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Flaherty’s gotta be tipping.

I experienced the same thing for Game 163 in 2009. I was about maybe 10 minutes behind live. Tigers and Twins tied in the 12th. Twins had just intentionally walked Ryan Raburn to load the bases. Then the phone rang: it was my good baseball buddy. I knew he was calling me because the game was over and he wanted to talk about it. I let the call go. Then Inge came up and I saw the ball graze his jersey, and for a second and a half I thought, oh my god, we won, we won, he called me because we won! But then, of course, they didn't call the hit by pitch, and at that very moment I knew we must have lost. Sure enough, Inge forced Miggy at home, Gerald Laird struck out to end the inning, and I didn't even bother watching the bottom of the inning, because I knew the game was over since my buddy had called. I looked up the result and called him back and told him this story.

That is simply otherworldly.

My brother likes doing that with Lions games, too. I don't like that because then I can talk about the game with people, or follow up on something I see online, because spoilers.

Religion is a personal thing, and a social thing, for some, but for too many people, religion has become a political thing, a way to create an air of exclusivity for only a certain type of Christian, and exclusion for everyone else who will not comply.

Coincidentally, I heard on the tigers territory pod that his recent run is also 50 strikeouts against one walk! That’s like a doctored OOTP pitcher.

I love Mickey, but there’s no way he pitched every pitch with anywhere near the same intensity that pitchers today do. The only other possible reason is that today’s pitchers are far, far weaker than pitchers from fifty and more years ago, and that does not pass any reasonable smell test.

Except the speeders couldn’t hit and the hitters couldn’t speed. 😉

This is not unlike the way the ‘84 Tigers kept winning and winning, and still could not completely bury the Blue Jays early. Those guys were playing almost .700 ball by early June and were less than a week’s worth of games behind us.

These were Leyland’s batting orders in 2011, going 1 to 9 left to right. There’s room for only ten names, so there was an 11th guy who batted 2nd. The guy not listed here is one who’s also become prominent on Tigers media lately.

Had to be 2014. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/index.fcgi?date=2014-05-18

TBF, 1968 was really a pitcher’s year like no other.

This is not at all a comment on Tarik Skubal or anyone else’s private views at all, but—I really hate this haircut which is inexplicably popular right now.

It’s almost as though they are basically Tracy Ullman in a bathrobe coming out to the TV audience shouting “GO HOME! GO HOME!”

It took only 20 or so seasons of analytics infiltrating the game to get teams untracked off the tried and true-ish.

And the pitcher. Don’t forget the pitcher. (At least for the first 72 seasons of the league).

It’s even worse than that: they run two minutes of commercials; then have a 15-second tease of what’s coming up next; then have two more minutes of commercials; then another 15-second tease; then two more minutes of commercials; and then the unwatchable post-game tripe begins.

Yeah homey don’t play that in Detroit

Remember when the thing to do was to put your banjo-hitting no-walk-taking middle infielder in the #2 slot in the order so he could sacrifice the leadoff guy over to second during the first inning? That seems like a hundred years ago (and it was!) Nowadays Aaron Judge and Kyle Tucker hit second in the order.

Not exactly: Two hours, one minute.

The Rangers are really scuffing right now, especially in the runs-scoring department. I don’t know whether to be a little scared of that because they’re ornery and due for a breakout, or to be confident that they will continue to be lost at the plate. Skubal on the mound helps tilt it to the latter.

I disagree completely. 😁

True as so much of this is, I do think we've seen some evidence of trump backing down on certain fronts, such as the DC pick just the other day, and Maine last week pushing back on education freezes, and we may see him back down on Harvard yet. Either way, one thing is true: if Trump pushes and you don't push back, he will destroy you. So, might as well push back, because nothing to lose.

The mayor's black, so red hats dig it.

One of the reasons I left religion was the rote, almost unthinking nature of it. It started to feel like nothing more than marking time and checking boxes. When I was a child it just seemed like it's what I had to do to get to heaven or something. But at least I liked the relatively loose nature of it, and I seem to remember my high school teachers at Bishop Foley were open to discussing issues more deeply and openly, as was the norm in the 70s. I sense they do less of that in schools today.