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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

Here's a look at former Tigers players who are on the opening day rosters of other teams. P Dietrich Enns (2025) is in the Baltimore Orioles bullpen. UT Ryan Vilade (2024) makes the Tampa Bay Rays roster after several injury related moves. P Mason Englert (2023-24) enters his second season in the Tampa Bay Rays bullpen. P Max Scherzer (2010-14) continues his Hall of Fame career with his second season pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays. OF Derek Hill (2020-22) earns a bench role with the Chicago White Sox. P John Schreiber (2019-20) enters his third season in the Kansas City Royals bullpen. P Alex Lange (2021-25) begins his first season in the Kansas City Royals bullpen. UT Kody Clemens (2022) enters his second season as a utility player with the Minnesota Twins. INF Andy Ibanez (2023-25) claims a bench role with the (nowhere) Athletics. INF Isaac Paredes (2020-21) begins his second season with the Houston Astros. 3B Jeimer Candelario (2017-22) enters his first season with the Los Angeles Angels. P Tyler Alexander (2019-23) makes the Texas Rangers his fifth major league team. P Matt Boyd (2015-21, 2023) will be the Chicago Cubs opening day starting pitcher. DH Eugenio Suarez (2014) begins his second stint with the Cincinnati Reds. P Gregory Soto (2019-22) earns a spot in the Pittsburgh Pirates bullpen. P Jose Urquidy (2025) is also a Pittsburgh Pirates reliever. C James McCann (2014-18) is the Arizona Diamondbacks backup catcher. P Eduardo Rodriguez (2022-23) begins his third season with the Arizona Diamondbacks. P Paul Sewald (2025) is the third former Tiger with the Arizona Diamondbacks. P Michael Lorenzen (2023) makes the Colorado Rockies his seventh MLB team. UT Willi Castro (2019-22) makes the Colorado Rockies his fourth MLB team. INF Nick Castellanos (2013-19) looks for a fresh start with the San Diego Padres. P Robbie Ray (2014) begins his third season with the San Francisco Giants. P Matt Gage (2025) earns a spot in the San Francisco Giants bullpen.

It was honestly moving to see McGonigle in street clothes hugging his mom after the game. It collapses probably 16 years of life and striving into a single moment.

Despite all my bitching about modern TV, I appreciate what an amazing opening day that was. Historic game for McGonigle, 2 hits and a home run for Dingler, 2 hits for Keith, 6 SHO innings for Skubal. You can not ask for much more than that.

Why do they even have a challenge system. Just have the system make the call on every pitch. Angel Hernandez would have looked like a legit ump.

Yep! I have radios back to 1928 - they all get the game fine.

They have a Knack for winning

TV

bert i think you mean to be in the other thread

Billionaires don’t have to marry ugly.

It's so nice to watch a game without constant gambling touts

Man, looks like Pivetta shot his wad on Carpenter, doesn’t it? Now here comes the boy, and on pitch one, it’s a career-lid-lifting two-run double! Welcome to the bigs!

Kevin looks like a player from 1985.

Players like Cruz is why Skenes has 2029 circled on his calendar. He can't wait to play with major league players.

This is the line-up I expected. As a big proponent of defense, I like having Baez in the line-up. If he hits more like 2024 than 2025, then go to another plan. Same with Meadows except you hopes it's more 2024 than 2025.

i meant left handed...trying to figure out how much time Baez and Vierling will get in the first set of games.

McGonigle will not long-term at shortstop, not as long as we have Rainer and Yost in the system. I'm not as high on Peck as some are, but I could see him serving as a bridge to Rainer/Yost maybe next year. But I would bet that barring injury, by the end of the year, McGonigle will have logged substantially more innings at shortstop than any other Tiger.

"is this Iowa ? "

Monarrez is neither dumb nor lazy. He’s just scum, and the worst of what sports writing has become. His content generates clicks, clicks generate revenue, he keeps his job and probably gets a nice yearly raise. Given a truth serum he would admit that he doesn’t even believe half the nonsense he spews. But “”it’s provocative. It gets the people going.” -Chazz Michael Michaels” - Kanye West

Even the Scots seem to be pulling for the Tigers on opening day.

I am absurdly excited about this first game. I sure don’t want to get swept like in the first series of last year. I want it to be like getting a Red Ryder Carbine-Action BB gun for Christmas and not shooting my eye. So for me splitting this series 1 – 1 would be the equivalent of not shooting my eye out.

Happy Skubday

Please get Ausar and Duren back in this game.

Huerter having his best game as a Piston

the alternative was to not sign middling veterans early and continue to bottom out. to continue to accumulate draft capital. yzerman didnt do that. he said he didnt want a losing culture and instead signed a bunch of veterans to overpriced contracts: chairot, copp, and compher being the biggest three. the mantha trade has not borne any fruit (despite the posts here, cossa has not done anything of note other than have the lowest gaa on this juggernaut team. he may work out, he has given them nothing yet.) bertuzzi got you the pick that got you debrincat. kane is a nice novelty player. the core is seider/raymond/edvinsson/kasper/danielson/asp. do compher and copp and chairot compliment that core? maybe. but not enough to make the playoffs 7 years in. the pro-yzerman argument is that the wings were so bad under kenny that they were the worst team in modern nhl history with the worst farm system in the league. this is true, but how long to dig out of that? 8 years? do you give him another year? two? do you give him ten years? again, the fear in refusing to bottom out for multiple years is that you end up in the mushy middle: never bad enough to get a star, never good enough to make the playoffs. i think those fears have been realized.

I was an early skeptic of Zach at short when they 1st played him there in '23, but since what I'd call a rocky start, by the numbers he has graded out well there in '24 and '25 and he has the strongest arm on the team. So I'm a little more on his SS bandwagon than I used to be. Where there is a big a difference is in taking throws on steal attempts and other kinds of tag plays - Baez is just a class by himself there, but no-one else is likely to come close to Javy there, it's just a unicorn skill he has. McKinstry certainly doesn't and I doubt McGonigle will either.

I mentioned before that I set ChatGPT to question everything I ask it, tell me my idea is wrong or stupid. Now my girlfriend tells people her job was replaced by AI.

Absolutely hate the nickname and refuse to engage with it, other than to say that if I were to choose one thing I would never want to contemplate about a baseball player, it would be his ass.

can someone stop brad holmes from trading up for projects? and please remind him of his 2021-2023 mojo. since then, the drafts have been middling at best. the lions have now entered the phase when their team is becoming very expensive. they need draft capital to fill roles cheaply. they dont need to trade multiple picks to get brad holmes' newest vanity project. offensive tackle should be their #1 concern. those dont come available in free agency like iol do. which means i fully expect the lions to draft a weakside linebacker in round one.