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Well folks, the Tigers have slipped out of first
place...but not by much. It was a war of attrition
this week for the squad, as they had their good games,
but they had their share of the bad ones. Last year,
this week would be seen as a pretty positive thing.
This year, I hope that this is considered a bad week.
But for now, the 3-4 clip keeps the Tigers sitting
with a nice record as they head to a place that is
their Waterloo...the Metrodome. After that endeavor,
the boys come home for a nine game homestand. Over
that stand, the Tigers will play the Angels, and we'll
see how they stand up against a team that is expected
to be a strong force. Eat it up!
New Subscribers:
Rob "Chico" Pettineo
Matt "Lawton" Bednar
Cortney "Mike" Schmitt
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Week of 4/13 - 4/19
Record: 3-4 LWLLWLW
Undy Five Hundy: Hahaha. Again, we have no need of
the index (Tigers at -3). So this week we shall loan
to index to another American League team who may be in
need of such a millstone. Let's see, why don't we
pass the index off to...the New York Yankees?!?!
Ooooh, too bad for George and his team of mercenaries.
For you, Mr. Steinbrenner, the Undy-Five-Hundy sits
at 1. You're undy...undy-five-hundy. Poor guys.
Up Next for the Tigers...
April 20-22 @ Minnesota
April 23-25 Cleveland
April 26 no game scheduled...
April 27-29 Anaheim
AL Central Standings...
CWS 8 4 -
MIN 8 4 -
DET 8 5 0.5
CLE 5 9 4
KCR 4 8 4
Tigers News and Notes...
The Tigers called up their soon to be closer, Ugueth
Urbina, and sent Andres Torres back down to Toledo.
Alex Sanchez strained a groin on Sunday, and Bobby
Higginson twisted his ankle on Monday. I don't
believe that either are supposed to see time on the
DL.
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Poll Question...
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Of the four major sports (poker is not included),
which do you think is the most exciting to see "your
team" win a championship in? Or, if you prefer, which
of "your" teams would you most want to see win their
league championship. OK, you can include a college
team as well, if you wish.
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Tiger of the Week...
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Last week I totally forgot the honor. I apologize.
Starting pitcher Nate Robertson is the Tiger of the
Week. Robertson picked up a win in the victory over
Toronto, and had a strong outing Monday night in
Cleveland (also a win). Robertson has yet to have a
poor outing, and as a number five starter, he is doing
a wonderful job. There are plenty of "good" teams
that would love to have a number five pitching like
Robertson is now. In 13.1 innings, Robertson has an
ERA of 2.55 with 16 K's. Strikeouts are not something
that the Tiger pitchers have been known for.
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The Lost Boys...
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Every year, certain e-mail addresses go dead, and the
mailer_daemon floods my mailbox with return messages.
If you could, please send me an updated address for
the people listed here. Thanks.
Christian VanSlooten
Matt Schramm
Ben Fowls
Douglas Lee
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Most Dispicable Baseball Player Tournament
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So this week we begin the tournament. Composing
people that I could think of and a handful of your
nominees, we have a field of 25 people that will be
vying for the title. I split the people up into four
divisions. Those are named the Non-Player, Cheaters,
Pricks, and Others. The names are self explanatory.
I had to do a little massaging to fill out the field
in a 6-6-7-6 fashion, but it will all even out.
This week we will narrow the Pricks division down from
7 to 4. This will require three votes.
The one-seed, John Rocker, gets a bye. Here are this
week's matchups.
(2) Ty Cobb vs. (7) Billy Martin
Ty Cobb, longtime Tiger player and manager (and
player-manager) was as dirty as they come. If you
check out the statue of him at Comerica, it depicts
Cobb sliding into some base in his usual fashion;
spikes out. He played the game hard and used every
trick in the book. Check out this bio, I couldn't
stop laughing.
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/
ballplayers/C/Cobb_Ty.stm
Again, I refer to the same site for Martin. This is a
tremendous site.
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/
ballplayers/M/Martin_Billy.stm
(3) Rickey Henderson vs. (6) Roberto Alomar
Rickey Notables: Broke the steal record of Lou Brock
and declared himself the greatest ever. As self
centered as they come.
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/
ballplayers/H/Henderson_Rickey.stm
Alomar Notables: In a big scandal for spitting in the
face of an American League umpire.
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/
ballplayers/A/Alomar_Roberto.stm
(4) Paul O'Neill vs. (5) Juan Gonzalez
O'Neill is a huge baby, and he spent the end of his
career with the Yankees and we had to see him win it
all. Once got verbal with a vendor at Tiger Stadium
who was sweeping the roof of the Yankees dugout as the
Tigers were wrapping up a series sweep of the visiting
Yanks. Sorry Paul!
