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4 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

To be honest, I had no idea people could bet on the outcome of a single pitch. I guess they have to bet quick because of the pitch clock...lol

It could be pre arranged.  The # number of pitch or the # of pitch in a certain situation like “my third pitch in the 4th inning”

when the TIgers lose I get mad and don't want to talk to any of you morans.

When they win I want to have a Backyard BBQ with sprinklers, jello, and such and such.

I can’t look this up now but have the Tigers ever had 3 ASG starters, along with possibly Skubal?

Ronnie Rodriguez, huh?  Forgot all about that guy.  If I even remembered him in the first place.  The 2019 Tigers was the ultimate "going thru the motions/they are making us do this" era.  Gardenhire just collecting a check. Fans hyped about Christin (Not Christian) Stewart because... well someone's gotta play at AAA.  

According to B-R, your second best player that year was Daniel Norris. 

to prepare for The Bear season 4 we finally watched the final episode of season 3 and I honestly had no idea what it was about.  I hope season 4 is better.

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Okay Chuck 🙄

“The jerk store called…”

13 minutes ago, romad1 said:

For as mid a movie as it is...can't believe how many times I watched "Doctor Detroit" 

The 80s and cable tv were a weird time.  It had its moments but the premise was pretty insane.  Only studios with drug addled executives would greenlight that. 

 

Did Ackroyd write that movie?  He's a odd duck.  The original script for Blues Brothers was insane.  Like 300 pages.  He was told that each page is about 1 minute of screen time.

I normally don't care about this stuff but you can now vote thru Wednesday for the starters for the ASG.  I did my duty today.  

I want to see Javy and Riley start in the OF.

As a Dallas fan I love the Omri Katz reference.  Obviously it's from the movie he did but still.... he'll always be John Ross Ewing III.

I'm focusing on moments, not events, like a team winning or whatever.

Yzemran lifting the cup in '97.  The actual moment of him lifting it over his head, with his missing tooth.  If someone else had done it it later on, even Lidstrom, it wouldn't have meant as much.

Kenny Rogers walking off the mound in the 2006 ALDS.  Everybody was mad the team blew the lead for the division and we got "stuck" with the reincarnation of the '27 Yankees.  Got smoked in game 1, game 2 had a rainout when nobody told our SP there was a delay.  Stole game 2.  Kenny just mows this team down all game, yelling for the ball.  The opposite of Fidrych in a way.   Only a year earlier he was the only player booed at the ASG because of both what he did to the cameraman and because many thought he took Bonderman's spot on the team.

So yeah, this is when we realized we can beat this team in the playoffs and when Comerica Park came alive for the first time ever.  There's regular season excitement and there's postseason excitement.  The energy in those 2 games was never topped in a game I've been at since.   And this is the moment it started.  20 years of Tigers angst bottled up and released at that moment.   After that success was expected.

7 hours ago, sagnam said:

I considered buying a ticket and going tonight but decided against it. That was a mistake.

It's been a long time since I was there on a Sunday.  I was mad because a wedding meant i couldn't go on Friday.  I considered just selling the tickets and making some money but when I found out it was an ESPN Sunday Night game, I exchanged them.  Then on Monday while at the game, with Skubal pitching, I realized he'd probably be pitching Sunday nigtht which was even better.

outside of winning a division title at home, I don't know this can be topped.  I was so focused on his strikeouts and catching Anibal's K record, I didn't notice he hadn't given up a hit until he did.

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Wow..looking at the box score, every Twin hitter struck out at least once against Skubal.

And he did that thru the first 11 at bats. 

I guess I never really considered Blues Brothers a comedy. It’s one of my favorite movies ever.  I have 2 DVD copies.  It’s in my DVR.  And I will watch it when it’s on.  I have it memorized. I recite it constantly. Maybe the humor is ingrained so much.   Oddly enough recently I just noticed a detail I’d never noticed.  After they go into the soul food joint for the Aretha performance they go to Rays.  While perusing the merchandise Elwood approaches a toaster oven and pulls out a piece of white bread from his coat pocket to see if it fits. 

Glad I traded my tickets Friday for tomorrows game. 

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Okay, it is one of the cringiest things ever, but Sembello was one hell of a session guitarist - worked on some of Stevie Wonder's best stuff.      Michael submitted a tape with several songs to the producers of Flashdance and they hated all of them and he had one song on the tape that he never erased and it was about a serial killer.    They loved that one and asked him to change the lyrics a bit and bam - accidental #1 song.   I LOVE stories like that.     

 

 

I knew that.  After the thing with this song that I wont get into I researched him.  Have to admit I was fascinated because he didn’t look like I expected in that performance.  Someone said he looked like Fat Mac.  He does. And it’s funnier when you know Mike Sembello is from Philly. 
 

anyway… here he is playing with Stevie. 
 

https://youtu.be/mZmJ3Q7SfHE?si=6bj5RCBUFdrs--zX

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

I agree. I hate to be a cynic but are they hoping families have to come to the ballpark for overpriced food for dinner? Those early start times mean either eating dinner at 5 PM, eating at the game or waiting until after the game to eat. When I was younger, 2 hot dogs and a beer were OK for dinner. 🤣🤣

I think so too... get out of the "eat before the game" mode.  Fridays they market as "party in the park" with discounted food and drinks before hand via a "happy hour".

Saturday and Sunday are either day games or night games for TV so 6:40 doesn't apply.

But with the pitch clock the idea of getting out too late is gone now.  I understood when the games were 30 minutes longer.

48 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Partly sunny? Does this mean winter is finally over and the ground hog is scurrying about? And a 7:10 PM start time instead of 6:40 PM?

THis year they moved the summer Friday games to 7:10.  Midweek still 6:40.  Which I still hate.

It's fine for April and September when it's colder and kids are in school so you want them home.  But a "night out" at the game shouldn't be over at 9:15 on a random Tuesday in July.

I love Napoloean Dynamite because it's the first movie that my son (now 24) and I both laughed at together. It wasn't just me giving cute courtesy laughs at kids movies.  

There's a point where you spend more time in crafting the question for AI that is greater than the time you'd spend just figuring it out on your own.

A lot of movies on this list I find hilarious and have watched many times but only for the first 30-45 minutes.  Even some of my all time favorites like a Cohen Bros movie. 
 

If they have a 7 game lead the first week of September I think there ok. 🤔.
 

Right?   I mean what could happen. 

Mischief.  A banger from the mid 80s.

You won't be disappointed.

2nd to home on a infield grounder?