Happy Birthday to Clete Thomas (25) and Willie Hernandez (54).

As I mentioned yesterday, I took-in Monday night’s freeze-fest at a cold, rainy and darn-near empty Comerica Park. The best part — besides hanging with some good friends — was the ticket price. Thanks to the Tigers’ tank job this season, I was able to pay 50¢ for each of the four $13 tickets. Fifty [...]

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Here we are, approaching the third weekend of August, and the Tigers are mired in third place, nine-and-a-half games out of first place. And, as I’m always reminding myself, only five games out of last place. This was supposed to be like 1984, 1968 or even 1945. It [...]

ESPN highlights, should you want to abuse yourself, available here. The Gist: What do you know? The Tigers were shutout again and Kenny Rogers got lit-up for seven earned runs in five innings. The offense called in sick. The Quote: “If I had wanted you guys to know what I said to the team, I [...]

The Gist: The bullpen reversed its recent trend of hideous performances and bailed out the now officially gimpy Dontrelle Willis to beat the White Sox 5-2 in Reykjavik. Aquilino Lopez shut down the White Sox over four innings and Clete Thomas (2-5 and a rifle throw to cut down Jermaine Dye at second) continues to [...]

UPDATE: ESPN highlights available here. The Gist: The Tigers drop to 0 and 4 on the year thanks to Jason Grilli‘s incendiary seventh-inning performance in which he gave up three runs on five hits — including a bomb to A.J. Pierzynski — and a walk on just 22 pitches. Nate Robertson wasn’t much better in [...]