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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

Kevin McGonigle with a 4-for-5 debut and Dillon Dingler launching a bomb! Without no doubt:

How about seeing it about 94 more times before October this year?

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

burn the whole pen for tomorrow!

Doing the TV broadcast. Benetti doing national game

TV

Mc$$$$$$$$

He's in the zone. Bert achieved by the third inning.

Bert achievement unlocked.

Who is Mick Gonagal guy? I haven't heard of him before. Is he good?

When to dunk on the McGonigle doubters...

Man, that second double was a couple feet from being McGONEigle!

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

Welcome to the big leagues, Kid !

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

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 think Hegseth is far worse than an infant. Infants can't hurt you. Hegseth strikes me as being more like a grade schooler off his ADHD meds.

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

"is this Iowa ? "

Rob Parker was the first person to ever block me on Twitter.

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

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

MUST WIN MUST WIN MUST WIN

Ausar could miss his next 100 three point attempts and I would still play him 30+ minutes a game.

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.

More like it!!

Someone compared him and Killian over the last 12 games or so. Hayes had the better numbers.

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.