Month: September 2006

The more I think about it, the more resentful I am of the media (well, one guy at CBS SportsLine) giving the Tigers a hard time for celebrating the playoff appearance. As Kurt reminds us in a comment to the previous post, ÒYou make the playoffs, you celebrate. That’s what you do.Ó Three years ago…

Just read on MLB.com that MLB has done all the requisite coin-flipping for possible one-game playoffs for the Wild Card. Here’s the skinny: The only coin flip regarding the AL Wild Card involved the Twins and the White Sox. Chicago made the right call and would host a playoff at U.S. Cellular Field. Both of…

Once in a while an email from MLB.com offers a nugget of information that you can actually use (as opposed to the seemingly unstoppable coupons for 15% off at the MLB Shop). This evening I found one of those nuggets: MLB.com’s Fab Fifteen rankings. (I may be the last person on Earth to discover this…

That’s what you hear coming from the Tigers clubhouse in the bowels of the Metrodome. Nate Robertson pitches another stellar game Ñ 1 ER over seven innings, for Pete’s sake! Ñ and the Tigers can’t push across more than one run against a guy named Boof. Now the lead stands at 3 and with Jekyll…

Wow. How can you complain about game one of the Twins series? Can’t. Verlander was phenomenal. The offense explosive at long last. Bullpen work = top notch. I was really hoping to be able to write something about the line score having a zero in the E column and for eight innings it looked good.…

That’s the Tigers record since Placido Polanco got hurt in Boston. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I’ll leave it to you to decide if these are desperate times for the Tigers, but how does this strike you as a desperate measure: when Ramon Santiago‘s in the lineup why not use the DH for him…