9/26/24 1:10PM Rays @ Tigers

[ben9753]

14 minutes ago, casimir said:

I love it.  Everyone has a role on this team.  Anyone not in the lineup is on alert.  Heck, Vierling even played “out of position” at 1B, his first time there this season.  Mize out of the bullpen.  The whole of this team is truly greater than the sum of its parts.

Hinch with a clipboard is like watching Monet with a paintbrush. A pure artist

Edited September 27, 2024 by ben9753

[chasfh]

5 hours ago, romad1 said:

This is a picture for the basement man cave to go with the 2006 ALDS celebration shot of Zumaya and Rogers on the dugout with the champagne and the puck just missing the crease with 0 seconds in the clock in 2008 Stanley Cup finals game 

 

I love how they love each other as brothers in arms. I really admire these guys right now.

[Jim Cowan]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Where’s all those people who only posted when the team didn’t do well?

I miss Stan Papi...not.

[IdahoBert]

I turned on the Marlins Twins game and initially it was on the Twins feed and their announcers, bless their soul, were so excited because they had a runner on first with no outs. HA! It didn’t matter. 

[IdahoBert]

The twins right now an inning later are threatening in the 7th, with runners on second and third and two outs down three runs. 

[IdahoBert]

Now it’s 4–2 twins they just scored a run on an infield single. Still two out.

[Jim Cowan]

Those good teams from the previous decade, they were fun to watch especially JD and Miggy, but I never really got emotionally invested in them.  It was different from 68 and 84, the cores of those teams were guys who had played in the Tigers' minor league system.

This team feels more like 68 and 84, so many of the key players spent time at Erie and Toledo.  I guess there is one key difference, the 68 and 84 teams had homegrown players who were already big stars, and on this team you would say "not yet but fingers crossed for a few of them".

[chasfh]

5 hours ago, lordstanley said:

I think you’re right. Matches the boxscore. 

Imagine what A.J. could do with a very talented roster.

[lordstanley]

Twins have 1st and 3rd one out after a liner off the wall. 

[Motor City Sonics]

****ing Marlins.   

[lordstanley]

4-4. 

[Motor City Sonics]

Tie game. 

 

God I hate the Marlins.   I've always hated the stupid Marlins.    Stupid team, stupid logo, stupid stadium.    

[IdahoBert]

Florida man is failing. 

[lordstanley]

All because the Marlins couldn’t catch a foul popup on a 3-2 count. 

[Tigeraholic1]

I don’t think Marlins have the drive to win this one now.

[Motor City Sonics]

A lot of Tiger fans seem to think that the Tigers beating the White Sox is automatic.   I disagree and I'm a little nervous about how some think it's 2 automatic wins this weekend.  It is not.   White Sox are playing desperately to avoid 121 losses.   Granted, the Tigers are better than the Angels. 

[Motor City Sonics]

1 minute ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I don’t think Marlins have the drive to win this one now.

I don't think the Marlins have the drive to exist.   

[IdahoBert]

The moral of this story is that we can’t expect anyone else to do, what only our own team is able to accomplish. 

[KL2]

4 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

A lot of Tiger fans seem to think that the Tigers beating the White Sox is automatic.   I disagree and I'm a little nervous about how some think it's 2 automatic wins this weekend.  It is not.   White Sox are playing desperately to avoid 121 losses.   Granted, the Tigers are better than the Angels. 

Omg were worried about a 120 loss team now?

[gehringer_2]

Fish get the lead-off man on in the top of the 9th, put in a pinch runner, and he gets thrown out.

[KL2]

Minnesota did use up a lot of bullpen bullets tonight though.

[IdahoBert]

I feel like a Peeping Tom watching another team on TV and rooting for them. 

[ben9753]

Thanks for Miggy you useless turds. 

[Motor City Sonics]

3 minutes ago, KL2 said:

Omg were worried about a 120 loss team now?

Yes, we are.       2003 Tigers were destined to break the 120 barrier and won 5 out of 6 at the end to avoid it.  

Don't take anything for granted. 

 

2009:  Clinch Day  (Thursday day game) - all the Tigers had to do to clinch was beat the Twins.   They lost and then lost 2 to the White Sox  (Miggy had to be bailed out of jail by Dave Dombrowski Friday night, then he played with a hangover, if you remember that disaster - and Leyland botched the rotation).,   They had to win the last game just to get to a tiebreaker. 

Anything can happen. 

[1776]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

Where’s all those people who only posted when the team didn’t do well?

That crossed my mind today as well.