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Parker. Meadows. #Tigers

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@DetroitOnLion Such is the life of the Swagg Kazekage Leader of the Hidden Village of the Den.

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@TalkinBaseball_ @orlandosentinel Orlando and Tampa Bay are 84 miles apart. Become Rays fans.

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Upcoming Tigers promotions at Comerica Park: - Fireworks Fridays - Kids Run the Bases Sunday - Dads Pitch an Inning Monday-Thursday

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@JoeRiveraSN 💯 MLB should have games starting from 11 a.m. Eastern to 8 p.m. Western. Five nationally televised games, from morning to way past sundown. As I've noticed, though, MLB isn't run by people who love baseball.

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@JustBB_Media The 'ROAD' letters are from the logos of all...

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I've been thinking about the upcoming Miguel Cabrera statue at Comerica Park. Needs to be one of two ways: 1. Miggy taking a ball to right field with power. How many times did we see that in his heyday? 2. Happy, gregarious Miggy. That big-kid personality we will never forget.

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Jason Benetti just pissed me off. Because he is forwarding the Tigers front-office narrative that the fan base is being unreasonable and impatient. Horse shit. I don't expect the Tigers to win the World Series this year. I expect them to react to unchanging poor play.

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@nut_history Well you see, it's because he tried to throw the 1919 World Series. By batting .375, with a .394 OBP and 6 RBI.

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Guys? GUYS!! From a BLASTER BOX! 😱 @CardPurchaser

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@BenVerlander Robot. Umpires. Now. These people are completely irrelevant to the game. If they were eliminated tomorrow, it would take the baseball-watching public one day to adjust and completely accept their absence.

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Jace Jung had a 1.012 OPS in Toledo in June. The Tigers aren't trying to win. It's that simple. "B-but his defense at third!" Oh yeah, right. The Tigers sure are a team that prides themselves on their infield defense. Let's ask Kreidler or McKinstry.

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Why I'm increasingly optimistic about Scott Harris ... Zach McKinstry and Michael Lorenzen were acquisitions that excited virtually no one. Their recent histories were uninspiring. Harris is doing what he said he was going to do: Finding correctible, unlockable guys. @Tigers

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@Super70sSports We had an embarrassment of broadcasting riches back in the day. Pat Summerall - Tom Brookshier (yeah, that's right, kiddos. Not Madden.) Dick Enberg - Merlin Olsen Frank Gifford - Howard Cosell - Dandy Don Meredith on MNF.

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"Stolen card" update: One week after FedEx Ground said my card was signed for and delivered while I was on vacation, this appears this p.m. in my mailbox, in a grungy looking envelope. I have no idea what's going on, but whatever. I have my card. Massive relief. @CardPurchaser

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@Jolly_Olive Kirk Gibson won an MVP without ever being an All-Star. It's weird that Gibby NEVER played in an All-Star game.

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When I was a kid, Mark Fidrych's rookie year - and particularly his Monday Night Baseball, national TV win over the Yankees - cemented me as a Tigers fan for life. I took my 11-year-old son to Comerica today, I think Matt Vierling just did the same thing for him. @Tigers

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Andy Dirks' analysis of how Kenta Maeda was playing with fire by being too timid to go inside ... great stuff that obviously proved true. Dirks is good at this. #Tigers

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Stop dicking around, Tigers. - Colt Keith to 1B - Jace Jung, WHO WON A MINOR LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE AT 2B LAST YEAR and who is struggling at third, to 2B. - Hao-Yu Lee to 3B. Not necessarily now on the parent club (but why not?). Organizationally. Or do we like bad infield defense?

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@Justmann7 @CalebJHull @RoyalFamily @RemindMe_OfThis March 28, 2026

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@FryeScott64 @MySportsUpdate It's astounding to me how many people in this thread don't get this. Saddening.

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Uhh, can Max Clark go to West Michigan now? It's only High-A. QUICK, SCOTT HARRIS APOLOGISTS!! TELL ME I'M BEING IMPATIENT!!

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@BenVerlander I feel like people forget how good this guy was. Dale Murphy.

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Went to Walmart. There was one lonely 2023-24 Donruss Optic Mega Box on the shelf. My rule: One box left? You MUST snag it. It worked again. 👀 Wemby Rated Rookie Hyper Orange /99! @CardPurchaser

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In JANUARY I sold a guy a Mosaic Domantas Sabonis Orange Florescent Prizm /25. It started at the post office, then just vanished off tracking. After a few weeks, I refunded the guy. Which made this a fun September surprise! @CardPurchaser

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@RichardJAdkins Marvin Harrison and Ray Lewis beating pretty solid murder raps.

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@nut_history Curt Schilling, and it's not particularly close. But we now exclude players from the Hall of Fame because pencil-necked sportswriters "just don't like him."

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@OldTakesExposed I mean, it was a horrid take, but, geez.

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Treasure every remaining moment you have as a Tigers fan watching Miguel Cabrera do things.

