For the first time this season, the Tigers can look at the cold and rain outside and not have to worry about it. Call it artificial baseball if you must, but it's starting on time and it's going to get played. That's good enough for me.
Well I vowed that I wouldn't write anything till Inge had a basehit -- I was worried I wouldn't be able to talk to y'all till mid-May.Its not every day you go 1-5 and raise your average 40 points but now that Brandon remembers what it feels like maybe he'll start lighting up the gaps.
So how important are numbers one week into the season? It seems that Alex Rodriguez has more HRs than the Tigers have as a team. But then again Trot Nixon is leading the AL in hitting so clearly we have a long way to go.
Outside of our first two hitters it has been awfully quiet around the plate in Tigertown. Granderson has been the joy of the season so far for me -- hes smacking the ball all over, patroling center with real authority and is running the bases much better than last year -- all knee socks and head-bobbing on his way to 3rd.If anybody wears 42 this weekend it should Grandy. Rodriguez, Monroe and Guillen have shown glimmers but have also left an ocean of men on base.
Something about Caseys' swing is just depressing to me -- he seems to doing so much but to such little effect.I don't know,I don't want to be an ungrateful constituent of the gents mayorality but does anybody really get excited when he steps up to the plate outside of immediate familial relations. His defense as has been noted here has truly been remarkable however. My favorite is when he fields a grounder off the bag -- he always makes this dramatic three steps like hes going to beat the runner to the bag with his powerful speed but then realises he's barely moved and then flips it to the pitcher. Is that just my imagination? But the boy can definitely scoop and between the throws of Carlito and Brandon the Tiger first baseman will get a chance to show off his leather.
Was never worried about Rodney, I know I've defended him repeatedly to the annoyance of some but glad to see him throw another 2 good innings yesterday. I just love his style and his stuff -- the fastball/change combo can be just mesmerizing when he's on; after all the country music of a Bonderman or Robertson the rhythm abruptly changes to regueton and the batter doesn't have a chance.
The pitching has been incredible across the board with Bonderman looking like a leader, Robertson and Verlander throwing gutsy and smart (vastly improved choices with two strikes), Maroth solid and only getting better and Durbin threw much better than his numbers indicated having some location trouble but throwing very well overall in my opinion.
The bullpen has been everything you could ask although Jones has me worried, hes not acting like himself and even had a 1-2-3 inning the other day. He'll snap out of it though. Grilli had one horrendous outing on paper but anyone who saw the game knows that Ordonez's ERA should be in the mid-50s not Grilli.
I said in no uncertain terms during the Sheffield deal that the notion of Ordonez as the everyday right fielder was just unteneble but I didn't expect to be so right so fast. And this was when I thought we'd have Gomez for late inning substitutions. Honestly has even Manny ramirez been as pathetic as Ordonez was on DeJesus' ball last week?(Granderson must have run a mile to get that ball at the wall) It looked like a shot from the unreleased Conan The Barbarian Part 5 where Schwatrzenhager comes to the Motor City. I think it was you Dan that compared his patented fanny slide to a scared quarterback -- priceless and accurate.
Something will have to give at some point this season whether it is T Perez or MAYBE IT COULD BE CLEVLAN or he and Sheffield taking turnsor maybe just a haircut, I don't know.
Phelps is doing a nice job in New York, I'm really happy for him.
Anybody else surprised Mesa made the team over Miner?
Jason is right, its good to be domed, though I will miss Polanco's hoodie I smell 3 out of 4 with Maroth, Durbin, Sheffield, Monroe and Granderson as the heroes. And Inge gets another hit tonight.
Our team hasn't hit a lick, and they find themselves 6-3.
Not bad.
We're leaning on the pitching, and the pitching is coming through.
Did Maggs turn 40 on us last winter? He runs like it.
ON the other hand(or, the rest of the story)............for a team that hasn't hit many homers, we sure seem to be expecting them. And, homers have won two games in a row. That is worrisome. It sure would be fun if our Tigers could figure out another way to score.
That last comment should sound familiar to anyone that watched '06. But, '06 didn't turn out so bad, huh?
Zumaya tonight, was positively electric. Didja all see that sequence to Stairs? Like our announcers said, it was absolutely unfair. The called third strike breaking ball was unhittable.
Also, it looked to me like Vernon Wells was sitting on the curveball. Not a bad choice against Joel. I wonder if we'll see more of that? Joel gave him two straight triple-digit heaters down Broadway, and he didn't even flinch at 'em.
