Shades of Deivi Cruz

I like the jerseys, especially compared to the City Connect versions of some other teams. The hat, notsomuch... That said, anyone ordering a City Connect Torkelson jersey for $175 needs to have their head examined. Skubal or Greene are the only two jersey worthy players we have.

On 5/3/2024 at 1:34 PM, casimir said:

What?!

We've always have Buckeye for home internet (and phone, when that was a thing). It's the only option in the neighborhood. We just didn't subscribe to the cable TV portion of their offerings.

On 5/3/2024 at 6:23 PM, chasfh said:

I'm still on DirecTV, and I'll probably stick with it for a while.

For one thing, I've negotiated $80 or so a month off the topline price to something more reasonable. For another, I like the convenience of channel numbers, and channel neighborhoods, and surfing.

I'm not so keen on having to rely on search because sometimes I just want to browse, and browsing the DTV menu has a comfortable familiarity to it (I've been with them since 1999). When I browse the streamers, 95% of what I see are of a certain type of action-adventure-thriller-horror-scifi-reality-franchise fare.

I also like how everything on DTV is centralized in one app, versus having to travel around three or four different streamers. Apple TV does centralize several streamers on their home page, although not all.

Also, not for nothing, much of what I see on DTV is also available to me in streaming as long as I input my login credentials on the various network sites.

And when it comes to baseball, my MLB Extra Innings package not only gets me the convenience of surfing games that offer both broadcasts, but I also get MLB.tv plus MLB audio gratis along with it anyway.

Lastly, I'm in a sharing arrangement where I provide the DTV credentials, and I get Netflix, Hulu, Disney, ESPN, and YouTube TV in return.

So yeah, I think I'll stick with it for a while longer.

Can't disagree with most of this. DirecTV always offered me a substantial discount to stay, but it just got to the point where I wasn't seeing the value, especially since I was already paying for Hulu (the "regular" version). Combine that with the fact that what we actually watch on TV is very little, it was just time to make the switch. Navigating Hulu Live TV is a little wonky, but we will adjust quickly enough. It helps that each of us can have our own Favorites channel guide. I also like that I can click on Sports, and it shows me all of the live and upcoming games to choose from, and I can further narrow that by sport. We also can now truly just have one remote we use for everything, which has long been an annoyance to Mrs Shades of Deivi Cruz.

Redzone is great if you do fantasy football or just want to track all the scoring. If you don't care about that and just want games, then leave it off. My son insists on Redzone, though I prefer to just pick a game and watch it.

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

My brother has Hulu live and loves it. Does Comcast still limit the data on their internet? It used to be 2 GB per month. I'm not sure how much data streaming uses per hour. I've heard 4k TVs use much more data. And I think Yahoo now has the Sunday Ticket...I may get it next season. 

I'm in the Toledo area, so I have Buckeye cable. AT&T is putting fibre in our neighborhood right now though. YoutubeTV has the Sunday Ticket. I have a college student son, so I was able to get it for cheap last year. Yahoo is not really a thing anymore... LOL!

16 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

They better give folks a big monthly credit. I ditched Xfinity last fall and went with WOW as my internet, Yahoo TV, Hulu, Amazon Prime and the Bally app. All for half what I was paying per month to Commiecast. I miss the Comcast box and UI but not at that cost.

I'm in the process of something similar. Been with DirecTv for literally decades, but switching to Hulu+ Live TV and Bally's app for half of what I had been paying. Without the Sunday Ticket, I'm no longer tied to DirecTv.

On 5/1/2024 at 5:41 AM, oblong said:

Woke up to this today. 

Who uses Bally Sports as an alarm clock?

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I already have a few hundred of them.     

I have only a couple of bookmarks that I actually use. If it's a site I use frequently, I either have it as an open tab all the time, or I rely on autocomplete to get me there.

Regarding the topic at-hand, it certainly seems like it would be Keith to go. They've still been sticking Tork and his Ks (or pop-up!) in the middle of the order, much to my frustration. Not that anyone outside of Greene, Vierling or Perez actually deserves to be there, I guess.

