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I feel like the last time they won was during the Clinton administration

“He looks like he has a boat in his front yard”. My son says that about a lot of them

yep. And this team from mid Aug last year to mid Sep this year was fun to watch. I would say it was more fun that those from 2011-2014. They played good defense. They could run. They got big hits. We had Skubal. It was a total team effort. Enjoyable to watch because it could have been anybody with the big hit and we felt ok with pretty much anybody at the plate at a key moment. If a runner was on 1st and a ball was hit down the line, they'd probably score. It wasn't a team full of DH's. and I don't think my expectations this year were high. If they made the ALCS I would have been content and called it a success. This wasn't a foundational team meaning we had windows to worry about. We know guys will not be here next year, regardless of how they performed.

This team is not making the playoffs.

They need some socialism?

Right before they came back from commercial before the final half inning they showed the final out in ‘87 against Toronto. I actually got choked up. I was in high school. I started to think about how I was now (in 2006) married with 2 kids and a job and a house…. 19 years can be a small amount of years, like 2006 to now feels, or pretty much a lifetime, as 87 to 06 felt to me then.

They clinched the playoff spot in KC and celebrated. It was a Sunday. It was the first time in the playoffs in 19 years. Then they came home and lost the final 5 in a 6 game home stand to finish a game out of first. In that scenario it’s backwards from today. They lost the division after winning a playoff spot. But the division lead then wasn’t as large.

I am trying to be philosophical about it. You play 162. During that time you have hot stretches and cold stretches. Some come in May or June or July or the last 2 weeks of September.

Vasteras? That was Nick Lidstrom's hometown. He was a huge fan of his. I am friends with him on FB but he doesn't appear to be active. He gets tagged by family though so he's around still.

how can this guy be so stupid?

She must have been a Mitch Hedberg fan

If somehow they win the division, they will. But if they keep losing and end up a WC team this weekend in Boston because others lost... I don't think they will. But who knows... I'm sure I'll be wrong again.

We're going to go out and find some former members and offer them a 1 day contract to do a game thread and then retire a MTS member.

what goes around comes around....

Progressive Field, Cleveland, OH Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: FanDuel Sports Network Detroit Game Time Forecast: 69 Showers RHP Jack Flaherty RHP Tanner Bibee

if the Tigers end up with a playoff spot... do they even celebrate? I bet not.

Welcome to last week's discussions.

I think it's part of the former. Certain words trigger algorithms that can block content. I've seen "died" replaced with "unalived" Don't know about China or TikTok.

Yet you constantly hear whining about how mean leftists and such are to people and they the problem.

And my wife will have them memorized. She saw Wicked once and from then on I hear her singing along when something from it is on TV. I will ask her what that is. I’m like “you saw it once…”. But I mean… she even loves Xanadu.

I remember last year having discussions expressing support for the Tigers being just as responsible as the leaders for falling back.

That’s why he’s not in the sequel trilogy.

Cleveland deserves a lot of credit too.

We only watch if we are interested. I’d say half the time I just delete without watching. And a sure sign of getting older is we often have idea who the guests are.