lordstanley

My prediction for the game is 3-1.

With this game, the Tigers are at the same stage the Lions were going into the Commanders game in January. Win and they will be one of only four team left. Lose and they go home.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's pouring rain outside my window, which is 144 miles north of Seattle.

I will try not to get down over one game, but with back to back games against the Leafs this weekend things are in danger of going south immediately.

I think baseball barnstorming in general is interesting. Here's a story about the Tigers' 18-game tour of Japan after the 1962 season. https://sabr.org/journal/article/no-alibis-the-detroit-tigers-1962-tour-of-japan/ On the eve of the slate’s first game, the Tigers made their first public appearance, taking in a night of entertainment at the Nichigeki Theater in downtown Tokyo. The players and their wives enjoyed a two-hour show by the Nichigeki’s dancers before the boys donned happi coats and took the stage. Scheffing introduced his players to the crowd, and each was presented with a bouquet of flowers. The appearance concluded with the athletes tossing rubber balls into the crowd; those who caught select balls adorned with a Tigers logo would be admitted to the next day’s game free of charge.11 The next afternoon Jim Bunning took the Tokyo Stadium mound for the Tigers in front of 27,000 spectators, including Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko. After the ceremonial first pitch was handled by Japanese Foreign Minister Ohira to US Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer,12 the Tigers wasted no time providing their starter some run support. Detroit’s hitters roughed up Daimai Orions starter Tomoo Wako, who did not make it out of the first. The Tigers put up eight runs in the opening frame, including a three-run homer by Jake Wood, to cruise to a 12-1 victory. Bunning contributed 5⅓ perfect innings before giving up four hits and giving way to reliever Terry Fox.13 Neither the Tigers nor the Orions came away unscathed, however. In the sixth inning, Detroit first baseman Norm Cash was struck behind the ear by Daimai lefty Shoichi Ono’s errant pitch, necessitating a hospital visit for X-rays, which showed no lasting damage. “I hope to play tomorrow,” said Cash. And Kaline reaggravated his foot injury in the first inning, toughing it out until the sixth when he was replaced by Bobo Osborne ------ The Tigers players also kept busy during the rainy days, as pitcher Phil Regan gave a Bible reading at Kawasaki Baptist Church,20 while Bunning, Cash, Scheffing, Kaline, and **** McAuliffe, along with Hanshin Tigers pitcher (and Central League MVP) Minoru Murayama, appeared on the NHK-TV program My Secret ------ For the purposes of the record books, however, the tour was officially over two days earlier, after the tie game, meaning that Detroit’s 11 wins, four losses, and two ties earned them “the worst record ever for a major league club coming to Japan.”46 The Tigers – “the big flops this year in the American League”47 – couldn’t even catch a break at the turnstiles; Detroit’s “total attendance of 383,370 for 17 games in Japan didn’t measure up to the 16-game attendance of the San Francisco Giants’ [441,000] and St. Louis Cardinals’ [430,000] tours in 1960 and 1958 respectively,”48 though in all fairness it should be noted that the Tigers battled soggy weather just about every step of the way. -------------

There will be at least two Toronto-Detroit clashes this Thanksgiving weekend (Leafs at Wings Sat 7pm, Wings at Leafs Monday 4pm). That will increase to four if the Tigers come through tonight (Tigers at Jays Game 1 Sunday 8pm, Tigers at Jays Game 2 Monday 5pm).

I think no fanbase would take a loss harder this year than that of the Milwaukee Brewers. If not now, when? They've made the playoffs 7 of the past 8 years, with 5 seasons of 90+ wins, and with 5 NL Central titles, and all they have to show for it in the post-season is one measly LDS series win way back in the first year of this 8 year stretch. They've won 10 playoff games 2018-2025 but only 4 playoff wins 2019-2025. The Tigers have won 8 playoff games in 2024-2025.

26 teams gone, 6 teams still standing: Toronto, LA Dodgers, Milwaukee, Seattle, Detroit, Chicago Cubs.

5-1 final.

What a way for a season to end. Pitcher Kerkering made about 3 mistakes on that play.

This game isn’t going as planned 5-1 Habs after 2.

Phillies-Dodgers is good. Phillies brought Duran in in the 7th. He walked Betts to walk in the tying run but then struck out Teoscar Hernandez to strand the bases loaded. 1-1 after 7. Ohtani is 1 for 17 in the series.

3-1 Habs after 1. Goals against in the final 10 seconds always sting.

Goal! Larkin opens for the Wings.

Season has started!

Just four days ago Skubal in the same park against the same team he will be facing tomorrow went 7 innings and gave up 5 hits and 1 walk for 2 runs while striking out 9. That is an outing that will win you most games. A 2-1 loss tomorrow wouldn’t be blamed on pitching.

Would this new name ensure that every Tigers player gives 167% effort in every game?

Game 7 of the ALCS would be the following Monday, directly opposite Bucs @ Lions on MNF.

Imagine how many extra commercials they could squeeze in without the risk of missing a Tigers run.

Jay’s eliminate the Yankees. Game 5 start time for Tigers-Mariners will be 8:08pm ET.

I thought the shade of orange everyone was wearing or waving looked awesome on tv today.

Tigers win!