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Walking in to that Kenny Rogers game was awesome. We met some friends at Nemo's. The crowd outside of Comerica getting in was massive. Bigger than Opening Day. "Oh, so this is a playoff crowd.... there's sellouts, then there's SELLOUTS". And it was an 8 pm game so it was dark.... going into a baseball game when it's dark? That's unusual.

yeah our Detroit radio is unique. Someone should write a book about it. There's a reason Howard Stern never took off here in syndication. We didn't need him and it is a Detroit thing to be loyal. You have success here and we remember it, whether you are a fringe Detroit Tiger or Red Wing on a championship team or a radio host. I would listen to JJ and KC. I don't remember who was where at the time but WLLZ had Mitch Albom on in the morning to do some sports, he wasn't hte host, just the guest, that led to his evening show on Sunday, which led to his WJR show. In my college years, early 90's, Drew and Mike took off and they changed it. They used to do music but eventually realized the listeners didn't want that, they wanted more bits. It was like listening to two friends talk about stuff going on. I would go to bed listening to WJR or WDFN and at some point in the middle of the night I would get up and switch the radio from AM to FM, and knew exactly how far to move the dial to get to WRIF. There was a non local station near 101.1 that would come in at night that I had to avoid. Their hey day was epic. I will never forget when they brought up Delbert Harris for an event.

I was never as upset at a game as I was that Sunday. I wanted the division flag because I assumed the team wouldn't do anything in the playoffs so I figured that's a nice memento, nobody cares about the wild card. And I wanted to see them celebrate. In the end it worked out as they were able to shock the Yankees in the best of 5.

Don’t forget 2006. Getting swept by the Royals at home.

I remember that day well. It seemed like half my office left at lunchtime to go to the game. I couldn’t make it. Was jealous. Nate got bombed. Tigers lost Friday and Saturday and had to burn Verlander on Sunday just to force 163.

lol.

Don’t care what the Twins do.

Man did Peña call that one

But he prayed about it and took it down so all is good.

What is it with this team not calling for balls or not acknowledging someone called it?

I’m not new. I tried that a few months ago and was charged $14 for the month.

Agree with all of that. Players are not finished products when drafted. There isn’t a super secret decoder to finding the good ones in the 13th round. The franchise was epically bad at this going back to the 80s. It was written off as if they were victims of their own success either from low draft position or losing picks from FA signings. Bunk.

538 and Nate both have Harris at 55% winning.... too low for my liking. I'm not suggesting they are wrong or anything... I haven't been paying too much attention other than what I see here and on twitter.

man, I wish I could read that but $10 a month is too much for a newspaper nowadays.

I also think there's some benefit to having Benetti, as a national broadcaster, linked to the Tigers. Especially as an employee although most people won't know that fact. It shows some legitimacy as an organization that they would have a guy considered a top broadcaster to do national games, rather than some local guy they can get cheap who was available, like the former guy.

I'm not so sure Benetti wants more than he's got now in terms of national work, except to one day do the big games. . He gets to be grounded most days with the Tigers and still do football nationally. Maybe his deal with Fox for football required him to do baseball for them as well or he would like to one day be a prime national crew. That's not a conflict with his Tigers work other than we lose him from time to time. There really isn't a full time national baseball broadcaster on the networks. Most national TV broadcasters also work for individual teams. Joe Davis for example works for the Dodgers. Brian Anderson works for the Brewers. Wayne Randazzo works for the Angels. Sean McDonnough works for the Red Sox.

The Hurricane that's bearing up on the gulf could have an impact... the Royals play at Atlanta this weekend and whatever's left of the hurricane will go thru Atlanta on Friday and head North then go west a little bit.

certainly I am being selfish but I also think the players deserve an on the field celebration in front of the fans, with fireworks going off. It would make great TV. I don't expect a repeat of the ALDS celebration over the Yankees in 2006 (That was 19 years and a disappointing final week pent up frustration at play). But MN is playing like a dejected team so I'm not sure they're going to win the next two games and I can't root for the Tigers to lose so we'll see.

Throw in Greektown. Hamtramck has definitely changed but it still kept its charm in terms of all the small bars and clubs. Lots of young people live there, squeezed out by the gentrification of other hipster neighborhoods in Detroit by the trust fund babies from out of state. You can go in many places most nights there and find good music being played.

To be honest today is the first time I felt certain they’re going to make it. I don’t know what the odds will show tomorrow but it’s got to be 90 now? a week from tonight we will be watching our team in the playoffs.

I’d like to see them on Friday with a magic number of 1 or 2. I want a win at home to clinch it. Not a loss by someone else. Twins play Thursday night and their games Friday and Saturday are after the Tigers play. Everybody starts at 3ish on Sunday.

It’s sunny in my driveway right now.

Wouldn’t be surprised if the game starts around 1:30 or 2.

When you are ultra religious you also have that to fall back on in terms of “God will take care of me in the end”

That’s one way to get another wife if you are him.