MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Which still represents considerable improvement.

 

In other Mariners news … Detroit absolutely lit up George Kirby tonight for 11 runs and 13 hits in three-plus innings. The Tigers seem to have Seattle’s number.

 

That was going to be a tough matchup for Seattle, no matter what, against Skubal. And the Tigers probably won't score again this week.

 

If Jhonkensy Noel has a big postseason, he will be the meme star of baseball for three weeks. He’s the size of an NFL linebacker and drops his bat like it might electrocute him after he hits a home run.

 

Was willing to give him a second, but yeah, he stinks. Can get to two strikes. Can't get strike three. I admire Elias trying to find something in a rotten market for starting pitching, but this is a whiff. I don't think Stowers or Norby will amount to much down the road, though, so not a big loss prospect wise.

 

I don’t know the name of the female that is doing the pxp for the A’s on tv, but that is truly awful.
She’s a half step above “Boom goes the dynamite!”
And that kid had a better voice.

 

OUCH. Talk about hitting me in the feels. Mark Fidrych would have been 70 today. If you weren't around for The Bird in 1976, there are no words to describe it. Nothing before. Nothing since.

Detroit was lucky. My grandfather, who had seen the Tigers play since 1912, died a week before that season. I like to think he asked God to send him to us so we'd forget the horrors of 1975.

 

As likely as the annual Super Bowl week speculation of whether the NFL will ever expand to Toronto.

 

Totally expected him to throw it back somewhere later in the clip.

 

Oh, man.
A substitute mailman just yesterday saw me in a Tigers T-shirt and asked if I knew who Mark Fidrych was.
Of course!
Talked briefly about The Bird, Ron Leflore and the 1976 All-Star Game in Philly.