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I expect a shootout. I’m in Illinois for work, have the day off Monday, and I’m debating making the seven hour drive down for the game tomorrow. Financial responsibility be damned.

Cue Dan Skipper rising like The Undertaker.

If either of these teams had a playoff heartbeat, this game is over in 11. Simple as that. Hard to see the Mariners advance. Neither team deserved to.

I don’t know what changes you can make to this team to fix things. No one hitter will fix the lineup. It’s completely broken. Maybe a magician hitting coach could fix it, but over 162+ games, I doubt it. Feels like they are going to need to blow things up before it fixes itself. Which means 10+ years before a contender.

Skubal should go right to Boras and demand a trade before March. He’s no Felix Hernandez.

I’m not upset at a team losing when they deserved to lose. Top to bottom, they can **** right off.

I’m so close to not caring. I still care more than I’ll ever admit if we lose. Oh joy Kahnle is in, why not

I’ve got the UN on line two saying this may be a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Just confirmed. The bar has more.

Probably something like this:

I ****ing hate this team. I ****ing hate this game.

We are so back.

That’s some utter bull****. Have to try to make it not matter. But it probably will.

It changes directions what else do you ****ing think it hit?!?!?

Pretty clearly hit the bat first.

I hate this team so ****ing much.

I'm pretty confident through five games that the Lions will be judged not by October but by January. They need to play it smart with these injuries, and with Decker's longevity. We need to be entering the New Year at or near 100%, and we need to be ready to hit an on-ramp in wildcard weekend, whether we are playing or waiting. Whether we enter at 11-6 or 16-1, those 3-4 games in January to hopefully February will define this season.

Still too early to say for sure. A team can get hot in December. I think the Rams, Eagles, Packers, Bucs, Niners, Seahawks, Commanders, and even Vikings all have the ability to see the stars align late. But I also think the Lions have to be the betting favorite in the NFC right now. Just stay healthy!

Philly has issues on both sides of the ball.

The Tush Push needs to die. Four straight for a score. Flag should have been thrown on at least two of them. If the officials aren’t good enough to see the false start on it, it needs to go away.

Results of my scientific study on the Tigers chances to win depending on how many runs they score: 0: 0% 1: 5% 2: 15% 3: 50% 4: 75% 5: 90% Bert+: 97% I expect they'll score a very underwhelming 3, which puts it right at 50/50. Skubal will need to excel through 6. Hinch will need to not push him too far how he did last time we were in this position. Unless he is absolutely dealing, 7+ innings is probably pushing it. The bullpen will probably need to get nine outs without allowing three consecutive hard hit balls how they like to do.

Nationwide yes. Tigers/Jays on FOX would pull eyes away from CBS in the Detroit market. Titans/Raiders would not.

They're faced with the lesser of two NFL evils. Either all their ratings get sucked away by NBC in Lions/Chiefs, or they lose some money on Titans/Raiders by bumping it in some markets. I think the most money they can make and eyeballs they can get is a 4:08pm start. On FOX in the Midwest and Northeast, FS1 elsewhere. Football fans in the Midwest and Northeast will be watching Bengals/Packers on CBS anyway.

I had a conference in Chicago I was attending all day yesterday. A coworker told me the score was 3-0 and I figured it was all over but the fat lady's encore. Candidly, I had a gut feeling it was over when they gave up the double to Rodriguez in the 8th inning of game two. I didn't see a path when they choked away Skubal's first start. But like a car accident, I couldn't look away. Kept finding score updates and following inning-by-inning. I hope this ALDS Game #5 turns out better than last year's.

Normally I would say NFL is king and they won't touch it with a ten-foot pole, but the 4:05 game on FOX is Titans @ Raiders. If they had Bengals/Packers or Bucs/49ers it would be a different story, but both of those are CBS games. They'll either go 8:08 anyway, air Titans/Raiders normally, and try to squeeze some juice out of Sunday Night Football from NBC, or they'll go 4:08 and play market-ball with FOX and FS1 between Titans/Raiders and Tigers/Jays. I think they probably err on the side of the latter.