8/18/24 7:10PM Yankees @ Tigers

[Tigeraholic1]

Journey Bank Ballpark @ Historic Bowman Field- Williamsport, PA

Game Time Forecast: 75 40% Chance of Rain

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: ESPN

Starters:

RHP Marcus Stroman

LHP Tarik Skubal

 

 

[IdahoBert]

Me at the clinic an hour ago…. Well, I’m definitely not going anywhere today so I’ll be listening to this game on the radio. Tested positive. Relatively mild, only tired with a raw throat, but the whole family seems to have it. Pasta is the super spreader event. They’re giving me PAXLOVID™ so at least I won’t be communicative in 24 hours.

GO TIGERS! It would be ideal if there were some inside the park home runs tonight. It would seem appropriate.

[Tenacious D]

Sorry, Bert!  Stay safe.

If you tune into the Little League World Series on ESPN, you’ll see the Tigers players interacting with all of the kids in the stands.  Baez patiently signing tons of autographs—kids are treating him like a rock star.  Cool to see the interactions.

[Sports_Freak]

Slightly off topic...ESPN has a special on an hour before the Tiger game today about the Armando imperfect game. Baseball commissioner idiot says it would be too hard to change it. I say it's one of the most well known perfect games in history, leave it alone. You have the all time hit leader not allowed in the hall of fame and the all time home run leader not voted into the hall of fame for steroid use. Black eyes for MLB are part of the game...😆

[casimir]

2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Me at the clinic an hour ago…. Well, I’m definitely not going anywhere today so I’ll be listening to this game on the radio. Tested positive. Relatively mild, only tired with a raw throat, but the whole family seems to have it. Pasta is the super spreader event. They’re giving me PAXLOVID™ so at least I won’t be communicative in 24 hours.

GO TIGERS! It would be ideal if there were some inside the park home runs tonight. It would seem appropriate.

Get well, Bert.

[casimir]

2 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

Sorry, Bert!  Stay safe.

If you tune into the Little League World Series on ESPN, you’ll see the Tigers players interacting with all of the kids in the stands.  Baez patiently signing tons of autographs—kids are treating him like a rock star.  Cool to see the interactions.

I’ll bet most players enjoy interacting and autographing for the kids rather than adults.  My hunch is that (1) it’s just more fun to deal with the kids and the whole environment of the little league atmosphere and (2) it’s less likely that what gets signed today ends up being transacted as a sale later this week.

For all of the stupid things that baseball does / doesn’t do, this annual little league game seems to be done well.

[RandyMarsh]

I'll never forget Spring Training 2011, some dude with a duffel bag of **** to be signed trampled over some kids to try to get Verlander and Porcello's autographs, they both told him to p*ss off(maybe not the exact verbiage but something to that extent). Was great to see!

Edited August 18, 2024 by RandyMarsh

[IdahoBert]

2 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

Sorry, Bert!  Stay safe.

If you tune into the Little League World Series on ESPN, you’ll see the Tigers players interacting with all of the kids in the stands.  Baez patiently signing tons of autographs—kids are treating him like a rock star.  Cool to see the interactions.

When I was a little kid in the early 60s, our Cub Scout troop went to Baer Field in Fort Wayne, Indiana where the then fastest rocket on earth, the X-15, was being showcased. And we begged the ordinary ground personnel to give us autographs and they were laughing about how silly it was, but they enjoyed doing it because we thought they were all future astronauts. It’s hard to relay now how the first astronauts truly were idolized. It was about heroism, national pride, and the idealized possible future that stood before us. It was pretty heavy stuff.

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Slightly off topic...ESPN has a special on an hour before the Tiger game today about the Armando imperfect game. Baseball commissioner idiot says it would be too hard to change it. 

He doesn't seem to have a problem changing eveything else about the game.  

 

 

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 I say it's one of the most well known perfect games in history, leave it alone. 

I agree.  

[IdahoBert]

2 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

He doesn't seem to have a problem changing eveything else about the game.  

Indeed. 