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@BenVerlander For a few years there, as dominant a pitcher as I've ever seen. Sadly, a stroke cut his career short. J.R. Richard

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2023 = Miggy farewell year. 2024 = 40th anniversary of the 1984 World Champs 2025 = 80th anniversary of the 1945 World Champs 2026 = 125th anniversary of the team founding. Great news, Chris Ilitch! We can milk nostalgia and not worry about winning for three more years! #Tigers

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Everybody understands and endorses that Joey Votto is a future Hall of Famer, right?

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@ProFootballTalk Here's a photo of former NBA referee Tim Donaghy for no reason at all.

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@nut_history B. People seem to forget that in addition to his incredible natural talent (great pitcher who as a power bat out-homered other TEAMS), The Babe would today have access to all of the analytics, nutrition, supplements, improved training that modern players use.

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@nut_history Robin Yount

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Rob Manfred didn't punish a single player in the Houston Astros cheating scandal. Rob Manfred lets Angel Hernandez and other terrible umpires keep doing their jobs incompetently year after year. But you bat boys better have your shit together; MLB is watching you.

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@nut_history @TexasCheese420 Shoeless Joe Jackson, who "worked to throw the 1919 World Series" by batting .375 with a .956 OPS, 8 RBI and error-free in the field. 🙄

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I'm going to pick out my Lamborghini today. @CardPurchaser

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@BradGalli Honestly? Don't read too much into his words right now. He's speaking from a hurt place, because he really wanted to be back in Detroit. So he's kind of lashing out.

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When we knew we had a 1/1 out of a box of 2023 Topps World Baseball Classic - but before we knew what it was - my 11-year-old son insisted I video the reveal with "intense music.'" 😂

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@Super70sSports She still COMPLETELY gets it done, by the way.

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@JakeM0NTGOMERY I wanted to choose Billy Sims too. But you're forcing me to choose one. It has to be Vladimir Konstantinov. Who would have had a Hall of Fame career were it not for that limousine accident.

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@wyshynski Do sportswriters have to go to special training to become insufferable, or does it come naturally? I imagine ESPN requires PhDs in it.

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The Tigers are NOT getting shut out on postseason awards!

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2023 PitchingNinja Award for Most Likely to Swing at a Pickoff Attempt. 🏆 Winner: Javier Báez

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@danorlovsky7 Neither T-Law nor Lamar Jackson are "win because of" QBs. Come on. And have you seen Aaron Rodgers play lately? I'm mystified at what Jets fans think they are getting. It's not 2010.

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@BrianKarem You just lied. Want to try again?

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@MorningRun8 @TalkinBaseball_

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@fuzzyfromyt Andres Gimenez, Guardians. Had a higher WAR than Yordan, Machado, Betts, Trout or J-Rod last season.

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@BenVerlander 2006 St. Louis Cardinals. Who used wet fields, rain day cancellations and Tigers pitchers suddenly unable to field their position to rob a loaded Detroit team of a championship.

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@RealKidPoker Yeah, that's an unfollow. Canadian politics are authoritarian and gross.

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@YankeeWRLD Don't forget his final opus:

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Could this be the last Angel Hernandez blunder? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

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@nut_history The first one that comes to mind is Ted Williams batting .406, leading the league in home runs, having a 235 OPS+ (😳) and not winning MVP in 1941. (DiMaggio)

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@Super70sSports Awful synthesizer? Check. Simplistic-in-a-bad-way melody? Check. We've almost got it. But do we have inane lyrics that could have been written by a kindergartner? How 'bout Abra-abra-cadabra I wanna reach out and grab ya? Yes! We've done it!

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Oh, nothing. Just the greatest scripted autograph in sports card history. @CardPurchaser

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@woodwardsports People aren't celebrating 9-8. They are celebrating 8-2.

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This was pulled on Chomps Live Breaks last night, a place I frequent. Sadly, not by me. That is without question the most beautiful Trout card I have ever seen -- and maybe the best card of anyone. @CardPurchaser

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@MLBONFOX @astros @kevinburkhardt @AROD @davidortiz @derekjeter David Ortiz and Yordan:

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@RealTanBanana @EsaIndigena I'll bite ... if you're vaccinated, why do you care if someone else is not?

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@Rock_n_Rye @JoeyVotto @BentleyScotty @MiguelCabrera Don't forget 1,500 runs. The list of players who have accomplished all of that: 1. Aaron 2. Pujols

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Backstops don't get enough love. Let's show off our best catcher cards! @CardPurchaser

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@Topps I need more than just a follow-back. Juanjo should be required to reply to my tweets with comments like, "That's a great point!" and, "That's hilarious, my brother!"

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A Christmas Eve-Eve rip? Yes, let's. A lot of potentially good stuff out of this: Shohei, Trout, Mookie, Freeman, Acuña, Roki Sasaki ... Hits to follow!

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@Super70sSports @Mr_Sandlot

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Can the Tigers really sustain Javier Baez's feeble, useless bat? Take your L and eat the contract, Ilitch.

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@TreIindor20 For starters, the two obvious ones: The lottery was rigged for Patrick Ewing to the Knicks, and the refs took the Western Conference Finals away from the Sacramento Kings and to Shaq, Kobe and the Lakers.

