April 16, 2008

Game 15: A Giant Clicking Sound Emerges from Tigers Offense

ESPN highlights available here.

The Gist: The Tigers won their third game in a row — and in a route — over the Indians, 13-2. Where to start? How about with the pitching of Armando Galarraga? Two runs and only one hit over 6.2 innings.
And then there’s Miguel Cabrera who, as recently as Sunday, couldn’t [...]

April 7, 2008

The Doug Report - Weak (sic) 1

Greetings,
I figured if this Drudge fellow can have his own report, why can’t I have mine? (Plus, during the school year, once a week is about all I can muster for blogging.)
Well, here I sit staring at this morning’s paper and an 0-6 record after six home games. I haven’t even found the time to [...]

April 2, 2008

Game 2: Tigers Waste Rogers’ Strong Start

Game 2 - Royals 4, Tigers 0
The Gist: Kenny Rogers allowed two runs on five hit in six innings of work. Edgar Renteria collected all three of Detroit’s hits in the loss. Royals starter Brian Bannister gave up two singles in seven innings.
The Quote: Jim Leyland in the Freep: “I’m not going to get excited [...]

January 20, 2008

Three-Year Deal Transforms Robertson into Good-Luck Nate

Count me among the delighted that the Tigers locked-up Nate Robertson for three more years at $21.25 million. I’ve been a fan of Robertson’s since day one and think the Tigers were wise to secure an essential member of the rotation.
(If you want to find someone who isn’t a big Nate fan, look no [...]

December 4, 2007

Double-D Cookin’ Up Some Hot Stove Fun

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 [...]