9/5/25 6:40PM White Sox @ Tigers

[IdahoBert]

I wasn’t able to follow this game after a while and I’m curious if there were ever any ads on the MLB TV feed.

I’m presuming that on FanDuel Detroit there was I’m just wondering if there’s some kind of legal or technical snafu going on with NLB.tv.

I remember in the beginning of mlb.tv they would just run the same two cringe erectile dysfunction ads over and over again and that’s all they had. 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

35 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I wasn’t able to follow this game after a while and I’m curious if there were ever any ads on the MLB TV feed.

I saw no mlb.tv ads at any time.

[lordstanley]

Astros lose in the 12th! Tigers remain 4 up in the “race” for the bye. 

[IdahoBert]

5 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

I saw no mlb.tv ads at any time.

Just for the fun of it, I checked another fan duel broadcast, which was the Cardinals and went back a couple innings and all they had was one of those in-house MLB TV ads and it played during the entire break in the inning. They didn’t have any real ads. I think this is a FanDuel issue but I have to admit I didn’t care badly enough to watch a non-fan dual broadcast so I don’t really know. 

[tiger2022]

8 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

Malloy PH for him. there was a LHP in when that spot in the order came up, I believe.

God forbid the smartest man in the room allow a left handed hitter get an at bat against a left handed pitcher. Our manager would have been pinch hitting for Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr, and Ted Williams back in the day.

[Archie]

59 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

God forbid the smartest man in the room allow a left handed hitter get an at bat against a left handed pitcher. Our manager would have been pinch hitting for Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr, and Ted Williams back in the day.

It's the same guy that uses AAA pitchers from the back end of pen in a close game.  This is another loss on the manager's decisions. 

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Hinch is watching football and using Toledo arms in a tie/one run game. With a rested bullpen. I don't understand it...why have a tryout during critical games? It's a 3 run game now and he'll burn his better arms.

I don’t think A.J. considers a game in which a team with a 99.9% chance of winning the division plays the last place team in September to be critical.

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

I saw no mlb.tv ads at any time.

Of course this is during the game I can’t watch MLB.tv because of the blackout, so I still have to be subjected to endless Bet365 and Circa Casino ads.

[ICroupier]

11 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Skubal, Mize, and pitching chaos the rest of the way I guess.

That's a recipe for an ALDS exit. Mize has been far too inconsistent. The bullpen has 3 reliable arms, only 1 of which are "chaos" arms. And let's face it, not even Skubal has been his dominant self. 

I hope Harris' offseason plans are far more active than his trade deadline plans.

[gehringer_2]

45 minutes ago, ICroupier said:

That's a recipe for an ALDS exit. Mize has been far too inconsistent. The bullpen has 3 reliable arms, only 1 of which are "chaos" arms. And let's face it, not even Skubal has been his dominant self. 

I hope Harris' offseason plans are far more active than his trade deadline plans.

There have always been injuries in pro-sports but the wastage rate among pitchers is getting to be so high that baseball is basically just as bad a football. It's really getting really depression to watch my teams put in competent managements, make all the right moves, then still get their seasons blown up by injuries. We talk about the playoffs being basically a crap shoot because the probabilities are so close to even between teams with similar records, but today every season is basically a crap shoot because no matter what kind of pitching staff you assemble, it still has an even money chance of evaporating before season's end.

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

I don’t think A.J. considers a game in which a team with a 99.9% chance of winning the division plays the last place team in September to be critical.

Hinch always says just win today. Stack wins and the standings will take care of itself. Skubal pitches today and we probably won't need as many BP arms. He keeps using these Toledo pitchers like it's a spring training tryout...saving his better arms for some distant day in the future? Maybe the Tigers will have a huge lead today and he can burn all of his better arms. Face it, his horrible use of his bullpen lost the Friday game for us.

[gehringer_2]

27 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

He keeps using these Toledo pitchers like it's a spring training tryout...

in a sense it is. He's got less than a month to decide who he can use in what situation while there is a lot of turnover going on in the personnel. He has to balance the cost of losing a game now versus the value having a clearer picture of how he  can use what he has in a playoff elimination game.

Edited September 6 by gehringer_2

[Sports_Freak]

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

in a sense it is. He's got less than a month to decide who he can use in what situation while there is a lot of turnover going on in the personnel. He has to balance the cost of losing a game now versus the value having a clearer picture of how he  can use what he has in a playoff elimination game.

Even a suggestion of that sends a horrible message to the fans (35,000 in attendance) who paid a lot of money to go to that game to see their team win. It's like...we don't care if we lose, as long as we find a pitcher who performs well against a last place team. Yeah, throw that same pitcher in New York next week against the Yankees and see what happens. It won't be pretty. But hey...our manager doesn't care if a AAA pitcher loses that game, right? I guess I don't see the logic in using Bailey Horn (who???) and Keider Montero in a game when there's a tight race to get a first round bye. It would be a shame if we end up tied with Toronto or a game back of Houston.

[gehringer_2]

8 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Even a suggestion of that sends a horrible message to the fans (35,000 in attendance) who paid a lot of money to go to that game to see their team win

It's baseball. Every single player that gets called up the big leagues has to be 'auditioned' in front of real fans in real games before his manager will decide how to use him in the future, it's been part of baseball since forever. A manager can talk all the 'win this game now' culture he wants, but there is *always* a parallel imperative to manage for the season - regardless of what they say to their team and the fans. It's a matter of 'do as I say' for the players because that's what they need to do, while I do the stuff I don't want the rest of you thinking about.

Edited September 6 by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Hinch always says just win today. 

He does say that, but that doesn't necessarily mean pull out all the stops in order to win the game every game of the 162-game season in Game 7 style. There are times during the regular season he does have to, for reasons of the moment. Apparently he did not regard this as one of those games, and I can see why.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Face it, his horrible use of his bullpen lost the Friday game for us.

I hear this kind of thing all the time after we lose a game. As a thought experiment, ask yourself this: had A.J. used the bullpen in the exact same manner—Bailey Horn for 1.0 inning, Keider Montero for 3.2 innings, and Tyler Holton for 0.1 inning—and they had all held the White Sox scoreless and we ended up winning, 5-4, would you still have regarded the use of the bullpen as horrible? You don't have to answer this out loud—I'm just offering it up to everyone here as a thought exercise.

[Tigermojo]

22 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I hear this kind of thing all the time after we lose a game. As a thought experiment, ask yourself this: had A.J. used the bullpen in the exact same manner—Bailey Horn for 1.0 inning, Keider Montero for 3.2 innings, and Tyler Holton for 0.1 inning—and they had all held the White Sox scoreless and we ended up winning, 5-4, would you still have regarded the use of the bullpen as horrible? You don't have to answer this out loud—I'm just offering it up to everyone here as a thought exercise.

I prefer sedentary oblivion.

[Sports_Freak]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

I hear this kind of thing all the time after we lose a game. As a thought experiment, ask yourself this: had A.J. used the bullpen in the exact same manner—Bailey Horn for 1.0 inning, Keider Montero for 3.2 innings, and Tyler Holton for 0.1 inning—and they had all held the White Sox scoreless and we ended up winning, 5-4, would you still have regarded the use of the bullpen as horrible? You don't have to answer this out loud—I'm just offering it up to everyone here as a thought exercise.

I would say he lucked out. Using the back end of the bullpen that was totally rested after a day off with Skubal going tomorrow?