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@Super70sSports Pure Chicago. I miss these guys too. From an era before everyone on the planet was bleating sports opinions. You could smell the newspaper ink, whisky and cigars with The Sportswriters on TV.

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@DetroitPistons @wingstop Turns out when your architect builds a team full of marginal big men and guys who can't shoot or play together or play defense, and then hires a coach who doesn't want to be there but you gave him too much money to say no, this happens.

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@tracyhar049 @ABREG_1 Relax, Tracy.

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@AJohnsonNBA These 2025 NBA Draft mocks need to go ahead and put the Pistons at 5. Already factor in the draft lottery injustice.

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Jared Goff took the Rams to the Super Bowl at 24. Won a road playoff game at Seattle 2 weeks after breaking his thumb. His reward was getting scapegoated and kicked to the curb. Stafford didn't win a meaningful thing 12 yrs in Detroit. It's The Goff Game, not The Stafford Game.

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@Super70sSports The Detroit Lions taking bust TE Eric Ebron 10th overall in the 2014 NFL Draft. Every single one of the next SEVEN players taken was a multiple-time Pro Bowler. Between them they earned 32 Pro Bowls and 14 All-Pros.

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@KyleBrandt @gmfb @Lions "... and I hope you get the Cowboys so you can beat them AGAIN."

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@nut_history I'll say Jimmie Foxx. .325 batting average, 1.038 OPS and 163 OPS+ -- average over a 20-YEAR career. He's in the top 10 all-time for RBI in thousands of at-bats fewer than most on the list. He's considered a great, but he needs to be considered like a top 2 or 3 great.

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My Fall plans The Delta variant

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@AlTheBoss03 Dwayne Bowe

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@cmccosky Hello? @BallySportsDET ?

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Did I hit a @Topps Home Run Challenge Elly Double-Down? Yes. Yes, I did.

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Elly De La Cruz goes 428 feet for his SECOND homer on the evening!

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@TreIindor20 The NFL coddles the Green Bay Packers as their cute, small market, old-school-history team, and because of their marquee QBs for decades. They always get the benefit of calls and non-calls. It's worse in prime-time games, and especially against lower-echelon teams like my Lions.

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s current .328 batting average is 62 points higher than last year. And he's already matched his HR and RBI totals from last year with a month to go. He's an absolute star who I don't feel like gets the universal respect as one.

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Cool! @CardPurchaser

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@nut_history Sweet Lou Whitaker. Who should be a Hall of Famer.

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@MLBONFOX @blessyouboys What's scary is Altuve didn't do any of that, "No, this game is too important; let me stay in." He bolted to the dugout. Something's broke.

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Box 2 of 3 of 2023 Topps World Baseball Classic didn't disappoint. Juan Soto jumbo patch auto /30! 😯 @CardPurchaser

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When you see it ... @CardPurchaser

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@Super70sSports We go old school here.

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@TalkinBaseball_ 💉💉💉

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Remember when most people jumped off the Jeremy Peña bandwagon last season? He's batting .345 with a 152 OPS+ as a shortstop.

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@nut_history Mark Fidrych went from a baseball career that was far too short, to a life that was far too short. Died when a truck he was working on at his farm slipped and fell on him, at age 54.

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@BNightengale How do you say WTF? in French?

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Went to my LCS, Rochester Sports Cards, for #ToppsRipNight . The swag bags they gave out included 2024 Topps Big League blaster boxes. I pulled this out of mine. My first J-Rod auto ever! @CardPurchaser

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They are basically accusing the fan base of being unreasonable and impatient in the most passive-aggressive way: the patting on the head, "we understand you emotion-driven fans. But we're being intelligent about it." No, you're being inactive and accepting of the unacceptable.

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@BenVerlander All hail the Kingman.

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@Super70sSports Mickey Klutts nods knowingly.

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I don't know how you eBay card sellers who do high volumes do it. Do you have employees? I've been grinding on this all Sunday, and I'm only putting up about 60 cards!

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@nut_history I don't think anyone has mentioned Tim Crews and Steve Olin of the Cleveland Indians yet. This one was startling.

The Tragic Boating Accident That Killed Cleveland Indians Teammates Tim Crews and Steve Olin

During an off-day of spring training in 1993, two Cleveland Indians pitchers, Tim Crews and Steve Olin, were killed in a boating accident.

www.sportscasting.com

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@RichardJAdkins For those who don't know, here's Harrison's:

The Dirtiest Player

Was it only last season that Marvin Harrison was still catching TD passes for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts? Now, in the wake of a brazen but mysterious Philadelphia gunfight—many details...

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@barstoolsports @patbev21 @rone @PatBevPod "It was more than 'Cancun on 3.'"

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@bythewaybro And exactly none of the young players who came up lit it up from the jump. They all had to find their way up here, and Hinch and the coaching staff successfully navigated that.

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@jonmorosi @MLBNetwork The Astros owe the Tigers extra for the Justin Verlander debacle.

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