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We doubt this will have the same results that Ken Holland’s now-legendary benching of Goalie Chris Osgood this winter: Tiger Manager Jim Leyland has finally laid down the law and benched slugger Magglio Ordonez for poor performance. Ordonez has only managed two home runs and 22 RBIs this season.
Curtis Granderson’s game-saving catch in Cleveland gives all of us Tigers fans a reason for hope. It’s clear that while there are issues on the team (Mags, Guillen) there is a core group of players that has shown up ready to compete this year. Granderson and Verlander are two that come to mind. Thought I’d share the Yahoo! Sports Team Report on the Tigers today. While I haven’t been covering the Tigers much, they’re certainly outperforming last year’s underperformance. Yahoo! is fortunately not on the “this is 2006″ bandwagon that’s starting to appear in the local media. Hey, I know we all need a good pick-me-up right now (esp. [...] Mark Fidrych, a Massachusetts native who electrified Major League Baseball in 1976, died in an apparent accident on his farm in Northborough, Mass. There’s coverage about The Bird all over the web today and I won’t go into a recap of that. Check out this 1985 video instead. I think it captures Bird’s unique spirit [...] To be honest, I haven’t given much thought to the Tigers in the past few weeks. Spring training has never interested me. And with a wealth of basketball and hockey in March, it just seems a little early in the year to be thinking of baseball. Isn’t baseball something we should be paying attention to [...] I know I am not the first to say it, but this year of Tigers Baseball is over. While they tried hard to overcome a worse-than-bad start, the pitching could just never rise to the occasion consistently enough for this team to make a dent in the hole they’d dug in April and May. Even [...] This is just a sign of how desperate the Tigers are for decent pitching. They’ve traded away one of their best, most loyal players — Pudge Rodriguez — for a relief pitcher who likely may not have the skills we need to provide much relief. I think it is a shame to see Pudge gone and [...] Anyone who has not had a chance to see the demolition of Tiger Stadium in progress should check out the group pool of photostreams on Flickr. Thanks to all the talented Detroit photographers who are documenting this sad and historical event in the city’s history. The Tigers continue to impress me. There’s something about the way this team has not given up, and the way they don’t give up when games are almost out of reach. Forget all the talk about whether they can dig themselves out of the hole they dug early in the season ad enjoy this ride [...] The Tigers posted back-to-back come-from-behind wins to make it above the .500 mark for the first time this season. During the ninth inning of Saturday night’s game, when Todd Jones’ meltdown led to four runs for the Rockies, I was wondering which direction this team was really headed for the season. But to watch our [...] |
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