10/1/24 2:32PM Tigers @ Astros Wild Card Game 1

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

5 hours ago, casimir said:

Do I just listen to it live on radio or do I watch the recording after work?

If the latter, do I get a bike ride in after work and before watching the recording?

You went to work??? WTF is the matter with you?

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

@casimir I don't know why you ever even bother recording the game and try to watch it later. You know when something interesting happens, I'm just going to text you about it immediately.  That's the way it always has been, and always will be.

Edited October 1, 2024 by Shades of Deivi Cruz

[oblong]

So... is ABC going to air the game or the Israel/Iran coverge?

 

[chasfh]

12 minutes ago, CaliforniaDreaming said:

Ibanez batting 4th so that he can pinch hit McKinstry for him later in the game after Green gets on base and McKinstry provides the game winning hit. Hinch can see it already...

I do think he's looking ahead to your scenario, but I see Colt Keith coming in for Ibanez rather than McKinstry, who might come in for Sweeney.

Also, Carpenter is definitely pinch-hitting for Malloy at some point mid-game.

 

Edited October 1, 2024 by chasfh

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, oblong said:

So... is ABC going to air the game or the Israel/Iran coverge?

 

Is it on another station or are we stuck watching people play Live Missle Command?

[chasfh]

3 minutes ago, oblong said:

So... is ABC going to air the game or the Israel/Iran coverge?

 

They would have to switch the game to ESPN2, I would think.

[Sports_Freak]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

I do think he's looking ahead that your scenario, but I see Colt Keith coming in for Ibanez rather than McKinstry, who might come in for Sweeney.

Also, Carpenter is definitely pinch-hitting for Malloy at some point mid-game.

Not mid-game. Houston has very good LH bullpen arms. Carpenters splits must show he's not good against LH pitchers?

[Sports_Freak]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

They would have to switch the game to ESPN2, I would think.

KC is on ESPN2 at 3:00. This is MLB fault for scheduling a Tuesday mid-day game. Cancel the playoffs!! 😁😁

[Tigermojo]

3 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Not mid-game. Houston has very good LH bullpen arms. Carpenters splits must show he's not good against LH pitchers?

Bad but only 28 AB vs lefties and 236 vs righties.

[smr-nj]

14 minutes ago, oblong said:

So... is ABC going to air the game or the Israel/Iran coverge?

 

I feel like a bad person for wondering the same thing….. (but, here I am thinking this)

[smr-nj]

Yay! They’re on ABC.  (I am obviously not a very nice person)

[chasfh]

I look at this playoff roster and you know what I see? I see thirteen guys who played competitive baseball at the minor league level this season. That's exactly one-half of our playoff roster that was deemed not ready or not good enough to be on the major league team for significant chunks of the season.

And I'm not even counting the guys who were injured and had to go to the minors to rehab so they could make their way back to the big club, specifically, Casey Mize, Reese Olson, Kerry Carpenter, Riley Greene, and Andy Ibanez. They were playing in the minors not to be competitive, but to work themselves back into shape to return to Detroit.  Although, if we were to count these guys as well, that would mean 18 of our 26 playoff roster guys played in the minor leagues this season.

And this also doesn't include Ryan Kreidler or Liam Hicks, who are actual minor leaguers named to the taxi squad.

When you add up all the activity all these guys put in at the minor league level, it makes up more than a quarter of all the innings pitched and plate appearances the entire Toledo team produced all season.

Has there even been a playoff roster in major league history that had this much same-season minor league activity as ours? Not only I would be shocked if there ever were, I think I would be surprised if any other team came within even three guys of matching this.

 

[chasfh]

13 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

KC is on ESPN2 at 3:00. This is MLB fault for scheduling a Tuesday mid-day game. Cancel the playoffs!! 😁😁

OK, ESPN News, then. Or maybe ESPNU? How about Disney Channel or FX or FXX or Nat Geo? They'd have to give the game to someone in the family.

[oblong]

There’s hardly anybody there it looks like.  I heard cheers for AJ and  the other Tigers.  

[casimir]

32 minutes ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

You went to work??? WTF is the matter with you?

I got issues.

[oblong]

This is weird.  I'm working from home and have it on both TV's.  In the TV in my office, I use a roku streaming stick and the Xfinity app, no cable box, but I can hear the TV in the main room.  There's different commercials between the ABC on the box and the ABC on the streaming stick, both being Xfinity broadcasts.  Maybe the box is market specific and the stick is generic.

 

[smr-nj]

That national anthem singer had some set of pipes!

Okay… let’s go Tigers.🐅

[Tenacious D]

How we feelin’?

[lordstanley]

I liked seeing player intros.  

[romad1]

2 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

How we feelin’?

like 2.5 hours of stress are coming

 

[casimir]

7 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

How we feelin’?

[lordstanley]

So Alvarez playing, as DH. 

[lordstanley]

So Alvarez playing, as DH. 

[Dan Gilmore]

Hoping he’s rusty after missing the last 5 games.

[MichiganCardinal]

As a lifelong fan of the 2024 Tigers for the past two weeks, I am extremely prepared to base my happiness for the rest of the day on the next two and a half hours, yelling at players I only recently learned existed for not playing to my expectations.

(Actually though, really happy for those here who are die hard followers)