lordstanley

1 minute ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Wow,  hell of a call on the kick off, even though Wisco got it. 

I didn’t like it at all. Kick it deep and Wisconsin would have knelt and you go into the half with a 2 score lead. 

11 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Looking beyond the Tigers just for a minute: Yankees need to lose two to Tampa, Boston needs to split with Washington, Seattle has to win two from the Angels, and Toronto has to win two from Baltimore. If that happens, there’s a four-way tie for two wild card spots.

What would be the plan then? Randomly draw 2 matchups, the winner of each game gets one of the spots?

22 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Not that its saying much but Cade looks like the best QB we've had since perhaps Rudock. He's not perfect by any means but I think he's good enough to win with. 

Maybe we can hope that his horrible 2nd half last week was largely from getting his bell rung on the last play of the first half. 

Flea flicker! 

Wait, there’s a penalty when the play clock hits 0?

Apart from the Tigers game, this is a fun night if baseball. Boston and Toronto won close games, Yankees lost a close game.  Now watching Seattle put runners on the corners to start bottom of the 7th, down a run to the Angels. 

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lordstanley
Posted March 31, 2009
Always my favorite moment of the hockey season, apart from Red Wing playoff victories. Could tonight be the night?

lordstanley
Posted April 1, 2009
Looking good so far, but still a ways to go, at least an hour and a half. After being just a hit goalpost away on Saturday.

lordstanley
Posted April 1, 2009
The fat lady is warming up ...

Shinma
Posted April 1, 2009
Blue Jackets?

lordstanley
Posted April 1, 2009
Better than that ... by being much worse.

Shinma
Posted April 1, 2009
Ah ha. Maple Leafs. Heh.

lordstanley
Posted April 1, 2009
It's over in Montreal. 8th place Habs win, taking them to 88 points. In the unlikely event the Leafs win their final six games, they'd top out at 87 points ... which means ... the Leafs miss the playoffs so once again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again again

WILL NOT WIN THE STANLEY CUP!!

Hahaha, suck it Leafs, you despicable bums.

11 months later...
lordstanley
Posted March 31, 2010

I look forward to this annual bump as much as the Mccarty-Lemieux anniversary. Leafs lose, they're out of the playoffs ... AGAIN.

43 YEARS ... AND COUNTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vonlenska
Posted March 31, 2010
😞
 

lordstanley
Posted March 31, 2010
Longest drought (43 years) between Finals appearances in NHL history!! Not to mention 43 years between Cups!

Johnny Mac
Posted March 31, 2010
The Blackhawks last won in 1960-61 and only have one finals appearance since then. I think that is probably worse.

lordstanley
Posted March 31, 2010 (edited)

Actually, the Hawks have made the Finals five times since their last Stanley Cup including 3 times since 1967 (Leafs 0 since 1967):

1962

1965

1971

1973

1992

The Hawks have won 13 division titles since 1967; the Leafs 1.

This will be the Hawks' 8th 100pt season since 1967; the Leafs 2.

The Hawks have made the NHL semi-finals 14 times since 1967; the Leafs 5.

The Leafs have been way, way worse than the Hawks the past 43 years.

won 13 division titles since 1967; the Leafs 1.

This will be the Hawks' 8th 100pt season since 1967; the Leafs 2.

The Hawks have made the NHL semi-finals 14 times since 1967; the Leafs 5.

The Leafs have been way, way worse than the Hawks the past 43 years.

My bad, thats what wikipedia research gets you :cheeky:

skyguy52
Posted March 31, 2010
Does L.S. boycott Tim Horton Coffee? If he does, he's true blue.

lordstanley
Posted March 31, 2010
My uncle had it rough. Huge Wings fan but long-time Ontario schoolteacher. The Ontario teacher's union is the largest shareholder of the Maple Leafs through their pension fund.

BTW, too bad Tim Horton didn't stick to drinking only coffee the day he died.

Kdoogie24
Posted March 31, 2010
Im bored of making fun of Leafs fans. About 75% of the people I know are fans of the Buds, and it has become tiring. Some of them have realized a while ago just how bad their organization is, so there's no use in trying to grill them.

On the other hand though, I still laugh when they get optimistic. A good start to the season will have them talking playoffs. When the Dion Phaneuf deal was announced this year, you would have thought they acquired Bobby Orr. Luke Schenn and Nazem Kadri are clearly two of the best 19-20 year old prospects in the world. Most of them are terribly delusional, its actually very comical.

