Game 23: Indians at Tigers
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 3:00 PM EDT
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In theory, today's game is "nationally televised." But let's not kid ourselves here. Unless you live in Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, or ... FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA?! (For Pronk or what?), you probably aren't going to catch this one. The Tigers are buried in the midst of their longest losing streak of the season, which, at three games, could be worse, right? But let's end it right now, mmmkay? This is not a habit to start, and losing baseball makes us all sad!
The baseball gods saw fit to flip the script last night, when they tagged Armando Galarraga with his 1.50 ERA (at the time) with a loss and handed Carl Pavano (9.50!) the victory. ... Will they continue to play such games when the Tigers send Zach Miner to the mound with more than twice the ERA of Cleveland's Aaron Laffey? Right handers have a .681 OPS against the left-handed Laffey. Left-handers should probably take the day off. Fortunately, the Tigers sluggers are mostly righties. The other Indians' storyline today is a lot of transactions in the past day or two. The main one? Highly-touted outfield prospect Matt LaPorta is joining the team after bashing a 1.024 OPS for Triple-A Columbus in April. Hey, at least he's not a lefty!
Oh and I forgot to mention last night, our SBN Indians counterpart to check out is Let's Go Tribe.
(Lineups added 4 p.m.)
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… the new york mets and philly here in oklahoma? you would at least think it would be houston.
c’mon tigers.
by okie for michigan on May 2, 2009 3:12 PM EDT reply actions
FUCK FOX
and the MLB. This is the worst of the worst. Pick one game to be played at their time slot. Don’t hold the rest of us hostage.
I am not bitter. Not at all.
as this JA
states, “We are actually going to take some of you up to the Motor City”, as if even he was amazed.
Treanor done for season
Jason Beck, on Twitter (@beckjason): Matt Treanor had right hip surgery Thursday to remove bone spur. Tigers say it’ll most likely be season-ending.
He expects Sardinha to be the backup from here forward.
i guess
he won’t get that batting average after all.
by okie for michigan on May 2, 2009 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
that first called ball on asdrubal (what a name) cabrera looks like a pretty good strike on mlb gameday.
by okie for michigan on May 2, 2009 3:45 PM EDT reply actions
it's all i have :(
but interesting to know.
by okie for michigan on May 2, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Whats happening
Im working and I have customers bugging while im trying to listen to the game. did I miss anything?
If you guys arent in the viewing area
visit myp2p.eu They have a link to the game. You have to DL TVantz
I thought I recognized his voice…. Indians broadcasters annoy me. Best was 2 years ago when they actually said on the air to “Put one in Sheffield’s ribs”
man
the Mets/Phillies is on my HD Fox
The Tigers on this crappy standard definition signal may as well be streaming video for as bad as it looks.
looks more like 1-1/2 now
it’s great during football season. Depending how it pans out, I can get like 6 games on a sunday.
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions
There’s a lot of technical stuff I could get into, but basically every station (Fox, NBC etc.) only has X amount of bandwidth they can use at a given time. This is just due to the limit of the television infrastructure across the nation. My guess is your Fox affiliate is throwing more horsepower at their HD feed, which makes their SD feed suffer.
I don't think it's quite that
one fox station is from green bay, the other is from marquette. The cable company picks up the green bay feed because if the packers don’t get on tv people storm the cable office with pitchforks and torches. (the congressman has even interceded, or at least taken credit for it) The Marquette station just sucks. (Our ABC is worse, no HD plus constant freezing and audio problems!)
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Ah, gotcha. Wasn’t quite sure where you lived. Just sounds like you’re in one of those fun overlap zones!
it's interseting anyway
CBS: Green Bay
NBC: Marquette
ABC: Marquette
FOX: Green Bay and Marquette
We likes our football
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions
it's times like these when i'm glad i still haven't gotten around to buying an HDTV.
no high expectations. :-P
by okie for michigan on May 2, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ve had an HDTV for three years, but have not yet lived somewhere I can get any kind of HD signal (not even free OTA stuff). Thankfully, I’m moving over this next coming week. Comcast will be called, and I better be watching HD Tigers next weekend.
