I missed this place!

[Zakk_Wylde]

Hey Everybody,

Not sure who remembers me, I was a regular on MotownSports and joined way back in like 2003.  I remember the countless inside jokes over the years, SlickNickShady's 'hat on bed' pictures, Library Monkey/Titus Tigers famous animated gifs in the game threads.  And so many more memories of the old days. I really miss all the sabremetric discussion. There were some really brilliant math-oriented people who used to post here.  Hope there is still a lot of that.

I remember most of the old posters, Yoda, Biff, Yooper, Chasf, Oblong, Tiger337, etc.  I hope many of the old crowd is still around.

Unfortunately, life just got in the way and I had to step away for a long time, but seeing this run the Tigers are making  inspired me to make my  return.

Anyway, sorry for the useless thread, it will be the only one of it's type that I create, I just wanted to say I missed you all and am happy to be back.  

Edited Friday at 07:51 PM by Zakk_Wylde
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[Tigeraholic1]

24 minutes ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

Hey Everybody,

Not sure who remembers me, I was a regular on MotownSports and joined way back in like 2003.  I remember the countless inside jokes over the years, SlickNickShady's 'hat on bed' pictures, Library Monkey/Titus Tigers famous animated gifs in the game threads.  And so many more memories of the old days. I really miss all the sabremetric discussion. There were some really brilliant math-oriented people who used to post here.  Hope there is still a lot of that.

I remember most of the old posters, Yoda, Biff, Yooper, Chasf, Oblong, Tiger337, etc.  I hope many of the old crowd is still around.

Unfortunately, life just got in the way and I had to step away for a long time, but seeing this run the Tigers are making  inspired me to make my  return.

Anyway, sorry for the useless thread, it will be the only one of it's type that I create, I just wanted to say I missed you all and am happy to be back.  

Welcome back Homie, grab a beer from the fridge. The good good IPA's are in the garage fridge just like you remember it.

[CaliforniaDreaming]

So sad that I didn't make the list of old posters worth remembering. 😑 (Maybe that's because I never post...)

Welcome back!

[Zakk_Wylde]

My apologies for not remembering all the names, these are just the ones I remembered off the top of my head.

[Dan Gilmore]

Welcome home, Zakk.

[lordstanley]

Welcome back. Your post with names reminds me of a couple more (e.g., Yoda, unless unbeknownst to me still her under a a different name) from the past that no longer post. 

By the way, is the recently-reappeared Shelton the same Shelton who was a frequently poster in the early-mid 2010s?

[Cruzer1]

Welcome back Zack!!!

[RandyMarsh]

48 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Welcome back. Your post with names reminds me of a couple more (e.g., Yoda, unless unbeknownst to me still her under a a different name) from the past that no longer post. 

By the way, is the recently-reappeared Shelton the same Shelton who was a frequently poster in the early-mid 2010s?

Yoda, Biggs, Eric Clio, Pyro, Scottwood and a few others come to mind among posters I miss from the old forum. I didn't start going there till 2009ish so there's probably more that were big posters before my time but those are ones that come to my mind. And yeah I'm pretty sure it's the same Shelton, seems to have the same type of knowledge as him.

[holygoat]

Welcome back,  brother! 

[TigerNation]

3 hours ago, RandyMarsh said:

Yoda, Biggs, Eric Clio, Pyro, Scottwood and a few others come to mind among posters I miss from the old forum. I didn't start going there till 2009ish so there's probably more that were big posters before my time but those are ones that come to my mind. And yeah I'm pretty sure it's the same Shelton, seems to have the same type of knowledge as him.

It is the same Shelton.

And I swear I saw Scottwood post in a thread here recently, though he's not nearly as active as he used to be. He also occasionally posts on a Michigan forum I'm on.

[IdahoBert]

Welcome back.  I’ve been a fan for 64 years but was on the inactive list at various times too.

When I was 16 and the Tigers won in ‘68 everything I’d ever wanted was achieved and I didn’t follow the team very much for a number of years because I was a young man living the life.

And when I moved Out West and could only follow the Tigers through box scores, and was out of listening distance for Ernie, the Tigers were basically a memory aside from ‘84 and ‘87 and The Bird and then due only to national coverage. Then I discovered this place thanks to the Internet. 

[Tiger337]

18 hours ago, CaliforniaDreaming said:

So sad that I didn't make the list of old posters worth remembering. 😑 (Maybe that's because I never post...)

Welcome back!

There is a difference between being a memorable old poster and just being old.  😃

[oblong]

Welcome back. I think of your username whenever I hear his music.  

[Zakk_Wylde]

Appreciate the Welcome, everybody.  It seems some remember me.  So many great users in here.

Trying to think of some of the other posters of the past .. Edman85, is he still around?   kpking?  DaBishop?     I remember one guy I loved reading, I think his name was sabertooth, he always had a lot of interesting mathematical analysis on everything.

