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I am so over Kahnle.

Melton is reminding me of Jeff Weaver a tad.

I use to LOVE the all-star game but as many have said, it has lost it's luster with the amount of interleague we play now. Jonas brothers mid game song - worthless waste of time. I could not believe all that EXTRA CRAP going on as they were introducing the teams and especially the starting line ups. Total BS. Manfred should be ashamed and embarrassed.

That Erie lineup tonight looks like an all-star team!! Go Seawolves!!

Looks like in 1961 the Tigers had Bunning, Cash, Colavito and Kaline all starting one of the AS games. In fact, the three Tigers batted 1-2-3 in the lineup that game. Colavito's HR provided the AL only run and Kaline had 2 of the 4 AL hits.

There does look like some sort of a wall to the right of the flag pole that squares off CF. Hmmmm. Flagpole still in play though.

I am 99.9% sure the flagpole was always in play and there was never a temporary fence at 420'.

And to think Tiger Stadium was 440 to center field!!

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Ya know, I really liked Trei Cruz when he was drafted and seems to be coming into his own this year . . . . but . . . . just realized he is 26 years old all ready. Thought he might be the old dude on the Erie team but there are seven guys older.

Was your dads name Tiger336?

We will be adding pieces monthly as is . . . . Vierling, Meadows, Perez, Maddon, Brebbia, Rogers, Lange maybe.

We probably would have finished in 1st place and not needed a game 163 in 2009 if we did not acquire Wasburn (-0.7 WAR) and Huff (-0.8 WAR). Lots of negative WAR for two month rentals.

Vierling tonight so far, 1-1 with a HR.

McKinstry's are good people. I played with Alex in men's 30+ baseball a few decades ago for a few years.

That took some digging to find and wasn't that long ago. Good find.

Liam had four hits yesterday!!

Did not happen to Vest, he was Rule 5 drafted by Mariners from Tigers and later returned to Tigers. No other team picked him up after the Mariners removed him from the 26 man roster and was returned to Detroit. Guys are traded a lot day of Rule 5 draft, I never said otherwise.

OK, I missed the part where other teams can claim him. I guess I glossed over that since it has never happened that I remember.

No other team can claim him unless the Tigers pass first and the Cubs release him, which I doubt they do. If the Tigers want him back, they pay the Cubs 1/2 the Rule 5 fee back. If the Tigers do not want him, the Cubs will assign him to one of their farm teams, probably AAA.

Gage Workman designated for assignment by Cubs. Should the Tigers bring him back or let the Cubs keep him? I think he would be a strong player to have at Toledo, preparing for another shot at the majors.

I watched spring training games almost everyday and noticed that the umpires were calling balls & strikes more efficiently than they are now in the regular season. The ball & strike calls have been horrible across the board so far since the regular season started. The ABS system seemed to challenge the umpires more in spring training, not wanting any of their calls reversed and the umpires were mostly correct when a batter, catcher or pitcher challenged. ABS needs to be implemented ASAP for the regular season.

My two take aways from todays game. 1 - Malloy needed to see a few more pitches before swinging at the second pitch he saw. Horrible AB. 2 - Keith does not need to be sent down but he needs to sit 2-3 games and get his head out of his butt. Still think he will have a good year but I hope not to see him playing 1B again this year.

This is a DOGE cut.

Maybe each team's home team and away team could play each other.