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Victor has hit .325 since the All Star Break. He's going to be in competition with Derek Hill (often-injured), Daz Cameron (hasn't proven himself yet), Kody Clemens, Daniel Cabrera. Don't be surprised if he bulks up over the offseason and tries to hit for more power. Don't snooze on the guy, there still a lot of potential there. As far as trading Mize, that's click bait there, he knows they aren't shopping Mize, Skubal or Manning. They are going to build their team around this pitching and they know one of them is going to end up getting TJ at some point. They aren't messing with their pitching depth, no freaking way. Shopping List - 1 good starting pitcher, 1 adequate starter, a decent catcher for a year and they need to figure out the SS situation. I don't think they need an expensive corner OF. They have Robbie Grossman and they'll use 4 other guys in the OF (Baddoo, Hill, Reyes and maybe Cameron and if Riley earns it, he's in the mix too). They don't need to spend a ton on an OF. They don't need to trade prospects for one either.

Barry Weinberg told us the story of Yogi Berra, hanging out at St. Louis' spring training and talking about how he just shot a commercial for that insurance company that he called Affliction..............Nobody knew what he was talking about until he mentioned the duck and everyone was like "Oh..........Aflac" and then he said "Yeah, they got 3 of dem ducks, but none of 'em really talk".

Fields got sacked 9 times last week? Wilson and Lawrence are on terrible teams and Bill Belichick's getting exposed without Brady and without cheating. Look at well Justin Herbert did last year............it was because the Chargers were already a good team. who got a high pick because of a ton of injuries the year before. If Trey Lance was starting he'd have a great advantage too, but the 49ers are easing him in.

Wojo brought up a great point last night about why college football seems more competitive this year. The transfer portal. Teams who once had 2nd or even 3rd string players who would start for 80% of the country are losing those players as they become starters at other schools. Mel Tucker's played this brilliantly.

I went to see Hall & Oates and Squeeze a few weeks ago at Pine Knob. I had never seen them live and they were really good even though Daryl's voice was not 100% (Dude is 74, high notes are a little too high now). I was shocked at how young the crowd was, at least on the lawn. Many of them probably weren't even born the last time these guys had a hit. It was surprising and I am wondering if it's because of Daryl's internet show, which is fantastic.

Noah Yorke, son of Radiohead's Thom Yorke sounds NOTHING like his Dad, right?

Also, you know what's going on in Dearborn, right? We have a mayor signing off on things when he can't remember his own children and doesn't know what year he graduated high school (1890 was a answer he gave in a deposition). That's ridiculous. Either someone is signing his name or they are having him sign things without him having any idea what's happening. People should be going to jail over this.

He tried to buy them out and they weren't selling so he decided to go ahead and knock down his building without permission (and the city told him not to do it) but he did it anyway. The whole saga is still ongoing. That happened to the UFO Factory right by the old Tiger Stadium. The owners bought it when it was worthless and some jackass wanted to put condos there when it became more valuable, but they didn't want to sell, so he basically took a wrecking ball and deliberately slammed their building and destroyed it. They didn't give up however and have rebuilt.

I thought of a treatment for a film where a fire and brimstone preacher (I had Gene Hackman in mind), who was quite hateful, starts hearing a voice in his head and starts doing things for the real downtrodden like AIDS patients and starts diverting money towards actually helping people who really need it because he thinks he is hearing the voice of God - because his voice is telling him exactly where to find people that he's never met and his deeds are working miracles in people's lives and he starts changing his stance out in public. He gets assassinated, of course, by his own staff and the end of the film the coroner states that he would have died within a year anyway because he had a massive brain tumor. Would have called it "Heal Thyself". Then Steve Martin did a lame movie where his touch actually healed people and my idea flew right out the window.

What happened to the Padres? Wow, what a collapse. The Tigers could finish with the same record as them. They'll probably be looking for a new manager. I wonder if they'll try to coax Bruce Bochy out of retirement. I think he still lives there.

Over the plate has never changed. That Niko AB at the end of the game was inexcusable...........and in the same game Matt Manning was not getting those calls. I remember when Mike Mussina (Orioles) was throwing a no-hitter against us and the ump was giving him a ridiculous strike zone east/west and Luis Gonzalez lost his mind and got chucked from the game.

Build up the rest of the team (gonna take 3 offseasons) and then get your QB on a rookie deal. Don't want to put a young QB on a bad team and mess them up like the Jets and Jags are currently doing.

yep, Tony Gwynn lost a routine fly ball in the lights.

Once saw a guy on TV, a hurricane victim from Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina - He had a Pelican Club t-shirt on. I was given a commemorative brick from the Kenilworth with a little plaque on it when it was torn down.

