2025 Detroit Tigers: AKA The Skubal Trade Watch Thread - Page 77

CONN CHRIS · 10-08-2025, 04:06 PM

Mize has thrown well - why are you going to the pen?!?

CONN CHRIS · 10-08-2025, 04:11 PM

I hate seeing such a promising season end in a clown show.

CONN CHRIS · 10-08-2025, 04:47 PM

A pulse!

CONN CHRIS · 10-08-2025, 04:57 PM

Unfortunately, yanking Mize way too early means that Hinch has already burned Finnegan.

CONN CHRIS · 10-08-2025, 06:05 PM

Melton was great. I still hate the pitcher usage today, but can't argue with the result.

Back to Seattle.

Déjà Bru · 10-08-2025, 06:37 PM

The Tigers are back in this series. Although, you guys must be tired of the "Tigers claw their way back" style of headlines.

Westheim · 10-08-2025, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

The Tigers are back in this series. Although, you guys must be tired of the "Tigers claw their way back" style of headlines.

Personally more a fan of "Tigers roar their way to Game 5"

Amazin69 · 10-08-2025, 10:15 PM

"Tigers Stalk the Title", perhaps?

I have no idea what Mize did wrong, either, but that's a longstanding issue. How about if, instead of a 3-batter rule, we have a 3-reliever rule? Teams can only use 4 pitchers to complete 9 innings, and then two further per pitchers for each additional three innings. Pitchers might have to learn how to get themselves out of jams, as in days of yore. [/Things That Will Never Happen, #1631 in a continuing series]

I miss yore.

Hrycaj · 10-09-2025, 05:47 AM

That experience ranked as one of my all-time greatest games I saw live. The place was so quiet you could hear a mouse fart in after Seattle took the 3-0 lead. There was just a weird sense of doom hanging over the place the whole day leading up to the bottom of the 5th. Tickets for the game on the secondary market plummeted after Tuesday's loss. Tickets in our section were half off Wednesday morning and went down to 3 dollars at first pitch. Then the 3 run bottom of the 5th happened and the place shook off a months worth of frustration for the rest of that game. The Tigers scored at least one run in every inning from the 5th to the end of the game. It was fantastic live. A few games I have been to have been the Tigers last one at Tiger Stadium (amazing but sad), Verlander's first no-hitter, cycle game by Carlos Guillen, my 12th birthday where me and my friends were allowed onto the field to meet players, and still my all time favorite, the Wizard of Woodward game (2006) where the Tigers closed out the Yankees in the division series and the city erupted and the team was celebrating with the fans in the stands. They carried Leyland on their shoulders into the dugout that day like it was the movie Rudy. So a lot of cool memories and this one is in there somewhere and it wasn't even a close out game. They still have to win game 5 to get the chance to re-new and old 80's rivalry with Toronto.

David Watts · 10-09-2025, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Amazin69

"Tigers Stalk the Title", perhaps?

I have no idea what Mize did wrong, either, but that's a longstanding issue. How about if, instead of a 3-batter rule, we have a 3-reliever rule? Teams can only use 4 pitchers to complete 9 innings, and then two further per pitchers for each additional three innings. Pitchers might have to learn how to get themselves out of jams, as in days of yore. [/Things That Will Never Happen, #1631 in a continuing series]

I miss yore.

Go back to the 25 man roster. Limit the number of pitchers a team can carry to 11. My OOTP leagues never ever move past 1992. The Kids are Alright, as long as they stay off my lawn.

David Watts · 10-09-2025, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Hrycaj

That experience ranked as one of my all-time greatest games I saw live. The place was so quiet you could hear a mouse fart in after Seattle took the 3-0 lead. There was just a weird sense of doom hanging over the place the whole day leading up to the bottom of the 5th. Tickets for the game on the secondary market plummeted after Tuesday's loss. Tickets in our section were half off Wednesday morning and went down to 3 dollars at first pitch. Then the 3 run bottom of the 5th happened and the place shook off a months worth of frustration for the rest of that game. The Tigers scored at least one run in every inning from the 5th to the end of the game. It was fantastic live. A few games I have been to have been the Tigers last one at Tiger Stadium (amazing but sad), Verlander's first no-hitter, cycle game by Carlos Guillen, my 12th birthday where me and my friends were allowed onto the field to meet players, and still my all time favorite, the Wizard of Woodward game (2006) where the Tigers closed out the Yankees in the division series and the city erupted and the team was celebrating with the fans in the stands. They carried Leyland on their shoulders into the dugout that day like it was the movie Rudy. So a lot of cool memories and this one is in there somewhere and it wasn't even a close out game. They still have to win game 5 to get the chance to re-new and old 80's rivalry with Toronto.

That must have been a blast. Glad you were able to be there.

