IdahoBert

I just noticed that Tim McCarver was the one that popped out for the last out in game seven of the 1968 World Series, in which the famous celebration of our boys occurred. Boy that must’ve hurt. It must’ve really hurt bad. No wonder his vitriol was so strong in the 2006 World Series. But whatever “joy“ he took in our teams collapse in 2006 it could never make up for what he endured in 1968. So I take solace - actually unashamed solace - in how much he actually suffered for this humiliation in 1968. It may not reflect well upon me, but let me take out the world‘s tiniest violin…

I am so happy to be wrong about my expectations.

In Idaho, where I live, we have not really experienced winter. It’s been about 10 to 15° above normal all winter and we’ve had one half inch snowfall and that’s it. The grass has never turned brown this year. It’s weird.

That’s a vantage point I’ve never seen before so thanks.

Thanks for sharing this.

At age 16 and having spent half my life rooting for the Tigers when they won in 68 baseball did as much for me as it ever could, and I moved on for many years. Losing Mickey is painful and when Willie Horton goes, damn I’ll be a puddle.

Mickey Lolich died. I saw the fifth game of the World Series in Detroit. This is hard. when Willie goes, I’m gonna be beside myself.

My mlb.tv subscription is good through May 6 allegedly. I hope I don’t get screwed on this.

When MLB expands to Salt Lake City, some of them will have groups of sister wives.

If anything is more indicative of the fact that nothing is going on it’s that in a baseball thread we’re talking about bowling. And I’m not against it and I actually find it fascinating. But it pretty much means that crickets are chirping around here.

I wish I could get paid $25 million over two years for a 6.95 ERA like Jordan Hicks.

Still, you’re the only person I know who was in the same bowling alley with him. Just seeing him on TV he seemed to be incredibly focused.

You bowled against Earl Anthony? The Earl Anthony? Even I know about him. That’s some impressive stuff, man.

I’m not worried about Skubal. In his most recent article on mlb.com. Beck says there is a wealth of free agent starting pitching arms still out there…. <ducks>

It’s about how in 1972 when the team was slumping terribly Billy Martin just threw the names of all the starters into a hat and randomly drew them out and batted Norm cash in leadoff and Ed Brinkman in cleanup and it worked.

That is pretty awesome

I’m having a hard time finding any evidence of the Tigers spring training broadcast schedule for 2026. On the MLB app on my phone the only time there’s any broadcast so far is when we play the Orioles? And it’s an Orioles broadcast and only on the radio?

Someone smart, not me, should start a spring training thread. On my ESPN app it just alerted me that the Tigers are playing the Yankees at Steinbrenner Field, February 21. That’s just 34 days away.

Not at all. We’re not discussing Skubal at all. All Skubal news is on the ninth floor in the Twilight Zone.

I remember liking the show a lot - I still make a curry omelette the way he taught me to to this day - and then came the accusations of “eat you like a sugar cookie” and at the time it sounded credible. It was at least presented as such and if it wasn’t credible, this is a terrible travesty. But seven accusations is an awful lot of accusations. I don’t know how someone’s sense of “warmth“ could be misinterpreted so widely and so frequently. And the program is not being streamed by any major outlet, but looks like it’s on a subscription basis only through the producers themselves. I wonder if major carriers consider the documentary series itself to be kind of legal hot potato and they’re staying away from it.

Sources: Royals to move in fences at Kauffman Stadium Jeff Passan Jan 13, 2026, 11:00 AM ET • Like 33 The Kansas City Royals are moving the majority of their outfield fence in by 10 feet, drastically changing the offensive environment of a notoriously bad stadium for home run hitting into one the team hopes will play as league-average, sources told ESPN. The decision, which the Royals are expected to announce Tuesday, comes after years of discussion by Kansas City's front office about tinkering with dimensions and months after the organization commissioned its analytics department to find a palatable middle ground between the fly ball dead zone of Kauffman Stadium and other stadiums where home runs soar at extreme rates. "We want a neutral ballpark where if you hit a ball well, it should be a home run," Royals general manager J.J. Picollo told ESPN. "The second they start feeling like they can't get the ball out of the ballpark, they start changing their swing. I watched it for years and years and years, and I just felt like this is the time to try to push it and see if everything we felt for however many years is accurate." The Royals will keep center field at 410 feet.

A true beat down. I have some good friends in Pittsburgh and they might well be affected by this loss, but some of my animosities run deeper than friendship.

I don’t usually root for anything from Texas other than Willie Nelson. But I want Houston to beat the Steelers tonight.

Hey pal, this is the “complaints department.” We only handle complaints here… 😉