Shinma
Posted April 8, 2010
free_beer_to_leafs_playoff_games.gif

lordstanley
Posted April 16, 2010
Tough times for Toronto sports fans. Leafs haven't made the playoffs since 2004. Jays haven't made the playoffs since 1993. Raptors have now missed the playoffs 2 straight years. As have the CFL Argos. I don't mind the Raptors or the Argos. But the Leafs & Jays? Ha, couldn't happen to a better two teams!

11 months later...
lordstanley
Posted April 6, 2011
Listening to Sabres-Bolts. Sabres leading by a goal with 8 minutes to go in 3rd. The Sabres just need to at least get this game to OT and it will be bye-bye Leafs.

lordstanley
Posted April 6, 2011
Under 2 minutes to go 😁

lordstanley
Posted April 6, 2011
ENG for the Sabres. LEAFS FALL!!!

lordstanley
Posted April 6, 2011
44 years... and counting!

Kdoogie24
Posted April 6, 2011
Love it.

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11 months later...
lordstanley
Posted March 27, 2012
Shin's favorite annual post was last night, and mine could be as early as tonight.

lordstanley
Posted March 28, 2012
Game over at the ACC. For once, Ill be mature and not say a word. I'll just stifle a laugh ... 45 times.

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1776
Posted March 2
Robbie Grossman will be recognized as the Detroit Tigers MVP of 2021 by the press after the season.

Tenacious DMotownSports Fan
Posted March 2
I like Jim a lot.  Seems like a sweet guy.  I just don’t want him on my radio calling Tiger games.

lordstanley
Posted March 3
I predict the Tigers will buck conventional wisdom and utilize performance enhancing packs to charge towards the pennant and World Series. 

sabretooth
Posted March 5
Nunez, Schoop and Willi Castro will combine for over 80 HR

Motor City Sonics
Posted March 5
BOLD PREDICTION:

Casey Mize out for Tommy John surgery by May

Tarik Skubal gets in first base collision  and separates pitching shoulder.  Misses rest of season

Matt Manning quits baseball to join Elon Musk Mars expedition

Miguel Cabrera is in great shape at Spring Training (oh wait, already happened,  sorry)

Matthew Boyd actually pitches a game where he does not give up a home run

Willi Castro & Harold Castro switch jerseys as a joke and are suspended for the season by MLB

Zach Short punches Giancarlo Stanton after he calls him "Shortie" and breaks his hand,  Stanton misses the rest of the season too, and Yankee fans complain. 

Michael Fulmer leads team in wins with 7

33 different pitchers start a game for the Tigers in 2021 including 9 guys who haven't thrown a MLB pitch since 2018

AJ Hinch begs team to steal signs, but they somehow mess it up

49-113

Al Avila gets contract extension.

Fox Sports Detroit finally gets back on  You Tube TV for the 2022 season. 

Players go on strike for all of  2022 

Baseball returns in 2023 - nobody under 60 cares. 

Ads on jerseys (limit to 4 advertisers per team)

4 teams fold by 2025.  

sabretooth

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ROMAD1
Posted March 5
Tork gets a taste for blood and begins hunting his teammates for sport. 

ROMAD1
Posted March 6
(apologies for politics intrusion)

Jacoby Jones insists that they read aloud the entire MLB rule book before they can take the field for every game. 

His teammates complain but he then insists they do it in every primary language of everyone on the 26 man roster.  So, they have an English language reading, a Spanish language reading, and he insists they do a version in gullah geetchee for Akil Baddoo.  Despite Baddoo's protestations that he is from Maryland not the coastal areas of Georgia and South Carolina.  Later we find out it was just Jacoby's way of making sure they cut Baddoo so he could save his own roster spot.

4 weeks later...
tiger337
Posted March 28

Booms:

Boyd will cut way down on his home runs and get his ERA under 4.00 in 180 innings.

Candelario shows that last season was no fluke and posts a .850 OPS for a full season.  

Skubal finishes in top three in Rookie of Year voting with 3.75 ERA and 10.5 K/9 before getting shut down at his innings limit in August.  

Busts:

Mize get lots of K's and shows flashes of brilliance, but is hit hard and needs to go to Toledo to works things out.  

Farmer will be awful and won't make it through May.

Goodrum won't last much longer than Farmer.  

 RandyMarsh
Posted March 28
Baddoo leads the league in every offensive category....but doesn't win the MVP due to the rest of the team being garbage. 

