OT: Opening Day in Detroit!
Decided to go to work instead due to the weather.
I was downtown once for opening day, completely by accident. I stepped in vomit on Broadway.
I just had my first experience in the Tenderlion neighborhood in San Francisco.
You made out well. Ha!
Bring back the old olde English D on the home uniforms. I will keep posting this until it happens.
You missed an opportunity to write olde olde English D.
Yes please. And shrink the "D" on the hat back to regular size while you're at it. It looks like they're wearing gas station knock offs.
They did.
You're too fast. I just came back to edit. Credit to the Tigers for listening and getting it right.
Now do the jerseys.
I haven't clicked on the Freep site for a while. I'm not missing much.
I would rather New Era take the logo off the hat than get the jersey changed honestly. Baseball hats were so good with just the MLB logo on the back and the team logo on the front. I haven't bought a hat since the New Era logo went up.
The branding in sports really bothers me at this point. I am pretty upset that the Nike logo will be on the front of the classic baseball uniforms, but I guess if its between the swoosh and the UA logo, I'll take the swoosh.
I don't follow baseball religiously any longer, but there's always something special about the home opener.
And since I don't follow baseball religiously, I just looked at the Tigers hitting stats to date. Ouch. At least Miggy got his first RBI of the year today.
I don’t follow it either, but there’s just something about listening to baseball on the radio in the background that I love.
especially if this guy was doing the announcing....
I'd give my left thumb to hear this guy call a live game again.
i am fairly certain he's the announcer in heaven, but it must be somewhat confusing to keep the scorecards straight, with the angels playing the angels every game.
I mean they could set up a angels vs devils on a neutral field.
Agreed. I would also give your left thumb to hear him again.
I prefer baseball on the radio almost. Dan Dickerson and Jim Price are a great duo.
not a price fan. wish we had someone else of the quality of paul carey, mentioned below, or george kell (another great southern voice) or larry oosterban (sp?). those were the varsity guys.
Price is a good guy and as a member of my favorite Tigers team, he'll always have a place in my heart. However, as a color guy, he's lost several steps over the last few years. Dickerson's OK, but he's in the rough spot of always being compared to the legend, and I'm not talking about Rick Rizz.
Agree. It's the only sport that I actually prefer listening to on the radio. I have great memories as a kid of falling asleep on warm summer nights to Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey voice when the Tigers took their West Coast trips.
Bruce Martin and Sid Abel calling Wings games was special too.
don't forget bud lynch.
I'm so old that the radio I listened to Ernie on as I fell asleep had vacuum tubes.
My brother always wondered why his transistor radio's battery was dead. It was because I woke up most mornings listening to JP McCarthy on WJR after falling asleep to Ernie and Paul.
Mmmmm beer
Baseball season's underway...
well you better get ready for a brand new day...
I've never given a shit about collecting sports memorabilia, but I do have a small handful of items with some personal meaning.
This one is at the top: my ticket stub to the game on Sept. 17, 1968, when the Tigers clinched the pennant against the damn Yankees. My buddy and I were among the hundreds of delirious loons who scaled the right-field fence and danced around on the grass until they turned the sprinklers on. Good times.
that is a classic. i note it is signed by john fetzer, then-president of the tigers. i think i have some old wings/olympia tickets from around that time. they must have used the same printer.
and you paid $1 for that ticket. my how times have changed.
That’s bad-ass, Don.
I don’t know whether it’s badass or not, but the only sporting event I’ve attended myself that was as momentous in a positive way as that night at Tiger Stadium was Michigan-Ohio State in 1971.
My first time in the bleachers was in 1961 when the Tigers finished second to the Yankees. My older brother and I (at age 9) took the Grand River bus from our NW Detroit home. Bleacher tickets were 75 cents. We beat the Yankees that day 10-4 behind the pitching of Frank Lary ("The Yankee killer").
There was a drunk guy in the bleachers who occasionally exclaimed " Lary you're a farmer" until he got so drunk that he fell down and was hauled away.
TIGERS WIN, STAY IN SECOND PLACE!!!!!
#LoseForHughes
Sorry, wrong sport