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What happened to the Padres? Wow, what a collapse. The Tigers could finish with the same record as them. They'll probably be looking for a new manager. I wonder if they'll try to coax Bruce Bochy out of retirement. I think he still lives there.
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Robot Umps (at Home Plate).........Your Thoughts?
Motor City Sonics replied to Motor City Sonics's topic in Detroit Tigers
Over the plate has never changed. That Niko AB at the end of the game was inexcusable...........and in the same game Matt Manning was not getting those calls. I remember when Mike Mussina (Orioles) was throwing a no-hitter against us and the ump was giving him a ridiculous strike zone east/west and Luis Gonzalez lost his mind and got chucked from the game. -
Build up the rest of the team (gonna take 3 offseasons) and then get your QB on a rookie deal. Don't want to put a young QB on a bad team and mess them up like the Jets and Jags are currently doing.
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yep, Tony Gwynn lost a routine fly ball in the lights.
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Once saw a guy on TV, a hurricane victim from Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina - He had a Pelican Club t-shirt on. I was given a commemorative brick from the Kenilworth with a little plaque on it when it was torn down.
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Come on, you and I and everyone else knows that someone got rich off of building the new ballpark. But, outside of Tampa and maybe Oakland, that is the ugliest MLB park and its only 2 years old.
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Based on the Texas timeline the Tigers will have a new park in what, 2026? Still can't believe they did that, the park they had was cool, the new one is ugly.
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a lot of people think that was the game winning RBI, but it was not. Who had the game winning RBI that night. Gibson did score the 5th run......................his 3 run bomb just cemented it. What a party. My first Detroit. championship (sorry MSU basketball fans, that one didn't move me so much).
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As a kid wanted to see how fast Ralph Garr could run. He beat out an infield play for a single. It was a game Ray Bare was pitching and my 10 year old self didn't realize that if they'd gotten him out on that close play, it would have been a no-hitter (it was the 5th or 6th inning)
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I also went to all three of the last games of 87 vs. the Blue Jays. All one-run games. Camped out Saturday night after being at the bar from about 3am until they opened the ticket office and got bleacher seats for Tanana's 1-0 game that clinched the East. The only run was a Larry Herndon home run and from the bleachers you could not see the left field corner, all we could do is react to the crowd's reaction. Another wonderful quirky flaw of the stadium.
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We might. I did not go to Dearborn High, I moved there after high school in Sterile Heights. My friends were all class of '85 DHS. John-John was one of my closest friends, met him working at Camp Dearborn when he threw my obnoxious cousin into the scummy pond behind the canteen............we all got thrown in there, but she through she was special. Nope. One time Dominic got Dave Henderson so drunk that we had to sneak him to his room at the Ritz. He fell and cracked his head on a table in his hotel room and his roommate Ron Darling told us to keep our mouth shut about it. Next day before the game we heard on the radio that Hondo was out with a pulled hamstring.
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Then there was August 11, 1994. The last day of the season because the strike was coming. The Tigers were playing the Brewers that day and Bill Wegmen was warming up in the bullpen and my other friend Steve, who's 6'8" is calling balls & strikes as he's warming up and Wegman stops and looks at Steve and Steve says "lets see a strike", so Wegmen rips a strike and Steve says "that was beautiful". No issue, right. Nope, Teddy Higuera comes up to us and starts yelling at us and his accent is thick so we are not sure what he's saying but he's just really pissed off and the ushers come over to us and tell us to go to our seats. Well our seats were given to us by the Brewers broadcasting guys -- we were right behind home plate, about 20 rows up. We decided that every single pitch Wegman threw, we'd yell out BALL, which is what we did. The ump turned around and yelled that he didn't need our help. Even Lou Whitaker tried to shoosh us. We didn't care, they were going on strike and we didn't care if we got tossed. We never relented. The whole game. I am sure everyone around us hated us, but Higuera pissed us off and we were angry about the strike. The best thing Wegman had going is that the Tigers had Mike Moore pitching and we got clobbered that day, 10-4 or 10-5, something like that.
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I remember a mostly empty park once when Mark McGwire cleared the roof in LF. I still remember the collective gasp
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My best friend's family owned a bar called Kenilworth Pub in Dearborn. They now own The Biergarten, also in Dearborn. I don't know why but at some point Oakland A's people started hanging out there while they stayed at the Ritz in Dearborn. We all became friends with the A's trainer, Barry Weinberg. Barry would always get us tickets when the A's were in town. One Sunday we had tickets for an A's game with Mark McGwire was still with them. These were tickets on the first base side, but we always like to sit in the first few rows of the right field upper deck. The old stadium they didn't really check, it was rarely full. We have the one guy who is always late and not 10 minutes late, like 45 minutes late, to everything. We are on our way to the game and 1st inning Tony Clark hits a home run, right to our seats. We get to the stadium, it's the 2nd inning and we are in the hallways in the lower deck, we stop to get beers and dogs and on the TV we see another HR go right to our seats, so we all rip on Steve and he unleashes an obscene-laden torrent at the top of his lungs at us (because we stopped for food and beer) that echoed through the corridors so loudly that security almost threw him out of the park. I swear that when they leveled the place and tore down that hallway, the last whoosh of air to escape still include echoes of Steve's tirade.
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9/28 @ 7:40 Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
Motor City Sonics replied to Tigeraholic1's topic in Game Threads
They just made me a "collaborator". Does that mean I am going to get arrested? -
Speaking of lunatics, a Democratic congressman from Illinois, Danny Davis, thinks R. Kelly should be given a second chance. He thinks Kelly would be "welcomed back to Chicago". What? Sure, Danny, we can start by sending your granddaughters to his place for the weekend. Talk about being out of touch. I'm not always into cancelling people, but this 80 year old dinosaur needs to just go away. What a turd. (Hey, we can say turd without being censored, I like this new place!)
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9/28 @ 7:40 Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
Motor City Sonics replied to Tigeraholic1's topic in Game Threads
Mission for next year - Play as well against the bad teams as you do against the good ones. So odd, isn't it? -
Steven Spielberg wanted to direct the 2nd Jaws movie, but his vision was actually a prequel and it was going to be all about the Indianapolis (the story Quint told in the original movie). That would have been pretty awesome. Who could have played young Quint? Ian McShane comes to mind. Why couldn't Spielberg do that now (with a young actor from today)?
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Is he European?
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Lions vs Ravens - 9/26/21 - 1:00pm - CBS
Motor City Sonics replied to RedRamage's topic in Detroit Lions
But wasn't there's intentional? They tried to draw them offsides, drew their own guy offsides, and then tried (sort of) again but only backed up 5 yards for the punt. -
Lions vs Ravens - 9/26/21 - 1:00pm - CBS
Motor City Sonics replied to RedRamage's topic in Detroit Lions
Actually the back judge is supposed to be in a position to be able to see both at the same time. Plus everyone moves the second the ball is snapped, so you can judge it that way too. There is no excuse for 1.77 seconds. Is Spartan Bob from Baltimore by any chance? -
Wait, are you saying our congress is dishonest?
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Coronavirus: Already In a Neighborhood Near You
Motor City Sonics replied to chasfh's topic in Politics
These anti-vaxx people...............Sign a pledge that you believe memes over doctors and then later in life when you need some kind of surgery, go have a guy/gal on facebook do it. you'll save money and won't have those liberal elitist hands in your body. Come on, make the pledge, Money where your mouth is, Do it..........DO IT. You Tube/Facebook Surgery experts doing the surgery, it would make a great streaming channel.