Motor City Sonics
Posted March 28
So the opening day lineup will be............?

Grossman, lf
W. Castro, ss
Cabrera, 1b
Candelario, 3b
Schoop, 2b
Ramos, c
Mazara, rf
Baddoo, dh
Jones, cf

bobrob2004
Posted March 31 (edited)

Baddoo hits terribly and gets sent back to Minnesota per rule 5 draft rules.

Cabrera gets injured while playing 1B and is sidelined for over 2 months.

Isaac Paredes takes Cabrera's roster spot and hits surprisingly well.

Greg Soto gets 30 saves. 

Matt Manning pitches more Major League innings than Casey Mize.

The Tigers have a winning percentage of over .400 for the first time since 2016.  

Buddha
Posted April 1

paredes hits .290...with a .315 obp and .350 slg.

candelario hits .300 and is traded at the deadline for a lefty reliever who throws 100 mph but has control concerns and a 19 year old dominican shortstop who lynn henning tells us is the real star of the deal and is on everyone's radar as a future derek jeter.

boyd is not traded for gleybar torres.  again.

fulmer becomes the closer by the end of the year.

norris is the team's best starter, which says more about the team's starters than norris.  he is traded to the phillies at the deadline for someone who throws really hard and someone who runs really fast.  

mize looks great as a starter....once he's back in toledo but...

manning dazzles in his september call up.  mize returns in september and looks really good too (but doesnt "dazzle"!).

tigers win 69 games.  continuing the worst stretch of baseball in the franchise's history.  avila is given a contract extension for making so much progress ("this team won 47 games two years ago, that's a 22 win improvement" exclaims a happy chris illitch at the press conference.)

Stanley70
Posted April 1

Casey Mize is the Tigers best starter this year and has an era around 3.75.

Torkelson struggles to start the year in A ball and everyone panics.

The starting pitching overall is around league average.

The bullpen is horrible, aside from Norris.

Cabrera is so bad he is told he won't be back next year.

Final record 71-91.

22 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Im pretty sure I made some prediction in that thread but I can't remember what it was(surely it was that the Tigers would be a .500 team from May on). Seriously though I think it had something positive to do with Cabrera that didnt happen. 

I could only retrieve the cache for the first of the three pages. So unfortunately no one will be able to see that I predicted the Tigers would go 77-85, Turnbull would pitch a no-hitter, and Jack Morris would be suspended for a slur.

EDIT:  check that, page 2 coming up

Down goes Minnesota! Tigers assured of at least a 4th place finish. Magic number to clinch 3rd over KC is 1.  Need to make up 2 games on Cleveland over the final 3 to tie for 2nd.

Jays and Red Sox both lost tonight.

So the Yankees have a 2 game lead over both Seattle and Boston for the first wild card spot, with Toronto another game behind.

Can envision a scenario where Toronto sweeps Baltimore this weekend, Seattle takes 2 of 3 from LA Angels, and Boston takes 2 of 3 from Washington for a 3-way tie for the 2nd wildcard spot. Even wilder, add the Yankees being swept by Tampa this weekend and there'd be a 4-way tie for the two wildcard spots.

MInnesota can still catch the Tigers with 4 to play. What a bunch of termites.

With the Sabres goalie back in, some dude named Jon Martin scores another for the Wings. 6-2.

Raymond assists on a Fabbri ENG.

36 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

  Zadina looking not good.

Don't be so hard on him 🙂

Why are they sending the scoreboard music right into my ear?!

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tiger337
Posted March 2
It is time for the annual bold prediction thread. This is not a thread where you take the medians of Baseball Prospectus simulations and use those for your predictions. This is a thread where you put down your spreadsheets and make predictions from your gut like a real man.  

Gehringer_2MotownSports Fan
Posted March 2
Riley Greene plays in Detroit in 2021

leflore
Posted March 2
Tarik makes the all-star team. Turnbull's era is sub 3.50. Miggy hits 27 HR. W Castro's ops is north .800. 

Longgone

Neither Mize, Manning or Skubal make the opening day roster.

Tenacious D
Posted March 2
Did anyone in 2020 predict a global pandemic would wipe out the majority of the season?  If so, I’m going with their boldyness and predictions.

ROMAD1

Posted March 2
Sad prediction.  Jim Price doesn't finish the season as analyst.

Tenacious D
Posted March 2
Willi Castro has more HR’s than errors ( both will exceed 20).

Daniel Norris will be dealt by the deadline.

Tarik Skubal is AL ROY.