Juan Gonzalez. Grrrrrr. Any Tiger fan needs no
explanation. What a wuss.
OK, so that does it for this week. Remember, to vote,
please send a separate e-mail with the word
"dispicable" in the subject. Just put down who you
are voting for as more dispicable. Thanks.
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Game Linescores...
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April 13: Toronto 7 - Detroit 5
Starters: TOR: Hentgen 3IP DET: Bonderman 6IP
TOR 012 000 112 7 10 0
DET 320 000 000 5 10 3
W: Adams (1-0)
L: Patterson (0-1)
S: Speier (1)
April 14: Toronto 3 - Detroit 5
Starters: TOR: Lilly 5IP - DET: Robertson 5IP
TOR 000 020 010 3 9 0
DET 400 001 00X 5 8 1
W: Robertson (1-0)
L: Lilly (0-1)
S: Patterson (1)
April 15: Toronto 11 - Detroit 0
Starters: TOR: Halladay 9IP - DET: Johnson 4IP
TOR 003 000 503 11 12 1
DET 000 000 000 0 8 1
W: Halladay (1-2)
L: Johnson (1-2)
April 16: Detroit 3 - Cleveland 10
Starters: DET: Cornejo 5IP - CLE: Sabathia 6IP
DET 000 100 020 3 8 1
CLE 200 115 01X 10 19 0
W: Sabathia (1-0)
L: Cornejo (1-1)
April 17: Detroit 6 - Cleveland 1
Starters: DET: Maroth 7.1IP - CLE: Davis 5.1IP
DET 100 003 020 6 12 1
CLE 000 000 010 1 11 3
W: Maroth (2-0)
L: Davis (0-1)
April 18: Detroit 7 - Cleveland 9
Starters: DET: Bonderman 5.1IP - CLE: Lee 5.1IP
DET 000 003 310 7 11 2
CLE 101 303 01X 9 12 0
W: Lee (2-0)
L: Bonderman (1-1)
S: Riske (1)
April 19: Detroit 10 - Cleveland 4
Starters: DET: Robertson 6.2IP - CLE: D'Amico 0IP
DET 400 000 060 10 8 1
CLE 100 100 200 4 8 3
W: Levine (1-0)
L: Betancourt (0-2)
Note: Rain delay caused D'Amico to exit after giving
up four runs. Jake Westbrook pitched 7 innings for
Cleveland.
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Readers Write In...
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Dave "Mason" Dixon
Well I hope the Tigers enjoy their 15 minutes of fame
because I think that they, along with MIL and Tampa
Bay, will start fading fast once they begin facing
harder opponents.....but I hope i'm wrong. In other
news, is eveyone ready for the Pistons? Everyone says
RASH-eed is the answer this year, we will see!
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Dallas "Alcinder" Senters
-any nascar exposure is overexposure.
-i hate the yankees.
-tiger woods won a lot of golf...good for him, that
doesn't make him a great athlete!
-redwings hockey...who cares...i'm not canadian
-the lakers have made lots of moves that i don't
particularly approve of, but they have stayed within
the salary cap. and you gotta love showtime. go
lakers.
right now the most annoying feature of overexposure in
sports has got to be bonds. wow, i am sick of
bonds-mania
dallas
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Matt "Y" Weiland
Do...Do, do, dit do, do
Ahhh the theme of Baseball Tonight, thanks O'Toole.
Overexposure huh! I would have to say any mention of
ice skating or men's gymnastics is far too much for
me. Definitley the Yankees, you would think
broadcasters are looking for free tickets or
merchandise. Enough already with Bonds, great job no
doubt but is this guy bigger than the game? Who wants
to see his every at bat on prime time TV? Not me!!!
I don't know maybe I'll buy an inflatable raft and
spend the summer in McCovey Cove!!! Peace I'm out
Weiland
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Steve "Ed" Sprague
I think the worst case of overexposure in sports right
now is the Kobe Bryant trial. Don't tell me ever day
about some new appeal by the defense that got
rejected, or about the girl's sexual past. I don't
care. Let the LA times report it; LA fans have a much
greater concern over it than the rest of the country.
I plead to anyone who knows the programming director
at ESPN, tell him not to cut into my show again
until the Judge is saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen of
the jury have you reached a verdict?"
Throughout recent years though the answer is
definitely Notre Dame Football. Every season that
they start out good the news shows can't stop with all
of the "...is Notre Dame back?" questions. When they
suck, as is more often the case, it is how soon until
the honeymoon is over and they fire their coach. Let
me answer all of the questions. Notre Dame is not
back. They never will be. South Bend is a boring ass
town to go to college in. There is absolutely nothing
fun to do there. It has nothing to do with lowering
academic standards. It is also not Willingham's
fault. Bottom line though, focus on the teams that
are doing well that year. I think every body would
rather hear about that.