And trying to remember funny stuff from the past.  Remember that one guy TripleSeven or whatever, I can't remember how he formatted his username, but I remember he was the one who thought that Dave Dombrowski read his posts on the message board and took advice from him, he recognized his profile picture and even nodded to him at the stadium?  I forget the full scenario.

Then there was that other guy, his name was The_Strategy_Expert or something like that.  He had some made up statistic, called the OE% which was apparently the ultimate way of rating the true value of a player to a team, but he wouldn't tell anybody what the formula was or how he came up with these numbers, claiming the formula was worth way too much money and he was holding onto it to sell to GMs to use.

I'm trying to remember.  Anyway it makes me happy to see that a lot of the old crowd are still around.  Hopefully more people return like I did due to the excitement of this year.

[Longgone]

8 minutes ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

Appreciate the Welcome, everybody.  It seems some remember me.  So many great users in here.

Trying to think of some of the other posters of the past .. Edman85, is he still around?   kpking?  DaBishop?     I remember one guy I loved reading, I think his name was sabertooth, he always had a lot of interesting mathematical analysis on everything.

And trying to remember funny stuff from the past.  Remember that one guy TripleSeven or whatever, I can't remember how he formatted his username, but I remember he was the one who thought that Dave Dombrowski read his posts on the message board and took advice from him, he recognized his profile picture and even nodded to him at the stadium?  I forget the full scenario.

Then there was that other guy, his name was The_Strategy_Expert or something like that.  He had some made up statistic, called the OE% which was apparently the ultimate way of rating the true value of a player to a team, but he wouldn't tell anybody what the formula was or how he came up with these numbers, claiming the formula was worth way too much money and he was holding onto it to sell to GMs to use.

I'm trying to remember.  Anyway it makes me happy to see that a lot of the old crowd are still around.  Hopefully more people return like I did due to the excitement of this year.

Those were the days, my friend.

[Tigermojo]

32 minutes ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

Appreciate the Welcome, everybody.  It seems some remember me.  So many great users in here.

Trying to think of some of the other posters of the past .. Edman85, is he still around?   kpking?  DaBishop?     I remember one guy I loved reading, I think his name was sabertooth, he always had a lot of interesting mathematical analysis on everything.

And trying to remember funny stuff from the past.  Remember that one guy TripleSeven or whatever, I can't remember how he formatted his username, but I remember he was the one who thought that Dave Dombrowski read his posts on the message board and took advice from him, he recognized his profile picture and even nodded to him at the stadium?  I forget the full scenario.

Then there was that other guy, his name was The_Strategy_Expert or something like that.  He had some made up statistic, called the OE% which was apparently the ultimate way of rating the true value of a player to a team, but he wouldn't tell anybody what the formula was or how he came up with these numbers, claiming the formula was worth way too much money and he was holding onto it to sell to GMs to use.

I'm trying to remember.  Anyway it makes me happy to see that a lot of the old crowd are still around.  Hopefully more people return like I did due to the excitement of this year.

OE% so that's Hinch's secret!

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

Then there was that other guy, his name was The_Strategy_Expert or something like that.  He had some made up statistic, called the OE% which was apparently the ultimate way of rating the true value of a player to a team, but he wouldn't tell anybody what the formula was or how he came up with these numbers, claiming the formula was worth way too much money and he was holding onto it to sell to GMs to use.

He grew up to be Conner Stallions.

[tiger1983uk]

Whenever I think of this message board in the past I always think of The Ronz's pogo stick story and the fact(I think) Eminem's mum used to cut his hair. For some reason these stories always stuck with me....

[VegasTiger]

This could become a very interesting thread.

[lordstanley]

From October 2012.

 

From July 2010.

Edited Sunday at 06:49 PM by lordstanley

[ben9753]

Verlander - Is he elite or just very good?

[davidsb623]

Welcome back.  I seldom post but still read MotownTigers every day.  I can claim to be one of the original Morons.  Even started the daily Game Threads for a few years.

Edited Sunday at 11:28 PM by davidsb623

[1776]

3 hours ago, ben9753 said:

Verlander - Is he elite or just very good?

Recently, neither. 

[Dan Gilmore]

I thought Ben might be making a sly reference to Jake, another poster from back in the day. He liked to troll on Verlander being nothing special.

[Zakk_Wylde]

More familiar names in here, glad to see.   Another name I remember well, JonBenke, whatever happened to him?  Didn't he get released on the old board for some reason?

Trying to think of others ... OldTimey, Tyrus, spikesglaring, Florida Tigers, The Truman Show .. dt35456884 .. shauntacular .. 

Of course there was estrepe (RIP), probably the greatest asset this board had back in the day. Really miss his posts.  And really really miss the old MTS days!

Seriously though, if somebody still has a copy of the picture of slicknickshady's new Tigers hat, sitting on his un-made bed, please post it. That was one of the most iconic images on here, back around 2005-2006.