March 23, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 1 comment
Shortly after the Easter egg hunt at Casa de McClary this morning, I planned on reading details of Miguel Cabrera’s record-setting contract extension. What I did not expect was this headline from the Free Press: Granderson will start season on Tigers’ disabled list.
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March 22, 2008
By Mike McClary in Blast from the Past, Featured, Tigers Birthdays | 0 comments
Before the names of Kyle Sleeth, Kenny Baugh, Justin Thompson and even Scott Aldred and Steve Searcy evoked images of a star-studded starting rotation for the Tigers, there was one name the personified unfulfilled promise for Tiger fans: Rich Monteleone.
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March 21, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
On this date in 1908: Ty Cobb signs with the Detroit Tigers for $4,000 plus an $800 bonus if he hits over .300.
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March 21, 2008
By Mike McClary in Blast from the Past, Fungoes, Tigers Birthdays | 1 comment
If you spend time looking through old Tigers yearbooks, especially those from the 1970s, and you have no recollection of the barren period of Tigers baseball, you might think those teams were this close to pennant contention.
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March 21, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 1 comment
We’ve all been exasperated by Jeremy Bonderman’s apparent inability to shutdown hitters in the first inning.
Today The Wall Street Journal and ESPN’s Rob Neyer take a closer look at Bonderman’s first-inning baggage.
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March 21, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
With one week to go, Jim Leyland says his team isn’t ready.
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March 21, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
Okay, we get it. The Tigers bullpen is to the team’s championship aspirations as an anvil is to a skydiver.
But what, pray tell, if it’s not?
I, for one, refuse to buy into the bullpen as Achilles’ heel conspiracy theory, and here are three reasons why:
Healthy starters
Dave Dombrowski
Zach Miner
1. Healthy starters. Among the many problems last [...]
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March 18, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
Happy 31st Birthday, Fernando Rodney. You’re going on the DL.
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March 17, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
Three quick hits:
This past weekend my wife and I traveled to Indian Wells, Calif., to watch the second round of the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament.
When you take away the two-hour line to park and the gale-force winds, we had a great time watching some big-name players including Lindsay Davenport, Ana Ivanovic, Carlos Moya and [...]
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