Archive for March, 2008

LEAGUE CITY, Texas — The big letdown. That’s what I prepared myself for this Opening Day and that’s what I got.
For me, the letdown wasn’t the 5-4 final from Comerica Park. Nay, it was when the Royals came back to take a 4-3 lead in the seventh. And when I boarded my plane for Houston [...]

From the Tigers Game Notes:
Today’s contest with the Kansas City Royals marks the 108th Opening Day in Tigers history. The club enters action today with a 50-56-1 record in the previous 107 season openers.
The Tigers and Royals have matched up five times previously on Opening Day, including a 3-1 Tigers win in 2006 at Kansas [...]

Interview with Gary Gillette posted at http://www.DetroitTigersPodcast.com #
One day until Opening Day in Detroit. Will the weather cooperate? #

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Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast, the podcast for Tigers fans, by Tigers fans. This is Episode #42, a 53-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from Scottsdale, Ariz.
In this episode we are joined by über Tigers bloggers Ian Casselberry of BlessYouBoys.com and BaseballBlend.com, “Big Al” Beaton of The Wayne Fontes Experience and SideLionReport.com, [...]

Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast, the podcast for Tigers fans, by Tigers fans. This is Episode #41, a 17-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from Scottsdale, Ariz.
In this episode we recap Spring Training and are joined by Gary Gillette, editor of several books including Tigers Corner 2008, to talk about the [...]

In case you’d forgotten, it was 24 years ago this week that the Tigers swung a deal with the Phillies that changed the 1984 season for the Tigers dramatically — and instantly.
On March 27, 1984, the Tigers acquired lefty reliever Willie Hernandez and first baseman Dave Bergman from Philadelphia in exchange for OF Glenn Wilson [...]

So last Friday night I took in the Rangers and Angels at Surprise Stadium — a record crowd, don’t you know — and as we took our seats the P.A. announcer introduced former Tigers reliever Franklyn German.

Anyone else now officially freaked out about Dontrelle Willis?