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This is the booth reacting to Peaches telling his squirrel wars story. They love him so much and are simultaneously losing their shit at how many feelings this man has about his squirrel opponents.

The Tigers are basically terrible right now but they might have the best broadcast team in baseball.

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The Tigers game is in a rain delay, so they are doing their Rain Delay Questions segment where the tv crew takes questions on twitter from whoever. The guy who was doing radio color commentary today broke into the tv booth because he missed his friends.

Approximately 70 miles away Justin Verlander is pitching a rehab start for the Toledo Mudhens, and partway through Rain Delay Questions the Tigers truck got hold of the feed.

This situation has resulted in a 3-way split screen with one screen showing the Mudhens game live; one screen showing the tv play-by-play guy, the tv color commentator, the radio color commentator, and the sideline reporter schmoozing in the booth; and one screen showing the postgame reporter, who is alone in exile at the concourse desk.

Instead of narrating the Mudhens game, the tv color commentator is telling a story about his war with the squirrels in his backyard.

Baseball is simply sublime.

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Dan Petry is one of the Detroit Tigers' TV announcers. There was a rain delay today, so the two announcers and one of the on-field reporters were hanging out in the booth just killing time, answering questions from the internet, generally being silly. Every so often one of them gently roasted the other, or said something complimentary.

Petry had a glove and ball in the booth with him for some reason.

On this day we learned that compliments and conflict both make him nervous. And when Dan Petry is nervous, he starts compulsively popping the ball into his glove.

So when the play by play guy made mild fun of the on-field reporter, Petry started anxiously popping the ball into his glove. When one of them said something nice about him, he nervously popped the ball into the glove a bunch of times.

It was very adorable. Just had to put that out there.

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My 25 favorite Detroit Tigers- Dan Petry

My 25 favorite Detroit Tigers- Dan Petry

I have been a fan of the Detroit Tigers since the Summer of 1984. That means I am lucky enough to vividly remember my baseball team winning a World Series title, and waiting for them to win another. Since every year the team itself asks me who my Tiger is I decided to write about my favorite 25 Tigers since I became a fan…at eight years old…This has less to do with performance as it does with…

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