04/14/2026 6:40pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

28 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Are you a Turtle? 

who, me? the only time I have the TV audio on is when Dickerson is subbing for Benetti (edit: or is otherwise not on the radio), and I pay very little visual attention to the TV crew's antics as well (only slightly more when Dan's on TV). I guess it's possible I saw The Fuzz but immediately forgot about the whole thing because I didn't know or care what was going on.

Edited 18 hours ago by Crazy Cat Gentleman

[SeattleMike]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

6 K's total in this game. Can't remember last time I saw a game with that few Ks.

Sometime in the 60s?

[oblong]

28 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Are you a Turtle? 

You bet your sweet ass I am. 
 

astronaut Wally Schirra was asked this during a mission  He had to answer thru a private channel 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

6 K's total in this game. Can't remember last time I saw a game with that few Ks.

this doesn't answer your question, but the Tigers are part of the record of 1: https://www.facebook.com/retrobaseball33/posts/the-major-league-record-for-fewest-strikeouts-by-both-teams-in-a-doubleheader-is/3938639332859408/

it wasn't even a Tiger who struck out.

[NorthWoods]

1 hour ago, SoCalTiger said:

Interesting outcome. 7th inning with a runner is scoring position Green and Tork zippo. 8th inning Dingler and- Keith ( solid at bat) - and McGonigle all good. The torch has passed. 

After tonight: Keith .831, Dingler .864, McGonigle .908

Vierling 548. Torres 595. Tork 637. Greene 683.

[SoCalTiger]

1 hour ago, NorthWoods said:

After tonight: Keith .831, Dingler .864, McGonigle .908

Vierling 548. Torres 595. Tork 637. Greene 683.

Hope they all meet in the middle of it will be a frustrating season 

[Sports_Freak]

3 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

who, me? the only time I have the TV audio on is when Dickerson is subbing for Benetti (edit: or is otherwise not on the radio), and I pay very little visual attention to the TV crew's antics as well (only slightly more when Dan's on TV). I guess it's possible I saw The Fuzz but immediately forgot about the whole thing because I didn't know or care what was going on.

I turn off the audio at times too. When the giggling starts, the sound goes off. 

[IdahoBert]

I have no idea what you people are talking about when you’re talking about the fuzz and turtles. 

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

McGonigle is getting all the attention, but Dingler has been really impressive too going back to last year.  Both are players who have a good chance at being players who play in multiple allstar games.  

He could be this generation’s Bill Freehan.

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

6 K's total in this game. Can't remember last time I saw a game with that few Ks.

Games with six or fewer total strikeouts (both teams combined) in 2025: 7 games out of 2,430 total (0.3% of total games).

Compare to 1975: 304 games out of 1,934 total MLB games (15.7%).

Nothing short of a strikeout revolution, directly tied to Chicks Dig The Long Ball.

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, SoCalTiger said:

Hope they all meet in the middle of it will be a frustrating season 

I’d rather they meet at the high end. 😉 

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

who, me? the only time I have the TV audio on is when Dickerson is subbing for Benetti (edit: or is otherwise not on the radio), and I pay very little visual attention to the TV crew's antics as well (only slightly more when Dan's on TV). I guess it's possible I saw The Fuzz but immediately forgot about the whole thing because I didn't know or care what was going on.

And, again, the radio audio overlay was way, way ahead of the video, at least in the first inning, something like ten seconds ahead.

[gehringer_2]

12 minutes ago, chasfh said:

And, again, the radio audio overlay was way, way ahead of the video, at least in the first inning, something like ten seconds ahead.

Nothing is real time anymore. Over the air radio is probably closest but even that probably goes through an IP link to the transmitter so you have an opportunity for buffering. Hi-res video is always going to be buffered, possibly multiple times before it gets to you, so synchronization on any two sources is going to be mostly luck.

[chasfh]

13 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Nothing is real time anymore. Over the air radio is probably closest but even that probably goes through an IP link to the transmitter so you have an opportunity for buffering. Hi-res video is always going to be buffered, possibly multiple times before it gets to you, so synchronization on any two sources is going to be mostly luck.

