August 12, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Friday Freehans | 0 comments
Some random tidbits to kick-off your weekend: Today’s Game: Brad Penny (7-9, 4.92 ERA) vs. Alfredo Simon (3-5, 4.08 ERA) | 7:05 p.m. – FSD/1270 AM and 97.1 FM Penny has lost each of his last three starts for the Tigers, compiling a 7.94 ERA in the outings. He has suffered the loss in five [...]
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June 17, 2011
By Mike McClary in Friday Freehans | 0 comments
Long-time readers of The Daily Fungo have likely grown weary of my professed love of the Rockies and Coors Field. So I’ll spare them the details and provide new readers with the gist: I attended the Rockies’ first-ever home game at Mile High Stadium against the Expos in April 1993 (thanks to a grueling roadtrip [...]
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June 10, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Friday Freehans | 2 comments
And what do you know? The Tigers are but a game out of first place to start the weekend — the first time we’ve been able to say that since April 1. It’s been a slow-and-steady climb but Detroit has won 22 of the club’s last 33 games dating back to May 3, a .656 .667 winning [...]
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June 3, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Friday Freehans | 2 comments
The Tigers make their first visit of the year to Chicago which typically means nothing but anguish. Not this weekend. Detroit’s recent good fortune against the Sox continues. (Right?) Here’s a terrific piece about Sparky Anderson from someone who knew him in his southern California community for 40 years. Out here in Phoenix, there’s some [...]
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August 13, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Friday Freehans | 0 comments
What’s worse: the Tigers sitting four games under .500 in mid-August or the Tigers having to face the first-place White Sox in Chicago? For me, they both stink but watching them play at U.S. Cellular Field is nauseating no matter what the record. Speaking of which, the Tigers are just 2-6 against Chicago this season [...]
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August 6, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Friday Freehans | 0 comments
So I came to southern California for some family events and hoped to catch an Angels or Padres game during some down time. As luck would have it, the Angels are in Detroit and the Padres in Phoenix. There’s a chance that I can make one of the Padres/Pirates games next week. But enough about [...]
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July 17, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Friday Freehans | 1 comment
Yeah, yeah. I got started on these, then got pulled in another direction, etc., etc. Nevertheless, here are a few nuggets for your consideration to start off the weekend: I continue to watch with fascination how Kirk Gibson fares as the Diamondbacks’ interim manager. In this piece from the Arizona Republic, we learn about one [...]
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