[Tenacious D]

That “Imperfect” game probably has gotten way more notoriety than if it had actually happened. 

[RandyMarsh]

1 minute ago, Tenacious D said:

That “Imperfect” game probably has gotten way more notoriety than if it had actually happened. 

Definitely, especially considering Dallas Braden and Phillip Humber threw perfectos right around then and hardly anybody remembers them. 

[Tigeraholic1]

Riley Greene is indeed back.
 

 

Edited August 18, 2024 by Tigeraholic1

[Sports_Freak]

Best part of the lineup;

[Sports_Freak]

Watching LL WS and the announcers are are spending a lot of air time talking up the Yankees. Skubal will shut them up tonight, he can shut down the best teams. Cy Young caliber pitcher.

[chasfh]

Yeah, I am not looking forward to the narrative nature of the broadcast of a New York City team playing a flyover city team in upstate New York and presented by a broadcaster located in suburban New York City. A solid Skubal win could go a long way toward shoving that back up all their butts.

[Tigeraholic1]

5 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Watching LL WS and the announcers are are spending a lot of air time talking up the Yankees. Skubal will shut them up tonight, he can shut down the best teams. Cy Young caliber pitcher.

To be fair they did a ton of Tigers coverage earlier. Tracking their plane over stadium. Riding with them on bus to stadium. They really spent as much time with Tigers too.

[Tigeraholic1]

Sounds like end of the road for Mckinstry Tuesday.

Tigers didn't need to make a corresponding move when reinstating Greene from the injured list because teams get a 27th player for special-event games, meaning everyone else on the roster — including fellow left-handed hitting position player Zach McKinstry — is safe from a corresponding move until Tuesday.

[IdahoBert]

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Yeah, I am not looking forward to the narrative nature of the broadcast of a New York City team playing a flyover city team in upstate New York and presented by a broadcaster located in suburban New York City. A solid Skubal win could go a long way toward shoving that back up all their butts.

I thought you were a numbers guy, but you’re also capable of street poetry. 

[tiger2022]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

I’ll bet most players enjoy interacting and autographing for the kids rather than adults.  My hunch is that (1) it’s just more fun to deal with the kids and the whole environment of the little league atmosphere and (2) it’s less likely that what gets signed today ends up being transacted as a sale later this week.

For all of the stupid things that baseball does / doesn’t do, this annual little league game seems to be done well.

I was a kid and asked Gibson for an autograph and he actually signed.  Surprised after hearing stories about him later.

When Stafford was the QB for Detroit, he was at a Pistons game and these two kids went up to him and asked for an autograph, he was getting ready to sign when his boss interrupted and told the kids to get lost.  He meekly shook his head no to the kids as Kelly gloated over the kids.  Just another reason I dislike her.

 

[IdahoBert]

If anybody here has relatives in Williamsport, we might want to get a driveway weather report from them. It’s raining. 

[chasfh]

10 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I thought you were a numbers guy, but you’re also capable of street poetry. 

High praise, my man! Although in my "defense", as it were, my English scores in the Iowa and California assessments tests in grade school were way up into the 90s with my math scores. It was the science portion that I face-planted on.

[Sports_Freak]

7 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

If anybody here has relatives in Williamsport, we might want to get a driveway weather report from them. It’s raining. 

Lightning...kids can't play in thunderstorms, lightning within 8 miles and they call them off the field. Safety first. Its dry here in Detroit, for the moment. 

[Sports_Freak]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

High praise, my man! Although in my "defense", as it were, my English scores in the Iowa and California assessments tests in grade school were way up into the 90s with my math scores. It was the science portion that I face-planted on.

Ohhh...anti-science...uh-huh, that figures..j/k...😅😅

[IdahoBert]

Since this is being played in a college summer league ballpark I’m making the assumption that the drainage system may not what major league ballparks are able to offer and what MLB players are used to. I hope nobody on either team wrenches a knee or anything tonight. Of course, since so many of our guys are young their memories of lesser ballparks may be more vivid and their muscle memory for dealing with them more pronounced.