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Is the 6:40 PM start a nod to parents with children inducing them to go to games on school nights in the hopes of generating a love of baseball with the next generation? Now that games aren’t routinely 3 1/2 to 4 hours long, part of that resistance to bringing a child to a game has been circumvented. Maybe it has something to do with making the most of daylight?

This game sucked. It was like being spanked by the ugly babysitter and your mom thinks you’re lying.

Strike ‘em out, throw ‘em out to end the top of the third. Nice.

Cyclists go commando and all they’ve got is a thin sheen of Lycra covering them so when they hit the tarmac their rears hang out and there’s just no way around it. And they’ll ride for another hundred miles like that.

I can’t see that their underwear is showing through so I’m assuming they’re going commando.

Tarik’s not used to sitting this long either.

Whoa! Leave Javier in!

Tomorrow too, I guess it’s a Mother’s Day thing.

“All we do is win” AND talk about the new uniforms.

I’m 72 years old and you guys are going on like you’re older and more crotchety than me. I like the uniforms they look like something out of Tron. Every moment I’m expecting the sky to light up with circuitry glowing.

These uniforms look much better when the players are wearing dark shoes. With white shoes, they look like they’re wearing fuzzy slippers that girls wear to sleepovers. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…per se… <ducks>

I just made up the veritable thing, but he said something similar.

Todd Jones says that the new uniforms have captured the veritable essence of the city of Detroit.

The Tigers’ next three games — as well as everyone else’s games — are free MLB TV games.

Ibáñez! Vilade! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

Playoffs? There’s just too much positive talk going on here right now. I feel like I’ve walked into an alternate universe.

Andy Ibáñez! Two homers!

In the early 1960s when I first became a fan — and even in the later ‘60s when batting averages fell — it was still unusual for a team to carry four guys in the starting lineup with a sub-.200 or slightly above batting average. you can’t have **** Tracewski (apparently you can’t use the short familiar word for Richard on our site), Don Wert, Ed Brinkman plus some other no-name guy all in the batting order failing on a daily basis but we do. At least these aforementioned guys made some defensive contributions, but being able to play a position should be a given, not cause for celebration. And although you have to adjust for inflation and what not, it’s still maddening that Tork signed for more money than Al Kaline ever made in his life.

Instead of bums, which is what we are.

And he grounds into a double play.

Greene actually has a man on base for him.

Javier Báez rally killer.