satjay said:Its almost that time as pitchers and catchers report this week! This thread gets a lot of traction during the year!!
As always go Tigers! Should be a fun year in the division!
Yes check youtube for Ernie, Will be a bit different this year as we will also see reminders that "captain Hook" is no longer with us as well
Yes around here we will have a bit of that spring feel as we are to see 50's later in the week, 40's today which felt nice!!!
I think Phil Coke is going to play an important role this year as a starter
Oh, I'm so excited I can barely contain myself! Another season under the ownership of cheapskate Larry Dolan! Yah!
One thing's for certain though: we will continue to be MLB's best developmental system for young talent. Then, just as the talent peaks, we ship them away for pennies on the dollar. Cy Young? Gold Glove? Budding All-Star? Yep. Just as they show any sort of promise, they're yours. Take em! We don't want 'em!
Read some nice news on Zumaya today, was happy with his "secondary" pitches...man if he can stay healthy!
I just read that Martinez and Leyland were very happy with what they saw from him today.
I really with he could get some GOOD luck for a change, having him healthy for a whole year or 3 would be a GREAT BOOST to the Tigers Bullpen.
Twins go cable only this year
Twins OK exclusive cable deal with FS North | StarTribune.com
damn...I know they only had 25 games on local TV the last few years but dang as long as I can remember the Twins always had a handful of games on local TV
oh and not to go off topic but dang go back 10 years and its amazing how many games some teams had on local TV...not including the Braves and Cubs these teams had an unusual amount of games on free TV (Braves had 92 and Cubs had 78)
Arizona-75
Baltimore-65
Boston-75
Cleveland-75
Colorado-75
Florida-55
Houston-62
KC-51
LA Dodgers-50
Milwaukee-50
NY Mets-50
NY Yankees-50
Oakland-52
SF-52
Tampa Bay-65
Texas-76
so more than 1/2 the teams had at least 50 games on local TV 10 years ago. By the way these 3 had the least on free TV that year
-Montreal..none (Loria basically killing the franchise helped with that....no TV or English radio in 2000 by the way)
-Cincy...3 games
-Pittsburgh...15
looking at an old website Detroit use to have 15-25 games on local TV...go back 10 years and channel 50 carried 40 of them. 2008 they went cable only
The Twins have had 25-28 games on local TV back as far as I can go which is 1999. Its not much but for fans without cable its a nice thing to have. Sunday games were on local TV....and during the year of the infamous "Victory Sports One" channel, thats all most of us could see...the ones on local TV
Iceberg said:looking at an old website Detroit use to have 15-25 games on local TV...go back 10 years and channel 50 carried 40 of them. 2008 they went cable only
The Twins have had 25-28 games on local TV back as far as I can go which is 1999. Its not much but for fans without cable its a nice thing to have. Sunday games were on local TV....and during the year of the infamous "Victory Sports One" channel, thats all most of us could see...the ones on local TV