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Or the people who do step aside and play but then think they can just sneak in front of the line to exchange their winner for another ticket. the only time I am patient with these players is if it’s an old person getting regular lottery tickets. They have their little book they tuck it in. It’s a routine. For them I recognize it might be their only fun thing they do that day and their only interaction with a human. So getting out is a big deal to them. It keeps them going.

Not a trough?

I was taller than Eric Hasse.

Me too. It gets me in trouble sometimes. Just today in a call someone referenced a Monroney sticker. (It's the window sticker on your new car. Federally regulated. named after former Sen. Mike Monroney who pushed it). Now... I am 51. Anybody else around my age... what/who do you think of when see that name? One person on the call today got it. You can probably guess what I said.

if they truly thought he was an attacker they would have done worse

The thing is, his playfullness isn't forced. I think he's just a well read pop culture guy who's mind works that way. He could have had a career in morning radio back when that was a big thing. The drops. The quick cuts to something related to the subject. His makes his references too fast for me to think they are planned or scripted. It's just what pops in his head.

The worst part is when it's cold. Like "my hands hurt" cold. Then it asks you a million questions. Want a receipt? Want a car wash?"

If there is justice in the world Miller will meet the same end as Khadafi did. Torn to shreds in the streets by a mob.

I got his autograph at a show in the 90's. They were free. The line was long and moved very slow. When I got up there I saw why. He talked to everyone. This was before camera phones so it wasn't a case of everybody wanting a selfie. He would listen to everybody's anecdotes and laugh and smile. He's the first player I remember being excited about seeing. I don't know the year, I was born in '73. Doubt it was '76 but I distinctly remember going to Tiger Stadium to see him pitch. (We left an umbrella there, I do remember that). I believe he lived in Bellevile when he played here. It fits. Especially back then it was more country than even today.

He can slide in as the #1 after Skoob heads to the Mets or Dodgers.

The Tigers didn’t invent that type of seating so I assume billion dollar corporations have lots of research and data at their disposal (both their own and their partners in the league who already did this)before they invest millions to renovate like that.

They've been bitching about these seats all year yet the Tigers just had a sellout weekend once school got out. I just checked for 2 for Friday's game... nothing in the lower bowl. Saturday's game, outside of the OF upper deck by the scoreboard, has scattered seats available? So who's not buying? I'm not following the "empty expensive seats that are already sold hurts the Tigers" logic.

The pitching just wasn't that good to sustain. I'll never forget the Baltimore game that started the losing streak. They had a big lead and eventually Chris Hoiles (Eastern Michigan) hit a grand slam.

I don't think anybody watching a game that's got 35,000 people in the stands is ignorant of that fact because they see a handful of the most expensive seats empty. People aren't stupid. They show other parts of the stadium all the time. This is a fake crisis because podcastsers and radio hosts and "bloggers" need to write something to create content. I guarantee you nobody sees those empty seats and thinks "Wow, nobody's at the game?"

right... Rusty Kuntz had the GWRBI in game 5 of the '84 world series. Not Gibby's 2 homers. Not Lance's HR. It was Rusty's fly ball to "deep 2nd" that made the difference.

its a case where they both are right.

My wife watches every game with me now.

One week I made.... $1. My friends and I sat around a table counting our collections. $1. Seriously, it was like bookies and I'm the guy who has to kick upstairs. We'd get our papers from some dingy back room in a warehouse building. Mr. Stubee would have our stacks set up on a table. Sometimes we had "fillers" which were ads we had to place in each newspaper. Then on Mondays he'd tell us what we owed. It was always different even though we had the same customers each week mostly. "Ok Bobby... this week you owe me $37.25..... waddya mean you're short" Maybe he was charging us vig. We're getting juiced by a guy driving a panel van. Sounds right.

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