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saw a lot of references to the end of the show on how important it was to see two men talk and deal with mental health and trauma.
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04/17/2026 7:15pm EDT Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox
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They won 6 in a row… losses happen. -
I used to work at a credit union on Chicago road in 1998/1999. Passed by there every day. Used to joke with our operations/maintenance guy about going there for lunch. We never did. Went to Teddys instead. A normal bar
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Right. There are very little secrets in baseball. Don’t let nostalgia force you to overpay. These aren’t special players.
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dang.... yeah he was indeed a very solid player.
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04/17/2026 7:15pm EDT Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox
oblong replied to casimir's topic in Detroit Tigers
It's way beyond my reach but i have lots of friends who have. One year I was tracking 5 people. It's a bitch to qualify for, even if you meet one of the qualifying times, it always changes. They let a lot of people in who raise money for charity. My wife wanted to do 5 marathons before she turned 50 but covid got in the way, if she plans to do another it will be NY or Chicago. -
Finish watching Saul then. That’s all I will say. I liked BCS better and when I put on the AMC stories channel on Amazon prime I watch that. If it’s breaking bad I don’t tune in unless it’s an early episode.
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Detroit Sports Net (was: The impending death of Bally Sports)
oblong replied to Motor City Sonics's topic in Detroit Tigers
They are done from what I have read. All NBA playiff games are on national networks. The parent group is shutting down offices. -
Both are players a good org should be able to replace fairly easily. Riley wpuld be fine to hold on to if he wasn’t going to be expensive but he’s not a guy I would worry about losing either.
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Apollo 16 was a great crew. John Young is considered the greatest astronaut of all time. Flew the first space shuttle mission. Charlie Duke was so competent during his early training that Neil Armstrong personally wanted him as CAPCOM during the moon landing on Apollo 11. He's the voice you hear "We copy you down Eagle". He's still alive. Mattingly passed away recently and was originally supposed to be on the Apollo 13 crew. He also commanded a e few space shuttle missions, including a classified mission that required the crew to be all military officers. Rumors are they deployed some top secret satellites. All he would say is we'd be happy if we knew what it was about.
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04/14/2026 6:40pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
oblong replied to casimir's topic in Detroit Tigers
just boring brown ones. Sketcher slip ons because I'm an old man and am sick of messing with tying shoes. Even on my running shoes I buy the lace lock things, but that's so I don't have to mess around during a race. -
04/14/2026 6:40pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
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I went to buy some new shoes last night. As I pulled into my driveway coming home, listening to Dan over 97.1, not my app, he called the Perez HR. I left my blinds open and didn't park in the garage so I could see the TV in the window with the game on. It was two pitches behind. That was regular DSN thru Xfinity. I just assume that with each tech layer you add on that it's expected to get a delay. I do not have a plugged in over the air radio in my house so this was the first time in a long while I've checked a broadcast vs TV. I bet if I had the radio feed on my phone thru the app it would be closer? I even get different syncs between TV's in my house. My main TV and a bedroom TV thru a roku connection are off. The ROku TV has a cable box plugged into it. -
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pro life my ass
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04/15/2026 6:40 pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
oblong replied to casimir's topic in Detroit Tigers
It doesn’t apply to Jackie. Branch Rickey wanted to improvise his baseball club. -
04/15/2026 6:40 pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
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I’m not referring to specific individuals but the MLB hierarchy as a whole. One man doesn’t absolve an entire league. If they want credit for doing the right thing then it wouldn’t matter who they selected. In fact they wouldn’t have had to “select” anyone. They would have just invited them to spring training and picked the best players. -
I forgot about Sen O' Rourke and Sen Harrison. How have they done in the Senate?
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04/15/2026 6:40 pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
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In Bouton's book he relayed a story Joe Morgan told him about Rose. Rose had slid home but was called out. Back on the bench he told Joe "If I was black I'd have been safe". Joe said "If you were black you wouldn't have had to slide" -
04/15/2026 6:40 pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
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it's not a criticism of Jackie but a reminder of why we know of him beyond being a great player. When we say he broke the color barrier what we mean is he was picked by racists as acceptable in an attempt to make it look like they were righting their wrong. To me it's like someone writing a check to charity for domestic violence support after being discovered as an abuser. -
04/15/2026 6:40 pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
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I have to do my taxes tonight. I have my thoughts on Jackie Robinson day. It's great we honor him and what he had to go through and he deserves all of it. But I've always felt that the way MLB frames this is an attempt to absolve them of the reason we need a Jackie Robinson Day. There's one reason we have this day and it's because MLB was run by a bunch of racists who didn't want blacks in baseball. Jackie didn't break the color barrier because "finally we had a qualified back person that could play". He broke it because of the courage of some to decide it was time. Still others didn't believe that and orgs like Boston and Detroit held out even further. -
I care less about my senator's vote for a cabinet official who would have won anyway and I care more about my senator's appeal in the rest of our state that outside of a few metro areas, can be as red as Alabama and if that vote makes it more likely they'll get some votes they otherwise wouldn't get, then fine. What Obama did in 2008 is ancient history. The world and landscape is different now and he's not running. Al-Sayed is not Obama.
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One game that always gets mentioned in lists like this, outside of those with playoff implications, is the 1998 game against the Cubs. I was there and it seems like everybody else was. I had just started working, shirt and tie kind of job, recently married, and met friends there on the way home from Warren. So there I am in July at a game in a shirt and tie. Kerry Wood pitched. Matt Anderson made his MLB debut, threw one into the backstop during warmups, Sammy Sosa hit a HR breaking Rudy York's record for HR In a month. I believe he got a curtain call.
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04/14/2026 6:40pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
oblong replied to casimir's topic in Detroit Tigers
You bet your sweet ass I am. astronaut Wally Schirra was asked this during a mission He had to answer thru a private channel
