OT: Miguel Cabrera 3,000th Hit Open Thread

Submitted by FireUpChips on April 23rd, 2022 at 12:50 PM

Anybody at the game today? Beautiful weather!

 

What and when will Miggy’s 3000th hit be?


I say he hits an rbi double in the first inning. 
 

 

FireUpChips

April 23rd, 2022 at 1:20 PM ^

Looks like a lot of people are stuck in line and will miss the hit if it happens in the 1st. Unfortunate!

Blue Vet

April 23rd, 2022 at 3:34 PM ^

That's what my brother said happened, people only getting to their seats after Miggie's 3,000th hit. Can you imagine planning to be there for it and missing it? 

That's okay though. The can tell people they saw it.

My brother also said some people were leaving after the hit, though maybe only to pee or grab food. 

MMBbones

April 23rd, 2022 at 1:33 PM ^

Watched it happen at a local bar. I exclaimed, "All right!" To which someone turned to me and said, "Yeah, but did he do it with drugs or without?" 

Some people just love dropping a turd in the proverbial punch bowl.

Clarence Boddicker

April 23rd, 2022 at 5:00 PM ^

Silliness. The Yankees have plenty of World Series titles and the Tigers have...far less. The Red Sox are a rival. All the Eastern Division teams are rivals. Houston...oh hell yes. Even Kansas City since there's the playoff history and the Pine Tar Game from the 70s and early 80s. The Mets? Fuck yeah. The Dodgers since the Brooklyn days.

The Tigers are not a rival. No Yankee fan thinks of the Tigers this way. This is like Illinois fans calling Michigan their greatest rival.

That being said, and hey, neg this too, the Tigers have a great young core with Torkelson, Greene, and Baddoo. The future looks bright there at least.

Clarence Boddicker

April 23rd, 2022 at 6:28 PM ^

Hey, I posted to celebrate Cabrera's achievement and merely made note of my disdain for the Tigers in fairly mild terms ("...fuck the Tigers"). That disdain actually comes from my experience at Comerica Amusement Park...sorry Comerica Park, and the vociferous Yankee hate witnessed by myself and a fellow fan, which baffled us at the time. You expect that from a Boston fan or anyone from Philadephia. The Yankees and Tigers don't play in the same division, which means the Tigers have never prevented the Yankees from making the playoffs that I know of. I didn't even know about the having-your-number-in-the-playoffs thing until some of y'all mentioned it. And what is that supposed to mean to Yankee fans? It's nice that you cling to that, but the Yankees have won the World Series seven times in my lifetime. The Tigers have four in their entire history, from Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford, through Hank Greenberg and Mickey Cochrane, Mickey Lolich and Willie Horton, to Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker, to the Miggy days--FOUR. If you want to make a rivalry out of that, go ahead. Any Yankee fan that HASN'T been to a Yankee game at Comerica probably has pretty neutral feelings about the Tigers--perhaps even respect for the great teams. Maybe shock that those teams didn't win more.

Okay, I did refer to Cabrera as "Super Chonk." The dude is round, I'm sorry. He's gets the job done though.

MGlobules

April 23rd, 2022 at 5:41 PM ^

Whether "Clarence Boddicker" deigns to call them rivals or not. . . The Tigers have l-o-n-g had the Yankees' number. And yes, the Yanks have many times been the most expensive team that money can buy. . . but when you do the hype-to-wins ratio, especially in the modern era. . . they've bombed in the Bronx. 

EDIT: Plus, they're cheaters. Enjoy the taint.