05/16/2026 1:10p EDT Toronto Blue Jays at Detroit Tigers

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[NorthWoods]

I remember having high hopes for Dave Lemanczyk

[Tiger337]

38 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

I remember having high hopes for Dave Lemanczyk

At that time, I had high hopes for every player that was called up.  

[NorthWoods]

3 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

At that time, I had high hopes for every player that was called up.  

I'm probably with you on that.   We didn't have nearly the information or the cynicism we have now.

Can you imagine the webz today if a team likw 1968 was running out a ss/3B combo batting .135 & .200?    With OPS of .399 & .556?    Yet somehow that team won 103 games.

I thought then with all the youngsters coming up Les Cain, Tommy Matchick, Wayne Comer, Jon Warden that it would go on for years.....but alas.

Others were talking about their 1st game, I knew mine was in '67 and a DH vs the Indians.   This seems to have been it since it was around my birthday and on a Sunday when my Dad could have taken me.  And all through my younger years he liked getting value for his dollar and going to doubleheaders.

 

[Sports_Freak]

3 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

At that time, I had high hopes for every player that was called up.  

I dont remember his name, a relief pitcher, about 7 years ago or so.....he had like a 0.000001 ERA in the minors and got called up. And he was a huge MLB disappointment. I thought for sure he would be our closer for the next 10 years or so. Its one of the many reasons I dont put much stock into MiLB stats. They can be very misleading. 

[Tiger337]

6 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

I'm probably with you on that.   We didn't have nearly the information or the cynicism we have now.

Can you imagine the webz today if a team likw 1968 was running out a ss/3B combo batting .135 & .200?    With OPS of .399 & .556?    Yet somehow that team won 103 games.

I thought then with all the youngsters coming up Les Cain, Tommy Matchick, Wayne Comer, Jon Warden that it would go on for years.....but alas.

Others were talking about their 1st game, I knew mine was in '67 and a DH vs the Indians.   This seems to have been it since it was around my birthday and on a Sunday when my Dad could have taken me.  And all through my younger years he liked getting value for his dollar and going to doubleheaders.

 

I have no special memory of my first live game.  It was at Fenway, but I don't know when it was.  What I do remember was becoming a Tigers fan.  We lived in Massachusetts, so everyone in the neighborhood was a Red Sox fan.  However, my father was a huge Cardinals fan, so I learned to hate the Red Sox in 1967.  I was a Cardinals fan for a while, but my father told me I couldn't be a Cardinals fan because that was his team.  The Tigers were good, so I chose them.  As my family was spending a week in Cape Cod, I was listening to the games on the radio with my father.  I think there was one TV game.   In seven games between the Red Sox and Tigers, I remember the Tigers going 5-2 winning the middle 5 games.  This would make it August 9 - August 18, 1968.  I remember it as a 7-game series, but it was really back to back weekend series.  I have no memory of the Cleveland series in between.  Anyway, my team beat my father's team in the World Series and I never turned back.  

[GalagaGuy]

They should have delayed the start time of this one a few hours.  Give the drizzle a chance to clear out and the temperature time to warm up.