5/13/25 6:40PM Red Sox @ Tigers

[oblong]

15 minutes ago, romad1 said:

But, it appears Tigers marketing likes a day game mid-week though for capturing the business walk up market. 

They pretend that Thursday day games is a tradition.

USeful for event and group outings for work/school.

 

[Tigeraholic1]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Any link to a Dickerson call?

 

[oblong]

As soon as he was swinging the bat and you knew he'd make contact you knew it was gone.  That was miggy-esque in that regard.  I wonder what the launch angle and exit velocity were?   

I always think of a Miggy walk off against Chicago where I swear you can see AJ's eyes roll as soon as he swings the bat like "Crap, he got it"

[1776]

So what can we get in return for Parker Meadows? 😁

[RandyMarsh]

Does he have an opt out after this year or was it only for the first 2? It may have been Erods who was 2 but I swear somebody we signed had that option. 

[Tigermojo]

7 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Does he have an opt out after this year or was it only for the first 2? It may have been Erods who was 2 but I swear somebody we signed had that option. 

No more opt outs for Javy.

[romad1]

4 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

No more opt outs for Javy.

insert Jim Morrison biography with Javy face on it. 

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Red Sox fans are insufferable.   They were already griping about the team during Spring Training in 2005.  

Red Sox fans are the biggest cry babies in baseball and it's not even close.  Tigers fans might be a distant second!

[gehringer_2]

Hindsight being 20/20, using Chapman in regulation instead of extras was a waste because you need those K's a lot more starting with a man on 2b.

[papalawrence]

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Hindsight being 20/20, using Chapman in regulation instead of extras was a waste because you need those K's a lot more starting with a man on 2b.

Good point

[Shinzaki]

Javy playing great in CF and on pace to hit 300+ with 20Hrs and 100+ RBI's....he may be a bargain this year at 25 mil

[Archie]

13 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

These clowns on Tigers Live need to be replaced, ASAP.

I completely agree.  They’ve downgraded the entire broadcast so much it’s difficult to watch.  I don’t see much difference in Benetti and Shep either.  I don’t need to listed to Benetti talk about the betting odds of spilling BBQ on his shirt.  I feel like he’s just talking to hear himself and Dirks is about as bad.  The best thing about Benetti is that he has another gig that allows us to get Dan once a week or so.  Maybe I’m just spoiled because for years I got to enjoy the gold standard of Tiger announcers - George Kell and Al Kaline.

[gehringer_2]

14 minutes ago, Archie said:

 I don’t see much difference in Benetti and Shep either.

Agree the wrap around programming is terrible. I would guess its all about capturing  advertising revenue bump from the game audience even if most people are tuned out and  just waiting for Hinch's postgame.

But RE:Shep - no he was another level of bad. At least Benetti participates in occasional intelligent conversation about baseball instead of acting like a moron the way Shep did. Of course Shep does know baseball, you would just never know it listening to his broadcast. But he choose to do it that way  - why? Who knows? He still thinks it was the right way to do his broadcast despite that it cost him the job.

Carlos Monarez even wrote a column defending Shep where he talked about his decision to act dumb even in the face of the fact that the biggest complaint about the broadcast was that all he ever did was 'interview' his color man instead of having a conversation with him. Carlos apparently doesn't  understand good game coverage either. Two people both  bringing insight to the broadcast are always better than one.

Edited 5 hours ago by gehringer_2

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

No - Shep was another level of bad. At least Benetti participates in occasional intelligent conversation about baseball instead of acting like a moron the way Shep did. Of course Shep does know baseball, you would just never know it listening to his broadcast. But he choose to do it that way  - why? Who knows? He still thinks it was the right way to do his broadcast despite that it cost him the job.

Carlos Monarez even wrote a column defending Shep where he talked about his decision to act dumb even in the face of the fact that the biggest complaint about the broadcast was that all he ever did was 'interview' his color man instead of having a conversation with him. Carlos apparently doesn't  understand good game coverage either. Two people both  bringing insight to the broadcast are always better than one.

Oh dear, people are struggling with the announcers.  

[romad1]

I think Todd Jones, Johnny Kane and Dirks all seem to be thriving from the generous drink and CBD dispensary that Fan Duel/Bally/Vic Tanny seem to be providing.  

Let em cook, i guess. 

[romad1]

OTOH, i'm grudgingly respecting Daniella Bruce. 

[RedRamage]

Anyone need new wall paper for their phone?

 

 

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

Oh dear, people are struggling with the announcers.  

As the team gets better, the ratings expectation on the broadcast rise with them and if the guys in the booth aren't cutting it, they are not going to get the kind of long leashes they got when the team was losing 100 games and no-one expected much. I think it's pretty clear from his rapid rise to the top of the heap that Dirks has been the ratings star of the group. He can get a little OT, but he gets down into the weeds of how the game is played better than anyone we've heard in a while.

[romad1]

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

As the team gets better, the ratings expectation on the broadcast rise with them and if the guys in the booth aren't cutting it, they are not going to get the kind of long leashes they got when the team was losing 100 games and no-one expected much. I think it's pretty clear from his rapid rise to the top of the heap that Dirks has been the ratings star of the group. He can get a little OT, but he gets down into the weeds of how the game is played better than anyone we've heard in a while.

I enjoyed the heck out of the booth when it rolled heavy in the playoff run with Dirks, Carlos Pena and Dan Petry et.al. (might even have had Gibby).  Energy is energy.  Now a random night in May it only needs two guys and those guys are working on keeping the discussion going...i'm not going to fault how they have been doing it thus far.  

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, romad1 said:

OTOH, i'm grudgingly respecting Daniella Bruce. 

Not so much here. Her delivery is OK, but her remotes are too wordy, the form too repetitious (I talked to......), the information imparted generally too trivially obvious, and too long. A remote needs to insert in a pause in the action, not trample two or three consecutive plays  - not that they care much about that anyway with the other in-game interviews they do. That said - she's better than Johnny-I've-got-the-giggles-Kane.

Edited 5 hours ago by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

One thing I do like about Benetti is that he's willing to toss an allusion out there that might not work, and just let it be. When Riley hit the single that Abreu botched, his line was (as close as I remember) "Last year the Tigers went to Williamsport and now the Red Sox have brought Williamsport to Comerica."

That's a brilliant baseball line even though most(?) of the audience probably missed it. And then even better, a few minutes later when Sweeney hit his home run, Dirk's picked up the thread with "Riley hit a Little League HR, now Sweeney hits a big boy HR", which probably turned the light on for a lot of the people who missed the initial reference without ever making any belabored explanation. That's awesome, subtle, clever teamwork.

Edited 5 hours ago by gehringer_2

[oblong]

I'd recycle that old Sparky line about Ice Cream with regard to those who don't like Jason Benetti.

 

[SoCalTiger]

Jason Benetti is very good. Glad we have him.

[CMRivdogs]

7 minutes ago, oblong said:

I'd recycle that old Sparky line about Ice Cream with regard to those who don't like Jason Benetti.

 

Jason is a lot closer to mint chocolate chip than Shep was to vinilla.

[romad1]

I know one thing.  If I was in a conversation with Benetti it would cover diverse ground across a huge swath of areas with lots of humor.  Shep was probably really comfortable talking about mowing his lawn.