Motor City Sonics

♫  Memories.............Like the corners of my mind ♫

Come on, Boys.....................Walk this one off...............

The rubberband thing on the beard's a good look, Abreu.     

All Niko did was throw his hands up and say "what's that?" and Abreu goes crazy. 

And LaRussa must not have had is Ensure today and he's getting a little pissy.   Shut up, Tony.  

I turn away to record a commercial and all hell breaks 

Fuck you, Abreu.  

Don't crowd the plate if you don't want to get hit.      And Niko ain't giving you an inch there.  

SCHOOP SAC  8-7

Keep fighting, fellas.   

3 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

The 5,000 best seats were best in the majors. Best 25,000 seats were well above average. With a 51,000 seat capacity there was a big drop off in quality after the first 40,000.

Right Field Overhang.   CF upper deck bleachers.  Dank, narrow concourses with no view of the field, bullpens on the field, no ferris wheels or kids rides, I loved every inch of that place.  

12 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I think Tiger Stadium was an awful stadium. 

You probably hate puppies and ice cream too. 

How about THIS lineup............2023 Detroit Tigers

CF Akil Baddoo
SS Trea Turner
RF Riley Greene
1B Spencer Torkelson
2b Jonathan Schoop
3B Jeimer Candelario
DH Ryan Kreidler
C Dillon Dingler/Jake Rogers
LF Daniel Cabrera

Bench - Kody Clemens, Isaac Paredes, Eric Hasse, (One of Victor Reyes, Derek Hill or Daz Cameron)

Rotation - Casey Mize/Tarik Skubal/Matt Manning/Sean Manaea/Jackson Jobe

Bullpen - Gregory Soto/Michael Fulmer/Spencer Turnbull/Joey Wentz/Kyle Funkhouser/Nivaldo Rodriquez/Alex Faedo
 

When I was a kid my dad worked at a printing place called Superior Color.   It was right across the freeway from Tiger Stadium and the pedestrian bridge over the freeway let out right in front of his parking lot   During weekday afternoon games on his lunch hour he'd drive up to Sterling Heights pick up my friends and I, bring us to his work, give us a $20 and we'd go to the games.   Bleacher tickets were $3 and we had enough left over   Once he had freebies (they printed programs and last-minute scorecards).  The games would usually end just before he'd get out of work.  If it ended early, we'd go back over there.  He was a supervisor at that point, so he had an office that was soundproof, and he'd take us to the printing press area.  Couldn't believe how loud it was in there.   

This was Superior Color.  Can't believe the building still stands.  Looks to be in good shape too. 

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3351173,-83.0710483,3a,75y,317.48h,89.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRWYdSKQnLgCiC57TIR_7VA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Tigers wore historic numbers to honor the greatest Tiger at each position

I went to the last five games.    The day before this, local boy Dave Borkowski pitched a gem (8 IP, 4 hits, 1 ER, 6K) and they pulled him in the 8th inning and I was so angry.  Let the kid finish the game, his whole family is there, let him have the moment. 

C Brad Ausmus (#11 for Bill Freehan)
1B Tony Clark (#5 for Hank Greenberg)
2B Damian Easley (#2 Charlie Gehringer)
SS Deivi Cruz (#3 for Alan Trammell)
3B Dean Palmer (#21 for George Kell)  
DH Robert Fick (#25 for Norm Cash)  His own number, best Grand Slam I've ever seen in person
RF Karim Garcia (#6 for Al Kaline)   A crime that this guy got to wear that number
CF Gabe Kapler (No Number for Ty Cobb)  Is Kapler the last player to where no number? 
LF Luis Polonia (#23 for Kirk Gibson) 

I was in the first row, lower deck of LF, right over the scoreboard.   Close up view as the all-time Tigers took their positions in the field.   Fidrych was the first one out and of course he RAN to the mound, got down on a knee, started grooming the mound and pulled out a baggie.   Willie Horton was about 15 feet in front of me, he was crying his eyes out.   We (my friends and I) started taking bets on who would be the last out and I won.......I said Alan & Lou would come out together.     I swear after all was done my friends and I lingered long enough to be the last ones to leave.  We had an empty cup and we asked one of the on-field security guys to scoop some up and you can see the dirt from the field in that pouch with the ticket.   It hangs on the wall right next to me.   One of my most treasured possessions.  

10 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

I believe it was $75 per outlet. I'll have to see who they went with. They live in Macomb County so I don't know if they'll be able to come out to your area. 

My kitchen and bathroom have those outlets already.   I just need it in my office and living room, so 4 or 5 outlets total.  

10 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Baltimore got lucky too. They scored their only TD after that fumble recovery was negated by a penalty that had no bearing on the play. They also benefited from the non call on the expired play clock and of course needed to kick an NFL record FG that bounced the correct way off the crossbar.  

That penalty absolutely had a bearing on that play, that player was part of the pile going after the ball.   

1 hour ago, casimir said:

The pickup football games that stunk were the ones where the ground was frozen but there was no snow on top of it.

Like playing on concrete.                I played a high school soccer game on the Silverdome field once, it was back when we had the Detroit Express.    If that's what they had to play football on, I can't gripe with any of them walking away.  Put a piece of carpet on concrete.  

20 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

This is what my parents have done. On their house in Detroit, it failed city inspection when they sold it so they just replaced all the outlets with GFCI. In their current house, it was built in 1952 and same issue. They replaced some with GFCI outlets. 

How much did that cost? 

14 minutes ago, holygoat said:

 

Yes, but that doesn't mean it was the same clock on the field.    But why does it matter.  This gave us a priceless gift.  An entertaining perfect Lions loss and the #1 pick in the draft within our reach.   

Next week the Bears 3rd string quarterback, Nick Foles, will torch the Lions for 330 yards.

I mean, not only did it break a record (just like Tom Dempsey did vs. the Lions), but it hit the crossbar, went straight up in the air..........wobbled up there for about 45 seconds (actually 1.3 seconds that felt like 45) but then fell on the other side of the crossbar.    It's fucking poetic, man.    The drama of it all.       The most Lionesque loss of all time?    I don't know, but it was a beauty. 

(I do feel bad for Dan Campbell, his defense was vastly better today).  

I wonder if God and Bobby Layne are drinking buddies.  

"Did that just happen, Greg"

Of course it did, it's the Lions.  

This game is an indictment of Jamie Collins and Trey Flowers.  

BOLLOCKS !

I'll be glad when Niko Goodrum is gone. 

You could say the defense is better, and it is, but honestly, this should not be 13-7, it should probably be 21 or 24-7 with all the dropped passes by the Rave-Ons