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It's very telling how you always comment on this cherry picked nonsense and completely avoid talking about the blatant corruption going on with Trump and his kids. For as much as you cared about Hunter Biden being on the board of an oil company, you sure don't seem to care about Trump's kids making hundreds of millions of dollars with shady deals. Why is that?

Tork might be batting .180 and can't field, but he's clutch. That's something you can't teach.

I have a 30 year hatred of Cleveland fans. Goes back to when they flooded Tiger stadium. No other city fan base makes me angry. I can’t explain it. But F them.

That game was the Junior Valentine show that nobody asked for.

By May 15, 1976 I was a pretty passive baseball fan. I was 11 years old I went to a few games with my dad. I collected baseball cards, but I really wasn't that into it. On that cloudy, cool Saturday my dad took me to a hardware store. Not a chain store, a really small and crowded store on Van Dyke south of 14 Mile Road. My dad was one of those guys that would want to talk shop with the hardware guy. Pretty boring for me. But while he was doing that, I stayed at the front of the store, where they had a little black and white TV. The Tiger game was on. There was this kid I'd never heard of pitching. Skinny and tall. All arms and legs and he was just kind of goofy-looking. Circling the mound after every out, getting down on his knee to pat down the mound. The catcher would throw the ball back to him and the next pitch would come right back. No pitch clock needed with this kid. One little, Two little, Nine little Indians made one out after another. I think my dad finally got done with the hardware guy and we left in the 5th inning. We lived 3 miles away. He made one quick stop at the store. I got home and turned on the TV and there was only two outs to go. The game was already over and that goofy kid was still pitching. Six weeks later the rest of the country was introduced to Mark Fidrych on Monday Night Baseball. In just six weeks the Tigers were selling out games he started and after that Monday night game - FIdrych was selling out road games too. He didn't even really know who Babe Ruth was. He was an instant Superstar, but he was genuine. It was innocence. It was real. He is the reason I fell in love with baseball. That Summer was wild. We had 3 All Stars (Fidrych, ,Ron LeFlore, Rusty Staub). The Bird started the game in Philly. I'll never forget the stats 19-9, 2.34. We thought it would last forever but it was over in less than 4 years. But I will never forget that Saturday - 50 years ago today - that changed my life. I'll never get tired of watching this clip. Here's the box score from that game. Wow 50 years man. Where the hell did it go? https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET197605150.shtml

Cleveland sports writers think ausar should have been thrown out of the game for having the temerity to run through a moving pick. go read it and laugh.

In an ideal world the interviewer would say “ if that is all you got, it was a waste of time and money and you are an idiot”. But this is Fox, so…

The karma play

the key play in the game was wade slipping on the same spot where harden flopped a minute before. KARMA!!!!!! the basketball gods have finally had enough.

Thompson and Reed were huge tonight. Jenkins hit some big shots in the 4th. Sasser gave them nice minutes. Duren had a solid game as well.

Watching Cade get mugged by Struss after that weak ass call on Ausar is infuriating.

The last two Thompson fouls were a joke

Remember. Get behind Mitchell, wrap your arms around him, make a fist, put it just above his belly button, your other have over it and pull inward.

Wow. No call on that Cade drive and harden gets the call on the other end.

SlickNickShady?

That pedestrian bridge over 75 - there was a building on the other side of it. It was called Superior Color - a printing company and my dad worked there. During Summer Vacation from school, when the Tigers had a day game, he'd come home for lunch, pick up me and my friends and go back to his job and give us a $20 and we'd go to the game. The game would usually let out about the time he was done with his work day and he'd be waiting for us to drive us home. His company printed the gameday programs and would just drop them off. The ushers at that gate knew my dad, so if one of them recognized me, he'd just let me and my friends in the game for free. Even when we did buy the bleacher tickets - with the tickets, the hot dogs, peanuts and soda - for 3 of us - we'd have change for my dad. They also used to print some of the yearbooks. During the winter, when I was sick with pneumonia and missing 2 weeks of school, he came home with the 1977 year book (before it was published) and he hands me the yearbook with a roll of postage stamps and a stack of envelopes and he told me the addresses for every team are in the back of the yearbook and I should write a letter to each team asking for a pocket schedule. He knew I needed something to do while I was sick. Most of the teams sent stuff back. I would say all but 3 or 4 teams. The Mets sent a huge enevelope stuffed with schedules, stickers, special baseball cards, refridgerator magnets - so I really liked the Mets after that. (Plus I liked the orange and blue uniforms).

