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I could’ve sworn that this new “agreement” had some kind of “no blackouts” provision, which meant that the six games a year of the Tigers play against the Mariners I would be able to watch, but I guess that is still not the case. I don’t know how I got such a wildly hopeful idea in my head. But I can follow these games on gameday or on the radio portion of the MLB app so screw the cable providers, boo-hoo poor them.

This game starts at the same time as the Arizona vs Purdue game. I have attended both universities and I have some divided loyalties regarding this game, but I find watching basketball excruciating because it’s nonstop. Baseball has a languid enough pace so I can catch my breath which basketball does not possess so I’ll probably concentrate on this game and dart back-and-forth to the ESPN app just to see how the basketball game is going.

That’s probably true, but I can’t be bothered to look it up because I can’t find my pants and that’s more important

When you think of guys who got good for a while and you didn’t expect it, names like Chris Shelton and Brennan Bosch come to mind. Their short-lived flashes of brilliance didn’t last. But Kevin has been on the radar from the start and has been expected to excel and overall we can reasonably expect him to rise to the occasion even though there will have to be a learning curve factored in here. I think we have good reason to believe we have more than a diamond in the rough on our hands here.

I was just now looking at our 2026 schedule and every month of the season, except for August, has a streak of 13–14 games straight tucked in there. Sheesh. I asked our robot overlords what it thought and it said that our schedule was “remarkably dense” with streaks of this magnitude compared to the past, and it blamed the necessity of scheduling at least one series against every team in MLB every year. The now common adage “you can never have enough arms“ seems pertinent here. Even as a fan it seems grueling. And it will be made worse by rainouts requiring make up dates, etc. etc..

Strange that tomorrow, Sunday, is a travel day. Have never seen that before, and I don’t remember it having ever occurred but I could be wrong. Must be one of those anomalies of early season scheduling.

You might want to choose your words, more carefully… 😉

Today was a success in so many ways and that was just one of the many successes.

This is really really really really really satisfying. And I never once posted in the wrong thread.

Kenley Jansen sounds like the name of a hot sorority girl, but in this case, nope.

Finnegan rose to the occasion.

Finnegan walks the first batter.

5-2 and this was accomplished against one of the best relief corps in baseball.

Dillon Dingler singles on a line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Riley Greene scores. Kevin McGonigle to 3rd.

Kevin McGonigle singles on a line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Gleyber Torres scores. Colt Keith scores. Riley Greene to 3rd. Holy Moly!

This team is good enough, and smart enough, and gosh darn it we sort of like them.

Kevin up bases loaded two outs. This is epic.

Bases loaded in one out and greene up this would be a good time for his new philosophy of situational hitting to come in to play

That inning with DeJesus ended up better than I thought

Seeing Verlander in a Tigers uniform in our own dugout makes me really verklempt.

Kaline would’ve caught that ball that Carpenter missed.

Torkelson is not Ricky Henderson.

Tork single and rbi! 1-1.

I would’ve preferred for Riley to strike out playing his golf swing rather than hitting into a double play