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But in this case they aren't no shows. They're just somewhere else. Sometimes I'm not in my seats, and not even because I wanted food or drink or the restroom. We decided to go stand out in the outfield or a party deck. This weekend's series was a sellout. And a real one because on Friday I could see full rows of people all along the top rows in the upper deck, that's the real test. A handful of open seats behind the plate doesn't mean anything. The cameras showed plenty of full seats elsewhere. I don't really know what the solution is expected to be. They've sold premium seats that include things that involve NOT being in your seats to enjoy. If they don't sell them then fine, fix that piece of it. But if they are selling them then what can you do? I will say that one thing that can't be fixed that might be leading to people not being in those seats is Comerica's terrible sight lines for the 'best' seats... meaning the first 10-15 rows all along the lower bowl. You can't see the field. You almost are looking up at the players. Maybe the people that get those seats experience that and figure "Let's go talk in the club and watch on TV and have free food/drinks while we're at it"

Yep. I was a paperboy in the mid-late 80's for the News. $1.65 a week. 20 cents Mondo through Saturday, 45 cents on Sunday. I learned quickly the multiples, $1.65, $3.30, $4.95, $6.60. Collecting SUCKED. I think that's why I never became a football fan. Everyone is home watching Michigan. I'm out schlepping to make $20 that week.

He also dated Lorri Morgan.... she was married 6 times (2 deaths).

Friday night at dinner before the Tiger game, we went with lifelong friends who moved to the SW area of MI, he mentioned one of these coin changers. Were talking about going through his dad's stuff (he died in January), and they found one.

I remember in a previous season there was some kind of "getting over the hump" all season long... don't think it was .500 though.

I love the JPow. I see what you did.

They are being good fans and placing bets. I mean the Tigers literally promote a prop bet midway thru the game on the scoreboard

That’s not a problem exclusive to the Tigers. Part of the appeal of the seats is their location. I saw empty seats behind the plate in the same seats in the Yankee/Sox series this weekend. It does absolutely nothing for me as a fan if there’s people there or not. The stadium is sold out. It doesn’t make the team play better. We can’t teleport our energy and joy thru the TV to them. The players couldn’t care if people are there or not.

It’s why I hate talk radio and podcasters. these morons need something to talk about.

I’m so tired of seeing people complaint about that. Ryan Ermani had been a leader of that. Every stadium with those premium seats has this “problem”. I watch the players. Not the audience. It’s such a non issue. The seats are sold. People are getting what they paid for. It hurts no one if they aren’t sitting there. Get off social media Karen.

I did this mix up my two favorite Paul Newman movies.

I think the digital versions of both papers is $10 a month. A bit too much for me. Sorry. I want to support local journalism.

I am going to defend the ump in tossing Nick Hoerner in Sundays game. Sure what he said wasn’t bad but he did kind of start to get in his face. He squared up to him and that’s issuing a challenge. I wasn’t watching it live, just listening to it. But I saw the video after. Mumble that as you walk away but the minute you make a show of it then no matter the words you risk getting ejected. There’s no other way it will end once he turned toward him like that. He didn’t intend to leave quietly so the ump just got it out of the way. A player or manager will not win that battle.

2 of 3 against the best team that came in with the best NL record but will leave without it.

Andor was prophetic.

ChatGPT was free. I paid for one over a year ago. Mindjourney. Mets has one too.

And… I kid you not, this was some kind of “butt dial” generator. Somehow when I opened ChatGPT it had this image waiting for me.

A friend used it for suggestions to avoid having to pay an ER bill. It came up with great suggestions. Nothing unethical but just what things to ask for before paying, that you are entitled to, and at some point they will just give up.

Yep. We had it. Still might. I am going to ask my mom tomorrow. This was what that generation did instead of doom scrolling on their phones.

You are right in learning how is the key. I also use it instead of Google quite a bit but mostly for general knowledge things. With Google I had the benefit of seeing a lot results that I could cross check against each other.

My hope is eventually we learn that the real benefit and use for AI will be in making very difficult things easier. Like complex analysis where humans might be X% accurate but with AI help they can be X + Y accurate. Naturally top management will overreact at first and misuse it before things adjust. I can remember 10 years ago when we all would be owning electric cars and also being shuttled around In autonomous vehicles.

I didn't like them at first but they've grown on me. They wear them every Friday. It's part of the deal. They appear to be popualr as I see the hats and jerseys all over. I, as a 51 year old ,may not be the demographic. My 24 year old son likes them. That's why they do it. And it's a league wide thing so I'm not going to single out the Tigers for a "money grab". They have to compete.

the draft is a crapshoot when it comes to individual players. It's like analyzing blackjack strategy on one particular hand. It's not about the individual in any one year. It's the overall body of work. I'm not saying this to defend anyone in particular. Just that you can't draw a conclusion on someone's success because of one player.