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so I can drop $3000 every August for the chance to maybe watch a WC game.

I think that's what they call it in the UK... like 'mobile' (pronounced moh-bile) for your cell phone. And "car park".... and "queue".... no wonder we left.

it's easier to get from 55-60 wins to 78 then it is to get from 77 to 90.

I think it's simply that due to their player's association agreement with the players they cannot mandate that? Not all union agreements are created equal.

1/3 of cases in MI are under 18. A friend's dad just passed. He was fully vaxed, but you always have to give the disclaimer that he had 'comorbidities'. They don't know how he got it. Probably from one of the grandkids. Weird thing is his wife didn't test positive, she gave him mouth to mouth when she found him passed out. He was quarantining at home and collapsed. My wife thinks maybe she was asymptomatic before and gave it to him but it went through her system before a posotive could be detected.

I’ve always thought that Tori Hunter in RF impacted Austin’s defense. The CF is supposed to be the captain in the OF but he either deferred to the vet too often or adjusted his play thinking he was with Tori from 4 years prior.

@Tigeraholic1 posted this in the Sept 27th game thread but I think it's a worthy inclusion here:

He just aint no carpenter

is it a union thing? Tyler Bertuzzi is the only Red Wing not vaccinated and he's going to lose money since he won't be able to go to Canada.

someone I trust very much who is involved in city gov't has talked with me about the mayor. He said "The guy would not fail a mental competency test". He wouldn't say more. I think the mayor either had a stroke or had stroke like symptoms from covid and cannot verbally express what he wants but mentally is there. A friend of mine is their neighbor and she told me she sees him every day get in his car and drive to work and if he wasn't mentally there then no way his wife would let him do that. It's a sensitive subject for sure. I'm voting for Gary. Abdullah is too young and when he constantly talks about "his team" I get worried.... I'm not voting for a team. If there's others then let us know who they are so we can vet them.

I saw some stuff on the Tammy Faye movie and one thing that stood out is they were very out of touch with their contemporaries in their community when it game to gay issues and AIDS. Meaning..... they were supportive and loving.

I remember Biergarten got hosed a few years ago when some moron who owned the building next door decided to knock it down and ruined their building. Of course, being Dearborn, the guy just did what he wanted with no permits or whatever.... I hope they leave that space empty. There's plenty of open buildings available for a new business. Not sure who owns it now.

I used to go to Kenilworth around 1998-2001. Biertgarten was a lunchtime staple for me but haven’t been in a long time, probably 4 years. I know who the family is but don’t know them personally. I remember the dog at Kenilworth. When I talked earlier about the Aussie that gang would meet up at Kenilworth. Not sure how they did it but somehow all the aussies in the area found each other. One memorable night they got kicked out of Kiernan’s. I miss those places. Howell’s. Double Olive. The very first thing I bought with my first paycheck out of college was a Martini at the double olive.

States don’t get to decide how they send their reps? I honestly don’t know. I thought it was up to them.

I'll put this here instead of the TV thread since it's music.... I watched "If I leave here tomorrow", doc on Skynyrd is on Netflix now. I think it's been around before. Not the biggest fan of them even though I love the Allmans, too rednecky for me, but it was enjoyable and watchable. There's a brief clip of a young black artist, that I have now begun to look into, playing a few seconds of Simple Man and it made me appreciate Ronnie Van Zant as a guitarist.... They do address the confederate flag angle. Anyway, if you want a break and have 90 minutes for some casual watching, give it a shot. Most of it's archival interviews as most of the original guys are dead, even outside of the plane crash. I hadn't realized that several of them passed since.

Remember the “why must liberals always scream and jeer?”? I think of that often when I see the school board meetings

That Nolte guy is a trip. I followed him on twitter back in the day and he was convinced, up until election day 2012, that Romney was going to win easily. Shortly after I dropped him, realizing he was an idiot.

that happened to me in high school. I made the first out. Team batted around. I came up with a runner on base and... GIDP.

yes, I remember worrying about not getting the "good" seats when I would see a large walk up crowd. I came of age in the 90's so for the most part there wasn't a lot of people going to the games. And with the lack of computing systems you were limited in how picky you could get with tickets. It's not like today. I hated being too far into the decks. It wasn't just about blocking the field but also the sky. You couldnt see pop ups. At some point you stopped feelling like you were outside. The temperature difference from sun to shade was probably 25 degrees during day games. So yeah it was good if you were in front of the poles. Not so good after. My second row seats today at Comerica would be near the end at Tiger Stadium.

I remember hearing Tom Clancy once say of Congress.... "Who would want to work there? It only pays $100K a year". At the time I thought it was elitist but I see his point.

I got season tickets that year, a 21 game package. During 1999 it was my final year for my degree and I got my job in July of that year. I told them immediately I needed that day off. Because I wasn't working that summer, having gotten my job lined up, I went to a lot of games outside of my package. The final weekend was really special. We got tickets for Friday/Saturday/Sunday, and the last game was Monday. I never bought a beer at a game until that weekend. I remember they had that game countown on the facade of the third deck down the 1B line. The final week they starting having recognizable people change the number... Kaline was the last one. The day of the game we planted ourselves on that ramp overlooking the Tiger Plaza, what used to be the Tiger parking lot before Ilitch changed it. We had realized that the dignitaries were being held in an area beneath that ramp. We saw Gordie Howe, Fidrych, Horton, etc. Once in our seats it felt normal and you got into the game but around the 7th we started to get goosebumps thinking "Wow, this really is it". This was before digital cameras and people were using up their film. The flashbulbs during the final half inning were remarkable. When the players came out that was very special obviously. The uncertainty of knowing who was next.... figuring out if that was Ron Leflore or Gates Brown... it was so fun to see and I get teary thinking of it. The next day at work an Australian was telling me how even he thought it was so cool. He was here for the summer with his new wife who was doing a rotation around the world. He didn't know these guys. Barely knew baseball. But in his thick aussie accent he says 'Seeing these old blokes out there dressed up in their jumpers giving it another go... wow'. (Jumpers is what they call a Jersey).

The bigger challenge will be just getting in touch with anybody who knows the site exists. I'm not sure BetRivers is aware of it.

Thanks... will be getting one today at Lowe's.... I love being 5 minutes away. Just wish they'd bring the hot dogs back.

22 years ago I walked out of Tiger Stadium for the last time..... I love this photo of my friend and I as we're still season ticket holders today. He's 63 now, had some serious health issues, multiple heart attacks, got covid this year the same week he got vaccinated, etc. But we got to go to 4 games together once he got his energy level up. We joke that I'm older now than he was then. Seems like yesterday.