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29 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I didn't even like him particularly as the person he was presenting as. Not that he was a bad guy, necessarily, although he did get caught up in several bad guy things. But I always imagined it would be more likely he would bully me around for kicks than have a beer with me.

Honestly? I'm glad he and Tigers have apparently cut ties with one another and he's not hanging around the team trying to maintain his thumbprint on it. His time with the team seems like a hundred years ago to me, probably because the last seven years he was just so bad at baseball. He was, in fact, the worst player in baseball who was allowed to come to the plate at least 2,500 times during those years.

https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tiny/cbWJt

During his great years, he was the best hitter the Tigers have had in my lifetime,  It was a joy to watch him during that time.  However, he is not one of my all-time favorite Tigers for the reasons you mentioned.  

As a kid, I thought his name was Killerbrew.  Tom Matchick was Tom Magic.  

4 minutes ago, Stormin said:

Molitor and Yount were obviously good athletes.   

Also Gantner

8 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

One of the most liberal cities in one of the most liberal states seems to be an odd place to premier this film. 

We also take pride in starting revolutions.  

14 minutes ago, buddha said:

i cant wait for this summer when half this board suddenly becomes an expert in a 4-3-2-1 formation, and the other half keeps posting how boring it is because no one ever scores.

I think most sports are boring if you don't follow the sport closely and don't know much about it and that definitely includes baseball.  If they made Manfred the soccer commissioner, he would change the rules so they could use their hands to increase scoring.  

38 minutes ago, oblong said:

Metric Football

Do people gamble on soccer?  Are there fantasy soccer leagues?  I ask not to make fun but to wonder if that's why it's not taken off to the degree in this country as it has in others?  I've long suspected the reason the NFL is so big is due to it's being favorable for fantasy and gambling interests.

I began my career with a UK based company and soccer was part of everyday life in the office and out of the office.  Everyone were West Ham fans. When my oldest son was born in 2000 I got a care package of clothing for him.  But I just couldn't get invested in it.  I appreciated the drinking.

Yes, people bet on soccer and there are fantasy soccer leagues.  I had a student that was in a fantasy soccer league.  One day, some other students were talking fantasy football and she thought they were talking about the Premiere League.  

Never should have traded Thompson for Cowens.  

6 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

I don't care.  What ICE is doing is wrong and un-American.  Thanks for enabling authoritarianism in America.  

4 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

 

So, that justifies government hired thugs shooting him in the face 10 times while he is lying on his back.  That is sick.  Now I temember why I left this forum. I hear enough of those kinds of sick disgusting opinions in real life.  

35 minutes ago, RedTeamGo! said:

Honestly, I think baseball certainly takes a lot of skill and practice but all the great hitters have one thing in common - extremely freakish perfect eyesight. One could be just as flippant about baseball and say "I mean, Ty Cobb had freakish eyesight, whoopdy do"

I wouldn't say that to Ty Cobb.  

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

They should have had fewer athletic events and more baseball events. 😁

One year, one of the Cardinals pitchers (Bob Forsch?) helped them win all the water events in super teams but they got destroyed by the football team in everything else.  

WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SOCCER ITS BORING AND UNAMERICAN REAL AMERICANS LIKE FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL GET THAT REDS FAN OUT OF HERE HARRIS NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING!!! SIGN VALDES TRADE BAEZ AND JOSH JUNG FOR AUSTIN RILEY LETS GO!!!!

Quickest tug of war ever: 1976 Big Red Machine versus the Steel Curtain

Remember the Superstars competition back in the 1970s?  Kyle Rote Jr dominated and the baseball players usually embarrassed themselves.  That tells me everything I need to know.  

On 1/26/2026 at 6:35 PM, AlaskanTigersFan said:

I guess I wasn't really clear. I think with MLB players now making $60 mil/year and Hockey players maxing out at $10 mil per year, how do we get MLB to be reasonable? $25-35 mil is a lot of money and should be superstar per year money, but not $60. But how do we go back from this? 

 

2 million (or any big number you choose) would be "reasonable", but reasonable has nothing to do with it.  There is a ton of money flowing into the game.  Somebody has to get that money, so I think it's good that the players (who are the employees fans are paying to see) are getting a large share.   The only way to make it "reasonable" is for fans to stop going to games and purchasing tv packages.  

7 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Only Cash (leadoff) and Brinkman (cleanup) did not bat in those spots in any other game that season. All the other players had at least one other game in their slots.

which means it was almost cetainly not random.  I wonder if putting Brinkman clean-up was really directed towards Cash?

I vaguely remember being a bit disappointed that the line-up had not changed that much.  I was only 9, so I didn't understand random samples, but when I heard he picked the line-up out of a had, I was expecting something more bizzare.

Silvestri will fit in well with the rest of team.  He's got the look.  

One problem with them is that they both sounded alike.  I couldn't tell which one was talking.  So, I imagine they would do better separately.  

8 hours ago, papalawrence said:

I learned something new about 1972

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B3SRm2Fm7/

It's hard to believe that was over 50 years ago.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET197208131.shtml

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

My son never had any interest in playing ice hockey but I had a really good friend and his son played. He used to tell me how expensive it was as well as all the very early morning practices. 

Youth hockey was crazy even when I was a kid.  My best friend played in a league and it used consume is life during the winter.  It didn't seem like fun.  I imagine is was pretty expensive too.

3 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Ahhh...yeah, I caught that after I posted. I was waiting to get yelled at. 😆😆

I'm nicer than Edman though.  

55 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Very good post and it looks like a lot of work. The only thing I could possibly add it that the second round may not be right if any of those players were picked by the expansion teams.

And this would pretty much guarantee that Harris would lose his best prospects. A smart expansion team would take the youngest players with the longest team control they could find. I would think Harris may protect some of these young prospects over some veterans with only a couple/few years of team control. The bottom line is...I'm glad we dont have to go thru this...😅😅

The assumption is that the draft would only involve unprotected players on the 40-man roster which doesn't include any of their biggest prospects

20 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

well, judging from the abandonment of diamonds in MI, baseball is doing it's best to match that.

Pick up games are no longer popular, but organized baseball is still pretty popular.  I believe basketball and soccer are the top youth sports with baseball #3.   

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The TV market is apparently tiny. I find that ironic because the evolution of the hidef 16:9 format and the relatively few in game breaks has made hockey the best TV viewing sport of all.

I would guess it's because there are limited areas in the United States where it is played very much by kids growing up.  

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

I might not protect Torres. He's expensive and he's one and done, so he might not be that interesting to an expansion team - depending on how/what they are trying to build.

They could draft him and then trade him.