Month: November 2006

I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. After my birthday, that is. Other than a trip to Costco or the grocery store, there’s little shopping to be done and it’s an automatic four-day weekend. What’s not to love? (Insert Lions-related punchline here.) We Tigers fans have much — much! — to be thankful…

It should come as no surprise that today the Tigers’ Justin Verlander was named the American League Rookie of the Year. Too bad our last memory of Verlander in his rookie year will be that ill-advised, ill-placed throw to the left-field line in Game 5 of the World Series. Still, this guy is the goods…

The Tigers offseason improvement program began in earnest today. They acquired Gary Sheffield from the Yankees for Humberto Sanchez and minor-league pitchers Kevin Whelan and Anthony Claggett. (Hat tip to Josh Wallen.) Now, where do they plan on playing him? Left field? Third? Let’s hope it’s not first base. This is a huge first step.…

Last night the local baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks, introduced new colors, new uniforms and, soon, a reinvigorated revenue stream. Yippee. The team jettisoned — thank God — the purple and went with more desert-like colors. I like them and feel the update was overdue…which is strange for a team that’s only nine years old.…

Just saw on MLB.com that Kirk Gibson will likely join Bob Melvin‘s staff as bench coach for the Diamondbacks. That would certainly be a good move for the morose franchise. The team took on Melvin’s sleepy demeanor and plays with little-to-no fire (Eric Byrnes not included) game in and game out. Gibby would light a…

The MLB award season has begun and today Gold Glove winners were announced. Among them were the Tigers’ Kenny Rogers and Pudge Rodriguez. Nice. Watch for Manager of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the next week or so. Technorati Tags: Detroit Tigers, Kenny Rogers, Pudge Rodriquez

It’s been almost a week since my last post and I’m just now emerging from my post-World Series malaise. How is it possible that the Tigers were in the World Series but a week ago and now it seems like they haven’t played in weeks? Probably because they lost. Good news, though, this week (today…

Well, it’s moving time at The Daily Fungo. Over the next few weeks I’ll be doing a major refurb on the site and transition from the MLBlogs site. I decided I really didn’t want to pay them $5 a month and have them place ads on my site. Forgive our dust. We’ll continue regular updates…

With a nod to Bob Seger, I present what might be the final in-season installment of the Non Sequiturs. Bundle up and dig in: My 5 a.m. CT wake-up call this morning (that’s 3 a.m. Arizona time) came far too early. As a result, I’m dragging. Maybe this is why I’m not nervous about tonight’s…

Watching the on-field celebration at Busch Stadium and it definitely stings. A magical season — one we didn’t see coming — ends in a fashion we didn’t see coming. Was it too much to ask to go from not-quite-worst to World Series? Maybe. But the Detroit Tigers owned the Central Division for most of the summer,…