8/17/25 2:10PM Tigers @ Twins

[Tigeraholic1]

Target Field - Minneapolis, MN

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: Fan Duel Detroit

Game Time Forecast: 72 Cloudy

Starters:

RHP Chris Paddack

TBD

[IdahoBert]

Looks like it’s raining right now but by game time it should’ve stopped. 

[Tigermojo]

Must sweep!

[IdahoBert]

Keith 3B

Carpenter DH

Torkelson 1B

Greene, R LF

Pérez, W RF

Báez, J CF

McKinstry 2B

Sweeney SS

Rogers C

[Sports_Freak]

24 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Keith 3B

Carpenter DH

Torkelson 1B

Greene, R LF

Pérez, W RF

Báez, J CF

McKinstry 2B

Sweeney SS

Rogers C

I was kinda worried about Carpenter after he got plunked on the foot and was replaced in the OF for the bottom of the 9th.

[gehringer_2]

Tork's recent OBP surge gets him a 3 spot.

[CaliforniaDreaming]

2 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

Must sweep!

Might as well sweep the series

[romad1]

Miss Vierling and Parker 

[IdahoBert]

FanDuel says this game doesn’t begin until 2:30 PM. MLB says it begins at 2:10 PM so I wondered if there was some dog and pony show pre-game celebration about great Twins players and when I googled it, this is what I got.

According to Google, the Twins are playing the Orioles today not our team. and google is selling tickets to this Twins versus the Orioles game.

[Tigermojo]

Last night they kept mentioning there were seven Hall of Famers at the stadium.

[papalawrence]

16 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Last night they kept mentioning there were seven Hall of Famers at the stadium.

Hmmmm, the Twins did honor the 1965 team yesterday, so Kaat and Oliva were there. Molitor was there. Smoltz was in the booth. I wonder if any other former Twins showed up - Mauer, Winfield, Morris, Carew? Not sure. And who knows, Eller and Tarkenton have been known to show up around town.

Edited Sunday at 04:53 PM by papalawrence

[IdahoBert]

I hope that the Twins pitcher TBD gives up a lot of hits and runs right from the get go. If he doesn’t and some no name guy ties them up like pretzels and makes them stumble over their own feet I’m not going to be happy.

[IdahoBert]

54 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Miss Vierling and Parker 

That sounds like a VHS porn flick from the 1980s 

[Sports_Freak]

33 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Hmmmm, the Twins did honor the 1965 team yesterday, so Kaat and Oliva were there. Molitor was there. Smoltz was in the booth. I wonder if any other former Twins showed up - Mauer, Winfield, Morris, Carew? Not sure. And who knows, Eller and Tarkenton have been known to show up around town.

They mentioned last night that there is some sort of celebration today. Retiring some players number or something.

Edit; here it is;

Edited Sunday at 05:26 PM by Sports_Freak

[IdahoBert]

So there is something weird going on. On MLB TV there’s supposed to be a pregame show, but there is no pregame show. It’s been so far seven minutes in a row of nothing but ads. The Twins have some kind of pregame show going on, but not the Tigers.

[papalawrence]

44 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

They mentioned last night that there is some sort of celebration today. Retiring some players number or something.

Edit; here it is;

I just watched part of it. Now I wish I'd have gone today. Rod Carew was there and he was a favorite of mine. His 1977 stat line is crazy. Only 14 home runs and yet his ops was 1.000+

[Sports_Freak]

10 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

I just watched part of it. Now I wish I'd have gone today. Rod Carew was there and he was a favorite of mine. His 1977 stat line is crazy. Only 14 home runs and yet his ops was 1.000+

Carew was amazing. If anyone was gonna hit .400, it was him, Gwynn or Wade Boggs.

[Sports_Freak]

Playing these bottom feeders has all of us Tiger fans happy. We play Houston starting tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.

[IdahoBert]

An inauspicious first inning for Tigers batters. 

[chasfh]

20 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Carew was amazing. If anyone was gonna hit .400, it was him, Gwynn or Wade Boggs.

Or George Brett. 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

They mentioned last night that there is some sort of celebration today. Retiring some players number or something.

Edit; here it is;

I’d forgotten how good Corey Koskie was around the most recent turn of the century. Had a six-win season and a couple of four-pluses back-to-back-to-back. Never made an All-Star team, though.

[chasfh]

Dumb-dumb McStinky play to not flip to Sweeney for the front end of a double play.

[IdahoBert]

Why didn’t they go for the DP?

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, IdahoBert said:

Why didn’t they go for the DP?

I think it was a brain cramp.

[Motor City Sonics]

2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

FanDuel says this game doesn’t begin until 2:30 PM. MLB says it begins at 2:10 PM so I wondered if there was some dog and pony show pre-game celebration about great Twins players and when I googled it, this is what I got.

According to Google, the Twins are playing the Orioles today not our team. and google is selling tickets to this Twins versus the Orioles game.

Someone AI'd my name (a station listener) to figure out if I was the same Mark Copeland that worked in Lansing in the 90s.   AI got our call letters right and the city right but it said that I was a part of the Kenneth Copeland religious family and that our station was a religious station.     Good think we're relying on this so much more - nothing could go wrong. .