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Skubal at only 60 tosses? Cool.

Whoop whoop! Watching the game at Sid’s Garage on my son’s 22nd bday!

This is off-topic, but no matter what I’m going to ask, what was with the Tigers playing that John Denver country boy song during the 84 season? I lived in Arizona then in the pre-Internet era, radio didn’t reach me there, and only saw the tigers on a rare national broadcast, but I understand there was some sort of “controversy“ about the playing of this song during the 1984 season. Any help from those not living in the diaspora at that time would be helpful. I tried to watch a YouTube video about it, but they took so long getting to the point I gave up.

Maybe they should try to play in a football stadium. The Dodgers played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years while they waited for Dodger Stadium to be completed. Built for football, the stadium was ill-suited for baseball. However, the Dodgers made the best of it. A high screen served as the left field fence to compensate for its extremely short distance from home plate. Wally Moon, who played outfield for the Dodgers, became famous for lifting pop flies known as "Moon shots" over the fence.

Grass outfield seats are not an option. When I lived in Tucson and Hank Aaron was playing his last season with the Milwaukee Brewers during spring training, they did the grass outfield seats thing at Hi Corbett field and it was really stupid but OK for one exhibition game. Singles became “ground rule doubles.“ It’s tragic but this is what happens when billionaire oligarchies can do anything they want for any reason and this time it bit them.

West Sacramento born and raised on the ballfield is where I spent most of my days.

It’s the end of the world, and I know it…

Bite me! Damn. Season over!

It would be nice if they exploded for a run or two here.

Nine pitches and four outs is pretty sweet. I’m following this game on gameday and in between episodes of scratching myself the inning was over.

A Tigers should have a team hypnotist that convinces Riley and Tork that he’s Magglio and he tells them “let the ball come to you” they believe it, gain confidence, and become better hitters.

That was easy. Three pitches three strikes and an out.

Yesterday I predicted Manning would toss seven innings of no hit ball and 93 pitches so I came close.

My thoughts exactly.

Manning is the one who should be dating Taylor Swift. By the way, who walks the plank to bring Manning back into the starting rotation permanently? I’ve been been out of touch with this team for a couple years, so don’t feel bad about explaining it to me as if I were a child.

That’s a great story. My brother-in-law, who became an engineer instead of a class D, Pirates minor-league pitcher was great to watch a game with partly because of his engineer mentality I think. He had a razor sharp interest in the game that was infectious and dragged you into it in an incredibly satisfying manner. I went to six games in the 1980s in Nashua New Hampshire which was the Pirates AA team and I had more fun with him at a game than anyone in my life. He saw Ted Kluszewski in the stands and told me about him and the Pieates won every single game coming from behind as either a walk off or with runs scored in the eighth inning. It was like this little miracle staged for the two of us.

At this rate if it continues, neither of these starters will last long.

No. My brother-in-law grew up as a Pittsburgh fan and rejected a class D contract from the Pirates out of high school in the early 50s because he wanted to go to college become an engineer instead so for his sake I can’t hold anything against the Pirates. I’m not at least bit logical. I’m totally an emotional fan.

If the Tigers have a “natural rival” it’s the Cubs. Especially because the Cubs denied World Series championships to Ty Cobb over 100 years ago and this is something that we should not forget. Myself, I hold a grudge.

I see Pittsburgh is leading their central division in the NL. They’re 5-1. I hope their hot start is more of a fluke than ours ….

Luckeeeee!

The Tigers are the only undefeated MLB team left.

So that’s 2:20 in my time zone in the mountain time zone. That’s 20 minutes from now great.

How long between games?