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has turned into a nice gentle Spring rain here, but you couldn't play ball in it...

so you have to raise money to buy the team, then you have to raise more money to build a ballpark? Good luck.

I think the historical society story had to be talking about a ground level scoreboard if it was moved because hitters complained. The scoreboard that was above the bleachers was modified/expanded a bunch of times over the years but was above of the batter's eye and was never reported as an issue for hitters. Tiger Stadium was always considered to have a good hitting backgound. As I recall the center of the lower deck CF bleachers were often left empty for that reason in later years - and probably also because they were terrible seats!

yeah it's a balance between the product of two low probabilities vs the product of one more moderate and one apparently very low probability. 🤷‍♂️

From the Pirate's perspective, better one win than risk the sweep. From the Tigers perspective, as the home team that gets the gate, two games with a big draw is better than one, esp since tonight was probably already a sell out for Skubal, and with game one of the series in the W column, they are still good of they take 2 of 3.

Because approval by the leadership of the party means that woman is 'OK'. The personality profile that draws one to the conservative side is by nature more amenable to acceptance of the judgement of authority.

After digging around a bit, the devil here could be in the details. There have been a few specialty areas like nuclear power plants, where chrysotile asbestos use is still allowed. The EPA has begun/is beginning (not sure of the dates) a phase down on those. Reversing that might be all they are talking about and wouldn't be a change from the status quo. As bad as this admin is, it doesn't help when opposition media run with a hair on fire story that then turns out to be less than it appeared. I don't know if that is the case here but it happens enough I wouldn't exclude the possibility without more detail than social media supplies.

Where does he even get this stuff? Bringing back Mesothelioma is going to make America great again? Asbestos has been pretty successfully replaced everywhere it was ever used and no-one is the worse for it. But it's Trump, and even if he did reverse the controls, who would be fool enough to open an asbestos mine? Then again, they still mine the stuff in Russia so maybe he's just in the tank for another buddy of Putin.

I agree this is more likely than the Dems electing one.

I agree if he's running you have to be allowed to tackle him. But I wouldn't want to give up the extra protection completely. Could you make a workable rule where a QB must start his slide at some radius from a defender or forfeit the right? IOW, the QB gets the choice as soon as a defender is near to go down or take his chances but he can't slide once a defender is close enough to begin a tackle "process". IDK if that's workable from an officiating standpoint or how far away the right point would be, but I like an idea like that in theory. If you want to play alt.fullback like Jalen Hurts, then you are on your own.

Olson would be pretty close to #2 if he could just stay on the field.

Plus he just wanted to kill it because it was an Obama thing - if you recall he tried to de-Obama-fy everything he could. It was his big motivation early in his 1st term.

Hadn't hear Q.Bs name in a long time before he showed up the other day at 3b for the Cubs.

you are right about the flagpole - I dont see it in the overhead shot - supposedly it's the same pole reinstalled at CoPa - or at least that was the plan at one point. But you can clearly see the straight wall and the space behind it. The other giveaway is that they never changed the warning track. Look at the overhead shot above and you can see it follows the contour of the original wall. Of course if you hit it to the upper deck, which I saw Dave Winfield do once, that was 440+!

Old friend Nick Castellanos got himself benched today for shooting off his mouth when he was taken out for a defensive replacement yesterday.

He sounded like one happy camper in the presser. I wonder when Alex Cora starts to build a rep for leaving destruction in his wake.

It's really hard to play .600+ baseball for a whole season. The exception might the NL West with Colorado being so bad. I could see two 100 win teams in that div.

well that's a good question, I can't date when the CF wall was put in. I know it was after Kaline started playing because I've heard him say the flagpole was still in play when he started playing and I even remember seeing games before it was there. Demeter played in Detroit 64-66. If you still saw the flagpole on the field, it was still 440. the only clue I found that may date the fence is the Detroit Historical story about the ball park says they put a score board in CF in 1961 but moved it to LF when hitters complained. If they had originally put the same aux scoreboard in CF that we used to see in LF, it's logical they would have had to have put a straight wall behind it - so 1961 is one possible dating.

well, it was true when the marker was first painted. 🤷‍♂️. The fence went in in the early 60's I think. Probably by that time "440 to straight-away center field" had become enough of a mantra the team just decided no-one would notice the difference. What I wonder is why they put up the fence. I suppose the straight wall was a cleaner look for TV, it made for a better batter's eye, and maybe there were complaints about the injury risk of the flagpole. Seems unlikely we will ever know.

I refuse to be optimistic, but Alex Lange right would be a huge add.

Casey is fine. He doesn't quite have Ace level command, maybe he never will, but he keeps us in the game most nights.

well, thereby hangs a tale. When the Briggs rebuild was done, the CF corner was more square, the flagpole was in play, and it was 440 right into to the corner where the flag pole was. But after some years they put a fence across the CF corner so there was 25-30 feet or so of fence square to home plate and the flag pole was behind it - no longer in play. the ground crew used it as a storage area. The distance to that fence was ~425, but they never took the old 440 marker off the wall and eventually just kept repainting their little fib. After the ball park closed, Google earth got a shot of the field after they had torn down the interior fence, you still see the warning track end at the line of the removed fence. Measured with GE, it was indeed 440 to the original wall, but 425 to where the fence was. And there is your Tiger Trivia for the day....

good to see him squaring a few up

Blast from the past!

I don't know if Briggs already had a bad rep when he bought the team or if in those days people just thought it too vain for him to rename the park after himself, or maybe just habit, but as little squirt in the late 50's, a lot of men in my father's cohort continued to call the ball park Navin Field.