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Sharing this moment in Tucson, Arizona with my friends from East Detroit - as it was called back then - and Ann Arbor, was one of the happiest moments of my life. We’d all grown up as avid Tigers fans and fate brought us together 2000 miles from Tiger Stadium.

The Padres had really awful uniforms. I know there was a color scheme they were working towards, but it just didn’t “work.“

PER A SEARCH ON THE INTERNET- On Thursday, March 26, 2026, Jason is scheduled to call the prime-time matchup between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers at 8:00 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Because of this national assignment, Dan Dickerson is expected to handle the play-by-play for the Tigers' season opener against the San Diego Padres earlier that afternoon.

I am absurdly excited about this first game. I sure don’t want to get swept like in the first series of last year. I want it to be like getting a Red Ryder Carbine-Action BB gun for Christmas and not shooting my eye. So for me splitting this series 1 – 1 would be the equivalent of not shooting my eye out.

God, I really despise interviewing players when they’re in the field. It trivializes the game like you can be as distracted as a viewer on TV when you’re playing this game.

I’ve been “watching” this game with the sound off. But I have a feeling that with the Yankees cloud burst of runs the crowd has somewhat been “taken out of the game.“

God bless you, my brother! I was worried I would have to do this, which I didn’t particularly want to do. But if you need to take a vacation sometime and it’s hard for you to work this in, message me, and I’ll do whatever I can to pick up the slack. The game thread has been one of those constants in the various iterations of our family, and I’m glad that you’re holding up your end of this tradition.

Max Anderson homers (1) on a fly ball to left center field. Tigers lead 11-6 in the 8th.

Wenceel Pérez — who doesn’t like all this talk about him being expendable — homers for the second time today on a fly ball to right field. Eduardo Valencia scores. He has five RBI today which I know is a completely meaningless statistic, but chicks dig it.

This is his sixth day, so yeah, he’s due for a little stretch out.

Whoa! Mize come out to pitch.

This is a question for a robot that doesn’t understand baseball.

Max Anderson singles on a ground ball to left fielder Troy Johnston. John Peck scores. Jahmai Jones scores. 8-6 Tigers.

Hurter relieves JV.

JV gives up another homer a two run shot to tie the game.

Wenceel Pérez homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field. Colt Keith scores. Matt Vierling scores making it 6-4 Tigers. Dingler has hit two home and the Tigers gave McGonigle a well earned day off and told him he made the team.

I guess JV is still working on things. I Feel like I have to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I’m glad the tigers stopped pussyfooting around…

Until he doesn’t since now it’s 3–2 Rockies

In this last spring game against the Rockies with JV pitching, I don’t know how good the lineup is he’s facing, but he seems to be handling them pretty well.

He played in 20 spring games for the Tigers and two games against the Dominican Republic national team and played generally crisp defense. They didn’t send him to play in the spring breakout games for minor league prospects. I wouldn’t be surprised if he played more games than a lot of the regulars. The fan base is profoundly excited about him and he is only going to get better by facing major league competition not minor league competition. Not putting him on the 26-man roster at this point would be pretty much an admission that the club really doesn’t believe in its philosophy. If he doesn’t make the team, I will be so pissed I’ll go on a six-state crime spree a robbin’ and a shootin’ and dying in a hail of bullets as a way of expressing my dissatisfaction.

Finnegan replaces Jack Flaherty.

Flaherty pulled after 81 pitches and starting to look like he was getting in the groove. “He’s working on things…” Got in 4.2 innings.

Gleyber Torres hits a ground-rule double (2) on a fly ball down the right-field line. Parker Meadows scores. 4-4.

Dingler doubles then Meadows doubles him in. At least our guys are putting some wood on the ball.