I think uniforms are the least of our concerns this season.

Wait until you get into your 60s!

just hit 80 here

Well on the plus side, Casey looked great.

the breakers aren't breaking enough and the fast ones aren't fast enough.

Holton just isn’t him anymore

I thought it was Mesa Verde.

It’s way too profitable for Big Medicine to actually strike out cancer. But that’s for another thread. No one deserves to suffer from this.

If you can find one person in 20 that cares about these I'd be surprised, but just keep worrying what color sandals the toga set is wearing if it takes your mind off Rome burning. 🙄

June 28th is the 50th anniversary of that Yankee Monday Night game. The whole game is on You Tube (I think they cut the commercials out, though). I am going to re-watch the entire thing. That was wild. Nobody left until he took that curtain call and he was totally freaked out by it. I don't think he understood what he really meant. You have to remember, the year before that Kaline retired, the team was 57-102. Three game short of a full season because they were so bad they didn't need to make up rain outs? They lost 19 in a row that year. And then BOOM. Here comes Fidrych, LeFlore and Staub and they had a winning record again. The rest of that team in 1976 wasn't very good. Aging Bill Freehan, Mickey Stanley and Willie Horton. Tom Veryer and Pedro Garcia up the middle. Yuck. Starting rotation was The Bird, Dave roberts, Vern Ruhle and Ray Bare (with Joe Coleman getting traded). They had a losing record but it's hard to remember it like that because Fidrych made it so exciting. I still remember one of his commercials, sort of. It might have been for Highland Appliance, were he's on the mound telling the ball about all the great deals, then he throws the pitch, you hear a loud knock and Fidrych watches the ball sail away and says "Hey, Ball, where ya goin?" - then the announcer says "that balls headed to Highland Appliance" - or whatever it was. Here's part of a commercial clip, for something else, who knows what

I’m fine with this version or the current version of road jersey, But I’ve always wondered about a road jersey mimicking the home jersey, just with grays rather than ice cream whites. Maybe a hint of orange to go with the navy. And the only thing to add is they when they synced up the hat and shirt D for the home kits, they picked the wrong D. The curved upper right D is superior to the angled upper right D.

Yes, because the Tigers realized it wasn't going to be consistently 80 degrees until early June. Old timer is not pitching in the cold. He's brittle.

you were right! 🙂

The opposition would NEVER intentionally walk a batter to get the matchup vs Deuce though

what's worse? watching these refs **** the pistons, or listening to candace and dwyane try to justify every call?

Do something heroic Torkelson

That makes one of us.

He man looks lame and weak

I love that Ausar is now the most hated man in Cleveland

Big key to the second half will be how Thompson manages his foul situation.

so you're saying DeJesus saves?

Also how did Green fall out of the rotation? The one dude who can hit a corner three and play defense. Seems like Sasser is getting his minutes.

One of the things that actually enrages me about the whole Apple TV Friday night thing is that this is not even the only game that’s playing on it. The other game is Yankees-Mets. Which game do you think 95% or more of all viewers in the country are watching? The only viewers that care about Tigers-Blue Jays are in Michigan. So why is Baseball stealing this game from the fan base and putting it on a platform no one outside of Michigan is interested in watching it on? Thanks for nothing, Manfred man. 🤬

😉 Ha! That’s a good one… Hats off to you…

Wow, a 2nd is a big penalty. And then when Torts wears out his welcome in Vegas he will go back to being a media member himself.

My dad's work building (back in the day)

I always wanted their typical home whites, which are the best in baseball an dthen a grey version of that as our road uniforms. Or go back to the roadies from the 70's and 80's,

But he isn’t “taking a salary” Probably another lie the Right is telling the American populace

So on the ESPN Tiger site right now, Buster has an interview with Boras. So what Boras says is that the deal here is that they did not use an arthroscope on Skubal, they used a new micro device (come kind of fiber optic micro canula) that isn't much larger than a hypodermic needle. That is why they are looking for less than 'std' return possibility. The story is the new even-less-invasive-than-a-'scope treatment tech provides a possibility for faster recovery.