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It’s my fault. I was already figuring out logistics on how to deal with 3 2pm games Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday

I always think of him during one of the red wings playoff runs when the org had to come up with a slogan. One year it was “get up!” So during the pregame promo lane yells out “let’s get it up!”

But I just ran 9 miles

Isn’t that what he has now? I don’t know if all of that is fair. I don’t hold it against a guy who wants to strive for the top in his profession.

Yes. But I don’t think our win tomorrow has to happen for Cleveland at Detroit if they lose both games. After tonight the Tigers are a game up if they lose.

Same calendar date as last year they clinched the playoffs.

These are their old ones. Boston marathon colors. They wore them on the day of the race. I believe it was the organic version of the city connect concept. Like “we have this. It’s unique to us. We like to honor it”. Then of course it becomes commercialized and everybody has to make up fake ones. the ones last night were their connect jerseys.

Garden City's Villa Bakery sells 1,000 'Kmart subs' before noon Friday https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/dining/2025/09/26/garden-citys-villa-bakery-sells-1000-kmart-subs-before-noon-friday/86366625007/

Good things happen when we play NYY in the playoffs

I’m setting up the outdoor projector and having a fire outside for this game.

I don't want any indoor baseball opponents. That's not real baseball. Call it metrodome PTSD or whatever.... even if the roof can be opened it doesn't count.

In one of his books Bill James talked about Stan Musial. He had an unusual "down" year, by his standards. Must have been 1947 based on his stats? Anyway, James said he was trying to find something in the numbers to figure out why. He was age 26. His prime. He had been great in the years before and after. Won MVP the year before and after. It was his second year back after WWII service. When James met him he asked about that season and Stan said they had just had a kid and he wasn't a good sleeper and kept him up at night. He still had a good year just not a Stan Musial year.

yeah that's what I meant. I can't get used to these new terms.

and selfishly the math for me to go to more playoff games. But there's also the math in saving money. And a win in the WC series means I'll get at least one ALDS game. So yeah, count me in now on the saving him. When I bought these tickets last Tuesday, before the 0-6 homestand, I adamantly dismissed the WC round as a possiblity when talking with someone else about the cost breakdown per round.

It could mean 3 games at home vs 3 on the road.... I'm not sure I agree with the sentiment to save him for the ALDS. Not a hill I'd die on though.

they made a bobblehead for him and gave it out to fans. Hunter should have made the catch

Scherrer worked for the Sox in 2005?

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.