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Detroit Tigers, Volume 3 - The Alan Trammell version

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Knowing their skill with drafting anything other than pitching, 3 probably play slow pitch softball.
 
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29 pitches thrown by Valverde. 29 fastballs. 13 strikes.
 
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Santiago to PH. Our bench is now empty.
 
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Okay. Kelly is out of the game. If it goes to the 10th, who goes to LF? We've got Santiago, Worth and Peralta in the game, and Kelly is out, with Dirks unavailable.

EDIT: Never mind.
 
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4-3 final.

That's a bizarre way to win a game.

Valverde vultured a win there.
 
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I think my remote nearly broke flipping between the Tigers and Stanley Cup.

I can't get mad at Santos. Frankly, I don't think he even knows why he's here. It was such a random move and it's pure luck he's playing now unless Dombrowski can see into the future, in which case he is not using that power correctly. Should he have caught that ball? Yes. As far as getting stolen on, I'm not sure about the 8th inning one, but for the double steal in the 9th I put much more blame on the seasoned veteran still being unable to look back the runner than blame the AAA catcher for being late on the throw.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
I think my remote nearly broke flipping between the Tigers and Stanley Cup.

I can't get mad at Santos. Frankly, I don't think he even knows why he's here. It was such a random move and it's pure luck he's playing now unless Dombrowski can see into the future, in which case he is not using that power correctly. Should he have caught that ball? Yes. As far as getting stolen on, I'm not sure about the 8th inning one, but for the double steal in the 9th I put much more blame on the seasoned veteran still being unable to look back the runner than blame the AAA catcher for being late on the throw.
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totally agree the base was stolen before the ball crossed home plate. he might as well not even have thrown it, having said that it was a nice win.
 
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Dirks to the DL, Matt Young is up.

EDIT: Daniel Schlereth has been moved to the 60-day DL to make room for Young.
 
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it was a nice win.
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Yes, any win is nice, but watching Valverde was not very nice or pretty (as Hammer said, "Valverde vultured a win there.")

I was afraid the Tigers were going to waste almost 900 ft of Cabrera home run power in the top of the ninth with Valverde's performance.

Fortunately, Boesch, Peralta. Santiago, and Santos pulled it off to win the game.
 
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Watching the Magglio retirement. Wow. Ilitch looks every bit of 83 years old.
 
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3-1 Yanks, bottom 4
 
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Just tuned in. Glad I wasn't watching this game. :(

It's a beautiful blue sky day here in West Michigan; best to be outside enjoying the day rather than watching the Tigers' 2 hit effort.
 
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Watching the Magglio retirement. Wow. Ilitch looks every bit of 83 years old.
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I couldn't believe how young he looked when they showed the video of him and Maggs in 2005. I think he's aged 20 years in 7. He was struggling at the Lidstrom presser too. He's gone downhill fast, I don't know if he's got much time left.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
I couldn't believe how young he looked when they showed the video of him and Maggs in 2005. I think he's aged 20 years in 7. He was struggling at the Lidstrom presser too. He's gone downhill fast, I don't know if he's got much time left.
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What does happen to the Wings and Tigers when he does go? Who does ownership go to, and are they going to be decent??
 
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Everything probably goes to Marian and I think they'll be decent for that period. Now I may be completely making this up but I thought I remembered hearing that she was the one who pushed him into finally putting money into the Tigers. Even if that isn't true I'd like to think she would continue to go for success.

After she passes, the teams will probably go to their son Chris who is CEO of Ilitch Holdings. I have no clue what if he would sell or keep the teams.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
What does happen to the Wings and Tigers when he does go? Who does ownership go to, and are they going to be decent??
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The Wings will be fine.....I think. The Tigers, on the other hand, are in a world of hurt when Mr. I passes. Marian wants nothing to do with this franchise. When they had the press conference for Prince Fielder, Mr. Ilitch said that it was the first presser she had attended in the 20 years they had owned the team.

Remember the PR fiascoes that occured a decade ago? The kids were involved. When the patriarch moves on, so do the $100 million payrolls.
 
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With today's loss, we're officially 1/3 of the way through the season. If I had to give out grades, half the team would be academically ineligible. We're 25-29, on pace for a 75-87 season.

I don't see things getting better. I don't see improvement. We've got some injuries, but most teams do. But when the regulars are in the lineup, too many of them are not producing. Fielder and Cabrera are doing their share. Cabrera's got 44 RBI, on pace for 132. Fielder's got 35, good for 105 on the season. Jackson has also kicked in more than his fair share. More or less, they're doing their jobs. But the others are not getting it done. We've got 3 guys with 20 RBI. That's not good enough. Peralta, Young, Boesch, and the black hole at 2B have been major disappointments.

Verlander has been rough in the past two starts, Smyly has dipped back to earth a little bit, and Fister can't stay healthy. Scherzer and Porcello have been all over the house in their outings. Casey Crosby was a mess the other night, and Adam Wilk wasn't any better. There isn't anyone in the bullpen, outside of Below and Villareal (:eek:), that you can point to and say that they have done their jobs.

I don't see improvement anywhere along the line on a consistent basis. We've shown no signs of the offense being ready to take off. It's a crapshoot when the bullpen comes in to a tight game. God knows what's going to happen when the bottom half of the rotation takes their turn. We might get a two-hitter. It might be the Luis Marte show in the 2nd inning. We don't know.

This has been our worst nightmare. I never figured this was going to happen. This has all the makings of an epic disaster.

We're in trouble.
 
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This may have been covered. Is it just me or do players come up from Toledo and do ok hitting, then after McClendon gets hold of them they go downhill? I remember a couple of weeks ago Leyland saying their problems hitting are due to swinging at bad pitches. GENIOUS!!!! Now tell McClendon that. I just find it hard to beleive that there isn't an infielder (3rd, SS or 2nd) down in Toledo that couldn't play 2nd AND hit over the Mendoza line in Detroit.
 
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