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

 

If they have the original Centipede, I will take your lunch money.

Yes, I used "low-key slapped" on purpose AND I used it correctly. LOL!

13 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

To add on the previous tipping discussion. Is this the same idea as the beer purchase at a game?

 

 

 

Is that a KMart lunch counter?

Related-ish, there was a lunch counter at the Sears store I worked at when I was young, and it low-key slapped. 

No Tork in the lineup today.

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

I heard him start talking about it but then they went to commercials. I never heard the rest of his story. His monotone or Monroe's blubbering? I would vote for Gibby.

I feel like Gibby's voice has much more energy and strength so far this year. Maybe it was just because it wasn't Craig, but I like to think it is.

Rained out. Straight DH on Sat.

41 minutes ago, AZTigersfan said:

Man, it sure would be neat to have an offense who punishes middle/middle pitches. Our guys either swing and miss or foul them off. It would also be neat if our pitchers wouldn’t hit the middle of the plate so often! If only, right?

In our pitchers defense, they are watching our hitters fail miserably at such pitches. Reasonable of them to think it might work for them. Unfortunately, they aren't facing Tigers hitters.

The crew insisting on continuing to play "Pick The Stick" and showing constant updates of everyone with zero or negative points is just cruel.

13 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

I wonder if Monroe ever feels like he's in the booth with Dennis Miller. Just one missed reference after another.

I love Jason so much. He did try to help Craig out when they replayed the Tork strikeout and he mistook it for the double. Unfortunately Craig had already botched it and made it clear he has no idea what he is talking about.

10 minutes ago, casimir said:

Just think of all the May flowers.

No one goes to NYC to see flowers.

27 minutes ago, Toddwert said:

Tork and Greene are on MLB central talking about hitting on the MLB Network

Did Tork say maybe he should stop hitting pop ups and striking out? That would be my non-professional opinion.

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Or schedule only day games for early April? Common sense doesn't sell tickets, I guess. They have to try and soak fans while kids are still in school and it ends up losing them money.

Not sure how that would help this situation. Once it starts raining Tues morning, it's not supposed to stop through Wed night.

Should be able to get today's game in, but tomorrow and Wed look dicey. Maybe they should just go ahead and play a DH today...

3 minutes ago, casimir said:

Her cousin never did shows in high school and now that she's off on her own, she's really acquired a taste for it.  Part of it is to meet new people as she's off in a new location.  

Did she take into account the fact that the new people she would be meeting are largely people who proport to enjoy the musical Cats?

22 minutes ago, casimir said:

My wife's cousin was in a community theatre production of Cats.  I'd never seen it before.  My guess is that the production was in general pretty similar to the original.  My only conclusion is that ain't no way that show was conceived by a sober mind.

Not only was that show conceived of AND subsequently put into production, it also is somehow popular enough for that long run on Broadway as well as now community productions. I chose to believe it is actually an elaborate hoax where people just came together to agree that it was good and see how far they could take it, and it snowballed from there.

I am actually more concerned that your wife's cousin seemingly voluntarily chose to try out for the production. And now you have participated in perpetuating the ruse by attending and supporting the event. 

15 hours ago, smr-nj said:

Had my eye exam today (around 2pm), and those damned eye drops !! My pupils are still soooo dilated that I look like I’m on the biggest drug-high ever.…..

And, the lights are killing me,

And I can’t focus on anything close, or far. So, chances are there’s a few messups in this post. 
 

/end whine.  Exit.  (Old cobol folks will understand this)

Years ago I went Christmas shopping after such an exam, but I got frustrated because I couldn't read any price tags. I was about to leave the mall when I saw a crowd forming at a Gamestop. Since I couldn't see anyway, I went ahead and got in line. After being in line for awhile, I asked the person in front of me what we were in line for. She said that the store had a stock of Nintendo Wii available. I thought about it for a second and decided to stay in line and get one, even though I had not planned at all to seek one out.

18 hours ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

Manning 2IP 0H BB 2K 

How many come-backers off his foot? As long as that number is zero, I'm happy.