Come on, you and I and everyone else knows that someone got rich off of building the new ballpark. But, outside of Tampa and maybe Oakland, that is the ugliest MLB park and its only 2 years old.

Based on the Texas timeline the Tigers will have a new park in what, 2026? Still can't believe they did that, the park they had was cool, the new one is ugly.

a lot of people think that was the game winning RBI, but it was not. Who had the game winning RBI that night. Gibson did score the 5th run......................his 3 run bomb just cemented it. What a party. My first Detroit. championship (sorry MSU basketball fans, that one didn't move me so much).

As a kid wanted to see how fast Ralph Garr could run. He beat out an infield play for a single. It was a game Ray Bare was pitching and my 10 year old self didn't realize that if they'd gotten him out on that close play, it would have been a no-hitter (it was the 5th or 6th inning)

I also went to all three of the last games of 87 vs. the Blue Jays. All one-run games. Camped out Saturday night after being at the bar from about 3am until they opened the ticket office and got bleacher seats for Tanana's 1-0 game that clinched the East. The only run was a Larry Herndon home run and from the bleachers you could not see the left field corner, all we could do is react to the crowd's reaction. Another wonderful quirky flaw of the stadium.

We might. I did not go to Dearborn High, I moved there after high school in Sterile Heights. My friends were all class of '85 DHS. John-John was one of my closest friends, met him working at Camp Dearborn when he threw my obnoxious cousin into the scummy pond behind the canteen............we all got thrown in there, but she through she was special. Nope. One time Dominic got Dave Henderson so drunk that we had to sneak him to his room at the Ritz. He fell and cracked his head on a table in his hotel room and his roommate Ron Darling told us to keep our mouth shut about it. Next day before the game we heard on the radio that Hondo was out with a pulled hamstring.

Then there was August 11, 1994. The last day of the season because the strike was coming. The Tigers were playing the Brewers that day and Bill Wegmen was warming up in the bullpen and my other friend Steve, who's 6'8" is calling balls & strikes as he's warming up and Wegman stops and looks at Steve and Steve says "lets see a strike", so Wegmen rips a strike and Steve says "that was beautiful". No issue, right. Nope, Teddy Higuera comes up to us and starts yelling at us and his accent is thick so we are not sure what he's saying but he's just really pissed off and the ushers come over to us and tell us to go to our seats. Well our seats were given to us by the Brewers broadcasting guys -- we were right behind home plate, about 20 rows up. We decided that every single pitch Wegman threw, we'd yell out BALL, which is what we did. The ump turned around and yelled that he didn't need our help. Even Lou Whitaker tried to shoosh us. We didn't care, they were going on strike and we didn't care if we got tossed. We never relented. The whole game. I am sure everyone around us hated us, but Higuera pissed us off and we were angry about the strike. The best thing Wegman had going is that the Tigers had Mike Moore pitching and we got clobbered that day, 10-4 or 10-5, something like that.

I remember a mostly empty park once when Mark McGwire cleared the roof in LF. I still remember the collective gasp

My best friend's family owned a bar called Kenilworth Pub in Dearborn. They now own The Biergarten, also in Dearborn. I don't know why but at some point Oakland A's people started hanging out there while they stayed at the Ritz in Dearborn. We all became friends with the A's trainer, Barry Weinberg. Barry would always get us tickets when the A's were in town. One Sunday we had tickets for an A's game with Mark McGwire was still with them. These were tickets on the first base side, but we always like to sit in the first few rows of the right field upper deck. The old stadium they didn't really check, it was rarely full. We have the one guy who is always late and not 10 minutes late, like 45 minutes late, to everything. We are on our way to the game and 1st inning Tony Clark hits a home run, right to our seats. We get to the stadium, it's the 2nd inning and we are in the hallways in the lower deck, we stop to get beers and dogs and on the TV we see another HR go right to our seats, so we all rip on Steve and he unleashes an obscene-laden torrent at the top of his lungs at us (because we stopped for food and beer) that echoed through the corridors so loudly that security almost threw him out of the park. I swear that when they leveled the place and tore down that hallway, the last whoosh of air to escape still include echoes of Steve's tirade.

They just made me a "collaborator". Does that mean I am going to get arrested?

Speaking of lunatics, a Democratic congressman from Illinois, Danny Davis, thinks R. Kelly should be given a second chance. He thinks Kelly would be "welcomed back to Chicago". What? Sure, Danny, we can start by sending your granddaughters to his place for the weekend. Talk about being out of touch. I'm not always into cancelling people, but this 80 year old dinosaur needs to just go away. What a turd. (Hey, we can say turd without being censored, I like this new place!)