4/5/24 1:10PM EDT Oakland Athletics @ Detroit Tigers

[Tigeraholic1]

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI

Game Time Forecast: Partly Sunny 43

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: Bally Sports Detroit

Starters:

LHP JP Sears

LHP Tarik Skubal

[Tigeraholic1]

Posting early as I will be taking part in the pilgrimage to downtown Deeetroit tomorrow!

Edited April 5, 2024 by Tigeraholic1

[Tigermojo]

Skubal gets the next winning streak started.

[IdahoBert]

[casimir]

Looks like a great day to start another 5 banger.  Huzzah!

[casimir]

8 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

That photo of Trammell and Whitaker doffing their caps at second base in Tiger Stadium is the background on my computer.

[casimir]

Heading into this game, the league average scoring per game per team is 4.63 runs/game.  The Tigers are scoring 3.83 and allowing 2.17 (only Boston has allowed fewer, 2.00).

 

[IdahoBert]

This is off-topic, but no matter what I’m going to ask, what was with the Tigers playing that John Denver country boy song during the 84 season? I lived in Arizona then in the pre-Internet era, radio didn’t reach me there, and only saw the tigers on a rare national broadcast, but I understand there was some sort of “controversy“ about the playing of this song during the 1984 season. Any help from those not living in the diaspora at that time would be helpful. I tried to watch a YouTube video about it, but they took so long getting to the point I gave up. 

[kdog]

Oakland is starting a lefty:

[Tigeraholic1]

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

This is off-topic, but no matter what I’m going to ask, what was with the Tigers playing that John Denver country boy song during the 84 season? I lived in Arizona then in the pre-Internet era, radio didn’t reach me there, and only saw the tigers on a rare national broadcast, but I understand there was some sort of “controversy“ about the playing of this song during the 1984 season. Any help from those not living in the diaspora at that time would be helpful. I tried to watch a YouTube video about it, but they took so long getting to the point I gave up. 

 

[CMRivdogs]

Looks like they got out of NY just in time 4.8 earthquake

edit, hope Sue's OK

Edited April 5, 2024 by CMRivdogs

[lordstanley]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

This is off-topic, but no matter what I’m going to ask, what was with the Tigers playing that John Denver country boy song during the 84 season? I lived in Arizona then in the pre-Internet era, radio didn’t reach me there, and only saw the tigers on a rare national broadcast, but I understand there was some sort of “controversy“ about the playing of this song during the 1984 season. Any help from those not living in the diaspora at that time would be helpful. I tried to watch a YouTube video about it, but they took so long getting to the point I gave up. 

There wasn't a controversy. If it's the YouTube video I'm thinking of, it was made by a younger fan who wasn't even born back then who saw an old press clipping and ran with it. The Orioles used to play Country Boy and since they had won the division in 1983 it sounds like a few people thought that the Tigers shouldn't play that song. If there was a controversy, it lasted a day. Much more attention was paid that summer to stuff like the Bless You Boys song, the Wave and its various variations, and even Martha and the Vandellas' Dancing In The Streets. Europeans always refer to the wave as the Mexican Wave because it was popular at soccer games in Mexico going back to the '70s, and some American college football crowds tried it in the early 80s. But it was really the Tigers' 1984 start that put the Wave on the map - for good or for bad - in the States.

Edited April 5, 2024 by lordstanley

[gehringer_2]

54 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

But it was really the Tigers' 1984 start that put the Wave on the map - for good or for bad - in the States.

the wave was going strong at UM (and other college) stadium at football games well before 1984, and lots of those games were on national TV so I don't know how many people didn't know about it before it hit Tigers Stadium in the 80's. But it was a college football thing. The jump to baseball wasn't necessarily natural because not all baseball stadia are particularly good for the wave, and they often are not full enough. While Tiger Stadium did have the two decks all the way around, you still need to get the place filled up, and that didn't happen much until the team got good.

Edited April 5, 2024 by gehringer_2

[Toddwert]

does anyone else feel that opening day is the worst game to go to.. bunch of drunks and morons not really watchiing game and its always freezing cold

Edited April 5, 2024 by Toddwert

[chasfh]

20 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

the wave was going strong at UM (and other college) stadium at football games well before 1984, and lots of those games were on national TV so I don't know how many people didn't know about it before it hit Tigers Stadium in the 80's. But it was a college football thing. The jump to baseball wasn't necessarily natural because not all baseball stadia are particularly good for the wave, and they often are not full enough. While Tiger Stadium did have the two decks all the way around, you still need to get the place filled up, and that didn't happen much until the team got good.

It was the 1984 Tigers that put the Wave on the national map—and I agree, for good or bad.

[Toddwert]

Brent Rooker first hit 

[Dtrain72]

Benneti is awesome.

[Toddwert]

do we really need Monroe in the booth?

[Motor City Sonics]

Oh my God.  Don't give Monroe sugar, caffeine or cocaine before games please,  he's intolerable.    Just shut up, man.   Can we get Carlos Pena or anyone else in there?  

[Motor City Sonics]

3 minutes ago, Dtrain72 said:

Benneti is awesome.

But Monroe offsets it and makes it unlistenable.   Can we have a Monroe only Mute button, please? 

[chasfh]

I am—fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view—headed to the Dodgers-Cubs game this afternoon. It will be the first game Ohtani has played on the road since the allegations, so that's going to be interesting. Although I wish I could see how Benetti and Gibson get along, so I will be checking in on this thread to get a sense of that, I hope.

[CMRivdogs]

Craig is way too pumped. He's like that guy three rows behind you who never shuts up during the game. 
 

They need to give him some tranquilizers before the game.

[Toddwert]

2 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Craig is way too pumped. He's like that guy three rows behind you who never shuts up during the game. 
 

They need to give him some tranquilizers before the game.

or smoke a joint

[kdog]

Tork's going to make these infielders tired with all of the popouts.