IdahoBert

So I guess Baez tested positive for weed a couple years ago. BFD.

I jumped on board after the fast start in 2004. I was familiar with Mlive, which was generally awful, and when I found this place, I’ve never looked back. Living 2000 miles from Detroit area media it was easy not to care. Thankfully, the aliens from Kepler-22b sent plans for the Internet to the Very Large Array and now I was re-connected.

Eric is a good guy. When he was in Missoula, he had part with some of his books and he sent me his best philosophy books.

FYI Indicted Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase is accused of throwing suspicious pitches to benefit bettors in at least 48 games over two years, significantly more than was initially revealed by federal prosecutors, according to a court document filed Thursday. Federal prosecutors listed nine games in which Clase allegedly threw rigged pitches in the indictment unsealed in November, but teammate and alleged co-conspirator Luis Ortiz's attorney wrote in a filing that the government is accusing Clase of manipulating his performance in dozens of games. ESPN has reached out to attorneys for Clase and Ortiz, as well as the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, which is prosecuting the case. Major League Baseball referred ESPN to its initial statement in which it said it was cooperating with federal prosecutors and declined further comment. Ortiz's attorney, Christos N. Georgalis, asked in the filing for his client's case to be severed from Clase's, arguing that Ortiz and Clase have "markedly different levels of culpability," and his client could not receive a fair trial otherwise.

In all honesty, the ruling class in its entirety is full of people corrupted by wealth, who are used to never being told “no“ and who do abominable stuff because there’s never any other adults in the room to stop them. In the early 1970s a supporter of the Black Panthers told me “everything you buy is produced by a pig.” At the time I thought that was an extreme statement, but 50 years after the fact, I see it was prescient. I would never tell other people how to spend their money, but if you don’t want to buy it, pirate it it then because Plur1bus is really good.

She is incredible in the independent film Columbus. She teamed up with Parker Posey in that film and it was a tremendous cast. I spent some time in Columbus Indiana in the early 70s and it’s truly an enchanting town due to the architecture and the beautiful boulevards which make it just amazing. I never watched the film Split which she was also in because I’m the father of daughters and seeing young women terrorized is simply a place I can’t go.

I just noticed that Tim McCarver was the one that popped out for the last out in game seven of the 1968 World Series, in which the famous celebration of our boys occurred. Boy that must’ve hurt. It must’ve really hurt bad. No wonder his vitriol was so strong in the 2006 World Series. But whatever “joy“ he took in our teams collapse in 2006 it could never make up for what he endured in 1968. So I take solace - actually unashamed solace - in how much he actually suffered for this humiliation in 1968. It may not reflect well upon me, but let me take out the world‘s tiniest violin…

I am so happy to be wrong about my expectations.

In Idaho, where I live, we have not really experienced winter. It’s been about 10 to 15° above normal all winter and we’ve had one half inch snowfall and that’s it. The grass has never turned brown this year. It’s weird.

That’s a vantage point I’ve never seen before so thanks.

Thanks for sharing this.

At age 16 and having spent half my life rooting for the Tigers when they won in 68 baseball did as much for me as it ever could, and I moved on for many years. Losing Mickey is painful and when Willie Horton goes, damn I’ll be a puddle.

Mickey Lolich died. I saw the fifth game of the World Series in Detroit. This is hard. when Willie goes, I’m gonna be beside myself.

My mlb.tv subscription is good through May 6 allegedly. I hope I don’t get screwed on this.

When MLB expands to Salt Lake City, some of them will have groups of sister wives.

If anything is more indicative of the fact that nothing is going on it’s that in a baseball thread we’re talking about bowling. And I’m not against it and I actually find it fascinating. But it pretty much means that crickets are chirping around here.

I wish I could get paid $25 million over two years for a 6.95 ERA like Jordan Hicks.

Still, you’re the only person I know who was in the same bowling alley with him. Just seeing him on TV he seemed to be incredibly focused.

You bowled against Earl Anthony? The Earl Anthony? Even I know about him. That’s some impressive stuff, man.

I’m not worried about Skubal. In his most recent article on mlb.com. Beck says there is a wealth of free agent starting pitching arms still out there…. <ducks>

It’s about how in 1972 when the team was slumping terribly Billy Martin just threw the names of all the starters into a hat and randomly drew them out and batted Norm cash in leadoff and Ed Brinkman in cleanup and it worked.

That is pretty awesome

I’m having a hard time finding any evidence of the Tigers spring training broadcast schedule for 2026. On the MLB app on my phone the only time there’s any broadcast so far is when we play the Orioles? And it’s an Orioles broadcast and only on the radio?

Someone smart, not me, should start a spring training thread. On my ESPN app it just alerted me that the Tigers are playing the Yankees at Steinbrenner Field, February 21. That’s just 34 days away.