbell.

PTBDNS!

I remember when I was a kid. Maybe 20 games on tv the whole year.

Meh. Can’t he hit homers?

I wondered where all the rest of you dumbasses were…

Doing the TV broadcast. Benetti doing national game

Oh thank God for that game break. I had almost forgotten what Fieger Law only does.

I thought he was divorced. New girlfriend?

Bert achievement unlocked.

Parker makes it Bert!

When to dunk on the McGonigle doubters...

Welcome to the big leagues, Kid !

Skenes having a horrible start. No thanks to Oneil Cruz

“Brad Holmes, do you or do you not affirm this to be your official list of draft priorities?”

I actually believe Vegas Tiger on this. If the masters of the universe can put a data center in your backyard and poison your whole city, they can build a damn stadium on time.

The league probably denied his request to put his picture on the court.

Related to these, "beclown" has become my verb of the year, as in, The Republican Party constantly beclowns itself in its pathetic quest to mollify one man.

I'm not saying that any of Buffalo, Montreal, Anaheim, Ottawa, Columbus etc. are teams to emulate. Just that Yzerman is really no further ahead than teams that were just as bad or worse a few years ago. Also, Holland had two big top 10 misses - Zadina at #6 and Rasmussen at #9. That's it. In his last four drafts before that he got Mantha at #20, Larkin at #15, picked Svech at #19 where busts aren't unusual, and made up for his #20 Cholowski pick by picking Hronek at #53. Yzerman hasn't set the world on fire with his drafting, yielding nothing outside of the top 15 in his first four drafts 2019-2022 apart from Albert Johansson, being generous.

The most splendid time in sport. And, yes, obviously a must-win.

The long ball only gets you so far.....

MUST WIN MUST WIN MUST WIN

Oh my god, that’s so embarrassing. What a clown show 🤡

More like it!!

McGonigle has a good face for a ballplayer.

They're not missing many shots!

I think team Harris/Hinch will play McGonigle often at third and not just short because it just might be his best position. It's still an evaluation. Against right handers I see a lineup of McGonigle at 3B, McStinky at shortstop, Carpenter in RF and Keith DH. I "think" McGonigle ends up a third baseman and not a shortstop.

He's going to have a breakout year. By the end of it you'll be saying "Parker Who?"

Just questioning what leads to this thought? From what I saw, McGonigle is an improvement over McKinstry at SS defensively, so if McGonigle is the primary SS, why would they give McKinstry reps there? As far as the moving McGonigle around, I think others have said in the past - maybe Gehringer - that there appear to be some players that can move around and it not effect them much, and there are some who need to be at primarily 1 position. This spring at least, McGonigle appears to be one who has no problem moving back and forth on the left side of the infield. So I personally don't think they will just put him at 3rd in order to keep him from moving around. Keith on the other hand is one who has shown (up to this point) that he needs to settle into a position. I think against RHP McGonigle will start at SS and Keith primarily at 3B. Against LH maybe they have Baez at SS (Vrieiling in CF) and McGonigle at 3B. If there were no injuries (which isn't going to happen obviously) I think McKinstry could have a hard time getting 500 PA's. He likely plays against most LH pitching as there aren't enough RH bats in the OF/3b, but if Keith hits at above league average and is the same (or hopefully improves) on last year's time at 3B I think 3rd will be his. If they decide to primarily DH Keith, then that opens up 3rd for potentially McKinstry and/or McGonigle. I guess most likely against RHP is McGonigle is at SS, Carpenter/Keith/Torres and even Riley share DH and McKinstry plays where whoever is DHing normally plays.