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Game time temperatures are projected at 36 degrees this evening in Detroit.    There is a 75% chance on rain at game time on Wednesday.  That probably sets up a doubleheader on Thursday with highes in the mid 40's. Football weather continues.

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10 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Here I thought the northern most teams in the mlb played a bunch of road games early on. So far we’ve been playing all teams north of us. 

Just seems like dumb scheduling by mlb. 

They probably need to look at realigning based on time zones, especially if the AL and NL teams are going to continue to play each other.

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20 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Here I thought the northern most teams in the mlb played a bunch of road games early on. So far we’ve been playing all teams north of us. 

Just seems like dumb scheduling by mlb. 

I forgot about Houston moving to Canada.

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Just now, Diehard_O's_Fan said:

This weather is absolutely ridiculous. I am going to cut the Orioles some slack for their cold start. The Orioles need to beat up on the Tigers though and I know the players realize that.

Once again, the others teams are dealing with this as well.

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2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I have to question building around an offensive weapon that is adversely effected by cold weather when the playoffs are in October.

Even good hitting teams will struggle in this weather.  I can’t imagine the sting of hitting a ball in on the hands when it’s this cold.

http://m.startribune.com/the-boys-before-summer-cold-baseball-weather-not-ideal-for-players-numbers/479782383/

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3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I have to question building around an offensive weapon that is adversely effected by cold weather when the playoffs are in October.

I feel like someone did a mini-study a year or two back and found that the percentage of runs scored on homers in the playoffs is not materially different than during the season.    But I don’t remember the details or how big the sample was.

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43 minutes ago, Diehard_O's_Fan said:

This weather is absolutely ridiculous. I am going to cut the Orioles some slack for their cold start. The Orioles need to beat up on the Tigers though and I know the players realize that.

IS coming out of Detroit with a series split or worse acceptable right now even in this weather remember the Tigers must play in it too?

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1 minute ago, TouchemAll said:

IS coming out of Detroit with a series split acceptable right now even in this weather remember the Tigers must play in it too?

The Tigers might very well be the worst team in baseball.  I do not think a team that fancies itself a contender should be OK with not winning the series.

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Just now, Can_of_corn said:

The Tigers might very well be the worst team in baseball.  I do not think a team that fancies itself a contender should be OK with not winning the series.

Either do I. It will actually be interesting to see if the O's offense wakes up in Detroit? If not well there won't be any more everybody we've played is a juggernaut going to the playoffs I guess.

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