May 19, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes, Tigers Birthdays | 0 comments
Like Nuke LaLoosh, summer is announcing its presence with authority.
Triple digits returned to the desert on Sunday — a mere 104. Today the temps approached 110.
Big whoop. If you can’t handle the heat, don’t dish out The Non Sequiturs.
Or something like that.
Charley Steiner spoke with national baseball writer Phil Rogers of the Chicago [...]
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May 9, 2008
By Mike McClary in Featured, Game Recaps | 0 comments
ESPN highlights available here.
The Gist: Game #37 featured a terrific outing from #37 Kenny Rogers, three hits from Pudge Rodriguez and ridiculous ninth inning from Todd Jones. Luckily, and most importantly, it all added up to a Tigers’ 6-5 win over the Yankees. Rogers gave the Tigers a quality start — 6 IP, 9 H, [...]
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April 11, 2008
By Mike McClary in Featured, Fungoes | 0 comments
Tigers fans expected the team to be the talk of baseball in 2008. Little did they know it would be in the form of fodder for the late-night talkshow set.
Alas, here we are, watching a team sleepwalking its way to a 1-8 record and heading to Chicago for a series that doesn’t bode well, given [...]
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March 21, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
Okay, we get it. The Tigers bullpen is to the team’s championship aspirations as an anvil is to a skydiver.
But what, pray tell, if it’s not?
I, for one, refuse to buy into the bullpen as Achilles’ heel conspiracy theory, and here are three reasons why:
Healthy starters
Dave Dombrowski
Zach Miner
1. Healthy starters. Among the many problems last [...]
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January 14, 2008
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 1 comment
How time flies. It was 18 years ago Saturday (Jan. 12) that the Tigers traded right-handed starter Jeff Robinson to the Orioles for catcher Mickey Tettleton. (Somewhere I have Robinson’s autograph on a bleacher-seat ticket stub.)
No one really knows how long Joel Zumaya will be out — perhaps all season. If that’s the case, and [...]
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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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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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November 4, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
11-5-07 Update: In Monday morning’s Free Press, columnist Drew Sharp has a similar piece on the Fidrych/Zumaya comparison.
Thirty years ago, Tigers fans held out hope that the knee injury suffered by Mark “The Bird” Fidrych in spring training was merely a moment of turbulence on his career’s soaring trajectory. Unfortunately, Fidrych’s career — which showed [...]
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November 1, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes, Hot Stove | 5 comments
So Joel Zumaya’s out until…well, who knows? Not to worry, the Tigers might have a fall-back position in the person of Todd Jones. Unless he signs with the Braves or some other team in the southeast.Worried? Me too.I wonder if the Tigers front office is mulling a call to Mariano Rivera’s agent. He could be [...]
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August 21, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
From my vantage point, tonight’s game at Comerica Park had the look and feel of a playoff game. Two good teams, a cool, overcast evening, and a sellout-plus crowd.More importantly for Tigers fans, the game had the look and feel of a Tigers game from June or early July - from 2006 or 2007, [...]
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