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1 hour ago, chasfh said:

That’s one of the things I like about being a dinosaur with DirecTV satellite: it has never logged me out for god knows what reason and forced me to painfully input one character of my very long password at a time through a TV remote to get back in.

I’m the same way. I feel claustrophobic when I use an app to watch sports. Like I am trapped. Movies and such don’t bother me because I’m watching the movie. Sports is more casual. Especially baseball.  I’ve had mlb.tv for years and rarely used it because going in and out was just enough hassle to not be worth it. around playoff time I would watch some games.  I hope they come up with a resolution for the providers. 

Is Fire Stick a proper brand or just a casual name for a Roku type service ?  I have a Roku on my office TV and for my outdoor setup when I use that. 

I came back from a walk and put the game in.  Find the icon. Scroll to it. Hit enter. Wait for the spinning thing to finish.  Get to the menu. Click on the Comerica park picture.  Go to the bathroom.  Come back and it’s the “pregame”. It started from the beginning. Maybe I missed a question. Go back. Try again. Same thing. Try a third time and find an icon finally to “go live”. 
 

There’s buffering on my end. Not a lot. But noticeable.  Audio is spotty but that could just be the environment. I’m not glued to it visually but it looks clean. I like that. No clutter.  

I have it on now thru MLB. It’s thru the app on my Samsung TV. I logged in like I always do and clicked on the tiger game. It’s giving me “about to start”.  Earlier when I tried it told me “you are too early”. 
 

don't forget the liver

12 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

DUDE STOP. JUST STOP. Would you rather be lead by a black woman? Think of how bad that would be.

and a black woman that didn't get the nomination the "normal" way

It had to do with the economy and the stimulus checks... I made the comment that a lot of people who were fortunate enough to keep working during the early days of the pandemic found themselves saving money and then then getting an infusion of cash from those checks were spending money on projects and other things they normally might not have done... thus causing some of the inflation we saw... "you guys sit there in your finished basements while working people suffer" or something to that effect.

I read that while working in my non cubicle in my unfinished basement.

For me apps are fine in limited circumstances but in general I don't like it when the games I want to watch are on them.  I like to flip around.  Unless it's a "must see" game like a playoff or an opener where it will have my full attention...  Otherwise having to exit out and then go back is annoying.  Then they forget who you are and you have to log in again.  I'm a dinosaur.  I still have cable.   I will be ticked if I have to pay for this more than I am now.  I'm already on an elevated tier that includes sports, like MLB Network, Big Ten,  NHL Network, etc. and that includes FanDuel.  Before their fight a a few years ago the old Bally's wasn't on that tier, they moved it to that.  Fine, whatever.   But if I now have to go above that, yeah it will bother me.  I'll pay it because I'm a slappy... but it stinks.

If it were just me in the house, I'd go bare bones and get rid of all of it, like my son has done since he moved out.  But my wife needs Friends on during the day on TBS and at night on Nick.  Yeah, I know it's on HBO Max.  That's not the same. 

"we need to work together for the American people"

And the media will go along with it.

MAGA loves it when they go after lib stuff but when they  go after MAGA it's all "Why do they have to be so political?".  That's the MAGA way.  It's based on stupidity.  They're just too dumb to recognize their own hypocrisy.  Thinking is woke.  Faggot ****.

Comerica Park lasted 27 years

Tiger Stadium lasted 38 years

Briggs Stadium 22 years

Navin Field 26 years

Bennett Park 11 years

48 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't follow him, but he apparently doesn't like people who work in cubicles.  It sounds like jealousy.  

He also once said finished basements were elitist.  Dude has self esteem problems.  

don't trust someone with 3 names.

I have a casual friend, younger lady in her early 30s.... she was with friends on the ice and her phone fell into the hole.  She got a new phone, old phone wasn't paid off yet, so there's that.  She didn't know her apple ID password, everything was face ID and passcodes.  The email address she had linked to her account was an old college email she no longer has access to.  It was a real mess getting it all straightened out.

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Someday the story will come out about what leverage Mamdani wielded over him to completely bring Trump to heel, and I hope I live long enough to hear it.

Trump is a NY guy and he likes winners.  That's it.  There's no principals to it. 

He'll just go with whoever he thinks will win. He's best buds with the NYC mayor now.  Politics don't matter. Optics do.  And if Cornyn wins again, he'll be in office 4 years after Trump is gone.  Presidents come and go, senators live on.  I thought of that when John McCain, 8+ years after losing to Obama, and after his presidency, cast the deciding vote to save Obamacare.

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Melted like butter.

 

 

Familiar feeling!

I'm not falling for TX is going blue

They made it official today.  He'll be doing the Sunday Night games on NBC and leaving Fox.

It includes the season opener so he will miss the Tigers first game.

On 3/2/2026 at 3:18 PM, CMRivdogs said:

From this weekend's OBrotherwhereartthou 25th anniversary concert at the Grand Old Opers.

I hope they release a recording

 

We're on the same algorithm as I saw that last night

vibes

don't forget polymarket.  Someone got rich on that

1 hour ago, pfife said:

We used to be a real country that canada couldnt clown on.  What has become of us 

The democrats nominated a black female and idiots couldn’t handle it. They ramble on about cubicles or some ****. 

1 hour ago, pfife said:

I liked the movie but might have to say it might be a tad overrated.   Not sure how its taking all of the awards over the new naked gun

Me too.  I loved Sinners much much more... to the point where anytime I see it's on, I finish it.  

One Battle was fine.  Very good in fact.  But I didn't see it as this great thing either.  Everybody did well in it, well casted, and funny at the right times.  But of the two I think Sinners is the better one.  I think the term overrated is applicable.