3/11/25 1:05PM Tigers @ Braves

[Tigeraholic1]

CoolToday Park - North Port, FL

Game Time Forecast: 74 Sunny

Listen: Braves - WIFN 1340 AM/ 103.7FM

Watch: Blue MLB Video

Starters:

RHP Jack Flaherty

RHP Grant Holmes

Edited yesterday at 12:05 PM by Tigeraholic1

[IdahoBert]

I didn’t realize the Braves had vacated Disney World. This link tells you why. The team had to suffer all sorts of five hour bus rides and Disney was charging $63 a seat to see the games.

Braves' camp in Disney causes extra wear, move would be welcomed

[1776]

 

I-4 through Orlando is a major traffic cluster. Last year we did I-95 to I-4 to Lakeland…brutal. This year we went to Ocala off I-95 around Jacksonville and avoided Orlando altogether, going and coming back. 

The Cactus League would be a great trip one year. My wife wants to go there next year but she heard that there were Tarantulas in Arizona so that might not happen. 🫣

[Sports_Freak]

11 minutes ago, 1776 said:

 

I-4 through Orlando is a major traffic cluster. Last year we did I-95 to I-4 to Lakeland…brutal. This year we went to Ocala off I-95 around Jacksonville and avoided Orlando altogether, going and coming back. 

The Cactus League would be a great trip one year. My wife wants to go there next year but she heard that there were Tarantulas in Arizona so that might not happen. 🫣

Tell her not to worry about spiders, the scorpions get them. 🤣🤣

[CMRivdogs]

8 minutes ago, 1776 said:

 

I-4 through Orlando is a major traffic cluster. Last year we did I-95 to I-4 to Lakeland…brutal. This year we went to Ocala off I-95 around Jacksonville and avoided Orlando altogether, going and coming back. 

The Cactus League would be a great trip one year. My wife wants to go there next year but she heard that there were Tarantulas in Arizona so that might not happen. 🫣

We did Phoenix several years ago for Spring Training. We enjoyed it but it was hot. We didn't do games every day, just two during our week there. White Sox park good, we enjoyed the game. Then did Hohokam in Mesa for the Cubs, our seats were right on the edge of a pergola one in partial shade the other in direct sunlight on aluminum bleachers. I think we made it to the 7th inning before we bailed. Temperature was around 100, never tell me again "but it's a dry heat"

Never ran into Tarantulas... 

[IdahoBert]

I’ve lived in dry heat above 100° for the last 51 years and it’s definitely superior to 85-90° heat in stifling humidity. But sitting without shade or much wind on an aluminum bench in 100° in high dry heat, yeah that’ll take a lot out of anyone.

[CMRivdogs]

15 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I’ve lived in dry heat above 100° for the last 51 years and it’s definitely superior to 85-90° heat in stifling humidity. But sitting without shade or much wind on an aluminum bench in 100° in high dry heat, yeah that’ll take a lot out of anyone.

I'm now back in the Tidewater Mid Atlantic Region where the heat and humidity can get oppressive at times. My son lived near Dallas for a while, we told him never to expect to see us between May and November

[IdahoBert]

Just now, CMRivdogs said:

I'm now back in the Tidewater Mid Atlantic Region where the heat and humidity can get oppressive at times. My son lived near Dallas for a while, we told him never to expect to see us between May and November

When I got married almost 40 years ago and was living in Idaho, my Idaho-born wife had never traveled east and went to Chicago for a conference for work. She called me in a panic one afternoon and said that she was worried that she had asthma that she couldn’t breathe. And I had to explain the sad “facts of life“ about humidity that she had never experienced before.

[CMRivdogs]

3 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

When I got married almost 40 years ago and was living in Idaho, my Idaho-born wife had never traveled east and went to Chicago for a conference for work. She called me in a panic one afternoon and said that she was worried that she had asthma that she couldn’t breathe. And I had to explain the sad “facts of life“ about humidity that she had never experienced before.

It could have been worse. She could have come in the Winter. We moved there in the Spring/Summer of 1990. The first winter was brutal with the winds off Lake Michigan. My wife worked in the Streeterville area of the city where you could definitely feel the "Hawk". Even worse it was almost as if you never saw the Sun until April 

[IdahoBert]

MLBTV free game of the day for those to whom this is relevant. 

[Tenacious D]

Pretty pivotal game.  Go Tigers!

[IdahoBert]

I think the MLB feed has the audio feeds messed up. First of all when the kid was playing the national anthem on the guitar there was no sound and now when you click on the TV feed, there’s no crowd noise and the announcers are describing the uniforms they’re wearing as if they were on the radio, but when you click on the radio feed, there’s crowd noise in the background so it’s kind of strange  

[IdahoBert]

4 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Pretty pivotal game.  Go Tigers!

Must Win!

[IdahoBert]

Tigers load the bases in the top of the third with two hit batters and a walk, but can’t score. There was a raccoon incident, however.

[Tigermojo]

7 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Tigers load the bases in the top of the third with two hit batters and a walk, but can’t score. There was a raccoon incident, however.

Elaborate trash can/racoon cheating scheme revealed!

[IdahoBert]

Flaherty being stretched out into the fourth, but for today at least at bat is not tabulating the number of pitches made thus far.

[Tigermojo]

Jung finally hit a homer.

[IdahoBert]

Thayron Liranzo doubles on a sharp line drive to center fielder Cody Milligan. Max Clark scores. Kevin McGonigle scores. The kids are alright!

[IdahoBert]

We’re reaching that point in the game where guys will who will make neither club are playing and they don’t even have pictures. 

[Tenacious D]

33 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Thayron Liranzo doubles on a sharp line drive to center fielder Cody Milligan. Max Clark scores. Kevin McGonigle scores. The kids are alright!

 

[Sports_Freak]

Don't let these kids get hot! 😁

[Sports_Freak]

W

[IdahoBert]

Enns started out rocky with a home run, a wild pitch, a hit batter and ended up pitching three solid innings. Nice to see Clark and McGonigle. 

[Sports_Freak]

21 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Enns started out rocky with a home run, a wild pitch, a hit batter and ended up pitching three solid innings. Nice to see Clark and McGonigle. 

We may end up needing Enns this season. A good/great impression is important for him. McGonigle is learning 3rd base, too. It would make him even more valuable.

[Tenacious D]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

We may end up needing Enns this season. A good/great impression is important for him. McGonigle is learning 3rd base, too. It would make him even more valuable.

Think they are trying to figure out between Lee and McGonigle which should be at 2B or 3B eventually.  Would solve a lot of problems if Kevin could stick at SS, since Rainer seems far away.