I was lucky enough to attend game 3 of the LCS against the Royals back in 1984. Our seats were way out in the left centerfield lower deck. Not the greatest by far, but an experience I will never forget.

Déjà Bru · 10-09-2025, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Hrycaj

That experience ranked as one of my all-time greatest games I saw live. The place was so quiet you could hear a mouse fart in after Seattle took the 3-0 lead. There was just a weird sense of doom hanging over the place the whole day leading up to the bottom of the 5th. Tickets for the game on the secondary market plummeted after Tuesday's loss. Tickets in our section were half off Wednesday morning and went down to 3 dollars at first pitch. Then the 3 run bottom of the 5th happened and the place shook off a months worth of frustration for the rest of that game. The Tigers scored at least one run in every inning from the 5th to the end of the game. It was fantastic live. A few games I have been to have been the Tigers last one at Tiger Stadium (amazing but sad), Verlander's first no-hitter, cycle game by Carlos Guillen, my 12th birthday where me and my friends were allowed onto the field to meet players, and still my all time favorite, the Wizard of Woodward game (2006) where the Tigers closed out the Yankees in the division series and the city erupted and the team was celebrating with the fans in the stands. They carried Leyland on their shoulders into the dugout that day like it was the movie Rudy. So a lot of cool memories and this one is in there somewhere and it wasn't even a close out game. They still have to win game 5 to get the chance to re-new and old 80's rivalry with Toronto.

Baseball needs more fans like you. We have enough of the prima donnas, day-trippers, rich boys on a lark, corporate executives, public drunks, and foul-mouthed louts by far.

CONN CHRIS · 10-09-2025, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Hrycaj

That experience ranked as one of my all-time greatest games I saw live. The place was so quiet you could hear a mouse fart in after Seattle took the 3-0 lead. There was just a weird sense of doom hanging over the place the whole day leading up to the bottom of the 5th. Tickets for the game on the secondary market plummeted after Tuesday's loss. Tickets in our section were half off Wednesday morning and went down to 3 dollars at first pitch. Then the 3 run bottom of the 5th happened and the place shook off a months worth of frustration for the rest of that game. The Tigers scored at least one run in every inning from the 5th to the end of the game. It was fantastic live. A few games I have been to have been the Tigers last one at Tiger Stadium (amazing but sad), Verlander's first no-hitter, cycle game by Carlos Guillen, my 12th birthday where me and my friends were allowed onto the field to meet players, and still my all time favorite, the Wizard of Woodward game (2006) where the Tigers closed out the Yankees in the division series and the city erupted and the team was celebrating with the fans in the stands. They carried Leyland on their shoulders into the dugout that day like it was the movie Rudy. So a lot of cool memories and this one is in there somewhere and it wasn't even a close out game. They still have to win game 5 to get the chance to re-new and old 80's rivalry with Toronto.

Awesome! My only Tigers home games were a 3 game string of 2 v. ST Louis and 1 v. Pittsburgh in June, 1999. I got to see McGwire launch batting practice bombs up onto the left field roof. they only won v. the Pirates. I remember a Polonia triple that rattled around the flag pole.

Amazin69 · 10-09-2025, 02:10 PM

My post-season attendance is limited to game 1 of the 2015 World Series. In KC because the prices for NY were ridiculous and I lived in LA at the time, so it was a shorter flight anyhow. (If you skip how I went to to West Palm Beach and to Tampa before returning home, that is.) 14 innings in the rain, the game gets tied when Alex Gordon hits a HR to CF that I still don't believe (balls that sounded much harder barely reached the track, due to the humidity) and the Mets lose on a David Wright muff.

I really should have remembered that the Mets always lose Game 1 of the World Series, shouldn't I? (0-5 all-time. Keeps us humble, I guess.) Still it was fun. And I had the good sense not to go back for Game 2, save $500 and just watch Johnny Cueto put us to sleep from the (mediocre) bar at the Kansas City Hyatt.

Glad you had some real fun, Hrycaj!

Hrycaj · 10-09-2025, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Baseball needs more fans like you. We have enough of the prima donnas, day-trippers, rich boys on a lark, corporate executives, public drunks, and foul-mouthed louts by far.

I appreciate that. I like to believe there are a lot of good fans out there mixed among all the other types you mentioned.

Hrycaj · 10-09-2025, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Amazin69

My post-season attendance is limited to game 1 of the 2015 World Series. In KC because the prices for NY were ridiculous and I lived in LA at the time, so it was a shorter flight anyhow. (If you skip how I went to to West Palm Beach and to Tampa before returning home, that is.) 14 innings in the rain, the game gets tied when Alex Gordon hits a HR to CF that I still don't believe (balls that sounded much harder barely reached the track, due to the humidity) and the Mets lose on a David Wright muff.

