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My favorite morning guy is still Howard Stern when he was on W4. Steve Dahl was being syndicated here on WABX at the same time so once Howard left, I migrated over there. Once the Dahl morning show fell apart, I was left with J.J. and the Morning Crew, who were OK, I guess. Then I went to college, and once I came back and started doing 9-5 work in an office, that’s when I discovered Bob Edwards and Morning Edition on WDET.

LFG, Braves!

Looks like at this rate, Maeda won’t be getting into any other playoffs series, either.

All wild card games are at the higher seed’s park.

This is not a pet peeve, which is why it’s not in that thread, but I’ve noticed more lately that some people simply can’t say the word “ultimate” as uhl-teh-mitt, but instead as ohl-teh-mitt, or even oh-teh-mitt. It grates on the ear some, but again, I assume it’s because people can’t manage to say it as uhl-teh-mitt.

I thought I saw where the Raiders stadium is 65,000 and they average something like 62,500.

You know, I hope the Tigers don’t treat this like a house money game. I think it does matter, at least on the margins, whether we go to Houston or Baltimore.

With his being the bulk guy today, looks like Kenta Maeda is definitely out for at least the wild card round. I feel bad for the guy, but hey, gotta put together the winningest team we can.

I was in 323 row 17. Four rows from the top, which is probably why there were a lot of baseball dilettantes there.

You dressed like a ****ing douche at the game. Plus, she was a Chicago 5 at best

TBF, I don't think it's a boomer-vs-millengenZ thing as much as it's an old man-vs-young whippersnappers thing. Would I myself have been like that forty years ago? No—especially seeing how forty years ago was 1984—but I'm sure I would have been more empathetic to it.

Pointless technical point: I think "FIGHTING FOR our rights" in the flyer looks weird, in that it highlights "FIGHTING FOR" and then diminishes "our rights". As though the "FIGHTING FOR" part were far more important than the"our rights" part. I think the line should emphasize our rights, not diminish it, so that it reads more like, "FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS."

I didn't post this on Friday night because it was a little late for me and I wasn't near my laptop, nor on Saturday because we got right in the car first thing and boogied home, so I guess I will post this here now. I so enjoyed being at Comerica on Friday to watch us clinch live, and one of the reasons I wanted to go in the first place was that I wanted to commune with other Tiger fans while watching. I wanted to shake off ten years of Tiger funk with other people who had suffered as I had. But I was actually disappointed at the kind of people who ended up sitting around me. Not to get all boomer on you or anything, but most of them were millennials and Gen Zs, and it was clear they were not actual Tigers fans. The first clue was that most of them did not show up until the fourth or fifth or even sixth inning. They apparently didn't want to hang around for a couple hours watching a boring ol' game, I guess. They appeared to me to have come strictly for the party. Another clue was that so many of them had ants in their pants, always getting up and moving through the aisles, making people—especially me—have to stand up for them. I was annoyed at having to get up during play, and I was double annoyed when people a few rows in front of me would get up and then keep standing around after people had passed them, blocking my view of play. And I noticed a lot of people who'd left didn't even come back with beer or food or anything. They simply got bored sitting in one place, I guess. At its worst, they were getting up late in the count of critical at bats. They apparently had no idea what was happening in front of them, nor did they appear to have any concern. In fact, the three girls who came in the fifth inning to occupy the seats directly in front of us were emblematic of the very thing I'm talking about. While play was happening on the field, they were all on their phones and showing each other their phones and chattering with each other and ignoring the field. But in between innings, when there were activities happening on the jumbotron, they put down their phones and paid very close attention to that. IOW, completely backwards. In fact, at one point, one of the six guys who were sitting to the right of the three girls came over to sit next to the cutest girl, chatted her up, got her to input a phone number into his phone, and he went back to his guy friends, where they were pointing at his phone and chucking while the girls huddled together and giggled. As I said, here for the party. The only people even moderately interested in the baseball part were the guys to the right and behind us, who kept talking about prop bets they were making, and "hey, man, we're going to Motor City after this, right?" (Once again, thank you, Supreme Court of the United States, for your decision on Murphy.) But arguably, the worst part of that whole thing, I thought, was after the last out, with the Tigers celebrating on the field, and these same guys behind me tried to start up a "JAR-RED GOFF!" chant, which I thought was an absolute turd in the punch bowl in the moment, and in my Walter Mitty mind, I wish I could have gotten away with turning around and slugging him for his insolence. I really showed that guy in my imagination. As I say, I loved being there for the clinch, and regardless of what was going on immediately around me, I would have chosen this situation over staying home and watching it on TV by myself ten times out of ten. And, of course, anybody is free to pay their money to go to a ballgame and engage with it in any manner they choose, including not paying attention to the game at all and instead having a party with the people around them instead. That's part of what makes a free country free. But it sure wasn't what I had envisioned coming in. And that doesn't mean I can't whinge about it. 😁

I don't think so, either. It's such a bald move to get the windfall, and nothing else. I've wondered whether they will get an MLB-level stadium built in Sacramento, but although it's a #20 market, it's nothing but government and healthcare economy, which may not be enough to get the billions they need to build there. I'm starting to think they might figure out a way to get them to San Jose, which is far enough away from San Francisco that the Giants might be talked into allowing that to happen. 🤑

Keep winning, Tigers, and we won't have to suffer threads like this anymore.

Meaning X is the public forum, and not MotownForums is the public forum? Not that it matters, either one applies.

You definitely didn't say that, although I (and I believe a few others here) inferred your post as suggesting perhaps we should save Skubal for Game 2 so we don't waste a great start from him by still losing to Burnes, and I can now see how you did not mean to imply that.

Absolutely the most predictable thing ever. Democrat, Republican, doesn’t matter. If a politico is a crook and gets caught, he has a friend in Trump. Just ask Rod Blagojevich and Kwame Kilpatirck. It’s maybe 50-50 Eric Adams stumps for Trump these last five weeks, because a pardon is his only way out now.

Why? Is he a poster here or something?

That’s exactly what that bimbo Trump crypto is all about

Too bad for the guy it’s not 1961, he could have actually had the mail carrier arrested.

“Ivermectin? We’ve got you covered” 🤣🤣🤣

I hope it doesn’t become a serious issue in the playoffs.

They don’t care about attendance. They care about windfall and revenue sharing.

No thank. i prefer seeing the tigers come to chicago two or three times every year.