Archive for the 'The Doug Report' Category

July 10, 2008

Early Thursday Evening Rantings

Today’s wonderful come-from-ahead loss to the always pesky if not powerful Minnesota Twins was testimony, in a nutshell, why — to paraphrase Randolph and Mortimer Duke at the end of Trading Places while Billy Ray Valentine and Louis Winthorpe III were cornering the orange juice commodities market on them — Dave Dombrowski and the Tigers [...]

May 19, 2008

The Doug Report: Adjectivially Speaking

Sun!
That was my first thought as my Frontier Airlines jet touched down at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport early Thursday evening. It seems as though for we Michiganians glimpses of the sun outside the months of July, August, and – maybe – early October are random and fleeting.
Warmth!
That was my second thought. Despite the best [...]

April 21, 2008

The Doug Report: Back from Toronto Edition

Hello Everyone,
Did you miss me?
The Family Hill is fresh off a Toronto vacay where we were able to catch the Tigers-Jays on Saturday. Suffice to say it wasn’t the best of the four days to be in attendance at the Rogers Centre, what with Miguel Cabrera kicking the game away on what should be an [...]