April 24, 2008
By Mike McClary in Featured, Game Recaps | 3 comments
ESPN highlights available here.
The Gist: Magglio Ordonez goes deep twice, Jeremy Bonderman continues to frustrate and Jacque Jones is added to the injury list, yet the Tigers finally reach double digits in wins, defeating the Rangers 8-2. What else?
Curtis Granderson led off the Tigers half of the first with a home run
Zach Miner continues his [...]
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April 18, 2008
By Mike McClary in Game Recaps | 0 comments
ESPN highlights available here.
The Gist: Justin Verlander got lit up. Again. This time the Tigers’ 0-3 ace allowed five runs on seven hits in five innings to take the loss. The 11-1 loss to the Indians, leaves the Tigers with a Lions-esque record of 5 and 11. The Tigers had Cleveland starter Fausto Carmona on [...]
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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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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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August 16, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
Back from a grueling couple of days on the road (which included a, ahem, conversation with a Colorado Highway Patrol officer*), I reveled in getting to watch the Tigers on TV again. Nearly two weeks without my lifeline — DirecTV — was about all I could handle.So, despite a severe case of road weariness I [...]
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July 19, 2007
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
The beauty of being self-employed: watching a Tigers matinee game on my office TV while working away. I don’t do this very often but he are my thoughts updated throughout the game.Jeremy Bonderman clearly has the slider going today.Wow, Timo Perez. As I’ve mentioned before, never in their history have the Tigers had a [...]
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