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This seems more like a threat than a bonus.

Also receiving votes: Jason Beneti.

That was pretty interesting seeing him amongst the paying folk. He’s gotten the front office in order. He brought in Beneti. He fixed the shower heads in Lakeland. Maybe he’s figuring things out?

Not sure what else you could have been doing, but I bet it was a waste of time.

X - Detroit, 88-74 Minnesota Cleveland Kansas City White Sux X - New York Y - Tampa Bay Y - Baltimore Toronto Boston X - Houston Y - Seattle Texas Los Angeles Oakland X - Atlanta Y - Philadelphia New York Miami Washington X - Cincinnati Chicago St. Louis Milwaukee Pittsburgh X - Los Angeles Y - San Diego Y - Arizona San Francisco Colorado The Tigers will win the World Series. Dispatching the Yankees, Astros, and Dodgers along the way will glorious.

I’m glad I was lucky enough to do the roof top thing before the views were blocked. Even better, work paid for it.

Anyone else smell a first pitch home run?

The White Sux are trash. If the Tigers don’t win 4 out of 3, fire Avila.

The wife bought hot dog buns. She knows what’s up. We always have some Johnsonville brats on hand in the freezer. The grill is ready for use. I found some Zywiec beer the other day whilst looking for Bell’s Oberon Eclipse (which is probably gone by now). So, I think dinner for tonight is set. I could cheat and cut the brats up into 9 pieces and portion out the 16oz cans into the little kid size cups that we still have around for some reason. Maybe if I were watching the 10 minute condensed game recap on MLB it would suffice?

It’s probably true. If I get one, it’s usually before the game starts. At a Hens game, I can watch the action while in line, so, nothing really lost there. Crud, now that I think about it, I think the last Tiger game that I’ve been to was 2019. That’s friggin’ whack.

The Great Pumpkin is bringing the Tigers a World Series sweep before we go out for trick or treats.

Yes. Pope Frank has given the go ahead for Opening Day hot dogs in the past. Just reschedule the abstinence to another day of that week and it’s cool.

Indeed. It isn’t the aging metabolism and the lack of tolerance. It’s the pitch clock.

I could only do it while watching a recording that I could view over two days.

Will a sign just signed a 10 year deal which includes deferred payments of $5M annually from 2034 to 2043. It seems like more long term deals are including deferrals. I’m not sure that this is going in a good direction. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know. But it just seems like kicking a debt can down the road for someone else to deal with.

Didn’t Toledo SP generally go once or twice through the lineup all season? It sure seemed like they trotted out multi inning RP as SP darn near all year.

That makes sense. So, if the conversation hasn’t occurred, could it be due to Madden’s possible value on the trade market? Or are other teams probably reading the tea leaves in the same general way?

I gave my family October through almost all of March. I’ll report back to them again in (hopefully very late) October.

Measure twice, cut once.

I think I recall hearing that as well. For some reason I think I remember sarcastically saying they should just move the stands since they couldn’t move the scoreboard towers.

That always did seem goofy. But did it cover the actual video board or did it just cover the stationary advertisements? That’s the thing that always bugged me about the scoreboard. It was a giant thing in its totality, but it was covered by permanent advertising around its perimeter. The actual video board always seemed small in proportion to the whole scoreboard. I suppose it was still an upgrade over the Tiger Stadium scoreboard. Gosh, I can remember they broadcast an episode of “This Week in Baseball” during one pregame. On one hand, it was so cool to see the show on that big of a TV. On the other hand, seeing it in sepia tone was a bit of a bummer.

Throwing that caution to the wind, the Tigers are going to win the World Series.

I’d like to think the Tigers have a good shot at the playoffs. And I know a lot of folks like the pitching and the deeper collection of starters as opposed to last year. The thing that worries me about he starters, tough, is what happens if the inevitable attrition occurs too quickly, and they struggle to cover starts? It’s easy to say they have enough arms to cover 800-825 innings over 162 starts. But they’ve got to ensure that the reserves in AAA that get called up have enough innings to spare when they do emerge from Toledo. In other words, it’s good to have Manning, and Gipson-Long, and Flores, et al in Toledo. But they’re ramping up innings season over season as they progress level upon level. So if they’re needed to pitch MLB innings, the Tigers are going to need to monitor the minor league action to have those innings available. I guess I’m a bit concerned about the durability of the depth, if that makes sense.

It’s a T for Tigers. Duh!

There will be several trades in order to make this happen, and the net will be 3 unprotected firsts out for 5 seconds and Todd Bridges in. Oh, and some ridiculous contract will also be brought in and then bought out. Probable use of the stretch buy out.