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Stretching out Maeda into three innings yielded three runs, but five strikeouts. So there is some upside to it and it is spring training.

Tork is channeling his inner Hank Greenberg.

Home Run Jake Rogers homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field.

So, are the pitchers way ahead of the hitters at this time of year?

On the TV broadcast, I noticed that AJ and Fetter were sitting on the steps in the stands to get a better view of the play on the field than apparently they can get in the dugout.

At least we got a hit today because it’s humiliating to be no hit in a spring game.

This game needs to get interesting quick or I’m going out for a walk. The weather has finally broke. It’s almost 50°. It’s sunny.

I wish there was an automatic “home run challenge” in the game.

Jeez Scott Harris looks young.

As for the FanDuel broadcast, the radio feed doesn’t sync with the picture and there’s absolutely no crowd noise in the background and usually there’s at least a little. Hope it will not be subpar all year. i’ve gotten used to it being good. Oh, no ball/strike box either.

Billy Beane

I have no idea who it might be, but I am deeply intrigued.

I really really enjoyed Andy Dirks. This is disappointing.

I’ve had this for a few years and hadn’t really read it, and read the 1980 Joe Falls article about Kaline. I didn’t realize Kaline was such an odd bird. Didn’t know much about his upbringing, his working class origins, or about his moodiness and ill-tempered outbursts. Didn’t realize that when he came up the Tigers only played a handful of night games so he spent his time in a hotel room not knowing what to do with himself.

If that’s a literary allusion it’s over my head, but I’m willing to learn.

Back in the day when Ty Cobb and and I were chewing Laudanum gum and hunting pheasant in the off-season we never lifted weights, and I don’t remember baseball players getting injured and straining their biceps simply by throwing a ball during spring training.

I don’t know if it’s necessarily unacceptable but since I pretty much despise the statement “it is what it is“ I do accept that it’s unacceptable. When you consider the fact that many other franchises that we not without some substance consider historically lesser than our own have won the ultimate prize it is something that it is indeed hard to accept.

I’m not going to purchase doom and gloom about Meadows until I have to. So as far as I’m concerned, he’ll miss a week of spring training and be back in center field, chatting with the unicorns that typically hang on the berm and feeding them tangerine marshmallows.

Whoa. Thx.

The dream of an undefeated grapefruit league season goes down the drain.

7-4 Tigers at the top of the seventh. No radio TV today and even game day isn’t showing balls and strikes.

Riley hits a home run. And both he and Carpenter are batting 1.000 for the season.

Jobe gave up a two-run homer in the second. Where does the lynching party meet?