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Indeed! I knew her a little bit back (way back) when. Early 2000's. No idea she was from Sarnia.

My Driveway is Wet. Of course, I'm 512 miles away from Comerica.

My wife loves the Bananas, wants to go to a game. I told her “have fun”. She said, “you don’t want to go, you love baseball!”. I told her, that is not baseball. I can appreciate the Globtrotters. It takes talent to dribble, dunk, and hit 3 pointers from the opposite out of bounds line like that. it doesn’t take talent to hit a 50 mph pitch over the plate, or throw out someone running 3/4 speed down the line. Now they are going to start a whole league around the concept. Just not for me.

If we kill you now, will that change the outcome?

No matter what us forever fans say, it is in our blood. We were here in 2003, and 2017-2023. We will be here if they collapse this year, or if they win it all. We will be here next year, and every year after. We will yell, cuss and cry. We will be euphoric when good things happen. We can blame it on listing to ( in my case) listing to Ernie and Paul in the mid 70’s when we sucked, or for the younger folks listing to Dan and Jim when we were good. But, we will continue to watch and listen. Forever. Because the Tigers are our team, and we will live and die with them 3 hours a day, every season.

Because he was pitching well when they got him . So was Verlander. The difference? Verlander has continued to pitch well, Morton has not.

So much for Morton stepping up.

I really hope Jung doesn’t press and try to do too much, because as we all know, when you try to do to much, you don’t do much. Hopefully, Sweeny and pick up his game and take the pressure off Jung. But, with a very young team, I’m sure they are all feeling the heat. Hopefully the veterans who have been here before ( Torres, Baez, and Motown) will take this game on their backs. (Morton)

Dan was saying on the last broadcast that his swing hasn’t looked the same since he came back after sitting a few games with an injury. Zach seems like the type that would say just tape my leg back on and I’ll be fine, but I wonder if he is hurt more than he is letting on, and AJ has his head in the sand on this on because they really need him right now.

I remember another young first baseman about 40 years ago who they said the same things about. He hit the ball a country mile too and a lot of them. Then he got hurt and was almost out of baseball at age 30. Then, he found the "hitter's little helper" in his locker one day and from ages 32-36 was the best home run hitter on the planet again. I am in no way suggesting Kurtz is doping or will in the future. Just like Hogbit mentioned, the list of rookies who come out on fire is very long, the list of those who sustain it over a full career is very short.

Wasn't he arrested at the closing of Tiger Staduim? Or was that Ron LeFlore? I remember both being arrested while back in detroit, maybe for an autograph signing?

This led me down the Jim Walewander rabbit hole this morning. If you have 30 minutes and want to hear everything you never wanted to know about Jim, listen to this podcast: https://www.suburbspod.com/2024/09/30/episode-1960-jim-walewander-punk-rock-ballplayer-part-1/. He owns his own restaurant with his son now in Virginia. Very interesting guy.

I don't know if this is right, or a day late, but our old friend deserves to get an apperance.

I remember a play, maybe 1984, when Parrish and Brookens went for a bunt, collided, and Parrish almost body slammed Tommy and ended up directly on top of him. I think Brookens had to come out of the game, but not sure. That is the closest thing I remember to this play, but this one looks much more serious.

I think it is hard to say someone that played 12 years of Major League Baseball sucked. Did he have a very light bat? yes. An OPS of .577 says his bat did indeed suck. But, he was not payed to hit. He was paid to catch the ball. Come off the bench late in the game as a defensive replacement. Give a day off to the regular infielder. Utility guys in the 70's and 80's were used very differently than in today's game. Back then you had 9 or 10, maybe sometimes 11 pitchers on your staff. You could afford to carry an extra infielder and outfielder and sometimes a 3rd catcher. So if you had a good glove, and hit above the mendoza line (Veryzer was a career .241 hitter), you could stay on a MLB roster. And to do so for 12 years is really good.

Was that in the Hargrove era? I do remember a game when the Indians were losing, maybe like the bottom of the 5th, and it started snowing. One more out was n÷ded to make it an official game. Hargrove came out and started arguing and stayed out there long enough that the snow got too heavy and you couldn't see the ball. The umpires had to stop the game, and it never resumed. It had to be replayed from scratch, and it saved the Indians a loss.

curiosity got the best of me, I had to go look up who wore #13 for the Mariners that year. It was Omar Visquel. And Lance did come over to the M's Mid-season after he was released by the Angels, so there was no chance he would wear 13 in Seattle. He played 16 games at first in 1992. In his other 18 seasons he played 1st a combined 14 times.