Where I live in Indianapolis I don’t have a choice. Comcast is all I get. ATT Uverse is not available (and probably won’t be) and I live on the river so there are too many trees in my backyard for a dish. Comcast = Satan.
I’m fine with Comcast. I’ve heard plenty of horror stories. I need them for internet anyway. My apartment won’t let me attach a DirecTV dish to my balcony, it has to be on a tripod. Then I have to give my apartment complex a $100 security deposit for said tripod (yeah, it’s a racket). Then I have to carry insurance in case the dish falls over and hurts someone below.
I’ll pass.
i watch HD sometimes at my grandparents’ house and then i come back home and it takes me a few minutes to adjust haha. i’m unemployed and in college right now, so that’s my reason. i have a paid internship starting may 27 though and an HDTV is one of the first things on my list of things to save up for.
by okie for michigan on May 2, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Ah, they walked the bases loaded for us.
Of course, Everett is up. They may have done that on purpose.
Everett
needed to do something there
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
IRONY?
Chuck has to go the mound because his pitcher just walked the bases loaded, no?
by Zappatista on May 2, 2009 4:13 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I take it Inge is a Big Boi in the field today?
Dan needs to change his diaper after calling that one!
yes inge was a big boi
wasn’t super duper by his standards, but it was more than standard
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Miner
Looks like he’s got a lot of movement on his fastball today… Looks really nice. Hopefully we can stay away from the one big inning that has plagued us…
Turned on the Derby.
Jordan’s wearing a yellow suit. Plus, he went third person in the very first sentence he uttered.
That yellow suit is Jalen Rose-bad, though.
the derby that is
Tom whatever his name is
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd argue...
that worthless is a bit strong. But he’s quickly morphing into this year’s Sheff (old dude with enormous contract that gets to play regardless of how little he’s producing).
C'mon Inge...
As Dan says, “The Tigers most consistent hitter, Brandon Inge”
As true as that might be, it just doesn’t sound right…..
Send him home!
Everett……just take one for the team….just put the shoulder into it. It won’t hurt that bad.
whip out the bread and mustard, grandma
it’s grand salami time!
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by Packey on May 2, 2009 4:53 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I am completely stunned.
I honestly don’t know what to say.
by rook34 on May 2, 2009 4:53 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I actually scared the cat once in 2006
it looked at me like someone stepped on my tail
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Wedge
I never knew this until I went to the Easter Sunday game with cousin who is much older than me, but Wedge is from Fort Wayne. He told me that he was a stud player in his day. Had no clue.
this is not a drill
this is real.
Everett hit a home run. For a grand slam.
Hug your loved ones. The world is ending.
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
BYB Magglio
Team Spartan is in desperate need of help. Both Vlad and Hamilton on the DL, Santana on the DL with my pitching. Will seriously consider any offers.
working
i was with a darn customer again…did Everett hit a freaking grand slam! No way
Conspiracy
Fox needs the ratings. Can’t have one team winning 5-0 in the 5th on a semi natioanally televised game
Just got home from work...
Apparently we’ve hired that official scorer from Anaheim?
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
When OMR goes out to get Miner,
he needs to run Anderson out to left, and give Mr. Raburn some cab fare to get the hell out of town.
What is going on these
last 4 games
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 5:25 PM EDT reply actions
youtube
home page…right side middle
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions
can’t we trade him instead? of course, it might take some David Copperfield level illusions to make the opposing GM not look at the defensive end of things
maybe if we can use some CGI
on his outfield defense. put his face on Inge’s body maybe?
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions
after that
I feel like watching NBC talk about horses nobody has heard of or will hear of ever again after today.
Hopefully Josh leads
off and RutRoh (scooby’s voice) is going back down 75
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 5:34 PM EDT reply actions
I've never understood this...
and I missed the first four and a half innings, but how is it that Zach fell apart so badly?
