gehringer_2

exactly.

I agree in the past that's been true, and under normal conditions a lot of Canadians would come to Det to see the Jays. But cross border travel is way down, and I wouldn't expect baseball travel to be immune.

Does 'promotion' money have to be adding in as it accrues or do team's get a pass on that - i.e. for each day Montero spends with the Tigers he's getting the major league min instead of the AAA min?

Jake played for Toledo tonight but Vierling and McGonigle both sat.

It's the IP era and everything is buffered to some random unpredictable degree. Even the over the air radio is not a reliable 7 seconds any more because the audio gets to the transmitter by IP and can/does get buffered on the way there. Often the gameday cartoon is the most *live* thing I get. So for instance, the other night, the over the air radio was about 15 seconds behind gameday and my Direct TV was another 20 or so seconds behind the radio. So at least 35 seconds from fact to video - maybe more as I have no way of knowing how far behind gameday might be. If I try to run gameday audio vs the Direct TV video, the Audio is usually, but not *allways* ahead. The buffering on Direct TV makes no sense at all. I sometimes start watching the recording of a game in progress, excising the commercials to eventually catch up. When I get to 'real time' on the recording I might jump back the the 'direct' program, and it will say 'live' but pick up 30 sec behind where the recording in progress already had been! Makes no sense at all, ever. I don't even have a way of checking the broadcast against live at the ballpark as I don't have portable FM radio anymore! When the games were on 'JR we always had a pocket AM radio on hand to get Ernie's explanations of anything odd that happened on he field.

can you bring up the video feed on one device (e.g. laptop) and run a different game day audio from another ( e.g. phone)?

and again, people personalize it based on an owner's personal resources, but it doesn't really work that way. The league doesn't allow owners to subsidize their teams with outside income even if they wanted to - the team has to have the income. The owners demand of each other that they keep their teams solvent because that is what protects the market value of franchises, and every owner is vitally interested in maintaining that. And if a team's revenue falls to where it can't maintain solvent operations, it gets moved.

what's fair to the players is to get a % cut of the gross revenue. That works in the NFL, but Baseball owners have never been willing to be transparent. But even that doesn't work until you have revenue equalization/sharing.

is there a soul anywhere in hollywood with an original idea anymore?

'68 Tigers out homered the next best HR hitting ateam in the league by 40%, and were the highest total scoring team in the AL, so with scoring being low to begin with, that long ball advantage did play very well late in games. Funny thing for that era was that they where a poor BA club. But oddly enough, they walked a lot and combined with hitting the long ball they led the league in -- you guessed it - OPS! And we could have felt good about that instead of obsessing about the teams poor BA - that is if anyone in '68 had had a clue what OPS was.....

I've seen a 2nd OF complete a catch maybe a couple of times, but never a play at the wall like like that. It's usually more mundane - two guys are coming toward each other around mid-depth and the guy that called for it botches the play but tips it up to where the guy that is ducking under/away manages to grab it before it lands.

well,close. He played RF on the 13th, DH'd again on the 14th (today). So maybe RF tomorrow.

and all it's gotten them is 2 games in the standings. BWAH-HA-HA-HA

of course Malloy!

Malloy?

I suppose we get Chapman now?

I guess...

not in the cards today I guess.

Tigers getting BaBIP'd big time.

I like it

yup

Nothing that a 25 yr old Aroldis Chapman wouldn't solve.

Just for scale reference, unincorporated LA county is 65% of the total land area and about 10% of the total population of the county (there be mountains...)

This could be one of those 'be careful what you wish for call-ups' as in "this may be the last look you are going to get" - or they just want to catch a wave. He is on a hot streak with 5 HR in his last 36 AB, which is great, but also 12 K in that same 36 AB.

Pitchers - you can't live with them, you can't live without them.