04/20/2026 11:10a EDT Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox

[NorthWoods]

26 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

don't really like Keith at 1st but that's relatively minor nit to pick. Not so bad if Javy isn't at short as he's likely to make the toughest throws for his 1B.

Getting him some work there to prepare for the inevitable vanishing of Tork.

[gehringer_2]

23 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

Getting him some work there to prepare for the inevitable vanishing of Tork.

14 BB and 12 H - seemed to be auditioning for the Justyn-Henry Malloy mantle, which won't get him very far.

[IdahoBert]

Have fond memories of the city of Boston in which I spent a wonderful summer in 1971 when I was 19 years old on Fort Hill in Roxbury.

At the top of the hill, there were all these once elegant stone buildings some of which were occupied by a local cult called the Avatars presided over by a guru named Mel Lyman. The avatars avoided us all because we were unclean. They avoided everybody because everybody was unclean.

I spent the summer eating free government cheese, selling the Boston Phoenix, newspaper, and going to concerts on the Boston Common where I saw Leon Russell, Joan Baez, and the Allman Brothers at a time when Duane Allman and Berry Oakley were still alive. I still hold the city of Boston close to my heart 55 years later.

 

[romad1]

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Have fond memories of the city of Boston and which I spent a wonderful summer in 1971 when I was 19 years old on Fort Hill in Roxbury.

At the top of the hill, there were all these old brown stone buildings some of which were occupied by a local cult called the Avatars presided over by a guru named Mel Lyman. The avatars avoided us all because we were unclean. They avoided everybody because everybody was unclean.

I spent the summer eating free government cheese, selling the Boston Phoenix, newspaper, and going to concerts on the Boston Common where I saw Leon Russell, Joan Baez, and the Allman Brothers at a time when Duane Allman and Berry Oakley were still alive.I still hold the city of Boston close to my heart 55 years later.

 

I once was thrown against a locker by a principal for having a bright green dart toy dart gun with which my buddies and I were playing assassin.  Boomers and Gen X had different trajectories.  My generation were worried about the dragons in D&D that could spray us with acid.  Yours was worried that the brown acid was going to mess them up or about the draft board sending them to Vietnam.  

[IdahoBert]

Riley bails out Jack Flaherty at the Green monster. 

[oblong]

59 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

The main races start at 9:37am for the men and 9:47am for the women.  They'll have finished long before the game ends. 

The general public waves start at 10 and continue 11:21.

 

[Tigermojo]

Riley robbery. 

[IdahoBert]

4 minutes ago, romad1 said:

I once was thrown against a locker by a principal for having a bright green dart toy dart gun with which my buddies and I were playing assassin.  Boomers and Gen X had different trajectories.  My generation were worried about the dragons in D&D that could spray us with acid.  Yours was worried that the brown acid was going to mess them up or about the draft board sending them to Vietnam.  

Yeah, we boomers had it easier. We could go to state funded colleges that were nearly free compared to now. But there was always the omnipresent terror of being dragged into an unwinnable war in Southeast Asia and the discovery of drugs, especially bad drugs, that was a real scourge. 

[IdahoBert]

Those throwback Boston home uniforms are pretty cool. 

[IdahoBert]

Jack Flaherty is not finding the strike zone amenable to his talents right now. 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Jack, you stooge.

[IdahoBert]

Jeez Louise Jack he throws the ball away on an easy out at home. 

[romad1]

Cmon Jack 

[IdahoBert]

Holy heck, this is becoming more and more unwatchable 

[ben9753]

little league play there

[ben9753]

So done with Flaherty.

[chasfh]

So every game in the second inning Dan Dickerson does a live read called Dollars on Deck, and then he refers to something that sounds like “blockbusters”, but not really. It also kind of sounds like “black busters” and r “Blake busters”, but he says it so fast that I can never pick it up. Anybody know what I’m talking about, and what it is he’s actually saying here?

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Just now, chasfh said:

So every game in the second inning Dan Dickerson does a live read called Dollars on Deck, and then he refers to something that sounds like “blockbusters”, but not really. It also kind of sounds like “black busters” and r “Blake busters”, but he says it so fast that I can never pick it up. Anybody know what I’m talking about, and what it is he’s actually saying here?

Blight Busters

[Tigermojo]

4 walks and a bone head play. Go back to bed Jack.

[ben9753]

3 walks an error and a hit and they only scored 2 runs. lucky for the Tigers

[romad1]

Matt V wants to stay in the big leagues. 

[Tigermojo]

Jake steak.

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, ben9753 said:

So done with Flaherty.

there are guys who come with out of nowhere plays - like Javy, and then there are guys who do stuff like that. Mental preparedness I guess. 

 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Jakes singles Vierling in to get the Tigers on the board.

[IdahoBert]

My MLB feed keeps getting interrupted. Jake singles in Matty from third.