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Ricelund said:
They’re actually looking pretty competitive this season…
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Yep, I was debating getting the baseball package this year before I was given it for free, and I have enjoyed several Tigers games so far, including that Flaherty gem the other day. Skubal and Greene have both been a joy to watch too. Wish Keith would get going. This Perez kid has been a nice surprise so far.
 
Konnan511 said:
Don't ick someone else's yum.
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I just wish there was a consistency in sports coverage. People can like whatever they like, but baseball tends to be the sport that gets played during the day instead of the evening, has a longer season with more games, and in general tends to overlap other sports.

Example: I'm totally fine with the logic that playoff baseball trumps early season fall sports for media coverage. It's the post season and the games matter more, whether you like the sport or not. But when hockey playoffs come around, there's still a media blitz for the start of MLB, even to the point that sometimes hockey games get pushed to other channels or networks. Which goes against the logic of which games matter more.
 
jkutswings said:
I just wish there was a consistency in sports coverage. People can like whatever they like, but baseball tends to be the sport that gets played during the day instead of the evening, has a longer season with more games, and in general tends to overlap other sports.

Example: I'm totally fine with the logic that playoff baseball trumps early season fall sports for media coverage. It's the post season and the games matter more, whether you like the sport or not. But when hockey playoffs come around, there's still a media blitz for the start of MLB, even to the point that sometimes hockey games get pushed to other channels or networks. Which goes against the logic of which games matter more.
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so you want there to be 162 NHL games a season, be played during the day, and for it to get as much attention as a league with twice as much revenue?

you sure don't ask for much
 
ricky0034 said:
so you want there to be 162 NHL games a season, be played during the day, and for it to get as much attention as a league with twice as much revenue?

you sure don't ask for much
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No. I want NHL playoff hockey to not get bumped for (relatively) meaningless April baseball. Be consistent that post season games in any sport are given priority over regular season games, which in turn are given priority over any preseason games. But for some reason, the first month of baseball is given disproportionate coverage.

There isn't the "opening day is a holiday" mentality in football. There isn't the equivalent of "pitchers and catchers are reporting" in basketball. MLB just gets treated differently.

I get that hockey is clearly #4. But playoff hockey is the most intense form of the sport and the best case to market it, and that can't happen if the networks keep insisting on treating a random Pirates/Marlins game like a bigger event than an NHL playoff series.
 
jaster said:
Yep, I was debating getting the baseball package this year before I was given it for free, and I have enjoyed several Tigers games so far, including that Flaherty gem the other day. Skubal and Greene have both been a joy to watch too. Wish Keith would get going. This Perez kid has been a nice surprise so far.
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Hopefully Torkelson can get going. He's looking like a bust.
 
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random cool story I saw:

some Lions fan was seen on TV at the draft making fun of their Packers fan buddy's disappointment at their first round pick

anyways apparently Kerby Joseph got in touch with him and sent him the pair of cleats he wore when he got a couple interceptions against Aaron Rodgers a couple years back

 
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JediOrderPizza said:
Hmm Pistons 14 wins 5th overall, Hawks 36 wins 1st overall.

Cool cool.
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I've yet to see a lottery in any sport that is well conceptualized, let alone well executed.

If you have the worst record, you get the first pick. And if you are clearly throwing games, you forfeit your pick altogether. Punish specific bad behavior, not organically bad teams in general.
 
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jkutswings said:
I've yet to see a lottery in any sport that is well conceptualized, let alone well executed.

If you have the worst record, you get the first pick. And if you are clearly throwing games, you forfeit your pick altogether. Punish specific bad behavior, not organically bad teams in general.
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Agreed. Punish teams that continue to lose, not teams that have a bad season or two. Nobody should get five or six firsts in a row (looking at you, Oilers) or be rewarded for blatant tanking (looking at you, Sabres) but you shouldn't punish the teams that naturally decline and need the help getting out of the tank.

Hell, in MLB I'm a huge Cleveland fan and while I'm thrilled to have 1OA in the draft this summer, our 76-86 record from last year wasn't nearly as bad as other teams even in the AL Central.
 
Anyone watch the Tigers game last night? I was at Chase Field. We thought the Tigers had 3 triples. I believe in third, fourth and fifth. Lots of Tigers fans chatting about getting more triples.

MLB official box credits 2 triples. No errors for D-Backs and I don't recall anyone thrown out elsewhere.

Was there any explanation on the broadcast?
 
Bondurant said:
Anyone watch the Tigers game last night? I was at Chase Field. We thought the Tigers had 3 triples. I believe in third, fourth and fifth. Lots of Tigers fans chatting about getting more triples.

MLB official box credits 2 triples. No errors for D-Backs and I don't recall anyone thrown out elsewhere.

Was there any explanation on the broadcast?
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I’m pretty sure Perez advanced to third in one case only because there was a throw home. So it was ruled a double and advance on throw.
 
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Is the Tigers feed as botched as Toronto's, for tonight?

"Technical difficulties", we've been treated to a video feed of the game, with the radio crew calling the game over their own phones. Sounds terrible. :laugh:
 
I’m bending the rules here because the only thing this has to do with Michigan is that she’s my friend… but….

Chari Hawkins has made the US Olympic team for the Heptathlon. Literally one of the coolest human beings I’ve ever met. Plus, she can yeet Javelins and shotputs further than seems feasible, jump 1.91m over a bar and other various track and field badassness.

Here’s the interview of after she finished the 800 and ended with 6456 points, finishing with the silver and qualifying for Paris.

 
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Sounds like we are sellers...again... ONly 5.5 GB of a wild card spot. Jack better get us a massive haul this deadline, he's been one of the best pitchers in the AL this season.
 
Trading Flaherty is probably the right thing to do, given the circumstances, including the fact that he's injury-prone yet currently relatively healthy. But man, I wish the Tigers were better, and he was a candidate to be re-signed, I've really enjoyed his pitching this season. He's been every bit as filthy as Skubal, who's contending for a Cy Young.

Also, I needed a start out of Flaherty tonight for my fantasy team. God damn Tigers.
 
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