IdahoBert

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.

Our murderer’s row of Ryan Kreidler, Zach McKinstry, Javier Báez coming up in the top of the 6th. Actually, this game is pretty much playing out the way I expected it to, so I’m not all that disappointed.

Jobe can’t find the strike zone anymore. Walks 2 in a row and is pulled. They stretched him out to 50 pitches though which is good.

So far Andy Ibáñez is the only Tiger who’s been able to do against Max.

I was thinking of the six man rotation too, except for our Cy Young winner.

I don’t think so. He had a rocky first inning, but it looks like a fairly clean second inning and I think he was done. All I could do was follow at bat though.

It’s Jobe vs. Scherzer tomorrow.

Leave him in.Brad Ausmus would do that to show that he had faith in his abilities.

Need a triple play.

C’mon Guenther.

Greene is 3-3 with two singles and a double today.