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And those hooligans were boorishly bellowing in the background of the radio broadcast all night.

Tigers lose. Go Mariners.

Minnesota has defeated KC. The Tigers have clinched 3rd place.

I’m sorry, I find pre season hockey terribly boring. Couldn’t stay with it.

Nebraska may not be a pushover. Avoid the letdown. Has played Oklahoma and MSU close the past 2 weeks and is annihilating Northwestern tonight.

Four Big Ten East teams in top dozen or so. If Georgia stumbles, maybe BIG has as good of a chance of getting two teams into the playoff as SEC. if merit was the deciding factor, I mean.

Michigan has to move ahead of BYU. BYU is 5-0 with no big names win, largest margin of victory has been 14, and four have been by 10:points or less

Watching Ken & Mickey for the first time this pre-season. Wings leading 2-0 in 2nd but I don’t have a sense of the game or individual performances yet, just turned it on 15 minutes ago.

Seattle plays tonight. Jays and Sox have won today, Yankees got blown out All four teams play at 3pm ET tomorrow. 4-way tie still a possibility.

Down goes Oregon!

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.

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

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.

Page 1 of 3 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. Quote 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.

page 2 of 3 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 Expand Not bold enough 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.

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.

Don't be so hard on him 🙂 Why are they sending the scoreboard music right into my ear?!