2026 DETROIT TIGERS REGULAR SEASON THREAD

[Sports_Freak]

3 hours ago, NorthWoods said:

Trusting in Mcgodigle is not living on the edge.

But can he play CF?

[Shinzaki]

Can Gleyber play SS with Jung handling 2nd?

[monkeytargets39]

I feel like in an emergency it’d be Lee at SS for the next couple games

[CMRivdogs]

Interesting, 

https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/directs-cleveland-guardians-adjust-broadcast-team.html?fbclid=IwdGRleARgXhdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR4TzjE-qm97Tn3D4qwmyvBlrerDDytJmjxn-FAMIkdRWR9njfv3UcF-kgxlqg_aem_dw-TPr_dfuwK-Dn_GcBXDw

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A person familiar with the relationship between MLB Local Media and the Guardians tells Awful Announcing that the league is “encouraging the Cleveland announcer team to take more time off throughout the season to stay fresh over the course of the 162-game season,” and that the league and team “are aligned with this approach.”

Just wondering if Bobby Scales moving to the TV broadcasts this week may be somewhat related...

[gehringer_2]

5 hours ago, chasfh said:

Riley, Tork, Torres already playing every day. So is Kevin, he was splitting SS with Javy when he was available. Kevin at third with Javy at SS and Wenceel in center with Javy SS. I don't think you and A.J. are that far off.

with the roster reduced, everything  converges

Edited 22 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Interesting, 

https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/directs-cleveland-guardians-adjust-broadcast-team.html?fbclid=IwdGRleARgXhdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR4TzjE-qm97Tn3D4qwmyvBlrerDDytJmjxn-FAMIkdRWR9njfv3UcF-kgxlqg_aem_dw-TPr_dfuwK-Dn_GcBXDw

Just wondering if Bobby Scales moving to the TV broadcasts this week may be somewhat related...

Scales is a little better on TV than radio.  

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, monkeytargets39 said:

I feel like in an emergency it’d be Lee at SS for the next couple games

yes - in fact Hinch even made the comment in a recent presser that Lee 'has played there'. I wonder if Hinch had checked how long ago it had been.

[chasfh]

9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

yes - in fact Hinch even made the comment in a recent presser that Lee 'has played there'. I wonder if Hinch had checked how long ago it had been.

Why would Hinch check how long ago it’s been?

[Tiger337]

7 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Why would Hinch check how long ago it’s been?

[monkeytargets39]

McStinky supposed to start his rehab assignment tonight.  So we will probably have him back by the end of the weekend

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

LOL 

I owned pretty much that exact computer, keyboard, monitor and printer but not the pack of Salems.

[oblong]

That dude is a billionaire. 

[oblong]

I was in TN last week and tried to watch the tigers on my phone. Middle TN is apparently Reds territory. It’s a 4 hour drive past Cincy. It’s also Braves territory. 
 

 

[chasfh]

Not surprising since before the Braves, the Reds and Cardinals had basically the whole south carved up between them.

[oblong]

My cousins, to the extent they are baseball fans, are Braves fans.  I just didn't know a location could get dinged for two teams.

Does every bit of space have to get assigned to someone?  Should just simply be a radius around whatever stadium the team plays in.  
It wasn't a big deal but I just happened to have found myself with a few minutes of downtime and thought "Let me put that on and rest"

 

[CMRivdogs]

Washington and Baltimore share a large portion of Virginia and I think parts of North Carolina as their "Broadcast Market". I can't find a good map to show the territory, but Mama Googles says the teams share DC, Maryland,Virginia, Delaware, Central and Eastern North Carolina, South Central Pennsylvania (surprising because you'd think there would be a dividing line between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia) and West Virginia.  

The Nationals joined the MLB.com group this year so I'm not sure this still holds. They and Baltimore shared MSN as provider for their games

[Tiger337]

22 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

But can he play CF?

He can do anything.  