Stephen Sprague
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Nick "The Greek" Ciofani
Who predicted that the Tigers would do well...THIS
GUY!
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Toolie's Trashtalk...
OK, no attachments this week, I promise. Sorry if
I've been cluttering your mailboxes, though I haven't
heard any complaints as of yet (besides guys like
Brady saying "thanks for the Weekly, it gave me
something to put in the trash"). I'll try and keep
the issues all text, unless there is a good image that
demands to be sent.
I love this team. Well, I guess that it depends on
what day it is. Today, I love em. Tomorrow, I may
want to disown them. My feeling mainly comes down to
how many runs they give up. They have been scoring
runs with no problem, save the shutout that
Tiger-killer Roy Halladay laid on them. On average,
the Tigers are scoring over 6 runs per game (86 in 13
games). When the pitchers toss a good outing, this
team has been able score the runs (unlike teams such
as the 2003 Dodgers and Tigers) to get the win.
And the Tigers are getting some love on Baseball
Tonight. Harold Reynolds, who said many times last
year that the Tigers should be contracted, is on the
bandwagon. I still have yet to hear Peter Gammons
offer anything other than a half-hearted mention, but
we'll take what we can get. John Kruk, an import from
the Worst Damned Sports Show, has been a strange
addition to the show. He certainly is showing his
rust and doesn't yet mesh well with the rest of the
crew, but I'm sure he'll come around. He had a funny
quote today about a baseball diet being a beer and hot
dog. The subject was the personal training methods
that players are using. Suprisingly, Kruk wasn't big
on trainers or fitness. I think I even heard them say
that they spotted Higgy scarfing down a dog in the
dugout. I'm guessing it was during the rain delay.
Why not? Double-headers in high school were often
graced with the between game lunch, courtesy of the
parents. Nothing gets you charged for that second
game like a frankfurter with some mustard and relish.
Seeds or Big League Chew (for the younger ballplayers)
are also acceptable.
A final note on overexposure is that fly-by-night
chump from Sloopy-ville, Maurice Clarett. If I
spelled his name wrong, I really don't care. The guy
had, what, one good season? Now he thinks he's Ricky
Williams. Speaking of that, remember when Ditka
traded ALL of his draft picks for a high first round
pick, donned a dreadlock wig, drafted Williams, and
then went golfing? Classic. Digression aside, I'm
sick of all this "Should Maurice be allowed to enter
the draft?" nonsense. What do the rules say? No?
Then no! That was easy. Next issue please.
Dixon, I think the Pistons are solid this year. They
should make the finals. But as I watched their round
one game against the Bucks, I was bored to tears.
They shoud skip the first round in the east. Now
these highlights will be shoved down my throat by NBA
crazy ESPN. Great.
Sprague, you blaspheme against the Golden Dome. You
have basically condemned yourself to the 6th circle of
the Inferno, so we'd better get another game of cards
in before one of us kicks the bucket. Try having
Michigan win a championship that isn't shared. I
thumb my nose at your anti-ND attitude. Maybe it's
just some personal grudge against your brother (an ND
grad).
Ciofani, you are the man. But then, we are the same
person, so I guess that I'm the man as well. I love
it when I'm right!
Wow, Calgary-Vancouver going to OT. Vancouver tied it
with 6 seconds to go. Crazy. Who will the Wings
play? Doesn't matter, baby.
On another hockey note, Igor Larionov retired on
Monday. Larionov was as good a passer as there ever
was, and I'll always remember this chip-shot goal he
scored on Roy in the 1997 Western Conference Finals.
He was a treat to watch. Too bad he had to go out as
a Devil..
Toodles for this week. It's time to catch some Z's.
Tigers are still in good shape. They need to keep
playing decently against division opponents. This
series at the Metrodome could be huge.
I heard Centerfield on the radio today. That song is
in the top 5 of baseball songs, and it could be #2
(you can't top Take Me Out to the Ball Game).
Oh, and I attended the Lansing Lugnuts opening day on
Friday night. I wasn't too into the game, but it was
a fun time. Minor league ball is more of a fun-time
event than a baseball game. Some highlights were the
hot dog cannon (yes, it launched hot dogs), the bird
race, and the hilarious chicken that emerged for the
chicken dance...and the Dixie-land band of old guys
that played Basin Street Blues per my request. I was
also reminded of my perfect batting average in
professional baseball stadiums (talk about
overexposure...).
See you all next week. VOTE!
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