It's gonna be fun, watching how the league "adjusts" to Joel.
Well I vowed that I wouldn't write anything till Inge had a basehit -- I was worried I wouldn't be able to talk to y'all till mid-May.Its not every day you go 1-5 and raise your average 40 points but now that Brandon remembers what it feels like maybe he'll start lighting up the gaps.
So how important are numbers one week into the season? It seems that Alex Rodriguez has more HRs than the Tigers have as a team. But then again Trot Nixon is leading the AL in hitting so clearly we have a long way to go.
Outside of our first two hitters it has been awfully quiet around the plate in Tigertown. Granderson has been the joy of the season so far for me -- hes smacking the ball all over, patroling center with real authority and is running the bases much better than last year -- all knee socks and head-bobbing on his way to 3rd.If anybody wears 42 this weekend it should Grandy. Rodriguez, Monroe and Guillen have shown glimmers but have also left an ocean of men on base.
Something about Caseys' swing is just depressing to me -- he seems to doing so much but to such little effect.I don't know,I don't want to be an ungrateful constituent of the gents mayorality but does anybody really get excited when he steps up to the plate outside of immediate familial relations. His defense as has been noted here has truly been remarkable however. My favorite is when he fields a grounder off the bag -- he always makes this dramatic three steps like hes going to beat the runner to the bag with his powerful speed but then realises he's barely moved and then flips it to the pitcher. Is that just my imagination? But the boy can definitely scoop and between the throws of Carlito and Brandon the Tiger first baseman will get a chance to show off his leather.
Was never worried about Rodney, I know I've defended him repeatedly to the annoyance of some but glad to see him throw another 2 good innings yesterday. I just love his style and his stuff -- the fastball/change combo can be just mesmerizing when he's on; after all the country music of a Bonderman or Robertson the rhythm abruptly changes to regueton and the batter doesn't have a chance.
The pitching has been incredible across the board with Bonderman looking like a leader, Robertson and Verlander throwing gutsy and smart (vastly improved choices with two strikes), Maroth solid and only getting better and Durbin threw much better than his numbers indicated having some location trouble but throwing very well overall in my opinion.
The bullpen has been everything you could ask although Jones has me worried, hes not acting like himself and even had a 1-2-3 inning the other day. He'll snap out of it though. Grilli had one horrendous outing on paper but anyone who saw the game knows that Ordonez's ERA should be in the mid-50s not Grilli.
I said in no uncertain terms during the Sheffield deal that the notion of Ordonez as the everyday right fielder was just unteneble but I didn't expect to be so right so fast. And this was when I thought we'd have Gomez for late inning substitutions. Honestly has even Manny ramirez been as pathetic as Ordonez was on DeJesus' ball last week?(Granderson must have run a mile to get that ball at the wall) It looked like a shot from the unreleased Conan The Barbarian Part 5 where Schwatrzenhager comes to the Motor City. I think it was you Dan that compared his patented fanny slide to a scared quarterback -- priceless and accurate.
Something will have to give at some point this season whether it is T Perez or MAYBE IT COULD BE CLEVLAN or he and Sheffield taking turnsor maybe just a haircut, I don't know.
Phelps is doing a nice job in New York, I'm really happy for him.
Anybody else surprised Mesa made the team over Miner?
Jason is right, its good to be domed, though I will miss Polanco's hoodie I smell 3 out of 4 with Maroth, Durbin, Sheffield, Monroe and Granderson as the heroes. And Inge gets another hit tonight.
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Our team hasn't hit a lick, and they find themselves 6-3.
Not bad.
We're leaning on the pitching, and the pitching is coming through.
Did Maggs turn 40 on us last winter? He runs like it.
ON the other hand(or, the rest of the story)............for a team that hasn't hit many homers, we sure seem to be expecting them. And, homers have won two games in a row. That is worrisome. It sure would be fun if our Tigers could figure out another way to score.
That last comment should sound familiar to anyone that watched '06. But, '06 didn't turn out so bad, huh?
Zumaya tonight, was positively electric. Didja all see that sequence to Stairs? Like our announcers said, it was absolutely unfair. The called third strike breaking ball was unhittable.
Also, it looked to me like Vernon Wells was sitting on the curveball. Not a bad choice against Joel. I wonder if we'll see more of that? Joel gave him two straight triple-digit heaters down Broadway, and he didn't even flinch at 'em.
It's gonna be fun, watching how the league "adjusts" to Joel.
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