Filed under: Detroit Tigers | Tags: '09 offseason, baseball, bondo, comes out in the washburn, curtis is grand, edwin's the master of this shit, guillen him something he can feel, huff the magic dragon, i am a jerk, i like yelling at people on the internet, khaaannnn!, nate robertson wants you to do it, new world ordoñez, porcello and beans, ranty mcranterson, the church of dombrowski, the crazy pizza man, this is completely uncalled for, what is this faggotry, whatchu talkin' 'bout willis?, wheelings and dealings
FOR THE ONE MILLIONTH TIME, THE TIGERS ARE NOT HAVING A FIRESALE. THE TIGERS ARE NOT FUCKING ‘PENNILESS’. ALL THOSE BAD CONTRACTS PEOPLE ARE WANKING OVER? THEY COME OFF THE BOOKS AFTER ‘10.
ALSO? THIS IS MIKE FUCKING ILITCH, PEOPLE. RECOGNIZE. IF HE DIDN’T CUT MAGGLIO ORDOÑEZ, WHO DIDN’T START HITTING UNTIL THERE WERE BASICALLY TWO MONTHS TO GO IN THE SEASON AND WHO KICKED IN AN $18 MIL. VESTING OPTION BECAUSE THE TIGERS KEPT PLAYING HIM DESPITE KNOWING THAT IF THEY KEPT PLAYING HIM THEY’D HAVE TO PAY HIM $18 MIL. FOR 2010, AND DIDN’T CUT CARLOS GUILLÉN, WHO WAS BASICALLY INJURED AND USELESS FOR MOST OF THE SEASON, AND ACTUALLY ADDED CONTRACTS (WASHBURN AND HUFF) AT THE DEADLINE RATHER THAN HAVING A FIRESALE LIKE MANY PREDICTED, FOR EXAMPLE, HE IS NOT GOING TO START NOW.
FINANCES DON’T SCARE MIKE ILITCH, MIKE ILITCH SCARES FINANCES. OKAY?
ALSO, WHITE SOX, WE ARE NOT TRADING YOU CURTIS GRANDERSON STRAIGHT UP. I UNDERSTAND HE’S A SOUTHSIDE NATIVE, WHITE SOX FANS. I UNDERSTAND YOU THINK IT’S A CRIME HE ENDED UP IN DETROIT. BUT SORRY, YOU’RE NOT GETTING HIM UNLESS IT’S A THREE-TEAM DEAL INVOLVING A NON-AL CENTRAL TEAM. AND WE GET ALEXEI RAMIREZ. JUST DEAL WITH IT.
ALSO IF MILTON BRADLEY IS ANYWHERE NEAR A POTENTIAL GRANDERSON-TO-THE-CUBS TRADE, I WILL JUMP OFF THE GODDAMN AMBASSADOR BRIDGE. JUST SAYIN’.
So, the Tigers’ season is officially over and in spectacular fashion. They made history in becoming the only team in MLB history to not win a division they were leading by three games with four games to go in the season. They lost a heartbreaking one-game playoff. Now what?
How will we cope during the long, cold, bitter, Tigers-less winter? Some of us will distract ourselves with the Red Wings, others the Pistons, Wolverines and Spartans. Some of us will even turn our hopeful eye to the *gasp* Lions!
Some of us will wither and die from lack of baseball like flowers without sunshine and water.
Just keep this in the forefront of your minds: there are roughly 130 days until the earliest voluntary reporting date.
Sit tight.
Filed under: Detroit Tigers | Tags: '09 tigers, admiral ryan perry, baseball, motherfucking white sox, porcello and beans, the church of dombrowski, the crosby show, unmitigated disaster, wheelings and dealings
So the Tigers made an early splash by getting Jarrod Washburn from the Mariners for relatively little– just Luke French and Mauricio Robles. Good. He can bolster the rotation and slip into the third spot. He can eat some of Porcello’s innings too, I’m sure.
But they couldn’t swing a deal for a left-handed hitter? Was every team with a left-handed bat available asking for Rick Porcello, Ryan Perry and Casey Crosby? They couldn’t even land Luke Scott, who sucks against everyone but the Tigers?
And the MFWS finally landed Jake Peavy. No guarantee that he’ll pitch again this season though, according to Bob Nightengale’s twitter. Interesting.
IDK, IDK. I would have liked a left-handed bat too.
lulz at the people whining and handing the division over to the MFWS because they got Peavy, who’s injured, and we didn’t get a bat. Okay Debbie Downers, go jump off the bandwagon now.
Filed under: Detroit Tigers | Tags: '09 tigers, baseball, fuck the dl, stupid things joel zumaya does, unmitigated disaster, zumaya is my guitar hero
So, a lot’s happened in Tigerland. Most of it has to do with Zumaya and his bi-monthly trips to the disabled list. The good news is that he’s hoping to get back sometime this season. The bad news is, obviously, he’s hurt. This leaves the Tigers to consider their options: do they go after an arm at the deadline? Hope Jeremy Bonderman can be that boost to the relief corps? Or pray to the baseball gods that Zumaya’s body parts stay attached at least until the end of October?
We shall see.
Oh yeah, I was also working on a Tigers/White Sox version of Romeo and Juliet, but I could only get through the prologue before I got bored and gave up. Alas. Maybe some other time you’ll get to see A.J. Pierzynski and Justin Verlander swordfight.
Filed under: Detroit Tigers | Tags: '09 tigers, '09 wbc, baseball, happymaking!, murphy's law hates the tigers
Amaury Nolasco and Leo Nuñez combined to hold the Tigers to zero hits today. That’s right, zero hits. At least it was only a Spring Training game. I’m not too concerned. We are still missing the meat of our lineup.
Anyway, Korea will be taking on Japan in the World Baseball Classic championship game. It’ll presumably be Jung Keun Bong vs. Hisashi Iwakuma (‘though Yu Darvish could still start). GO KOREA!!!!!!!
The liveblog is a go here. Feel free to join in!
I hope to do this again on Sunday too.
Sam, the mad genius behind Roar of the Tigers, will be hosting a liveblog of today’s Japan/S. Korea World Baseball Classic matchup here. Come join us in the insanity.
edit: I guess I’ll be adding some of my own thoughts here. For myself and anyone else who stumbles upon this blog, aka amariselv, ha ha.
Filed under: Detroit Tigers | Tags: '09 tigers, baseball, happypants!, pic spam, the church of leyland
I just updated, so sue me. BUT THIS MUST BE SHARED.
