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Seth

Da-nah, dah nah, dah-nah-nah-nah-nah.

(I've been looking all over for a solid copy of the song that used to start Tigers games, in case someone reading worked for WDIV and has a copy.)

I realize I've been lax on picking games with our fantasy partner for the readers to play against each other. The $300k "Swing for the Fences" MLB contest however isn't once to miss.

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Holaday is my Tiger. Also Kinsler. And Cabrera. And still Scherzer. I have many Tigers.

Details:

  • $300,000 prize pool.
  • First place wins $100,000
  • Only $3 to enter (FREE with first deposit)
  • Top 25,930 finishing positions are paid.
  • Starts Wednesday, May 20th at 7:05 PM EST
  • Salary Cap Style Drafting. $50,000 to select 10 players: 8 position players and 2 pitchers
  • Roster Format: 2 pitchers, 1 C, 1 1B, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 SS and 3 OF

Brian mentioned in today's mailbag that any given baseball game is going to have a ton of randomness. However you get so many opportunities for data points that the stats end up pretty reflective. Even imperfect ideas like "let's divide all the hits by at-bats (and not count walks and sacrifices) and "how many runs per game does he give up?" were able to stand as a sort of consensus opinion on player values for a century.

(i.e. until Mitch Meluskey hit .300)

This helps—you know by now who's good—and hurts—a guy who's hitless in 11 games can go 4/4 with a homer. I've played just a few baseball games to get the mechanics down and found my pitcher makes or breaks me, and winners tend to pick medium-expensive guys who have a lot of power. If you've got a way to beat the system, put 'em in the comments. Or use it to win my money I guess.

Comments

Don

May 20th, 2015 at 8:59 AM ^

My earliest Tigers radio memories—I'm talking early 1960s—include that march and I don't recall ever hearing any words or even the title. I think it would take some industrious digging and maybe direct contact with either WJR or the Tigers club to find out that info.

xtramelanin

May 19th, 2015 at 9:14 PM ^

as good as earnie harwell's.  man, it has been literally decades since i've heard that.   go tigers. 

rob f

May 20th, 2015 at 1:38 AM ^

was intended to be about, but I do know how much I loved seeing and hearing George Kell and Al Kaline and those '87 batting lineups for the A's @ the Tigers.  Funny thing is, half that A's starting lineup ended up playing for Detroit within the following half-dozen years or so.

Thanks, too, to Don for posting the old Detroit Tigers march---IMO, the 2nd greatest march ever (behind The Victors of course).   That song at the start of the Tigers radio broadcast brought me back to the days of my childhood and listening to Ernie and Ray Lane (or Paul Carey) on the radio with my Grandpa on his front porch.

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

May 20th, 2015 at 6:42 AM ^

Man, just looking at the video before hitting play I could already hear "I'm George Kell along with Al Kaline," and....yup.  I really like Mario and Rod but those two were absolutely sparkling on the air.

BursleyHall82

May 20th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^

Not only seeing George and Al again, but looking at the Oakland A's lineup. Reggie Jackson was still playing in 1987? He was on the same team as McGwire and Canseco? Did not know or remember that. Mickey Tettleton was their catcher. God, that was awesome.

Drew_Silver

May 20th, 2015 at 11:07 AM ^

love the announcers

 

best part of the video is the scarcity of commericals

 

watching a pregame today all they do is show commercials - mario says hello rod says the tigers will win in less than 4 sentences then they show 5 minutes of window replacement commericals

jerseyblue

May 20th, 2015 at 11:42 AM ^

I'm a Yankee fan but I remember those Tigers teams in the late 80's vividly. opening Day '87 was Yankees at Tigers. I remember walking hom from school in the 7th grade and listening to the game on my walkman. We won that one but I remember the Yanks always having trouble in Tiger Stadium. We'd blow leads in the 9th and Alan Trammell would always get the big hit. Then at the end of the year I remember the Tigers finishing against the Blue Jays at home and it was on NBC's Satuday Game of the Week. In the pregame the field interviewer was talking to Trammell and George Bell together because it was between the two of them for MVP. Tigers won the Division with that series and Bell won the MVP.

1M1Ucla

May 20th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^

at Tiger Stadium on the concourse where the ramp went over to the press box.  I was with the future MGoWife.  We came smack face to face with the three MLB Hall of Famers and the Michigan Sports Hall of Famer.  I was really cool -- began speaking Hawaiian: ubba erba gleeba ubba glurba.  Fortunately, future MGoWife is always composed (and very pretty).  She had her (!) glove and asked the guys to autograph it.  All four men were extremely gracious, and probably didn't mind a cute Michigan coed asking for autographs, even with a dorf like me standing there unable to speak intelligible English.  We've moved 4 times since then and have no idea where her glove might be.

Double dorf.

 

 

InterM

May 20th, 2015 at 1:48 PM ^

I'm a lifelong Tigers fan, but I was living in San Francisco that year and was an A's season ticket holder.  Coming into September, a Detroit-Oakland postseason matchup seemed likely, but the A's collapsed down the stretch -- although, on the plus side, the Tigers had an amazing rally in the last week to beat out Toronto.  And then, of course, the Tigers lost in the playoffs to a mediocre Minnesota team.  What could have been . . . .