IdahoBert

I’m getting optimistic; when do playoff tickets go on sale? <ducks>

**** yeah. 😉

Back in the day I’d be banning people and handing out tickets for shit like this. Now I even say shit. We don’t even have good trolls anymore. The old days were better.

I’ve done that with a wiffle ball. But never with a baseball. Maybe these new sometimes irregular balls make this a greater possibility.

Following this team is so hard. Maybe I need another hobby like an ant farm or needlepoint.

I thought that even with the new dead ball we could loft a flyball that would be a homer. These Yankees are clearly a good team.

Aside from being no-hit, the Tigers are being clobbered offensively. Right now not having no-hit perfect game tossed against them would be victory.

And here I thought the Tigers TV broadcasters were not at the top of my list. I now have a newfound respect for them after listening to these Apple TV announcers.

The Tigers are on Apple TV tonight too.

Peacock is $4.99 a month. And they also do live cycling from Europe. Starting Sunday is eight days of Criterium du Dauphine then in July there’s 21 days of Tour de France and in August another 21 days of La Vuelta. They also have a lot of movies but like every streaming service that’s for the most part lost on me. And there’s a lot of TV shows which is similarly lost on me because I’ve become a 70-year-old teenager who thinks everything sucks.

Taking 4 of 5 games against the best team in the division is really cool even if it is at home. I wouldn’t want to read too much into it. But it’s something to savor. Maybe even our guys will be able to reach the fences at Death Star Stadium in the Bronx, dead ball or not.

https://www.houstonpress.com/news/four-houston-astros-among-thirty-most-hated-in-mlb-13478356 Baez is near the bottom of the “30 most hated players list” and the only current Tiger on the list which is culled from that arena of temperate rational discussion known as Twitter. As for former Tigers, Scherzer is way high on the list and Verlander included but way low.

I haven’t been paying a lot of attention — I’ve been sick most of this month — and I only just now realized we’re in a new deadball era. I’m going back to the beginning of May on this thread because I assume that’s where the discussion might take place. But if anybody wants to summarize what’s going on with that and if that’s one of the reasons we’ve sucked I would appreciate it. Has MLB over corrected? I know Chuck @chasfhhas done some extensive research on the nature of the ball these last few years and I’m wondering if our hitters who seemingly over performed last year are underperforming in relation to the ball. I’m sure there’s other things like regression to the mean etc.

Tampa Tarpons? Bloody hell.

That’s the very first episode of Monty Python! I watched it just a couple days ago.

Enough about hitting and fielding, who will be this season’s Mike Maroth? Will anybody get enough starts or get us in a hole early enough to lose 21?

The Minnesota Twins play the game the right way and the Detroit Tigers do not.

There goes the no hitter.

It’s interesting that in tonight’s starting lineup Miguel Cabrera has the highest BA and OPS.

I’m happy the Tigers were able to defeat the Guadians. This is something we have been unable to expect for yeas.

This is starting to feel like that 2008 season when the Tigers were supposed to score 6 runs a game and win the World Series and they ended up with 74 wins. Right now I would be happy with 74 wins.

E. Rod too? Jesus, these guys are as fragile as I am and I’m 70 years old. And now we have to play teams in our own division which is never a good thing anymore.

Nice to see a win.