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This sounds like at least some good news. Glad to hear it.

By the way, the Thursday afternoon February 26 game of the Tigers @ Orioles will have an Orioles TV broadcast and a Tigers WXYT-1270 radio broadcast. Montero is the starting pitcher.

Nick Castellanos is playing first base today in the February 25 game in Peoria in cactus league competition with the Padres vs. the Angels. Apparently the Padres and the Mariners share the same ballpark. A small scattered crowd is there. Pretty much no one in the stands and almost no one on the berm. And as before in a previous game I checked out in this ballpark, the camera work is strictly minor league. Nick did somehow drive a run and score a run although with no hits but I’m too lazy to look up why.

Callahan, who has spent a lot of time on the DL for the Tigers in the minors just Homered against the Phillies to make it 5–3 Phils. Phils win. BFD.

Looks like all the pitchers did pretty well against Toronto except for Vest who gave up three hits and three runs in 2/3,although I haven’t been following the game and he could’ve been squeezed in a weird way. Riley walked 3 times.

Thayron Liranzo homers (1) on a fly ball to right field. Josue Briceño scores. Hao-Yu Lee scores. Tigers lead BJs 4-3.

In Clark’s defense in the outfield today when I was a kid and subscribed to the Sporting News, I think it was 1965 or 66 I would pour over the box scores from spring exhibition games and there was one Cactus League game at the Cubs ballpark and the game was suspended because the sun was so damn bright it was dangerous for the players. Strangest box score I ever saw. “Game suspended due to sun” or something like that.

Just noticed that watching the Rockies feed, they do have the little strike zone box imposed on the screen. So previously, when the Braves announcers were saying that it wouldn’t be around until the regular season, I guess this might be up to the broadcasters of each individual team.

I’m “benefiting” from the new no blackout rule on MLB.TV so I can now watch the previously blacked out - for me - Mariners broadcasts. Unfortunately, the camera work is reminiscent of a minor league broadcast. And the definition of the picture is terrible. The ads are a ton better in quality. I’m assuming that regular season broadcasts from the M’s will be up to par…

Mize is pitching in Lakeland tomorrow Feb. 25 against Toronto. There will be Tigers radio coverage with Dan and Dan. And the Tigers will also be playing Philadelphia on the road and Madden will be the starting pitcher. There’s a Phillies feed for TV and the game can also be watched on MLBN. I’m unfamiliar with MLBN broadcasts and I don’t know if they’ll just be broadcasting the Phillies feed or if it’s a completely different broadcast.

Game over 8-1 Braves.

Yeah, it’s annoying. I didn’t have any problem with the Yankees feed in the first game we played so this must be a Braves issue because they now have their “own network” and they’re still working things out.

Matt Olson homers (1) on a fly ball to right field. Mauricio Dubón scores. 5-1 Braves.

The mlb.tv feed I’m getting on my TV keeps blinking out and going to black and then coming back and I don’t know if this is a problem with the Braves network or mlb.tv itself.

Tigers get a run after the first two batters walk in the top of the fifth, but base running errors by Jung and Lee stifle the inning. I don’t know if I get to blame the players or Cora.

mlb.tv and I’m out of the Detroit viewing area.

They finally took him out after getting two outs in the bottom of the fourth and getting up to 59 pitches.

Wow, de Jesus is back out there for the fourth.

One of the things I didn’t know that I learned from watching this broadcast is that during spring training there is no strike zone box on broadcasts, but they will indeed be back for the regular season even though ABS protocol is being used in both spring training and regular season games.

So it looks like they wanted to stretch out de Jesus and he had a strong three up three down third inning although he ends up with 2.2 innings pitched and 49 tosses. Unless of course they send him out there in the fourth which just seems unlikely.

So other than the Yankees, are the pitchers ahead of the hitters in spring training?

And Max Clark catches the third out of the bottom of the second hit directly at him and had no problem.

Spring training is different. They took out Tigers starter de Jesus and replaced him with Garcia and in the bottom of the second de Jesus is back out there. I guess it really is a “training game.“

Lots of people in Tigers gear sitting in the first two rows directly behind Home plate.

My mistake the inning isn’t over and now it’s 3-0 and still in the bottom of the first