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Maybe my sticking with DirecTV Extra Innings with the free mlb.TV add-on was not the geriatric bad idea I hear people tell me it is.

He also did the opening, name-checking the Tigers throughout. The so-called perks of an MLB-prodcued broadcast ...

Kevin McGonigle with a 4-for-5 debut and Dillon Dingler launching a bomb! Without no doubt:

Kevin McGonigle is definitely not done hitting today, unlike some players I can name ... 😏

I don’t know where Anderson’s head is at, but when you come in late with seven-run lead, you don’t have to pitch too carefully.

Last time I went to one of those places, I was living in Warren in the early 90s and had a boarder living at my house, a guy who worked in my industry. He talked me into going to this place on Mound Road just south of 12 Mile. I was not comfortable being there at all, and the turning point was when this young woman sidled up to our table uninvited and started doing this dance to a song that had the phrase “gang bang” in the chorus, which she leaned over and shouted to us whenever it came up. All I could do was stare at the table top to avoid making eye contact with her, hoping it would be over anytime soon, but it seemed to go on forever. Just as I was about to hide under the table, my buddy gestures me over and shout-whispers to me, “you gotta tip her now.” So I pulled out five bucks and handed it to her, but she wouldn’t take it in her hand—I was supposed to tuck it into her panty bottoms. I did, turning eight shades of red, and then told me buddy I wasn’t feeling well so we should go. He was not happy, and in fact, that moment changed the tenor of our relationship for good. I left Detroit for good a few months later, sold the house while he ran out the string there, and we never talked again, even though he was in my industry.

And a leg single reduced his career OPS to 2.667. Send him down.

Perhaps if the regime focused ICE and CBP on going after actual undocumented criminals, instead of indiscriminately sweeping up undocumented agricultural workers and domestic workers and preschool children in a visibly cruel manner, they might be doing a better job getting them off the streets to prevent tragedies like this happening, and enjoy broad bipartisan support for their efforts besides.

Well, that was a Parker hit, and even that was good for two runs.

You’ll get your chance when the Tigers start struggling and he comes back in to whinge about it.

Two at bats in and still has a 3.000 OPS!

Man, that second double was a couple feet from being McGONEigle!

Billionaires don’t have to marry ugly.

3.000 OPS!

So, I hate baseball throwing in with gamblers as much as the next guy. That said, I actually don’t mind the bet365 logo at the top right. It is actually less obtrusive than the MLB logo you typically see on MLB-based broadcasts, which makes it easy to lose in the crowd in the CF shots. We will see if/when/how the gambling odds get weaved into the broadcast via graphics or drop-ins, but so far, through three half innings, nothing yet. Tell you what I definitely don’t miss: the constant crawl at the bottom of the screen. So thrilled to see that get ****-canned.

Skubal in a jam and then back out. That might be the Padres’ last chance against him.

Probably more outlier than progress.

Nick was probably a spoiled pampered elite athlete his whole life, bot inside and outside his own house, so maybe he never had to learn to become mature and play nice with other people.

Hey, Bert, party’s over in the game thread. 😉

Oh, Javy—never change.

Man, looks like Pivetta shot his wad on Carpenter, doesn’t it? Now here comes the boy, and on pitch one, it’s a career-lid-lifting two-run double! Welcome to the bigs!

Well, this could go one of a few different ways.

Related to these, "beclown" has become my verb of the year, as in, The Republican Party constantly beclowns itself in its pathetic quest to mollify one man.

I think Hegseth is far worse than an infant. Infants can't hurt you. Hegseth strikes me as being more like a grade schooler off his ADHD meds.

That's OK by me.