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Sounds to me like the Yankees are due for a rebound.

Whoa!

Reading all of you discussing local Detroit media makes me feel kind of left out. I have very little knowledge of it. Having never lived in Detroit, and with the Tigers always being an exotic “fix“ obtained from a distance like Jasmine from the Orient, I wonder if my affection for the team would have been dulled by the ubiquity of it all if I’d lived in Detroit. Where I live in Boise Idaho everybody wears Boise State Bronco gear, especially on Saturdays in the fall, and though the team once meant a lot to me, even back then I would kinda roll my eyes and mockingly think “wow that’s really being edgy and unique” when each Saturday rolled around and Bronco flags were flapping from everybody’s pick up truck. For me, the Tigers have always been something unique, not something commonly accessible. Where I’ve lived for the last 38 years the Tigers are my secret pleasure, my secret vice. I might as well be a goth teen wearing all black in the 102° heat with piercings all over me. Being a Tigers fan out here makes me unique, and when I do meet people from Detroit out here we are able to share a bond that seems more valuable because of its rarity. And sharing this affection with the rest of you who grew up in Michigan only affirms this connection.

I tuned back into watch the bottom of the ninth of the Speedway Classic and De la Cruz came up with two on and no out and I was really looking forward to something dramatic but he struck out in the Reds lost the game. What an exciting player he is and only 23 years old wow.

I wish this were a normal game with a normal start time instead of a marquee Sunday night ESPN game. Waiting another four hours bugs me.

I didn’t realize it was that bad. He’s starting to feel all or nothing.

I just noticed that in the 4th the St. Paul Twins are defeating the Cleveland Guardians. For me this kind of scoreboard watching is more interesting than the race thing.

Getting closer to lightning while standing on a metal grating is a great idea.

Not to beat a dead horse, but this whole thing just seems like trying to mate a unicorn with a rhino.

They’re asking the guy who hit the home run what it was like to be the first person in human history to ever hit a home run in a racetrack. We’re watching history be made people!

This is the race track that circles the entire perimeter of the field

The baseball field at Bristol Motor Speedway for the Speedway Classic has the following dimensions: 330 feet down the left and right field lines, 400 feet to center field, 375 feet to the right field alley, and 384 feet to the left field alley

They just resumed the game and when the Braves hit a three run homer a race car circled beyond the outfield fence celebrating the home run.

On Facebook I jokingly quoted the guy that said this in the movie Office Space and I was sternly warned and threatened with apermanent ban if there was another “infraction.” For two weeks whenever I logged into my account I was reminded of what an uncivil and violent person I allegedly am. AI is not intelligent. It doesn’t understand humor, or context or irony. And Zuckerberg is claiming that he’s going to build an AI center as big as Manhattan to develop this “intelligence.“

He’s due for a dramatic regression.

Winning this game would be huge. There’s no way the Tigers could be considered the favorites for this game. Perhaps statistically they are due for some “pulling rabbits out of hats“ types of victories to make up for that bad string of 13 games.

I think this game might be exclusive to ESPN.

I had no idea that this was an issue. It’s amazing how little it took to stir people into a moral panic over something this minor although I guess it was any change from the past and enough to “raise people’s dander.”

So the Bristol Classic is rescheduled and the suspended game will start at 1 PM Eastern tomorrow. I don’t know if FOX is going to broadcast the game or not. It’ll be interesting to see how this cluster blank turns out and how much of a crowd shows up. [EDIT - my Yahoo weather app says there’s a 60% chance of rain at 1 PM but only around then]. If they do broadcast it, it won’t conflict with the Tigers game that begins at 5:10 PM on ESPN.

I guess you can chalk this Bristol fiasco up to unforeseen circumstances. But I’m sure it rains in Tennessee in the summer. I don’t know if they did a good job of figuring out drainage or if there’s no good way to deal with that totally in a downpour.

I’ve gotta tell you, demolition derby‘s are awesome. Making a vehicle worthy of that kind of punishment is an engineering and mechanical feat representing a significant achievement.

I am not relishing this happening. The pictures of moms sitting in the stands with their rain soaked children is heartrending.

You know this wasn’t a bad idea intrinsically, but the rain makes it a tremendously bad idea which is unfortunate. Stuff like this happens when people with lots of money are used to doing things and flattening every obstacle in their path, but the weather is an obstacle that doesn’t respect anyone’s hubris. They can’t allow players to get injured. These guys are worth millions of dollars.

They’re stopping play to throw sand on the infield where water is puddling up. This is absurd. The players are wiping off the bats on their jerseys.