May 21, 2008
By Mike McClary in Featured, The Podcast | 0 comments
Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast, the podcast for Tigers fans, by Tigers fans. This is Episode #49, a 23-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from Scottsdale, Ariz., and Portland, Ore.
In this episode we’re joined by Rob Neyer of ESPN.com, and the author of six books, including his latest “Rob Neyer’s Big Book [...]
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January 2, 2008
By Mike McClary in Blast from the Past | 0 comments
You want some spirited debate (of the non-Iowa Caucus variety, that is)? Try the Internet. More specifically, browse the comments of any Rob Neyer piece on ESPN.com — especially when he’s writing about the Hall of Fame.
Today Rob raised a terrific Tigers-related question in his column titled: Trammell being unfairly judged? (Insider only).
Actually, he [...]
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December 13, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes, Media Rare | 1 comment
About three hours before the Mitchell Report was released today, I updated Twitter with this tongue-in-cheek ditty: Is today the day we find out Nook Logan was on steroids? Little did I know that his name would appear in the report (on page 277).
Two bits of interest for me related to Logan: First, didn’t know [...]
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December 6, 2007
By Mike McClary in The Podcast | 1 comment
Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast, the podcast for Tigers fans, by Tigers fans. This is Episode #38, a 54-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from Portland, Ore.In this episode we’re joined by Rob Neyer of ESPN.com, and the author of five books, including “The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers” (with Bill James) [...]
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November 28, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 1 comment
Let’s get right to the question of the day: You did send along birthday wishes today to Nook Logan, right? Tsk, tsk.
The Twins are quite a busy bunch this week with the Johan Santana discussions and the three-for-three trade with the Devil Rays. I read in the New York Daily News on Tuesday that the [...]
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July 20, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
There are a million good reasons to read The Onion yet I can’t offer a single excuse for not reading it in months.Thanks to ESPN.com’s Rob Neyer for pointing out the following Onion dispatch with the headline:Report: Another Baseball Team Almost Does Something As Interesting As Yankees, Red SoxDelicious.
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February 3, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes, Media Rare | 0 comments
Have you noticed that a lot of ads that refer to the Super Bowl don’t use the words “Super Bowl”? Instead it’s “the big game.” I noticed the same thing for the BCS Championship game. Are we to infer that the NFL doesn’t allow Super Bowl non-sponsors (nonsors?) or advertisers to actually use the words? [...]
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