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I remember having seen people use baseball cards but playing cards were stiffer and made a louder noise but if you used your parents playing cards you got in more trouble than if you used your own more inferior baseball cards. So it was a practical dilemma. Do you alienate your parents or do you ruin those stupid rookie cards you had no idea you could retire on later in life.

I have bad memories of having wasted cards in that manner but actually they were never cards that were any good. If you had a really really really strong balloon and it would hit your spokes it would make a real loud noise just like a muffler before it popped.

Glad to be of help.

Now now, just because they won a World Series in recent memory and our team couldn’t win one when it was filled with All-Stars, future Hall of Famer‘s, MVPs, and Cy Young winners, that is no reason to suggest violent retribution. But we should do something. I was thinking of a nuclear strike but I have a really good friend who lives in KC and they have really good barbecue too. So that’s off the table.

Like a coward I gave up on this game when what’s his face was thrown out at third. and unlike many times when I turn tail and run there was no dramatic comeback. But all is good. It’s just one game. Scarlett O'Hara: I'll think about that tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day. As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again! ME: See you all tomorrow.

I just started getting local Wyoming ads on my TV in Idaho through mlb.tv. Hopefully this was a mistake. There have been times when my IP was switched to Oklahoma half a dozen teams were blacked out. Fortunately mlb.tv was good to fix that part of it but it took two or three months for my IP to get back to normal.

Leyland sure is fun to listen to.

I was wondering about that. Oh yeah, people who have lives. I forget that happens.

There’s only three or four people online right now. Is there a zombie apocalypse going on that I don’t know about?

I’m glad we don’t have to worry about Mize tossing a no-hitter. Not sure what kind of pitch count he’s on.

Tigers leave 3 on in the first and 2 on base in the second.

Schoop hit in forearm.

I’m watching in a 4K Samsung through the MLB TV app via fire TV. So I’ve never had that happen.

I didn’t get that but I left the room for a while. After the ceremony they might’ve made up for lost ad time. If you missed Mize setting down the Royals in order in the first inning then you really got screwed. I see too many peloton ads “So many milestones today!

I was squirming through this thing the whole time. Solemn formal ceremonies are seldom as unproblematic they’re made out to be and this ceremony was no exception. I’m just glad no one was booed excessively.

Jim Leyland gets the biggest round of applause of all the assembled dignitaries.

Special on field ceremony for Cabrera on Tigers Live, and Ilitch and Avilla confirm that money will be spent on free agents.

Tony Martin was already injured in that tremendously bad crash at the beginning of stage one of the Tour de France this year and then he was injured so badly in Stage 11 he withdrew from the Tour. He said that he thought cycling was getting too dangerous and there was not enough attention to safety and that is why he was retiring. These damn millennials have put the Elks Club out of business, injured all sorts of profitable enterprises their parents used to patronize, and now they’re ruining Cycling. They’re even putting pot dealers out of business through legalization.

WJR came in loud and clear where I lived in northeastern Indiana. So too did CKLW from Windsor. Although I didn’t care I didn’t really pick up Chicago radio other than WLS. I just loved getting one over on the ‘rents as a kid by listening to those games from WJR on my transistor radio under the covers after midnight.

Cycling racers are really beat up too. Yesterday Tony Martin of the German team closed out his career in the mixed relay races in Flanders with a gold medal and a rainbow jersey. The close-ups of him revealed that his right eye has been almost completely reconstructed and he has scars scraped across his forehead.

Going from 71 wins in 1960 with the 154 game schedule to 101 wins in 1961 with the new 162 game schedule was a pretty good leap. Although I became a Tiger fan in 1960 I wasn’t much on standings then. In 1961 though, I was pretty well glued to it and it was so frustrating for the Tigers to be so good and for the Yankees to be better. My next-door neighbor was a Yankee fan because he wanted to always root for a team that won, which I’ve always considered a serious character flaw. The Yankees won 109 that year. I gained a lot of my ground work knowledge of the game listening to Ernie. I remember him talking about the Angels Bo Belinsky in 1962 and how he threw a no hitter sometime before the Tigers were playing them out there. I was listening to the game under my covers with a transistor radio which is one of those sacred shared generational memories.

That’s why he fled on a Soviet sub that traversed the waters of the Detroit River.

1960 was the year I started following the Tigers and these were their home jerseys. Looks a lot like the Dodgers. Detroit Tigers outfielder Neil Chrisley, who had two home runs, is surrounded by teammates Norm Cash, Al Kaline and Frank Bolling after a 7-6 win over the Kansas City Athletics on May 14, 1960. Together, this group hit five home runs, including the game-winning homer by Cash in the seventh inning.