2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[gehringer_2]

20 minutes ago, casimir said:

I remember the artificial tree my parents had.  It was stored in these humungous heavy/compressed cardboard barrels.  These things were humongous to me as a small kid, they were probably similar in size to a 55 gallon barrel.  And they seemed like a hassle to haul up and down the basement steps, but maybe they were just awkward rather than heavy.  There was the base, the trunk/"spine", and then the limbs.  The limbs were all color coded on the thick wire attachment part to set into the same color coded holes in the base.

my dad loved gadgets and hated the arguments over picking out Xmass trees so when the first silver aluminum ones came out he had to have one. It had the floodlight with a rotating color wheel that shined on it. They were pretty hilarious in retrospect but seemed pretty cool at the time. The boss and I have evolved in several stages from cutting live down to a 4' fake that goes up in about 5 min. Should have started there years ago.

Edited Wednesday at 04:31 PM by gehringer_2

[1984Echoes]

2 hours ago, casimir said:

...  Am I the only one that remembers these teachings from Catholic school?

Way too far into the past for me...

50 years or so...

Besides... for some reason I guess they didn't actually stick...

Oh well!

Merry X-Mas, Festivus, Christmas, Hannukah, Solstice...

Whatever works for ya'!!!

[1984Echoes]

2 hours ago, casimir said:

Sigh.... I'm just trying for a little light hearted and terrible humor...

The first one I got ("Oh stuff it!")...

The second one I wasn't certain about...

I couldn't tell one way or the other...

But I am in a wonderful light-hearted mood these days so...

Good all around!

[1984Echoes]

27 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Did it have the spinning disc with different colors that ...

Transition apartment since the divorce many years ago and I haven't purchased a house since... although I am looking for a permanent (house) spot in (or near) Lakeland Florida next year so...

One day I may do a live tree again. Once I have a house instead of an apartment.

But for the past few years, my small artificial tree (about 4 1/2 feet) works perfectly well.

To Cas's consternation with live trees... no mess no fuss.

And yes... spinning disc with several colors going through the fiber optic cables to light up the tree.

SO...

UNCOMPLICATED!!!

And my daughter loves it!

[Cruzer1]

10 hours ago, casimir said:

Hello, water into wine.  And he took a stale half loaf of bread and some fish sticks and turned it into a Long John Silver's.  Am I the only one that remembers these teachings from Catholic school?

Jesus Made joke.

[romad1]

10 hours ago, casimir said:

Hello, water into wine.  And he took a stale half loaf of bread and some fish sticks and turned it into a Long John Silver's.  Am I the only one that remembers these teachings from Catholic school?

There is a comedy bit to be had with buying Long John Silver's gift cards for people.  Where are they?  I haven't seen one of those restaurants in the wild in over a decade.  I travel a bit around the country. 

I see none within the DC Beltway.  I looked at the Detroit Metro and of course there are a couple.  One on Cherry Hill and one on Telegraph. 

[IdahoBert]

For several years we would drive up to Silver City from Boise Idaho. Silver City is an abandoned former mining town kind of eerie with a creepy cemetery.

The locals would get permits to cut trees in the national forest and they were sold as a fundraising project to keep the parts of the town that were historic monuments from crumbling away.

It’s a precious memory and if you got there early enough in the day you didn’t end up with a Charlie Brown tree; you got a great tree for 20 bucks 

[IdahoBert]

I guess if we’re talking about this kind of stuff there’s not much going on in terms of baseball at least for us. 

[papalawrence]

22 minutes ago, romad1 said:

There is a comedy bit to be had with buying Long John Silver's gift cards for people.  Where are they?  I haven't seen one of those restaurants in the wild in over a decade.  I travel a bit around the country. 

I see none within the DC Beltway.  I looked at the Detroit Metro and of course there are a couple.  One on Cherry Hill and one on Telegraph. 

There's a LJS in the mall of America 3-4 miles from my house. I've lived here 26 years and have never had their food 

[romad1]

7 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

There's a LJS in the mall of America 3-4 miles from my house. I've lived here 26 years and have never had their food 

I am a fan of fried food in all its forms and do enjoy a Fish and Chip when i see it on a menu.  And yet I would not go out of my way for LJS in any scenario.  Its fine.  If it was in front of me and I was ready for dinner and I didn't have to worry about what my kids wanted.  

[papalawrence]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

I am a fan of fried food in all its forms and do enjoy a Fish and Chip when i see it on a menu.  And yet I would not go out of my way for LJS in any scenario.  Its fine.  If it was in front of me and I was ready for dinner and I didn't have to worry about what my kids wanted.  

I love fish and chips and get it often when eating out. Even fast food like Culver's has fish that's 1000 times better than long johns imho

[oblong]

The LJS on telegraph was recently remodeled too.  

[CMRivdogs]

I don't see any listed in a reasonable distance from me. I haven't been to one in over 30 years. A couple of local places here serve much better Fish & Chips anyway

[romad1]

39 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I don't see any listed in a reasonable distance from me. I haven't been to one in over 30 years. A couple of local places here serve much better Fish & Chips anyway

So, the joke is that the gift cards are almost every kiosk I looked at in my neighborhood.  Its like, how mean would it be to get that for someone?   Here is the thing that is marginal as food, that you can't get, that means I didn't spend this money on the thing you did want. 

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

So, the joke is that the gift cards are almost every kiosk I looked at in my neighborhood.  Its like, how mean would it be to get that for someone?   Here is the thing that is marginal as food, that you can't get, that means I didn't spend this money on the thing you did want. 

It would be even more mean to get somebody gift certificates from this place;

[Arlington]

On 12/22/2025 at 2:47 PM, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Mine is only six days prior.

So was Mr. Kaline's, as I am sure you are aware.  Mine is 7 days prior as was Tyrus'.  We shared one birthday on the earth together and then he passed on my wife's birthday in 1961.