1. Detroit Tigers vs. Oakland A's 2012 ALDS: Burning Questions After Game 4

    Note: During the playoffs, Monday Morning Manager will be answering Burning Questions. The morning after every Tigers playoff game, come back here for MMM ’s answers to the questions that many of you have about the previous night’s game...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 7 months ago 2,695 reads 5 comments

  2. Detroit Tigers vs. Oakland A'S 2012 ALDS Game 3: Burning Questions

    Note: During the playoffs, Monday Morning Manager will be answering Burning Questions. The morning after every Tigers playoff game, come back here for MMM 's answers to the questions that many of you have about the previous night's game...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 7 months ago 1,399 reads 4 comments

  3. 2012 ALDS: Burning Questions After A's-Tigers Games 1 and 2

    Note: During the playoffs, Monday Morning Manager will be answering Burning Questions. The morning after every Tigers playoff game, come back here for MMM ’s answers to ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 627 reads 5 comments

  4. Miguel Cabrera Latest Detroit Sports Superstar to Be Quiet, Dignified

    Detroit is not a “Look at me!” town. It doesn’t scream at you, like New York, or smirk at you, like Chicago. It doesn’t have the pretentiousness of Los Angeles or the sassiness of Philadelphia ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 1,080 reads 10 comments

  5. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 6-1 This Week: at Kansas City Royals (October 1-3) So, What Happened? It took about 156 games, but the cream has finally risen to the top in the AL Central...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 612 reads 5 comments

  6. Homer Bailey's No-Hitter: Has the Feat Lost Its Mystique in MLB?

    There was a time in the not-so-distant past when a no-hitter in MLB was so infrequent that you could remember the names of the pitchers who tossed such gems over the past several years...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 4,445 reads 31 comments

  7. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 3-4 This Week: KC (9/24-27); at Min (9/28-30) So, What Happened? Just another bob-and-weave ride on the choppy waters inside the Good Ship Tiger Pop...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 747 reads 2 comments

  8. AL MVP: The Sexiness of Center Field Works Against Miguel Cabrera

    It has been the location of baseball’s glamour profession, the real estate of Cobb and Speaker, annexed by DiMaggio. Hallowed ground fought over for supremacy by Mays, Mantle and Snider, who all played a subway ride away from each other...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 1,177 reads 15 comments

  9. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 4-2 This Week: at CWS (9/17); OAK (9/18-20); MIN (9/21-23) So, What Happened? Last week, MMM crabbed about all the one-run losses the Tigers have suffered on the road in 2012...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 451 reads 5 comments

  10. NHL's Greed Launches Another Lockout

    It has been the nature of labor relations in professional sports that the team owners are basically filthy rich fans with the emotional stability of Sybil and the fiscal restraint of a teenager...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 541 reads 3 comments

  11. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 1-5 This Week: at CWS (9/10-13); at CLE (9/14-16) So, What Happened? If the Tigers have mastered anything this season, it’s the one-run loss on the road...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 months ago 471 reads 11 comments

  12. Jahvid Best's Concussion Situation Represents the NFL's Newest Problem

    The worst thing to hit the NFL since steroids—and the Seattle Seahawks' uniforms—is something that the league doesn’t appear ready to contend with...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 5,369 reads 7 comments

  13. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 3-3 This Week: CLE (9/3-5); at LAA (9/7-9) So, What Happened? If last week was a football game, we would call the game "a story of two halves...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 560 reads 5 comments

  14. Detroit Tigers Proving That Divisions Are Only Won Easily on Paper

    It wasn’t supposed to go down like this. As August turns to September in this sometimes God forsaken 2012 baseball season, this isn’t what Tigers fans had in mind for Labor Day weekend...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 477 reads 2 comments

  15. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 5-1 This Week: at KC (8/28-30) CWS (8/31-9/2) So, What Happened? It’s what didn’t happen that was rather frustrating...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 894 reads 14 comments

  16. Detroit Lions Don't Need to Run the Football with Stafford, Johnson and Co.

    Wayne Fontes, the moon-faced, chubby Lions coach from 20-plus years ago, had been on the job for only a few months in early-1989 when he had a plan...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 1,227 reads 14 comments

  17. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 3-3 This Week: TOR (8/21-23; LAA 8/24-26) So, What Happened? Never has the above question been so apt...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 493 reads 4 comments

  18. Detroit Tigers: Credit for Austin Jackson's Revival Should Go to Lloyd McClendon

    January is a safe time to talk about baseball. There are no games on the schedule, no performances to track. The dead of winter makes a very comfortable backdrop against which to make declarations, bold predictions and lofty promises...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 840 reads 7 comments

  19. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 3-4 This Week: at Min (8/13-15; BAL 8/17-19) So, What Happened? *Sigh* MMM had such high hopes for last week. It started so promising...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 677 reads 7 comments

  20. Why Jim Leyland Deserves More Credit for the Detroit Tigers' Resurgence

    Russell Martin, a good baseball player having a bad year, almost poisoned the Tigers earlier this week. Martin, the New York Yankees catcher, is hitting below .200 for the season—well below his career mark (going into this year) of ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 9 months ago 892 reads 6 comments

  21. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 4-2 This Week: NYY (8/6-9); at Tex (8/10-12) So, What Happened? The Tigers put the brakes on a skid that could have made it an ugly week and turned it into ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 10 months ago 1,216 reads 4 comments

  22. Jason Hanson: Detroit Lions Kicker Still Doing It, 20 Years Later

    It’s fitting, really, that the Detroit Lions , lovers of tumult for decades, should have stability at a position that doesn’t even really qualify as a football player...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 10 months ago 1,826 reads 3 comments

  23. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 2-4 This Week: at Bos (7/30-8/1); CLE (8/3-5) So, What Happened? What a difference a week makes...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 10 months ago 854 reads 7 comments

  24. Detroit Lions Must Learn to Control Themselves If They Want to Just Win, Baby

    They wore black, like all the bad guys in the Westerns. They had a player everyone called Big Ben who wore a handlebar mustache and who spoke with a voice that sounded like it was coming out of a cement mixer...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 10 months ago 1,097 reads 11 comments

  25. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 6-1 This Week: at Cle (7/24-26); at Tor (7/27-29) So, What Happened? What a fun, frollicking week of baseball for the boys at Comerica Park last week! ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 10 months ago 1,549 reads 8 comments