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Month: December 2006
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It’s time to close the books on 2006. With any luck, I’ll be awake tonight at the witching hour to welcome 2007. In the meantime, I thought I’d look back on a memorable season for Detroit Tigers fans. After much deliberation and flip-flopping of the order, here are my top-five Tigers moments of the year:…
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You’ve gotta love Google News. Once in a while I’ll search for Tigers news on Google just to see if there’s a random article of interest out there. Man, did I find one this afternoon. In the Dec. 26 edition, The New York Times‘ baseball deity Murray Chass takes aim at Tigers owner Mike Ilitch,…
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December is chock-full of birthdays for the Detroit Tigers, all of which passed without so much as a mention here. So, here’s a belated list of notable birthdays (some guys that were on the 40-man roster at the start of the 2006 season but have since vanished aren’t listed): Omar Infante – Dec. 26 Gene…
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I may have been one of the few Tigers fans who actually saw Chris Brown play in Detroit. It was 1989 and the Tigers were awful so if you don’t remember him sporting number 9, you’re not alone. That’s because Brown, who died today in Houston from burns suffered in a house fire, played in…
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This morning I started to read a fascinating book about Google and Internet search, titled The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. Does that make me a geek? Sure it does. But it’s more of a business book than a technology book. If you’re wondering about…
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The Georgia Peach would’ve been 120 today. Near the end of his life he looked darn close to it. Technorati Tags: Detroit Tigers
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Poor Alexis Gomez. The guy is good enough to start — and perform well — in the ALCS but yet again is squeezed off the Tigers 40-man roster. This time for a pitcher. How many times can a guy get released before he takes his game elsewhere? Methinks in the case of Gomez, he realizes…
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Lynn Henning reports today that the Tigers still see Chris Shelton in the big picture (i.e., 25th man or Toledo’s starting first baseman): The Tigers, however, are in no mood to trade Shelton. Not yet. And certainly not until they receive better offers.Dave Dombrowski, the Tigers president and general manager, said Monday that three teams…
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If you haven’t noticed, sometimes I let my heart rule when my head should take the lead. At least I’m honest about it. Today’s wish list is another one-item-only ditty: Don’t trade Mike Maroth. Both Detroit papers today feature stories in which Dave Dombrowski talks about how much the Tigers like Maroth and, if healthy,…
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