Interesting Debate

I usually watch the lions on the computer because I don’t get them on cable in southwest michigan, and I have the tigers on TV muted until the lions have a commercial then I unmute the Tigers and so on and so forth

Baseball to me is like the Chicago Bears.
When it’s Chicago Bears vs. Anything, I’m going with “anything.”

And it’s a numbers game. The Lions will play, what, 23 games this year, including preseason? The Tigers play at least 162. One Lions’ game is over 4 percent of the season! One Tigers’ game is about 0.65 percent of the season (all math was done in my head at a loud coffeeshop, so it might be off). Lions ftw.

I’ll DVR the Lions, watch the Tiger’s replay, then watch the Lions so I can fast forward through the commercials…lol.

If I were able to watch the Lions LIVE, I would watch the Lions game first and then catch the Tiger’s replay.

Its on just about every day which almost makes me care even less.

Of course it is just an exhibition game, but I missed the first game.

I’d be all over the Tigers, but since he is not. . . Lions all day or Night i guess I should say. And I thought we were still up 2 full games on the Tribe.

preseason games are way too fun to miss out on. I’d personally rather miss the starters and then watch the other guys play just to see who might be some diamond in the roughs. I’ll probably switch back and forth tonight but if I had a choice between one, Leo’s all the way

1 of 20 games a year or 1 of 152…pretty easy choice

Lions game.

Did I mention Lions?

Hey, did you hear the Lions are playing tonight?

Someone told me the Lions are on tonight!

No offense to the Tigers, but Leyland is killing me with him manager decisions. Just killing me.

If baseball is the only thing on, it’ll get watched. Any football game, don’t care if it’s the Pro Bowl, some random AFC matchup, etc, will beat any baseball game for me.

Baseball feels like watching paint dry. It’s a sport where you can look at the stat line and the highlights and know everything that happened in any given game. Football has too much going on and just plain matters more to me to watch baseball over it.

So i had to vote Lions vs Browns. When there is a commercial i would have turned it to Tigers but i really want to see how our lions do.

Football is my sport, its what I played when I was younger, and it will always be #1 on my radar, unless they do some dumb shit like miss games in the regular season over a labor dispute. Baseball lost me in 87 with the strike, I could actually care less if Detroit has a baseball team. Sure since the do I take a passing interest in it, but I could really care less for any other sport anymore.

I used to be a HUGE Red Wings fan, I guess I just lost my love for the team after they changed the NHL. All the rules changes, removal of fighting, physical play from the game.

I guess football could lose me for the same reasons, but it will be harder for me to put down football than either of those other two sports. Then again I never, ever would have thought I would stop loving hockey as much as I did. I guess it is just important for my machismo to watch a sport that is violent and exciting, physical and has high drama and story lines. If the NFL continues down the path they are in terms of making the game unfair for defensive players to be physical, but continues to let offensive players face mask, lead with the helmet, etc. then perhaps I will eventually give up on it too.

I can live with removing the head collisions for player safety, but they really need to start calling crack back blocks on the offensive guys, and make stiff arms illegal, and no more head first dives by the runner into defenders either.