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

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, romad1 said:

 

I don't get this even a little.

[HugoD]

13 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

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

Fell asleep and awoke to a nice surprise this morning (the comeback win I mean 😀).  I do hope this means something for sure, but there have been other games recently where I thought maybe a corner had been turned.
 

This team keeps luring me back though . I guess I’ll be cautiously optimistic, because I wanna try to maintain an emotional balance so I can hopefully avoid despondency.   

[oblong]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

I don't get this even a little.

Me either 

[oblong]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

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.

Dickerson is older than Ernie was when the Tigers last won the WS. 

[romad1]

6 minutes ago, oblong said:

Me either 

 

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

I don't get this even a little.

Earlier in the day this person posted on Bsky that she was going to burn an aromatherapy candle for Riley Greene and that if he busted out of his slump it would be a slump buster.  The person happened to be a trans girl combined with the notion known of so long in the male locker room of a "slump buster" (i.e., girl, possibly ugly or below your standards, you sleep with to get out of a "slump").  

The implication is that he did bust out of his slump, and to explain the joke for you guys even further the humor i saw in this was that - correlation does not equal causality but it is funny to imply it does - she was offering to be his slump buster. 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

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.

So, everything I like about him is what's wrong with him.  😃

[oblong]

My 24 year old likes Benetti.  He doesn’t know who Dickerson is.  Who’s most likely to show up on a tiktok or reel?

[Tiger337]

I like reels. Of all the silly social media things that are pushed on me, reels seems to get me more than any of them.  I still don't really know what tiktok is.  Sometimes, I see a tittok thing show up in social media but you have to add an app or sign up or something, so I never bother.  

[IdahoBert]

There are apps I’ve purposely never signed up for such as Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, because I am often looking at my phone hours a day and being seduced into doubling that time in an alternate reality is unwise. 

[papalawrence]

I use youtube, mostly for music and sports, and Facebook to keep in touch with old friends. I am also on linkedin, but none of the other apps like Instagram, x or tiktok.

[Tiger337]

27 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

There are apps I’ve purposely never signed up for such as Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, because I am often looking at my phone hours a day and being seduced into doubling that time in an alternate reality is unwise. 

I never go specifically to Reddit, but sometimes searches bring me there and I get good info which helps me with work.  

[IdahoBert]

4 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I never go specifically to Reddit, but sometimes searches bring me there and I get good info which helps me with work.  

Searches also take me there all the time for so many different things and I realized early on many years ago that it was a rabbit hole I could go down and from which I might have trouble escaping.

And I had just then discovered the rabbit hole of this site and I knew I couldn’t afford to go down one more. I’m actually kind of amazed at the mature restraint I was able to show in the face of such a temptation.

[IdahoBert]

14 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

I use youtube, mostly for music and sports, and Facebook to keep in touch with old friends. I am also on linkedin, but none of the other apps like Instagram, x or tiktok.

YouTube is spectacular for all sorts of things and I rely upon it daily. Facebook too has been great for staying in touch with friends I met in college over 50 years ago. 

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

And I had just then discovered the rabbit hole of this site

Rabbit Hole? Au Contraire! More like the Great Smials of the Tooks.

[Dan Gilmore]

It’s all good, just don’t make it a hobbit.

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

So, everything I like about him is what's wrong with him.  😃

As far as RSNs are concerned ... yeah. 😁

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I like reels. Of all the silly social media things that are pushed on me, reels seems to get me more than any of them.  I still don't really know what tiktok is.  Sometimes, I see a tittok thing show up in social media but you have to add an app or sign up or something, so I never bother.  

I don't like reels because I don't like portrait videos, and that goes double for baseball action offered to me in portrait mode. Or at least I haven't gotten used to them.

[Tiger337]

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I don't like reels because I don't like portrait videos, and that goes double for baseball action offered to me in portrait mode. Or at least I haven't gotten used to them.

I don't know what a portait video is, but Reels gives me videos of attractive athletic women running up and down mountains.  I like those.  They also give me Tigers videos and math problems.  What else do I need?  

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't know what a portait video is, but Reels gives me videos of attractive athletic women running up and down mountains.  I like those.  They also give me Tigers videos and math problems.  What else do I need?  

https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/portrait-vs-landscape/

[Tiger337]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/portrait-vs-landscape/

The videos I get look real.  

[lordstanley]

I don't use Reddit for sports, but I do use it for local news of various cities in which I'm interested and for travel. It's a good source of real-time information and for dialogue that - despite anonymity - for the most part remains civil and constructive, probably due to having moderaters and upvotes/downvotes.

Edited yesterday at 02:34 AM by lordstanley

[lordstanley]

Some Detroit sportscasters are surprisingly old and long-tenured. I guess anyone under 30 would consider them to have been around forever.

George Blaha - 80. Pistons PBP since 1976.

Mickey Redmond - 77. Red Wings tv color since 1986. 

Paul Woods -  77. Red Wings radio color since 1987. 

Mark Champion - 75. Pistons PBP since 2001. 

Ken Kal - 67. Red Wings PBP since 1995. 

Dan Dickerson - 66. Tigers PBP since 2000. 

Ken Daniels - 66. Red Wings PBP since 1997. 

Dan Miller - 63. Lions PBP since 2005. 

Here is how old famous Detroit broadcasters were when they retired.

Ernie Harwell - 84. Tigers PBP 1960-2002.

Jim Price - 81 (died, was broadcaster in the season of his death). Tigers color 1993-2023.

George Kell - 74. Tigers PBP 1959-1996.

Jim Brandstatter - 71. Michigan color/PBP 1979-2021.

Al Kaline - 67. Tigers color 1975-2002. 

Bob Reynolds - 67. Lions PBP 1952-1982.

Bruce Martyn - 65. Red Wings PBP 1964-1995.

Frank Beckmann - 64. Michigan PBP 1981-2013.

Paul Caray - 63. Tigers PBP 1973-1991. 

Bob Ufer - 61 (died, was broadcaster in the season of his death). PBP 1945-1981.

 

Edited yesterday at 04:15 AM by lordstanley

[chasfh]

16 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

The videos I get look real.  

ok

[chasfh]

14 hours ago, lordstanley said:

Some Detroit sportscasters are surprisingly old and long-tenured. I guess anyone under 30 would consider them to have been around forever.

George Blaha - 80. Pistons PBP since 1976.

Mickey Redmond - 77. Red Wings tv color since 1986. 

Paul Woods -  77. Red Wings radio color since 1987. 

Mark Champion - 75. Pistons PBP since 2001. 

Ken Kal - 67. Red Wings PBP since 1995. 

Dan Dickerson - 66. Tigers PBP since 2000. 

Ken Daniels - 66. Red Wings PBP since 1997. 

Dan Miller - 63. Lions PBP since 2005. 

Here is how old famous Detroit broadcasters were when they retired.

Ernie Harwell - 84. Tigers PBP 1960-2002.

Jim Price - 81 (died, was broadcaster in the season of his death). Tigers color 1993-2023.

George Kell - 74. Tigers PBP 1959-1996.

Jim Brandstatter - 71. Michigan color/PBP 1979-2021.

Al Kaline - 67. Tigers color 1975-2002. 

Bob Reynolds - 67. Lions PBP 1952-1982.

Bruce Martyn - 65. Red Wings PBP 1964-1995.

Frank Beckmann - 64. Michigan PBP 1981-2013.

Paul Caray - 63. Tigers PBP 1973-1991. 

Bob Ufer - 61 (died, was broadcaster in the season of his death). PBP 1945-1981.

 

I hope Dan Dickerson is still doing Tiger games when I am on my deathbed.