Blame the technology instead of the AV crew if you like, but it hasn't escaped my notice that almost no other team's broadcast has the same problem.

[SoCalTiger]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

I’d rather they meet at the high end. 😉 

Yes Captain Obvious 😀

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Blame the technology instead of the AV crew if you like, but it hasn't escaped my notice that almost no other team's broadcast has the same problem.

I'll give you an example why I don't think the Tigers could control this even if they wanted to. (and whether they want to is questionable - they want you listening to the broadcast as they are selling audio reads in it)

I have fiber from ATT and DirectTV. If I start watching my cloud 'DVR' of a game say 1/2 hr after the game starts, and slice out dead time to catch up, when I get to 'live' from the DVR link, I'm 10-20 seconds ahead - that  is closer to real time, than if I drop off the DVR link and go pick the game from the linear broadcast guide. This behavior makes no obvious sense, but it is completely reproducible, has been true for multiple seasons, and even more significantly, did NOT change with the Tigers move to MLB production. The 20 seconds or lack thereof - is purely a function of DirectTV's handling of the feed. There is no way the Tigers have anything to do with it. The last leg of network link to you is going to be subject to buffering that is out of control of the originator and the Tigers are sending the game to multiple distributors with different HW systems. I suppose if you buy directly from MLB that's one less step, but you still don't know what your ISP may be doing with MLB feeds.

Edited 4 hours ago by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

46 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Yes Captain Obvious 😀

😉 

[chasfh]

14 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I'll give you an example why I don't think the Tigers could control this even if they wanted to. (and whether they want to is questionable - they want you listening to the broadcast as they are selling audio reads in it)

I have fiber from ATT and DirectTV. If I start watching my cloud 'DVR' of a game say 1/2 hr after the game starts, and slice out dead time to catch up, when I get to 'live' from the DVR link, I'm 10-20 seconds ahead - that  is closer to real time, than if I drop off the DVR link and go pick the game from the linear broadcast guide. This behavior makes no obvious sense, but it is completely reproducible, has been true for multiple seasons, and even more significantly, did NOT change with the Tigers move to MLB production. The 20 seconds or lack thereof - is purely a function of DirectTV's handling of the feed. There is no way the Tigers have anything to do with it. The last leg of network link to you is going to be subject to buffering that is out of control of the originator and the Tigers are sending the game to multiple distributors with different HW systems. I suppose if you buy directly from MLB that's one less step, but you still don't know what your ISP may be doing with MLB feeds.

And you believe that based on your experience with a substantially different technology, and despite that almost no other teams experience this same problem, the Tigers, and by extension anyone else, are unable to fix this problem?

I don't have anywhere near your technical expertise, but absent any actual evidence, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

And you believe that based on your experience with a substantially different technology, and despite that almost no other teams experience this same problem, the Tigers, and by extension anyone else, are unable to fix this problem?

I don't have anywhere near your technical expertise, but absent any actual evidence, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Don't understand what you mean by 'different technology.'

So I do imagine there is a difference for people who connect to MLB directly, because that is one less step, but from a marketing importance standpoint to the Tigers, the largest part of the market is  people in the Metro area who are getting it through their TV distributor (mostly DirectTV & Comcast, Youtube, etc) so the situation I experience applies. 

Edited 4 hours ago by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Don't understand what you mean by 'different technology.'

So I do imagine there is a difference for people who connect to MLB directly, because that is one less step, but from a marketing importance standpoint to the Tigers, the largest part of the market is  people in the Metro area who are getting it through their TV distributor (mostly DirectTV & Comcast, Youtube, etc) so the situation I experience applies. 

If you can provide evidence that the ATT/DirecTV you cite is the exact same technology the Tigers use for audio overlay leading to the problems you both experience, and that other teams don't experience this problem because they use different technology than you and the Tigers do, then OK, you have my attention. Until then, agree to disagree.