I really should have remembered that the Mets always lose Game 1 of the World Series, shouldn't I? (0-5 all-time. Keeps us humble, I guess.) Still it was fun. And I had the good sense not to go back for Game 2, save $500 and just watch Johnny Cueto put us to sleep from the (mediocre) bar at the Kansas City Hyatt.

Glad you had some real fun, Hrycaj!

It was a lot of fun. I do not get to go to many games anymore because of the prices. I used to be a 28 game season ticket holder back when it was not all that expensive to go. It is insane now,and with a family, just not in the budget.

Déjà Bru · 10-10-2025, 08:09 PM

This, THIS, is for all the marbles (up to this point, that is).

CONN CHRIS · 10-10-2025, 09:56 PM

Nail biter but win or lose, carp and skubal are leaving it all on the field tonight

Déjà Bru · 10-10-2025, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Nail biter but win or lose, carp and skubal are leaving it all on the field tonight

Me heart's in me t'roat again.

Déjà Bru · 10-11-2025, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Me heart's in me t'roat again.

This is the longest extra-inning game that I have sat through in years. But I believe it's about to be over.

10-08-2025, 04:06 PM	#1521
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10-08-2025, 04:11 PM	#1522
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10-08-2025, 04:47 PM	#1523
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,999	A pulse! __________________ Check Out My Cards!

10-08-2025, 04:57 PM	#1524
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,999	Unfortunately, yanking Mize way too early means that Hinch has already burned Finnegan. __________________ Check Out My Cards!

10-08-2025, 06:05 PM	#1525
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10-08-2025, 06:37 PM	#1526
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10-08-2025, 10:15 PM	#1528
Amazin69 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Palmetto Pride! Posts: 4,038 Infractions: 0/2 (2)	"Tigers Stalk the Title", perhaps? I have no idea what Mize did wrong, either, but that's a longstanding issue. How about if, instead of a 3-batter rule, we have a 3-reliever rule? Teams can only use 4 pitchers to complete 9 innings, and then two further per pitchers for each additional three innings. Pitchers might have to learn how to get themselves out of jams, as in days of yore. [/Things That Will Never Happen, #1631 in a continuing series] I miss yore. Last edited by Amazin69; 10-08-2025 at 10:20 PM.

10-09-2025, 05:47 AM	#1529
Hrycaj All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,669	That experience ranked as one of my all-time greatest games I saw live. The place was so quiet you could hear a mouse fart in after Seattle took the 3-0 lead. There was just a weird sense of doom hanging over the place the whole day leading up to the bottom of the 5th. Tickets for the game on the secondary market plummeted after Tuesday's loss. Tickets in our section were half off Wednesday morning and went down to 3 dollars at first pitch. Then the 3 run bottom of the 5th happened and the place shook off a months worth of frustration for the rest of that game. The Tigers scored at least one run in every inning from the 5th to the end of the game. It was fantastic live. A few games I have been to have been the Tigers last one at Tiger Stadium (amazing but sad), Verlander's first no-hitter, cycle game by Carlos Guillen, my 12th birthday where me and my friends were allowed onto the field to meet players, and still my all time favorite, the Wizard of Woodward game (2006) where the Tigers closed out the Yankees in the division series and the city erupted and the team was celebrating with the fans in the stands. They carried Leyland on their shoulders into the dugout that day like it was the movie Rudy. So a lot of cool memories and this one is in there somewhere and it wasn't even a close out game. They still have to win game 5 to get the chance to re-new and old 80's rivalry with Toronto. __________________ Click on my signature to read about the great game of baseball in Normington.

10-09-2025, 02:10 PM	#1534
Amazin69 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Palmetto Pride! Posts: 4,038 Infractions: 0/2 (2)	My post-season attendance is limited to game 1 of the 2015 World Series. In KC because the prices for NY were ridiculous and I lived in LA at the time, so it was a shorter flight anyhow. (If you skip how I went to to West Palm Beach and to Tampa before returning home, that is.) 14 innings in the rain, the game gets tied when Alex Gordon hits a HR to CF that I still don't believe (balls that sounded much harder barely reached the track, due to the humidity) and the Mets lose on a David Wright muff. I really should have remembered that the Mets always lose Game 1 of the World Series, shouldn't I? (0-5 all-time. Keeps us humble, I guess.) Still it was fun. And I had the good sense not to go back for Game 2, save $500 and just watch Johnny Cueto put us to sleep from the (mediocre) bar at the Kansas City Hyatt. Glad you had some real fun, Hrycaj!

10-10-2025, 08:09 PM	#1537
Déjà Bru Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Long Island Posts: 11,628	This, THIS, is for all the marbles (up to this point, that is). __________________ - Bru

10-10-2025, 09:56 PM	#1538
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,999	Nail biter but win or lose, carp and skubal are leaving it all on the field tonight __________________ Check Out My Cards!