October 4, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 6 comments
In the first inning of Tuesday night’s ALDS Game 4, Yankees starter A.J. Burnett was on the ropes. He’d walked the bases loaded and with two out Don Kelly ripped what appeared to be a liner over Curtis Granderson’s head in centerfield. (Lord knows we still love Grandy in Detroit, but his reaction to that [...]
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August 3, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,The Daily Breakfast | 0 comments
Good Wednesday morning, afternoon or evening. Thanks to everyone who passed along birthday wishes to yours truly yesterday. It was a great day, capped by a soggy Tigers win. The photo here is the cake a friend of mine made for me. It tasted as good as it looks. Leading Off: The Tigers failed to [...]
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July 16, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 0 comments
Note: This article first appeared on ESPN.com’s SweetSpot blog today. When the Tigers traded Scott Sizemore to the A’s over Memorial Day Weekend, it brought an abrupt and mildly startling end to his tenure as Detroit’s second baseman of the future. The Tigers, after all, anointed him as the heir apparent to Placido Polanco almost [...]
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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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April 21, 2011
By Wade Fink in Featured,Wade's View | 3 comments
The best teams in any sport have an identity. Even the teams who do everything well, that’s their identity. The Tigers don’t have one. They’ve won and lost games with pitching. They’ve won and lost games with hitting. They’ve won and lost games with defense. For now, they don’t know who they are, and, if [...]
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April 4, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Tigers Today | 0 comments
Tigers’ Record 1-2; 4th place, 1.5 GB Royals Today’s Game Tigers @ Orioles | 3:05 p.m. ET – Baltimore | On the air: FSD/AM 1270 and 97.1 FM Pitching Matchup Rick Porcello (0-0) vs. Jake Arrieta (0-0) Yesterday’s Results Tigers 10 – Yankees 7 W: Max Scherzer (1-0) L: Phil Hughes (0-1) HR: Miguel Cabrera [...]
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April 4, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,TweetCaps | 0 comments
Brennan Boesch was perfect at the plate: 4 for 4, 4 runs, 4 RBI, and Max Scherzer was just this side of awful: 9 hits and 6 ER in 5 innings.
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