[casimir]

34 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

He can do anything.  

But he's no Zach Short.

[Sports_Freak]

21 minutes ago, casimir said:

But he's no Zach Short.

Or Shane Halter.

[Zakk_Wylde]

On the topic of broadcast markets, it still blows my mind that Windsor, Ontario is considered Blue Jays market.  Windsor is significantly closer to Comerica Park than most suburbs of Detroit, let alone the rest of Michigan. Yet we are supposed to be Blue Jays fans due to the international border. 

But I'll tell you what really pisses me off, are all these games that are blacked out because they are on some streaming service.  AppleTV for example.   So generally we are expected to have subscriptions to half a dozen different streaming services (in addition to MLB.tv) to watch the Tigers?!   Maybe that's the norm in certain households, but definitely not mine.  I just don't watch that much TV to justify subscriptions to Netflix, AppleTV, Peacock, etc.  Yet there are baseball games scattered on these services which causes a blackout on mlb.tv?!   That pisses me off!  End of rant.

[monkeytargets39]

57 minutes ago, casimir said:

But he's no Zach Short.

Please Lord don’t let McG or McK get hurt

[Sports_Freak]

15 minutes ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

On the topic of broadcast markets, it still blows my mind that Windsor, Ontario is considered Blue Jays market.  Windsor is significantly closer to Comerica Park than most suburbs of Detroit, let alone the rest of Michigan. Yet we are supposed to be Blue Jays fans due to the international border. 

But I'll tell you what really pisses me off, are all these games that are blacked out because they are on some streaming service.  AppleTV for example.   So generally we are expected to have subscriptions to half a dozen different streaming services (in addition to MLB.tv) to watch the Tigers?!   Maybe that's the norm in certain households, but definitely not mine.  I just don't watch that much TV to justify subscriptions to Netflix, AppleTV, Peacock, etc.  Yet there are baseball games scattered on these services which causes a blackout on mlb.tv?!   That pisses me off!  End of rant.

I drew the line in the sand at Peacock. With their limited offerings, there was no way I was going to subscribe just for a few games they air. Luckily, with YouTube TV, I get the games. But yeah, all these streaming services nickel and dime people to death. Its billionaires trying to squeeze every last dime out of people. Disgusting. 

[Screwball]

19 minutes ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

On the topic of broadcast markets, it still blows my mind that Windsor, Ontario is considered Blue Jays market.  Windsor is significantly closer to Comerica Park than most suburbs of Detroit, let alone the rest of Michigan. Yet we are supposed to be Blue Jays fans due to the international border. 

But I'll tell you what really pisses me off, are all these games that are blacked out because they are on some streaming service.  AppleTV for example.   So generally we are expected to have subscriptions to half a dozen different streaming services (in addition to MLB.tv) to watch the Tigers?!   Maybe that's the norm in certain households, but definitely not mine.  I just don't watch that much TV to justify subscriptions to Netflix, AppleTV, Peacock, etc.  Yet there are baseball games scattered on these services which causes a blackout on mlb.tv?!   That pisses me off!  End of rant.

I read last week somewhere that for next year if you wanted to watch ALL of the NFL games you would need 10 streaming services to do so. That's nuts. That's the NFL, not MLB, I understand.

I gave up a long time ago and spent 25 bucks on a Firestick and hacked it. I don't get them all, but most of them. Not without issues, but I'm not paying squat. Screw them all.

[Edman85]

15 hours ago, oblong said:

I was in TN last week and tried to watch the tigers on my phone. Middle TN is apparently Reds territory. It’s a 4 hour drive past Cincy. It’s also Braves territory. 
 

 

 

Reds territory is vast. I think it even dips down to the Mississippi suburbs of Memphis. I was blown away when a Tigers/Reds game was blacked out when I was stuck in the Charlotte Airport on a delayed layover.

[Tiger337]

I also think people of a certain age like the Reds because The Big Red Machine was so exciting and highly publicized.