Jonathan Schoop will lose his starting job by at least August 1.

Jose Cisnero will emerge as our closer

Tigers season will be fun to follow and will still finish with a top 5 worst record.

Biff Mayhem
Posted March 2
I know that there are a lot of dissenters of Jim Price but I think we as fans are really blessed with him. He used to annoy me to death (especially when they experimented with him doing PBP) but you'll never meet a more joyful person and he exudes that on the broadcasts.

chasfh
Posted March 2
I'm with you on this. I've liked Jim Price for many years now. As deserved as criticisms may have been early on, I think he has become much more a tell-it-like-it-is color guy, and maybe working with Numbers-Don't-Lie Dan helped lead Jim to that. Plus, he was my player coach when I went to Tigers camp in 2008 and he was as swell a player coach as you can hope for. However he's doing and wherever he goes from here, I hope the journey is as easy for him as it can be.

chasfh
Posted March 2
Casey Mize will have season-ending SLAP repair, Tarik Skubal and Matt Manning will struggle all year, Joey Wentz will become the #1 pitching prospect with a strong debut once he does toe the rubber at Comerica, Spencer Torkelson will be called up in April after his service time crosses the line, and Riley Greene will start the season in Lakeland and top out at Erie.

ROMAD1
Posted March 2
My worry is that his health is not great.  I also have traveled a tortured path of arriving at appreciation for Jim Price

roarintiger1
Posted March 2
Miguel Cabrera will lead the team in HRs, RBIs, and batting average.

chasfh
That's bold, all right! Although that probably also says more about the rest of the team than it does about 38-year-old Miguel Cabrera.

ROMAD1
Posted March 2
I would put my money on Niko or Jaimer for all those categories.

roarintiger1
Well, he wanted bold and from the gut.........So, there it was. 🙂

socaltiger
Posted March 2
The Tigers will win 75 games

leflore
Posted March 2
Sad that after several bottom dwelling seasons 75 wins is a bold prediction, but it is!

Casimir
Posted March 2
Keep in mind, they won only 23 last season.

Gehringer_2
Posted March 2
They also increased their winning percentage from 304 to 390 last season. 75 wins is a 460 winning % which would be about as positive a year to year improvement as I dare to hope for.

ROMAD1

Posted March 2
The jump from 2003 to 2004 winning percentage was pretty huge.  39 wins to 71 wins.   If we got that kind of jump i'd be delighted. 

sabretooth
Posted March 2
I have always loved Jim Price.  A passionate and warmhearted guy with deep roots in the organization. 

He is also a connection to the Tigers broadcast team going back to 1993, as well as Ernie.

I will always associate him with the 2004 - 2014 teams, which were a ton of fun, and especially 2006, which ranks as my favorite season of all.

I will miss him terribly when he is gone.

https://twitter.com/Wrestleworld5/status/1443738215429468170?s=20

8 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Any video of Lucas Raymond's goal?  

https://twitter.com/BradGalli/status/1443736869418717185?s=20

Just turning it on now Bleachy picture quality, but ok. I seem that Raymond has scored. 3-1 Wings approaching midway in the 2nd.

The more I read about the Vrana situation, it sounds like rather than a major injury to him Saturday, it was more a case of his injured shoulder from worlds being sore during the first 10 minutes of practice. If so, what a wasted summer.

5 hours ago, John_Brian_K said:

I do not really follow College football, but I watch and listen etc...why is everyone so afraid of this game?  Seems like a pretty solid win for UofM is in order here.

The 2nd half against Rutgers the most putrid I can remember since Hoke. There was one game against the Spartans sometime early in the Harbaugh years (not the botched punt game) that may have been as bad but at least I believe they could partially blame that one on weather, IIRC.

3 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

‘87 brings back painful memories. I still have my satin Tigers warm-up jacket that I bought that year. But even though I’ve never washed it it’s somehow shrunk and very tight fitting now. Very poor construction.

I found my satin Tigers warm-up jacket from 1984 in my mother's basement this summer and was thinking of bringing it back with me. Not sure it suits the Vancouver climate.

6 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Maglev

They could have the statue dangle from  a sturdy but near-invisible string that would clothesline unsuspecting drunk fans on Friday nights.

18 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

I’m once again screwing up the quote/edit function. How old am I?  I knew Varna’s injru6 was Saturday  

 

Depressing out Vrana. The news today took me totally by surprise so I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention to his injury last night. 
 

Better lineup for a home game tonight.