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I’ve lived in dry heat above 100° for the last 51 years and it’s definitely superior to 85-90° heat in stifling humidity. But sitting without shade or much wind on an aluminum bench in 100° in high dry heat, yeah that’ll take a lot out of anyone.

I didn’t realize the Braves had vacated Disney World. This link tells you why. The team had to suffer all sorts of five hour bus rides and Disney was charging $63 a seat to see the games. Braves' camp in Disney causes extra wear, move would be welcomed

https://apnews.com/article/rays-steinbrenner-field-makeover-a843685deca2a9023e3fcb4a02c83217 The Rays get 120 hours to make the Yankees' spring stadium their own. Here's how they'll do it

Chafin faced three batters and walked all three?

Well, it’s not coming up as free for me although there are three games that are designated as such on the menu on my TV.

By the way, the Tigers at Braves game tomorrow that Flaherty’s pitching will be the MLB TV free game of the day.

Flaherty is pitching vs. Atlanta tomorrow.

Maeda. Looks like the Tigers are not taking just their B team to this game today. Torres, Greene, Tork, Carp …

He needs to face major league hitters. There is no substitute for that. Will he just work on his tan?

https://www.mlb.com/news/jahmai-jones-continues-strong-spring-training?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share

I haven’t heard any reports of celebratory rioting and the turning over and burning of cars in Detroit since Javy’s home run. I’m disappointed.

Yes, I think the Indians left Tucson in 1988 or so, and moved down to Florida. I lived in Tucson for 13 years and I never met a single person who considered themselves in Indians fan, so being there 50 years did not leave much of a trace amongst the populous. They also pretty much sucked almost the whole time and they didn’t give people a lot to get excited about.

When I lived in Tucson, the Indians had their spring training there but all the other teams were in Phoenix and it was a 2 1/2 hour drive and eventually Tucson lost the Indians (when they actually got good, which was a pain). Having all the teams concentrated in the Phoenix area really makes good logistic sense. A new ballpark was built in Tucson after I moved from there and it was quite a facility and the Cardinals and the White Sox shared it, but I don’t think they were there for more than a couple years.

That’s pretty funny. In case you don’t have a Facebook account.

Clark and McGonigle in.

Three-run bomb.

Wow the game began a minute early.

One of my son’s friends said that he’d been reading that this year was Baez’s year…. This is a person who doesn’t follow this team all that closely. And sports journalists have to produce copy, and Cinderella revivals are enticing copy.

I guess this is about as close as we can get to fielding our “A Team.“

I think you’re right, and that’s actually what I surmised but I wanted to see if anyone agreed with my lazy half brain idea and you did. I feel affirmed like when Steve Martin‘s character in The Jerk saw his name in the phonebook and was excited that his name was “in print” and felt certain that he was “going places.” And for me that means going to bed.

Was just looking at the rest of the spring training schedule and discovered some things I hadn’t noticed or thought about. 1) There are 7 NL teams in the Grapefruit’s 15-team league and we only play three of them. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta. Why is there no Miami, St Louis, Washington, or Mets? 2) It’s easy, not to play Central Division rivals in the Grapefruit and “reveal our hand“ because there’s only one, Minnesota. 3) For some reason, we always seem to play the Yankees a lot - four times this year. I have no problem with this, but it’s almost like the Tigers and the Yankees have a partnership. 4) The Tigers play 13 of their 32 games against NL teams and two of those are not in Florida. Their last two spring training games are in San Francisco against the Giants. The Tigers might be facing Verlander in SF, which would be kind of cool.

Game over Tigers lose 5-0.

Lee hasn’t made much out of his 20 ABs this spring.

A nice 3 up 3 down 7th for Beau Brieske. Nice to have a clean, quick simple inning.