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Cat Power tickets claimed.

how are you watching?

Picking up right where they left off last season in the run-scoring department. Sure, these games don't count, but you'd like to see some signs.

Our radio station has one pair of tickets left for Cat Power this Saturday at Saint Andrew's Hall. I have offered them to on-air staff members first, but if they don't take them, would anyone be interested in going to see Cat Power. She can be very very good - or things can go sideways, but I haven't heard that happening with her in a few years now. Motherhood has calmed her storms a bit. Is anyone interested? Message me, by Wednesday 2/25 please

Update: So, felt like I needed to get sick but could not. Ate some toast and the sickness went away and then the vertigo too. Try to figure that one out Dr. House.

Imagine you're on a rollercoaster and that rollercoaster is on a boat in a storm. that's what this morning is. the need to vomit but not able to vomit and every time I move my legs I pull my calf muscles. this is the most severe vertigo I've ever felt and I think I am going to urgent care or an er.

Tigers will announce it today - just before Skubal takes the mound in his Spring Training debut that the Tigers and Skubal have agreed on a 7 year $330 million contract.

I had a tube inserted and then steroids injected and then I put steroid drops in there for about a month. It did improve slightly, but we seem to be stuck now. The vertigo thing has gotten worse. I don't want any permanent implant. Only way I am getting that is if I lose hearing in both ears. But lets be honest, if that happens and I can't hear music - I'm not sticking around.

Maybe Meniere's Disease.

A weekend of Vertigo for me. It sucks so much. Went for one more hearing test Thursday. There was little to no improvement and the ENT said there is nothing more that they can really do I am going to the Ear Institute of Michigan on March 4th to see what could be done. They're going to start recommending hearing aids or cochlear implants. But from what I understand the cochlear implant is like a tiny speaker in your ear and it mushes all the sound together. When you listen with normal hearing your brain can pull out a guitar part or a horn solo or subtle parts of the music and with the implants, they are all compressed into one thing - and trying to listen with one normal ear and one implant ear has got to be horrible. I'd rather just not hear in the one ear. I just want to know what the hell happened. How did i go from a lifetime of GREAT hearing - being able to tell you what specific song is playing in a crowded noisy restaurants satellite feed (when nobody else around me can even hear music at all) - to this. Especially with my job. When I talk on the radio I am wearing headphones and any stereo mix of a song with something unique on the left channel is totally lost now. Now I am hearing tones in my left ear - that sound like test tones. They last for about 5-10 seconds and I think it's just my brain searching for a signal and making sounds up. These things come and go and I get dizzy and that part is getting worse. I fell in downtown Ann Arbor last week. I was walking along side a wall, so I used that to break the fall, but people must have thought I was drunk. That's what it feels like, it feels like being drunk when I am totally sober. I walk around the office with my eyes closed and my hand on the wall. It's like walking on a boat with high waves.

How much did the Tigers pay guys who didn't or barely pitched for them because the team knew they were injured when they signed them? Cobb (0 IP), Urquidy (2.1 IP), Sewald (4.1 IP), there's another one in there too, isn't there? Cobb got 15 million for 20 innings of minor league ball. Sign me up . I'll do that.

Did you know that if you accidentally write permanent marker on a white board that you can erase it by writing over top of it with a dry erase marker? As long as you don't wait too long. Alex Cobb will probably end up pitching for another team and then shutout the Tigers in a deciding playoff game.

Saw the box score of the Orioles/Tigers game and saw K. Pilkington pitched today and all I can think of is this guy

Alex Cobb is still with the Tigers?

Rondale Moore killed himself. That's just beyond awful. Only 25.

It's the Royals division now.

LaGrange starting for the Yankees today, so of course I thought of this. And the guy without the long beard is named Beard, because of course.

And you thought you wouldn't be seeing Keider starting games this year.........you're so silly.

I don't think you (and me) are wrong to be a bit impatient with the lack of clarity here. So I have to sign up for ESPN to then sign up for MLB? That's kind of stupid, to not be able to just directly sign up. But then again, Rob Manfred is in charge, so stupid makes sense.

I am totally confused by this. Also - if we sign up via MLB - are we subject to the stupid local team blackout rules? The way MLB had it, you can't even watch your local team's ROAD games. They are playing in 5 hours and I am very sick and can't do much today and I really want to watch the game. I'm not committing any money towards anything until I know what I am getting. If someone else has navigated this correctly and can actually watch the Tigers while being in Michigan, please let me know how. I don't think the Tigers have been very clear on any of this. Maybe they haven't sorted it out.

Opening Day Roster prediction (if all stay healthy) Starters Jack Flaherty Casey Mize Tarik Skubal* Framber Valdez* Justin Verlander Relievers (I don't know who is out of options, how can I find this?) Drew Anderson Kyle Finnegan Brenan Hanifee Tyler Holton* Bailey Horn* Brant Hurter* Kenly Jansen Will Vest Catchers Dillon Dingler Jake Rogers Infielders Javier Baez Colt Keith* Hao-Yu Lee Zach McKinstry* Spencer Torkelson Gleyber Torres Outfielders Kerry Carpenter* Riley Greene* Parker Meadows* Wencel Perez^ Matthew Vierling

How are we going to be able to watch the Tigers on TV this year?

whatever gets the click count up. he's a total phony. he doesn't even watch games, he watches a few highlights. he's a fraud.

How would you know? He gets paid to rant and rave no matter what. He's such a fake and a phony.

But the Knicks were shorthanded the first two games But the Knicks were on the road the first two games Bite me. This win raises the bar. Anything short of reaching the Finals will be considered a disappointment now.