2025 Detroit Tigers General Discussion Thread

[Motor City Sonics]

5 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Name dropper.  

Hey, my cool uncle was friends with Bernie Carbo's brother and a guy I did radio with once got into a fender bender with Milt Wilcox. 

 

[Tiger337]

Malloy and Chafin are not making the team either.  

[gehringer_2]

I saw the news about Malloy (out) and Kreidler (in) in the Freep, didn't see about Chafin. Thought he had a chance based on this last two outings.

Petzold's panties will be in a bunch - he wanted Malloy over Torkelson. I hate to have to tell him that Torkelson is a better 1B than Malloy is an OF.

If Malloy goes to Toledo and learns to do something useful with the shoe leather on his left hand he can still be a good piece.

Edited March 26 by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

So I've got 13 position players:

Dingler, Rogers

Carpenter, Greene, Kreilder, Margot

Ibanez, Baez, Sweeney, Keith, Torres, Torkelson, McKinstry

and they still need to get the pitching down to 13.

[gehringer_2]

Petzold reporting that Chafin is going to go to Toledo and try to work his way back. I wondered if he would hang 'em up if he didn't make the team.

Edited March 26 by gehringer_2

[monkeytargets39]

Is the pitching not:

 

Skubal, Flaherty, Olson, Mize, Jobe. 
 

and

 

Holton, Vest, Brieske, Brebbia, Kahnle, Maeda, Hanifee, Hurter?

[Toddwert]

23 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I saw the news about Malloy (out) and Kreidler (in) in the Freep, didn't see about Chafin. Thought he had a chance based on this last two outings.

Petzold's panties will be in a bunch - he wanted Malloy over Torkelson. I hate to have to tell him that Torkelson is a better 1B than Malloy is an OF.

If Malloy goes to Toledo and learns to do something useful with the shoe leather on his left hand he can still be a good piece.

Harris better watch out or Evan is gonna unleash the mighty Gorosh on him  

[Tiger337]

2 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Is the pitching not:

 

Skubal, Flaherty, Olson, Mize, Jobe. 
 

and

 

Holton, Vest, Brieske, Brebbia, Kahnle, Maeda, Hanifee, Hurter?

That appears to be the case.  

[gehringer_2]

7 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Is the pitching not:

 

Skubal, Flaherty, Olson, Mize, Jobe. 
 

and

 

Holton, Vest, Brieske, Brebbia, Kahnle, Maeda, Hanifee, Hurter?

yup - when I counted the roster earlier I forget to subtract Madden and thought they still had one more guy to cut.

[monkeytargets39]

Looks like we also signed Ben Gamel to a minor league deal and traded for Tampa Bay minor league reliever Erbe

[IdahoBert]

While we’re name dropping, one of my wife’s former coworkers as a hairdresser moved back to Detroit, and one of her regulars was Frank Tanana and he was pretty much of a no-frills guy. He got cheap haircuts at Supercuts, saw baseball more as a job and less of a calling, and was more interested in his family than anything else.

[Edman85]

46 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Name dropper.  

Hah!

I remember a group text somebody asked me if their friend Ben was any good and locked it away. Searching his BR page, he was drafted out of high school, and with all the sports leagues I play I know a bunch of ppl from that high school his age.

[lordstanley]

3 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

While we’re name dropping, one of my wife’s former coworkers as a hairdresser moved back to Detroit, and one of her regulars was Frank Tanana and he was pretty much of a no-frills guy. He got cheap haircuts at Supercuts, saw baseball more as a job and less of a calling, and was more interested in his family than anything else.

Tanana is also deeply religious and grew close to Ernie Harwell through that, if I recall correctly. 

[Tiger337]

Is now a good time to talk about how Matt Stairs and I dated the same woman in the same week?  

[IdahoBert]

1 minute ago, lordstanley said:

Tanana is also deeply religious and grew close to Ernie Harwell through that, if I recall correctly. 

Yeah, I think you’re right on that. 

[monkeytargets39]

My younger sister once cut Tyler Collins’ hair at a SuperCuts

[monkeytargets39]

5 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Is now a good time to talk about how Matt Stairs and I dated the same woman in the same week?  

Are you sure he didn’t just pinch hit for you?

[Tiger337]

1 minute ago, monkeytargets39 said:

My younger sister once cut Tyler Collins’ hair at a SuperCuts

I heard he didn't like the hair cut.

 

[Tiger337]

1 minute ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Are you sure he didn’t just pinch hit for you?

She dated him before me.  I asked her if I was more exciting than him  And she said: "yeah, he was fat, married and boring"...whereas I'm just boring.  

[lordstanley]

I saw an older dude wearing a navy blue Tigers' warmup jersey with Zumaya on the back in the check-out line of an IGA grocery store in downtown Vancouver about 10 years ago. Turns out it was his dad. 

[oblong]

When I did a tour of the Tigers clubhouse, maybe it was during a Tigerfest, on the bulletin board was a flyer for a prayer group or sunday chapel, along those lines, and it had Frank's name and his phone number.  For hundreds of people to see that day.

Andy Dirks hit on a friend of mine, back in his playing days, outside of a bar in Royal Oak. I know he's pretty religious now so I assume he wouldn't do such a thing now.

 

 

[IdahoBert]

I can’t remember if it was when Zoom or Nick joined the team, and a sister of one of those two logged on and innocently announced her presence and some posters wisely advised her that we were apt to say not very nice things about her brother because we tend to look upon these players as livestock which we either love or despise. 

[oblong]

Remember Nick's mom?

I do.

 

[papalawrence]

I once played checkers with Mickey Stanley at his place near the Thornapple River. I was friends with one of his nephews

[papalawrence]

I realize it's largely injury related, but too much of the position player roster seems AAAAish to me. I'm hopeful for 85 wins, but won't be surprised by 75. If pitching, Greene and Carpenter stay healthy, more likely closer to 85.