8/8/25 7:10PM Angels @ Tigers

[lordstanley]

Tigers win! Vierling with the biggest moment of the season so far, arguably. 

[Sports_Freak]

[CMRivdogs]

Had 'em all the way!

[GalagaGuy]

Biggest win of the season so far.  

[gehringer_2]

6 runs on 7 hits. Efficient at least.

[Sports_Freak]

Just now, lordstanley said:

Tigers win! Vierling with the biggest moment of the season so far, arguably. 

That could possibly have saved the season. At least, I hope so.

[IdahoBert]

Matty finally delivers. I no longer feel like Drano awash with tiny razor blades is flowing through my system. Instead it’s the sweetest wine mixed by beautiful girls in Ithaca as Odysseus looks on approvingly.

[Tigermojo]

[Shinzaki]

[CMRivdogs]

4 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Dushi !!!!

[romad1]

5 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

That could possibly have saved the season. At least, I hope so.

Yeah, that was sooooo necessary. 

[IdahoBert]

[Sports_Freak]

6 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Yeah, that was sooooo necessary. 

I enjoy posting positive knee jerk reactions better that the usual negative ones. 😆

[romad1]

Just now, Sports_Freak said:

I enjoy posting positive knee jerk reactions better that the usual negative ones. 😆

Yep…

[chasfh]

I love winning games after reading that people are on the verge of bailing on the team.

[romad1]

L.O.L.A

[papalawrence]

I wish Dickerson was full time tv. Great to see Matt V take em home tonight. I'll never forget last season in their run, when Vierling scored and popped up waving his fist. They need his energy right now. Excellent win!

[Sports_Freak]

Todd Jones just isn't good at his job. In 2 minutes, he "forget" who hit the late home run for the Angels. Then he congratulated Melton for his 1st major league win. Uhhhh...it was his 2nd win, Todd.

[IdahoBert]

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I love winning games after reading that people are on the verge of bailing on the team.

This team is sometimes like Colonel Kurtz‘s tortured soliloquy in Apocalypse Now where he describes his state of mind as being akin to a snail slithering along the sharp edge of a straight razor and surviving. 

[monkeytargets39]

3 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Todd Jones just isn't good at his job. In 2 minutes, he "forget" who hit the late home run for the Angels. Then he congratulated Melton for his 1st major league win. Uhhhh...it was his 2nd win, Todd.

Yep…..but Gibby was the problem, right?

[lordstanley]

Guardians win. Astros win. Jays-Dodgers scoreless early. 

[romad1]

 

[papalawrence]

9 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Jays-Dodgers scoreless early. 

Kershaw vs Scherzer. Both drafted in '06, first faced one another in '08. Likely last time today. Watching it right now

[IdahoBert]

I’m not going to dump on Jonesy. I think we might be setting the bar too high for TV. He’s a personality just as Johnny’s a personality and Daniella is a personality. And he has played the game which they haven’t, but I don’t think baseball players necessarily make great analysts - period. In my mind, he’s not a lot worse than just about anyone else who’s a former player. A lot of former player analysts just fill dead air with something other than dead air. With that as a yard stick I don’t expect much.

Ordinary fans don’t have a lot going on upstairs. As some recommend go on more public sites or go on X and you’ll see what I mean. Ordinary people want to see former “stars.“ That’s considered good broadcasting. I would prefer to see thoughtful, creative nerds, and if they wanted to wear suspenders and bowties, or propellers on top of their heads, that would be OK but that’s not considered good television.

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, papalawrence said:

I wish Dickerson was full time tv. Great to see Matt V take em home tonight. I'll never forget last season in their run, when Vierling scored and popped up waving his fist. They need his energy right now. Excellent win!

As much as I can agree with this, I don't think Dan Dickerson would ever get hired as the primary PxP guy on TV. For one thing, he's too old; for another, he's too serious about the game.  They want Millennials and Gen Zs who, sure, have at least a passing familiarity with the game, but who also can confidently riff on pop culture, confortably joke around with miked up players during the game—which is a lot harder when there's a span of two or more generations—and can unironically provide prop bet gambling odds in the moment.

Something else I've noticed: he does not do sponsor reads with much relish. I'm sure employers notice this, too.