Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: July 2010
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As the Tigers’ tumble from contender to irrelevant bystander accelerates, I’ve been thinking about other seasons that began with promise only to result in an unexpected death spiral. One that jumps to mind is 1982. You’re forgiven if that season brings back only memories of Harvey Kuenn’s Brewers — Harvey’s Wallbangers — which marched to…
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Jhonny Peralta. It’s precisely the move we expected the Tigers to make. That is, a drip not a splash. Not only is he the Tigers’ new and temporary third baseman until Brandon Inge returns, he’s also the new and temporary shortstop until the Tigers acquire Stephen Drew. Ahem. What’s more, you present a writing dilemma…
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It seems awfully unfair for a guy to throw a no-hitter against a team that evidently has no hitters, doesn’t it? In the spirit of full disclosure, I didn’t see any of Monday night’s bizarro-rama — Max Scherzer also had a no-hitter going into the sixth?! — because I was out at a family thing.…
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It’s been two months since the Tigers announced that Carlos Guillen, not rookie Scott Sizemore, would be the Tigers’ second baseman in 2010. Who at the time would’ve guessed that the brittle Guillen could stay healthy for two months and regain his status as a productive member of the Tigers’ lineup? But let’s be honest:…
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