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I got season tickets that year, a 21 game package. During 1999 it was my final year for my degree and I got my job in July of that year. I told them immediately I needed that day off. Because I wasn't working that summer, having gotten my job lined up, I went to a lot of games outside of my package. The final weekend was really special. We got tickets for Friday/Saturday/Sunday, and the last game was Monday. I never bought a beer at a game until that weekend. I remember they had that game countown on the facade of the third deck down the 1B line. The final week they starting having recognizable people change the number... Kaline was the last one. The day of the game we planted ourselves on that ramp overlooking the Tiger Plaza, what used to be the Tiger parking lot before Ilitch changed it. We had realized that the dignitaries were being held in an area beneath that ramp. We saw Gordie Howe, Fidrych, Horton, etc. Once in our seats it felt normal and you got into the game but around the 7th we started to get goosebumps thinking "Wow, this really is it". This was before digital cameras and people were using up their film. The flashbulbs during the final half inning were remarkable. When the players came out that was very special obviously. The uncertainty of knowing who was next.... figuring out if that was Ron Leflore or Gates Brown... it was so fun to see and I get teary thinking of it. The next day at work an Australian was telling me how even he thought it was so cool. He was here for the summer with his new wife who was doing a rotation around the world. He didn't know these guys. Barely knew baseball. But in his thick aussie accent he says 'Seeing these old blokes out there dressed up in their jumpers giving it another go... wow'. (Jumpers is what they call a Jersey).

The bigger challenge will be just getting in touch with anybody who knows the site exists. I'm not sure BetRivers is aware of it.

Thanks... will be getting one today at Lowe's.... I love being 5 minutes away. Just wish they'd bring the hot dogs back.

22 years ago I walked out of Tiger Stadium for the last time..... I love this photo of my friend and I as we're still season ticket holders today. He's 63 now, had some serious health issues, multiple heart attacks, got covid this year the same week he got vaccinated, etc. But we got to go to 4 games together once he got his energy level up. We joke that I'm older now than he was then. Seems like yesterday.

Yes, they are required for outlets near water. I know you said you don't mess around with electrical but honestly.... look up a couple of youtube videos. It's really not hard. I know it's electrical and dangerous but if you shut off the power to that outlet.... but I get it.. electrical and plumbing are those kinds of things that if you do it wrong can either kill you or make a huge mess. But I have swapped out outlets before. Once my guy said the GFCI is what I needed then I figured I would do the rest myself. And as I think about this we have a few "grounded" outlets and I wonder if they truly are grounded. If you are on facebook join the snow woods neighborhood group and throw out a request on an electrician.

One downsides to losing the old forum is I never got a chance to go back to check my evolution. I had plans to browse through the 2016 election thread to see at what point I turned. I don’t remember if I was willing to support guys like Cruz or Christie. I was ready for Jeb or Marco.

I have an electrician friend but he is booked months out on side jobs. When he did a few of those for us he put in GFCI’s for that very reason G2. That basically does the job the ground wire would do.

I agree with that. “They make fun of us for being dumb. They make fun of our teeth. Yet they don’t say shit when they are stuck in a ditch and we pull over and use our truck to pull their suburu out”.

I mentioned last nights crowd being larger than usual this year. It was the fifth highest attended game this year and 3 of those in front were “Miggy at 499 HR” games. Very impressive for a Friday in September game.

24,000 people at the game last night. For a September that’s very good. I think people are into the team.

Scanning through the maps it looks like the US is trending down on cases in most states. Even in the northeast and midwest. MI may have flattened out on the recent wave, we'll see. 7 day average been 2600-2700 now for almost 10 days. Hopefully the increase in vax and immunity has done it's job.

along with the broken noses and facial scars..

As I heard on bourbon street the week of super bowl XXVI as the police led a guy away, "You have to be pretty ****** up to get arrested on Bourbon Street"

hockey players from that era, when off ice, can't be distinguished between Italian mobsters.

he's shitty

Saw a tweet said he was first elected to state office during Eisenhower's presidency.

The baffling thing is Cheney is as republican as you can get. The only metric they are using now to judge is adherence to Trump. You know what they call that?

I could see a rule where nothing is allowed on the field except equipment. I've seen outfielders pull out cards from their pocket. I don't care either way. This is inside baseball. No rules were broken. If they don't like it then hit him and deal with the consequences of that. No different than the battles of "stealing signs". No need for regulation. Let them sort it out internally. We don't need a geneva convention. Treat our soldiers like you'd want yours treated.

Geraldo asked a good question, rhetorical... Why do we rush to accept Cuban refugees but not Haitian?

because then I'd have to eat a salad. I usually get my flu shot in late August when I go for my physical. They didn't have them yet. But it is a good idea to probably wait a little bit. I'm not terribly worried about myself though, I'm working from home and am only around my family and people I work out/run with.

if there's anything the Ilitch family has shown over their years as business owners is a love for tradition and respecting the past.... they're not the kind of people to raze an old building just to put up a parking lot to make money. I

just talked about this an hour ago.... one of my suppliers started bringing people back into the office 2 weeks ago. Things in Poland are much better than here. One guy is now out for a few days. My wife talked with the infectious disease doctor and his big concern is the flu season. With the flu being almost non existent last year they had nothing to go by in terms of setting up this year's flu shot. Combine that with increased hesitancy towards vaccines now he fears we'll have a bad flu season combined with covid.

I think he came up as a SS. Yes during that period he could have. At least prior to Guillen.

MI hit 1M cases today. Been flat for a week around 2600 per day average.