Archive for April 22nd, 2008

While Friend of the Fungo Gary Gillette and the non-profit Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy work feverishly to raise funds to avoid, ahem, razing the ballpark, the City of Detroit’s demolition wheels are in motion.
At the very least, a demolition team is likely to start razing about 75% of the ballpark in May or June, as [...]

ESPN highlights available here.

The Gist: When Ramon Santiago goes yard, that’s gotta be a good sign for the Tigers, right? It certainly was on Tuesday night when the Tigers’ second baseman drove in three runs and Justin Verlander finally put together the start we’d been waiting for: six innings pitched, six hits, one earned run. [...]

The Tigers pounded out an 11 hit attack, including 3 home runs, that propelled them to a 10-2 win over the Texas Rangers in front of a paid attendance of 33,629.  Justin Verlander got his first win of the year as he pitched 6 innings and allowed 1 run and 6 hits.
Jacque Jones contributed with a triple and [...]

No joke. He just announced it in his post-game press conference.
Updates: From The News.
Insight from Rob Neyer [$].

Mystery reliever Francisco Cruceta has been assigned to Toledo.
The club has approximately two weeks to decide whether to put Cruceta on the 25-man big-league roster or to try to get him through waivers so he can stay in the minors.
It sure would be nice to see this guy pan out after all the international [...]