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
He would have been out of the inning with NO runs allowed,
if Raburn could actually field any position.
so, truthfully, there should be 5 unearned runs on the board for the Indians, and instead, Miner gets all the blame?
Yes
First, Raburn trips. Then he recovers, gets under the ball, and it pops out of his glove. It’s not like he tried to make a hard play and failed. There’s no way that was anything but an error. All 5 should be unearned because there were two outs.
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions
probably tired some
he wasn’t keeping the ball down as well. still would have been out of it with a 5-0 lead if raburn hell onto it.
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions
So, it's true then...
Raburn got called up and suddenly forgot how to play the outfield?
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions
I suppose with the hot start he had with the Mud Hens...
nobody cared down here.
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions
so it seems
he’s looked really quite awful.
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Doesn't look like it
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions
But, looks like Raburn did what Anderson probably would've done anyways
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe Ryan
Should drink regular Gatorade, he could use the sugar to keep his “standing-on-two-feet strength”
I step out for ONE minute...
…and the score is tied again. Bobby Seay, not you too!!!!
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
Well, we'll see if Zoom is back.
If there was ever a time when you need a strikeout, it’s right now.
This like
ruins my day when they play like this
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 6:08 PM EDT reply actions
Just walked in the door
and it’s 7-6. Oh, man, what happened?
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
Seay and Zoom Zoom faltered at an inconvenient time
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Bad error?
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
Looking back at my comment...
I didn’t mean to include Zoom in there (started out saying something else, and didn’t completely erase the thought), though he still gave up the go-ahead run.
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Three frames
to do some damage… Lets go Tigers
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 6:14 PM EDT reply actions
Guillen
is on track to hit sub .200
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 6:18 PM EDT reply actions
for some reason i automatically thought of lyon and was wondering why you had love for him in the first place.
by okie for michigan on May 2, 2009 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions
I guess I should have been more specific
but Inge didn’t exactly endear himself to me with that at bat.
You can start by not swinging at stuff out of the strike zone
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions
A triple would be nice!
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
Well, there it was
Raburn’s (whatever the hell you call that).
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
So does the rest of the team.
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
DEFENSE
Need some
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions
He looks real good!
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
Patience, fellows
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
Yah!
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
Keep going guys!
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
The though of the Indians being a single collective consciousness...
is somewhat disturbing. But funny.
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Awww!
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
Hey, at least it was a productive out
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by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:43 PM EDT up reply actions
trying to find some cotton candy
at Mario’s kid’s game!
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions
blue, what else?
He leaves the girly pink stuff for Mario
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 6:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Isn't Mario the one who likes the blue cotton candy?
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by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions
he'll eat what Rod leaves for him or else
you’ve seen the video from Japan! Don’t make Rod mad!
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Sweet
The Benny Hill theme is a nice touch
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by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
First
i though you were talking about the bats for mothers and fathers day. Pink bats nest sunday.
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Probably because most of the Indians in this part of the lineup are lefties or switch-hitters
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
by SabreRoseTiger on May 2, 2009 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions
filthy
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
he obviously read
The Todd Jones Saves Manual
by Kurt Mensching on May 2, 2009 6:56 PM EDT up reply actions
hidden in the
bowels of the copa bullpen
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds really loud on the radio
good crowd for those watching?
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Get him out!
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
Oh, yea!
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
This was a very eventful game
i like it. but they gotta cut out those diarrhea innings
by dettigionswings'stons on May 2, 2009 7:02 PM EDT reply actions
Hey!
This is the first time that I’ve stuck around here to the end and the Tigers have won. I knew it would happen sometime.
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
Rodney and Zoom both took it to 'em.
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti
I suppose I deserved that...
for the complaining that I do about pitching duels.
http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com
Gutsy win.
Had every reason to lose, and for awhile it looked as if that was our goal. But it’s a win, and we’re back over .500.
w00t!
I was getting stuff / doing stuff for the backyard while listening to the game on the radio.
It was entertaining and barely seemed like I did any work at all. But man, these huge innings are killer!
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