IdahoBert

By the way, tomorrow’s game in Lakeland will only have a Tigers radio feed; neither team will be broadcasting on TV for Sunday.

One of the things Dan Dickerson just mentioned is that with the WBC we’ll likely see a lot more of the young guys than we would have otherwise. I’m cool with that.

Max Clark has entered the game in centerfield.

Judge hits another homer off a no name pitcher. Yanks 8-2.

Fortunately, this game is not a “must win.“

Dan D. on the radio feed said that the ABS at the minor league level generated one extra walk per game. If you do that at the major league level, that will have an effect on pitching staffs in terms of the duration of outings during a game and all sorts of stuff I’m assuming.

Non roster invitee Smith with a history of arm trouble gives up a home run to Aaron Judge, which is not surprising.

Corey Julks homers (1) on a fly ball to left field.

The black Road jerseys with the orange accent are way cool.

Ball gets by the catcher throw goes into the left field McGonnigal scores.

McGonigle gets an opposite field single, and Torres follows with a single as well.

The Detroit radio feed that is going with the TV feed is about a second behind

Well, even though the TV feed says Detroit TV it’s the Yankees TV feed. I guess I’ll just have to see how Dan Dickerson’s radio feed is synchronized with the picture. I’m watching on mlb.tv.

Right now it’s 80° in Tampa and sunny. Perfect - damn perfect - for this game.

I’m not sure what “Tigers TV“ means. If it means that we get one of our own broadcasts that would be awesome. And radio as well is cool.

God bless you, Mark!

My brother-in-law who died at age 92 last year grew up in Shenandoah Pennsylvania and was a high school baseball pitcher to whom the Pittsburgh Pirates offered a contract right out of high school and I’m assuming he would’ve started in a class D league had he accepted. He declined the offer because he was smart, good at math and science, and he instead joined the US Air Force during the Korean War becoming an electronics engineer. He did this to get the G.I. bill so he could go to college and ended up working for IBM and writing code and stuff all the rest of his working life. He was an astute baseball fan, and when I went to games with him, his focus was so intense you were eveloped in his bubble of enthusiasm and perspicacity.

Bill Mazeroski died. He’s noted for his game 7 1960 World Series 9th inning walk off homer against the New York Yankees. I had both of these baseball cards when I was eight years old. But like my innocent youthfulness, they have also departed. I had already become a Tiger’s fan by the time these cards came into my possession in 1961. I knew the Yankees were the main enemy because they were always ahead of the Tigers in the standings in 1961.

One of you needs to do a game thread for tomorrow’s game. I am Retired somebody else needs to do it.

Years ago on NPR I heard an interview with Anthony Bourdain where he said that most people will find it deflating to discover that the “secret ingredients“ of a lot of the most appealing high end dishes they enjoy at restaurants is simply butter and salt.

Caught the very end of the game. Hadn’t watched an NBA game with two good teams in a long time. Absolutely terrifying how fast and tough these guys are. Jeez Louise Pistons! Wish more of these games were on “free TV.”

That was one of the years I lived in Tucson Arizona and went to seven or eight Indian spring training games every year for 13 years and fortunately they never forced Boog to wear that uniform during spring training and I also didn’t have to endure it.

My wife got me that warm-up jacket in 1987 for Christmas and I still have it although – cough cough – it has “shrunk” or somehow it has become a bit tighter on me.

I enjoy any reference to Carl Sandburg so thank you. City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.