April 5, 2008
By Mike McClary in Featured, Game Recaps | 2 comments
ESPN highlights available here.
The Gist: A wild Dontrelle Willis (seven walks in five innings) doesn’t give up a hit until the sixth, Zach Miner gives up one run in the same inning and takes the loss. Brandon Inge has all three RBI and is batting .375 so far. Oh, and the 0-5 Tigers remain the [...]
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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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January 13, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 2 comments
Every four years we elect a president and now, it would appear, every four years Brandon Inge comes to Spring Training without a job.In 2004 he was displaced as the Tigers catcher by an All Star from the Florida Marlins — Pudge Rodriguez. Inge came to camp as a backup to Pudge and a newly [...]
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January 1, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
Believe it or not, I didn’t start 2008 by thinking about the Detroit Tigers. Instead, I lamented the fact that in seven months I’ll turn 40.
But enough about me. Here are two pieces of Tigers-related confetti for you:
First buried lede of the year: Sports Illustrated sees the Tigers defeating the Red Sox in the [...]
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December 16, 2007
By Doug Hill in Doug's Dispatches | 1 comment
There have been lots of thoughts percolating around my head lately. Now that I’ve cleared my driveway of snow for the third time today, it’s time to get those thoughts out to the masses.
Brandon Inge
If you recall prior to the 2004 season Mr. Inge acted like a petulant little child when the Tigers signed Pudge [...]
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December 4, 2007
By Doug Hill in Doug's Dispatches, Hot Stove | 4 comments
Are you kidding me?When Mike first broached the possibility of Dave Dombrowski’s blockbuster this afternoon late this morning by forwarding me Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal I thought it must’ve been some posturing and cheap talk.When I nosed around ESPN.com and saw Peter Gammon’s blog entry saying there was some validity to it I let my [...]
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November 12, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 2 comments
My son woke me up at 5:45 this morning so I had some time to catchup on my reading and thinking…
Call me naive, but I thought the Kenny Rogers thing would be a slam dunk, even with The Scott Boras Factor. Now that Rogers, who turned 43 on Saturday, is testing the market — the [...]
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July 19, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
The beauty of being self-employed: watching a Tigers matinee game on my office TV while working away. I don’t do this very often but he are my thoughts updated throughout the game.Jeremy Bonderman clearly has the slider going today.Wow, Timo Perez. As I’ve mentioned before, never in their history have the Tigers had a [...]
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