03/19/2023 1:05 pm EDT Detroit Tigers vs Washington Nationals

[casimir]

  

Detroit Tigers vs Washington Nationals

Listen:  Nationals - The Team 980, Tigers - 97.1 The Ticket

 

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Tenacious D]

Cecil was great—his 50 HR march was very exciting.  Not on the level of what the Bird did in ‘76, but still a lot of fun.  Probably not replicated until Miggy got the Triple Crown.

50 HR in a season seems a bit pedestrian now, but it was rarified air when he was able to achieve it in 1990–I think George Foster had been the last to accomplish in the late 70’s.

 

Edited March 19, 2023 by Tenacious D

[Tiger337]

25 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Cecil was great—his 50 HR march was very exciting.  Not on the level of what the Bird did in ‘76, but still a lot of fun.  Probably not replicated until Miggy got the Triple Crown.

50 HR in a season seems a bit pedestrian now, but it was rarified air when he was able to achieve it in 1990–I think George Foster had been the last to accomplish in the late 70’s.

 

Yes, 50 homers was rare back then and ,like Fidrych, Fielder seemingly came out of nowhere.  That was a really fun season.    

[Tigeraholic1]

41 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Yes, 50 homers was rare back then and ,like Fidrych, Fielder seemingly came out of nowhere.  That was a really fun season.    

I was 13 in 1990. Pretty sure I heard Ernie call every one.

[Motor City Sonics]

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I was 13 in 1990. Pretty sure I heard Ernie call every one.

You missed that one in Baltimore.   You fell asleep after having dental work that morning.   You don't remember that? 

[Motor City Sonics]

I know he was at the WBC for a short time, but it seems like they really aren't playing Schoop much.     For a guy who seems to always get off to slow starts (.229 over his career in the first month and then .221 in September), you'd think they'd want him to get up and running quickly. 

Are you reading anything into that?     Or is he hurt?  

 

I am starting to wonder if he is an end of Spring Training cut.    There's more to gain by letting young guys take their lumps.   All I've heard about him is that he lost weight and he couldn't buy a hit in the WBC.  

 

Edited March 19, 2023 by Motor City Sonics

[Tenacious D]

I just saw that Miggy didn’t get a single AB in the WBC.  Not great for getting him game ready, but hopefully it prepped him to embrace a significantly diminished role.

[casimir]

3 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

Johnathan Davis gets a day off?

[casimir]

Depending upon how one looks at a calendar (Sun-Sat or Mon-Sun), Opening Day is next week.  Never mind the dusting of snow that was on the ground this morning.  The games are for real next week.  Every game is televised and radioised.  The dugouts aren’t as crowded.  It’s American League and National League rather groupings of citrus and prickly plants.  We’re almost there.

[gehringer_2]

25 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

I just saw that Miggy didn’t get a single AB in the WBC.  Not great for getting him game ready, but hopefully it prepped him to embrace a significantly diminished role.

IDK, this site says he had 21, MLB WBC site says he had 11. (????)

http://hosted.stats.com/wbc/teamreports.asp?tm=16&report=stats

Edited March 19, 2023 by gehringer_2

[Tenacious D]

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

IDK, this site says he had 21, MLB WBC site says he had 11. 

http://hosted.stats.com/wbc/teamreports.asp?tm=16&report=stats

That’s what I get for trusting Twitter and being too lazy to fact-check.  

[Tigeraholic1]

I like it, he has a radio voice.

[chasfh]

Hopefully Maybin will be as good as Alex Avila was.

I can't remember: did Alex do any games after his dad was booted? Seems like he wouldn't have but I can't remember.

[RaceDog]

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Hopefully Maybin will be as good as Alex Avila was.

I can't remember: did Alex do any games after his dad was booted? Seems like he wouldn't have but I can't remember.

Nope...he talks way too much for radio. No play by play because of the constant chatter

[gehringer_2]

Torkelson 2/2 so far today.

[gehringer_2]

14 minutes ago, RaceDog said:

Nope...he talks way too much for radio. 

you mean Maybin? Yeah - he needs to learn to get his thoughts into shorter sentences. Maybe Dan can get him a little timer....

[Jim Cowan]

Baddoo salvaging his spring, maybe, with a 3 or 4 game hitting streak

[chasfh]

38 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

you mean Maybin? Yeah - he needs to learn to get his thoughts into shorter sentences. Maybe Dan can get him a little timer....

I thought he meant Alex, because Alex does talk a lot the same way Dan does.

[RaceDog]

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I thought he meant Alex, because Alex does talk a lot the same way Dan does.

Maybin is who I meant. I don't remember AA being this bad.

[Tenacious D]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Torkelson 2/2 so far today.

Up to .300 now, which is impressive after starting the spring 0-9.

[chasfh]

22 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I thought he meant Alex, because Alex does talk a lot the same way Dan does.

They were both very verbose working together, which I actually like, but I could see how it would rattle some listeners. I thought maybe I'd accidentally stumbled onto a radio version of His Girl Friday ...

[casimir]

2 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I like it, he has a radio voice.

Quickest radio analyst in baseball?  Gotta be.

[Motor City Sonics]

2 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I like it, he has a radio voice.

Why are they talking about Cameron Maybin and showing that picture of some 22 year old kid? 

[casimir]

Just now, Motor City Sonics said:

Why are they talking about Cameron Maybin and showing that picture of some 22 year old kid? 

If Vierling is out for too long, is Maybin next in line as the RHH OF?