IdahoBert

I didn’t even bother doing MLB TV the last two seasons because I couldn’t get it to sync the radio audio with the TV audio to drown out Shep. Having Dan doing TV 35 games a year is a real plus too. This is the equivalent of the sun shining and birds chirping on a winter’s day for me. It’s like being Sally Field at the Oscars. The Tigers must really like us. EDIT: I just listened to him talk about having cerebral palsy. This is a real person. He’s not just a voice or a guy in a suit. He has substance. Good or bad as a team, it’s going to be more pleasant having the Detroit Tigers back in my life again because of Jason Benetti.

My former spouse sat next to Will Venable’s mother on a several hour flight to DC a few months ago so at least she’s happy the Rangers won. And the better team did win and it was an AL team although I don’t really give a crap about that anymore. With all the interleague games, the two leagues seem pretty much identical to me. I used to feel a sense of participation and identification, when the AL won the All-Star game or the World Series but no more. Maybe I just grew up. Finally. I hope we’re the better team that wins the World Series next year. After all, all sorts of teams have risen from the ashes lately and I’m still hopelessly addicted to this club so it could happen.

Oh my heck. This might be the only off-season in a long time I’ve actually been interested in. My busy schedule of partying with ladies swimwear models and movie stars doesn’t usually leave much time for the off-season. But I am prepared to be disappointed. I’m not qualified to speculate about anything, except for the possibility of being disappointed.

According to a friend of mine, who lives in Arizona, they’re not that big of a deal even in Phoenix. I find this hard to believe, but my friend still lives in Tucson and has been there for 50 years and although that’s not Phoenix he’s a lot closer to the situation than I am. Everyone living in Phoenix — or almost everyone — is from someplace else. It’s not like it has a stable cross generational fanbase like the Tigers.

Since 1958 the Braves have been in the postseason 25 times and have only won 2 World Series. Technically, the Tigers are a less frustrating team because they have won two World Series since 1968 and have provided less frustration for the fan base. But the Braves do make the regular season more fun.

I would be fine if Mario and Rod both came back with the provision that once a week Rod and Mario would take turns making the other wear a dress. I think this would drain off the tension in their relationship There would be plenty of opportunities for non-violent revenge and they would figure out after a while how to get along.

I had such an unprecedentedly bad attitude about the team this year that I never bought TV or even radio to follow games. Not having the Tigers or all of you as a part of my life was an uncommon experience, and I hope this next season brings out the better more hopeful side of me, and the prospect of a better TV crew excites me. The way Harris cobbled the team together this year gives me hope, and I also hope that Riley Greene can stop getting hurt. I have never lived in Detroit, and I am only by the most generous definition of the term, even Detroitish from a distance. I usually hate the off-season and I might actually follow it this year. SPACE…

I just remember being crestfallen when he didn’t get up. One of my other great TV memories is when the Tigers were playing the Yankees in Yankee stadium and the bases were loaded and Hank Aguirre came up, and the Yankees were insulting toward him and they pulled the outfielders into the infield and he hit a ball over their heads and it rolled to the monuments and he got a triple

He also broke his collarbone in the outfield in 63 or 64. I remember watching it happen on TV.

Those Lions fans still in the stands look excited enough to turn over cars in the parking lot

If they get enough of a lead, they should let Rudy Ruettiger play.

The Lions had enough time for one last sack.

LaPorta!

I am here, because I am a believer, and I couldn’t leave her if I tried.

God bless the existence of worse teams than thine own.

Is Rogers using a corked bat? Maybe they should give him a blood test between innings?

!!!!!

Just as an aside, I have just noticed that the Atlanta Braves are nearly averaging 6 runs a game. 5.84. You’re welcome.

Reading over this thread reminds me why I love you folks, even though I’ve only ever met a handful of you face-to-face. There’s a lot of what Lincoln would call our “better angels“ coming to the fore in this thread. It says a lot about us, regardless of how small a tribe this has become, or how meager my participation has been as I’ve aged.

This is a sad moment. Jim Price is family. Period.

In the early 80s when I was recovering from a motorcycle accident, I visited my sister for a couple weeks in Nashua New Hampshire and went to a bunch of games at Holman stadium. It was a Pirates AA affiliate then and I saw eight games there. It was a long homestand and the home team won all 8 games either as a walk off in the bottom of the ninth or coming from behind and sealing it by the seventh or eighth inning. It was without a doubt, the most exciting string of games I’ve ever seen. I saw Ted Kluszewski there. He was a scout.

I can’t remember if it was last year in the Tour or the Spanish La Vuelta when he got injured and had to leave. I hope no downtown areas in Canada are burned down by rioting celebrators tonight.

Woodsy won stage 9 of the Tour de France today! 36 years old! He beat the kid from Idaho, but I still don’t feel bad about it because, Goddammit, it’s Woodsy! “We are the world. We are the children…”