04/03/2026 1:10pm EDT St. Louis Cardinals at Detroit Tigers

[Sports_Freak]

Who was nervous. 2 on, nobody out? Gulp...good defense at 3rd base!

[monkeytargets39]

[Tigermojo]

[Sports_Freak]

[casimir]

We did!  Hurray us!  And when I say we/us, I mean none of us accomplished diddlyfreakingpooh to contribute to the Tigers’ win.

[lordstanley]

57 minutes ago, casimir said:

13 years of Catholic school taught me keep doing Lent for a bit longer just to make the school nuns happy.

With today being Good Friday, here's where is is covered by today's rules of abstinence, per the official Catechism of the Catholic Church:

Must abstain from: meat, snacks

Do not need to abstain from: alcohol, sex, home runs, online chats with Protestants

[Biff Mayhem]

Thank you sir. May I have another?

[Biff Mayhem]

2 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

With today being Good Friday, here's where is is covered by today's rules of abstinence, per the official Catechism of the Catholic Church:

Must abstain from: meat, snacks

Do not need to abstain from: alcohol, sex, home runs, online chats with Protestants

Went out for breakfast this morning and it cost $6.66. 

[casimir]

2 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

With today being Good Friday, here's where is is covered by today's rules of abstinence, per the official Catechism of the Catholic Church:

Must abstain from: meat, snacks

Do not need to abstain from: alcohol, sex, home runs, online chats with Protestants

I appreciate the research.  And mad props to Sister Mary Felicitous for scarring me for life with these Lenten rules.  At midnight tonight, I should go cowtipping and the first one that goes down should be half turned into burgers and half turned into baseball gloves

[casimir]

3 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Went out for breakfast this morning and it cost $6.66. 

Deviled eggs for breakfast?

[casimir]

5 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Thank you sir. May I have another?

 

[gehringer_2]

47 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Not sure—but the idea of an outdoor Minnesota baseball stadium has always struck me as dumb.

Summer evenings in the Twin Cities are pretty nice. Sure you are at risk at the beginning and end of the season but the rest of the summer outside is a pretty nice payoff. They could have tried for retractable but they didn't have the room at that site, the $$ probably weren't available, and the easiest retractable designs are open air so they don't keep in heat which is probably a bigger issue than precipitation.

[IdahoBert]

4 hours ago, roarintiger1 said:

Carpenter brings his .091 average to the spot in the order that is reserved for the best hitter on the team.............

Maybe he'll run into one today.

At least he got a couple singles. It’s a start…

[IdahoBert]

2 hours ago, casimir said:

13 years of Catholic school taught me keep doing Lent for a bit longer just to make the school nuns happy.

One of our nuns was a Benedictine and said that the old story about “mean teacher nuns“ had some truth to it. The Benedictine “method” was to find out what you wanted to do and give you the exact opposite to test you and make you rise to the occasion, and she said that a lot of women who didn’t like children became teachers.

When sister Betty stopped being a teacher of children and became the head of religious education for adults she was much happier. 

[IdahoBert]

[IdahoBert]

I’m watching the game after the fact on mlb.com. Inge doesn’t look that old. He’s not at his “playing weight” but neither am I. 

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

We did!  Hurray us!  And when I say we/us, I mean none of us accomplished diddlyfreakingpooh to contribute to the Tigers’ win.

Emotional support doesn't count? 😆😆

[IdahoBert]

I’m watching this game once again “after the fact,” so I don’t know what the syncing between the radio feed and the picture feed was on MLB.TV but for me after the fact, it’s perfectly synced. Others have said this is not the case for them.

This is the first time this year when it has been perfectly synced, but the game has been over for hours. The original advertising has all been erased so I guess I’ll only find out how good this whole process is when I watch the game tomorrow.

[oblong]

Today was a perfect opening day.  Wore shorts.  Ditched my light jacket around 11:30.  Got home and walked to the local bar for the final fish fry of the season.  A mile walk after that. 20,000 steps and a tanned face.  
 

and a tiger win. 

[IdahoBert]

Watching this game - and in relation to the synchronization of the radio feed with the TV picture, which is now excellent - one of the new improvements in the radio feed is the inclusion of crowd noise in the background.

Earlier all season long before there was no crowd noise in the background and all you could hear was Dan and his partner speaking so it’s a much better radio feed than before. More realistic.