lordstanley

He clearly has taken advantage of the MLB app to improve his baseball vocabulary. I wonder if he has taken a hack at which former MLB player or manager said a certain quote.

Jays’ win streak is over. It’s about time, that crap was getting old.

That’s a hell of a carom.

Scenes from a Canadian summer. https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey/bam-hockey-world-reacts-as-ex-nhl-fights-on-an-alberta-golf-course

This is the MLB Free Game of the Day. I can watch it free on my PC, iPad or phone but lately the MLB app on my Samsung TV has been locking the “free” games.

Yes, I believe (not certain) the current 3.5 game lead over Houston is the Tigers’ high water mark for the season with respect to AL lead. And the Yankees have fallen 8 back of the Tigers, Tampa 9.5 and Seattle 10. I don’t think Tampa with so many road games left will make a run and I don’t think Seattle is good enough to make up so much on the Tigers unless they sweep them this weekend. So it’s really just Houston, Toronto, and possibly NYY standing in the way of the Tigers and a bye - the Tigers just need to finish ahead of two of those three.

Guardians get a 2-out grand slam in the 10th, lead 10-6. Tom Hamilton is happy.

5 straight wins and 8 of 10. Good, the Tigers had been temporarily treading water for a bit in June.

The Athletic says the Tigers are like Teri Hatcher’s breasts.

Dodgers have been outscored 38-7 in their last 4 games, all losses.

I think Gavin McKenna is a special case. Overall, there might be only as much NIL in college hockey as in women’s gymnastics.

Guardians snap their 10-game losing streak with a win over Houston.

To clinch by the end of August, need to get that lead up to 24 games. Not impossible, lol. At 58-34 with 70 to go, the Tigers could go 32-38 the rest of the way and still win 90 games. Play .500 the rest of the way and they win 93. To hit 100 wins they'll need to go 42-28 the rest of the way - that's a tall order but they're on pace. The division race is over so to me the rest is all about win totals and getting the #1 or #2 AL seed.

Tigers win! 14 game lead, 24 games over .500.

Dan just said on the radio that no Tigers team at any time of any season has ever had a lead bigger than 15.5 games. Division lead right now is 13.5 games over Minnesota.

Another sad broadcaster of an opposing team. These are almost as good as listening to Dickerson calls of big moments.

Yankees broadcaster and Jays broadcaster have a beef. The first is arrogant, the other's a dork. https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/sports/michael-kay-claps-back-at-fawning-fanboy-blue-jays-broadcaster/

Karlsson has played 82 games each of the past 3 seasons and put in great production in his final year with SJ and good production his two years with Pittsburgh. So I guess he is considered to be back to full health, albeit aging?

I wouldn’t even care what they think. They’ve earned nothing. Collapsed the past two years in March. Supposedly demoralized that Yzerman didn’t add at the deadline. So if he does go out and make moves they might sulk if the addition isn’t of the right age or right contract?

Top seven AL teams all won today: Detroit, Houston, Toronto, NY Yankees, Tampa, Seattle, Boston. But LA Dodgers’ loss means the Tigers are back alone in 1st place for the MLB lead, by a game over the Dodgers and 1.5 games over Houston. Every other team in both leagues is 3 or more games behind the Tigers.

You can even say Go Expos! The Quebec government just approved the use of "Go", although not without fierce debate. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/oqlf-go-habs-go-ok-1.7576171 Using 'go' to cheer on sports teams is now OK, says Quebec language watchdog Quebec's language watchdog has changed its tune on whether it's acceptable to use the word "go" to cheer on sports teams. In a new guideline posted in its online dictionary, the Office québécois de la langue française says that while "allez" is the preferred term, it's now "partially legitimized" to use the English word to show encouragement. The flip-flop comes after the office took a hard line with Montreal's transit agency, pressing it for months in 2024 to scrub the word "go" from the electronic signs on more than 1,000 city buses. The reversal followed a public outcry on the eve of the Montreal Canadiens' first playoff home game in April, when the Montreal Gazette reported how the transit agency had replaced "Go! Canadiens Go!" with "Allez! Canadiens Allez!" to stay on the watchdog's good side. The reversal followed a public outcry on the eve of the Montreal Canadiens' first playoff home game in April, when the Montreal Gazette reported how the transit agency had replaced "Go! Canadiens Go!" with "Allez! Canadiens Allez!" to stay on the watchdog's good side. A similar complaint in 2021 targeted the hashtag GoHabsGo that appears in oversized letters outside the Bell Centre in Montreal, the home arena of the Canadiens. The person who filed the complaint suggested that to comply with Quebec's language rules, the expression "Allez les Habitants allez" should appear alongside the English slogan, in larger letters. "And yes, I'm serious, if the law applies, then apply it!:)" the person wrote.

Problem with both Montreal and Vancouver is the lack of a ballpark and the C$ exchange rate. I think the latter could be overcome. Of the two, Montreal is a better baseball city and more likely to get a team again someday.

Houston beats the Dodgers again to pull to within 1.5 games of the Tigers for best record in the AL. But the good news in that is that, 90 games into the season, the Tigers are now back in a tie with the Dodgers for the best record in MLB.

Yep, my scoreboard watching priority is Houston (2.0 games back of the Tigers) and Toronto (4.5 games back of the Tigers). Every other AL team is more than 7 games behind the Tigers. The division race is over.

Guardians plunge to 14.5 games behind the Tigers!