Game Thread: AL Wild Card Game 2 ⚾ Tigers (1) @ Astros (0) – 2:32 PM ET

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1. Bregman is generally the only Astro I don’t dislike. (Him not liking Trevor Bauer gets him a lot of points with me.) I’m not happy with him right now though.

2. Announcers are so bad wow

3. I was hoping the reporter would just end whatever story he was trying to say with that base hit.

4. In unrelated news, apparently a 500 lb bomb dropped during WWII exploded at a Japanese airport today. No one was hurt, but a runway was damaged and 80 flights were delayed.

   Talk about the most random shit.

5. Michael King sucks

6. Who loves Michael Kay more? His wife and family or Michael Kay

7. The Astros have mastered the art of hitting balls really hard that go directly to a fielder lol

8. Vierling my beloved

9. Unpopular opinion, I like the ESPN telecasts. Is it perfect? No, but I enjoy the graphics package and presentation. It’s a good score bug and package in my view, and it’s clean unlike Fox with its massive bug and neon lights when a home run happens. Now with the announcers, hard to judge when these people only come together for three games. I don’t mind the SNB crew. It’s better than when A-Rod was on.

   I wish we had more games on ABC in the year. I am old school how I want more MLB telecasts on broadcast TV with the biggest reach possible.

10. It seems across all fan platforms, baseball fans are in agreement that the broadcasting announcers for these postseason games are absolute trash. How do they continually get the opportunity to do it?

11. Who breaks character more, Jimmy Fallon on SNL or Timmy Kurkjian on an ESPN baseball broadcast?

12. God I hate listening to these entitled boomers

13. Kurkjian doing the play by play *and* the color commentary

14. I don’t care about your inside jokes, Tim.

15. Michael Kay is a top tier play by play guy. If there was one person that I would choose to do World Series games nationally, it would be Michael Kay.

16. Hinch to Tork: hey, u up? 😌

17. Hilarious you can see the umpire moving his hands towards the safe signal hahahah

18. Tim Kurkjian has the least funny jokes

19. I like Pena but he can’t hit for shit

20. the ump cams are weirdly underwhelming. they need a cool lens or something

21. Those ump cams are cool, though

22. I’m pretty sure I could get Pena out if I just pitched him low and in.

23. That sinker was filthy.

24. I HATE YOU ASTROS

25. Is today an all-reliever day for the Tigers?

26. He said it

27. The field mic is cooking this series. Each bat crack sounds massive and you can hear the umpire clear as day.

28. Holton for only one inning is a head scratcher

29. I give the Astros credit how they never go away quietly. Even yesterday, they fought until the end.

30. Can we do that thing again where we have a 3-0 lead all game? I liked that much better

31. That ump was way too excited to call that foul

32. what’s wrong with Kay and Frazier? kurkijan won’t stop with the stat anecdotes which really annihilate the flow of game calling

33. Man that looked fair.

34. Idk about that one

35. Jason Heyward is only 34?

36. Why you would ever throw him something to let him extend his arms?

    He’s standing way off the plate. Either inside edge or way, way low and outside.

37. He wants that right field double so bad

38. These Astros jerseys are horrific

39. That foul ball was just like my ex wife, “it kept hooking”

40. I hate playoff baseball it seems

41. Miss you Jason 🙁

42. I give the Astros credit for playing Whom the Bells Toll often since it’s awesome.

43. Unc just playing with everyone’s feelings at this point lol

44. Jason Heyward try to be clutch challenge impossible

45. LETS GOOOOOOO