Tiger337

13 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Trump was a convicted felon by the summer of 2024, seems like that would have been a good reminder.  

So? Nobody cared about the Stormy Daniels affair.  That was like a speeding ticket compared to other stuff he has done. 

All anybody cared about was inflation, so they voted against the "inflation party".   In 2020, the voted against the "Covid party".  

Short memories.

If they had a vote today now that Trump his displaying his abject stupidy 24/7, he would lose.  

2 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Yes, I'm annoyed you don't think 50% of the people at these protests give an actual ****.  That's pretty awful. 

Yeah, I think most of them care a lot.  Nobody is going to give up their free time to go to a boring protest unless it means a lot to them.  

9 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

They didn't remember the lesson learned after Trump's first term, you think they're going to learn it this time around?  The same people will find the same dumb reasons to not support whomever gets the nomination.  Look around the internet and you'll already see them declaring they won't vote unless their chosen candidate gets the nomination.  

They did learn after his first term.  That's why Biden got so many votes in 2020. 

Americans have short attention spans.  

Just now, GalagaGuy said:

I didn't say they were Trump voters.  

It doesn't matter anymore who they voted for in 2016 or 2024.  It matters who they vote for in 2026 and 2028.  

45 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

I bet half the people at one of these protests today didn't vote for Harris 

That's exactly who I want to see at these protests.  

I did not go to the No Kings protest in my town, although I went to one last year (my first ever protest).  I drove through the area earlier and it looked liked they were getting ready for a big crowd.  There was a large police presence getting ready, although I doubt they needed it.  Last year there was one guy with with a pick up Truck and a Trump 2028 flag driving around trying to stir up trouble, but nobody took the bait.   

3 hours ago, casimir said:

Not great nicknames.

Those are names that you use for your friends/teammates. These guys are not our friends.  Universal nicknames that fans use are different.  

So many positive things happening this year already.  Two great wins.  

!!!!!

The Dingler throw was flukey.  Carpenter is not a good fielder.  

This is one of the only self aware things Truimp has ever said:

1 hour ago, casimir said:

Please, no KMac.  That’s cheap and plasticy.

How about just call him McGonigle?  If he develops a nickname naturally, that's fine.  No forced nicknames.  

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

And I love the aggressiveness. People look at the stolen base stats and decide the Tigers aren't a good base running team, with no speed. Totally wrong, we were among the leaders in all of baseball going 1st to 3rd last season. Taking that extra base will help win a lot of games. Just live with occasionally being thrown out. .

They also led the majors in OOB (outs on the bases).  They were good overall, but they didn't have a historic baserunning season like a lot of people keep saying.  Aggressiveness is good, but it comes with a cost.  

2 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

i totally bought Sparky's nonsense regarding Pittaro. i don't think the outcome would have been different, but huge disservice to the kid to hype him so much.

and if they don't trade Howard Johnson, who knows how the 80s would have played out!

I bought everything he said at the time.  I think I fnally figured out it was BS when he said the same stuff about Lovullo.  

14 minutes ago, oblong said:

this fits..... for him the Presidency is a TV show and a storyline gets stale.  

Yeah, it's been fun, but he just wants to declare victory and then move onto his next drama.  He has no long term plan for anything.

13 hours ago, The Ronz said:

Chris Pittaro in 1985?

I remember that one.  The Tigers got off to a strong start the first week and I was thinking: "This is going to be just like 1984".  What a disappointment that turned out to be.

The best one that I don't remember was Billy Bean: 4 hits, including 2 doubles just like McGonigle.  I remember him doing well initially, but I don't specifically remember that game.  

5 hours ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Anderson pretty meh today

I am not expecting much from him given his age and MLB track record.  Any success he has will be considered a bonus.   

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

So If I’m seeing this right, McGonigle might be only the 8th hitter in modern history to debut with four hits and six or more totals bases. I got J.P. Arencibia, Brant Alyea, Billy Bean, Willie McCovey, Ed Freed, Art Shires, and Mike Mitchell.

I hope he's more like McCovey than the others!  

I didn't know Billy Bean had 4 hits in his debut.  I don't remember it being a huge deal at the time.  He wasn't a big prospect like McGonigle, so the anticipation was not there I guess.  

35 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

1900 forward

1901 

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I guess it's a little more expensive, since my all-in cost for Extra Innings through DTV is $175 on the dot. I look online and see that MLB.tv alone costs $149.99. So I would have to consider the marginal cost of $25 as being worth it, and I think it is.

There is no turning back for me.  I dumped two ugly satellite dishes over the past two years.  If I shift back to something convenient, it will be cable.  By the way, speaking of baseball on tv/radio, what kind of satellite radio set up do you have?  If I get it again, I want something as simple as possible.  

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Maybe my sticking with DirecTV Extra Innings with the free mlb.TV add-on was not the geriatric bad idea I hear people tell me it is.

It's more expensive, but a lot easier.  It wasn't seamless for me for various reasons, but much better that my roku/youtube combo.  I had the combo last year too and it's hit or miss.  Sometimes, the voice control gets me there fast.  Other times, I go in circles.  

Despite all my bitching about modern TV, I appreciate what an amazing opening day that was.  Historic game for McGonigle,  2 hits and a home run for Dingler, 2 hits for Keith, 6 SHO innings for Skubal.  You can not ask for much more than that.  

23 minutes ago, VegasTiger said:

I remember when I was a kid. Maybe 20 games on tv the whole year.

That is exactly why it's so absurd.  We have all this technology which allows us to watch so many games, but they've made it so hard to use.  

1 hour ago, The Ronz said:

Yep!

I have radios back to 1928 - they all get the game fine.

I remember when I was a kid - I could just press a button amd the game was on.  Boy, that was something!  No passwords or voice prompts or overlays or replays.  Just press a button and start watching!  Those were the days.  

26 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I spent the five minutes trying find the telecast and then log-in.  So far no luck.  Modern TV sucks. 

 

It took me 25 minutes.  They won't do anything for the rest of the game now.  Sorry. 

I hope mlb remembers my password.