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Victor Martinez: Everything Detroit Tigers Thought He Would Be
He can’t run, he can’t throw. He doesn’t hit with any authoritative power (anymore). All Victor Martinez does is beat you...
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Monday Morning Manager: My Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last week: 3-3 This week: MIN (Aug.15-17); CLE (Aug. 19-21) So, What Happened? It was a week where the Tigers could have put some significant space between themselves ...
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If Matthew Stafford Can't Stay Upright, Detroit Lions Can't Succeed in 2011
The roster says that Matthew Stafford is a third-year NFL quarterback. Don’t believe everything that you read. Stafford is the Paper Lion, with apologies to George Plimpton...
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Miguel Cabrera Is Letting Detroit Tigers Down, Just Like in 2009
I guess I’m going to have to write this again. And I’m sure I’ll take heat for it—again. Miguel Cabrera is the most talented player the Tigers have had since Al Kaline retired...
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Monday Morning Manager: My Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last week: 4-2 This week: at Cle (Aug. 9-11); at Bal (Aug. 12-14) So, What Happened? The mantra at this time of the year, when a division is there to be won, is, “Just win two out of three, baby...
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Detroit Tigers Are One Mini-Roll Away from Winning the AL Central
Normally, a baseball division as wretched as the AL Central isn’t won, it’s just not lost. I’ve seen these divisional “races” before, played out in other years, in other divisions, in other leagues...
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Detroit Pistons: New Coach Lawrence Frank Has Quite a Story, but Is He the One?
They paraded another poor sap onto the lectern to be given his death sentence as the new head coach of the Detroit Pistons the other day...
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Detroit Tigers Monday Morning Manager: My Weekly Take on the Tigers
Last week: 3-4 This week: TEX (8/2-4); at KC (8/5-7) So, What Happened? There was a week’s worth of drama on Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park...
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Detroit Tigers GM Jim Campbell Turned Trash into Treasure in 1972
It’s the summer of 1972 and Detroit Tigers general manager Jim Campbell is trying to squeeze one more championship out of the core of the bunch that won the World Series four years earlier...
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Monday Morning Manager: My Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last week: 4-2 This week: at CWS (7/25-27); LAA (7/28-31) So, what Happened? Boy, it’s nice to play the Minnesota Twins outside, eh? Their home dome advantage gone, the Twinkies are much easier pickings on the road...
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PGA: Tiger Woods Just Not Relevant Anymore
No one wins a golf tournament so much as they don’t lose it. It’s 72 holes of survival of the fittest, and he who makes the fewest mistakes comes out on top on Sunday afternoon...
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Detroit Tigers: New X Factor Could Determine Whether They Win or Lose Division
What do you think of the Detroit Tigers ’ new acquisition, brought in after the MLB All-Star break and in advance of the interleague trading deadline? Do you think he can provide ...
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Chris Osgood: Is He Worthy of the NHL Hall of Fame?
The sure-fire Hall of Fame goalie was beginning to show his age. At 43, the Red Wings ’ netminder was battling the puck something awful, and the puck was winning...
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Monday Morning Manager: My Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last week: 1-2 This week: OAK (7/19-20); at Min (7/21-24) So, What Happened? The last thing this town needed, after all the talk over the All-Star break about the ...
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MLB Detroit Tigers: Is This the End of Brandon Inge's Career?
It’s never easy to predict when a professional athlete will break down physically. Chalk it up to genetics perhaps. Some players are freaks of nature...
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Former MLB Umpire Dave Pallone: Joe West Tends To Go Overboard
Tigers manager Jim Leyland made some news last week when he voiced concern over the deteriorating relationship between players/managers and umpires, in the wake of being terrorized by Joe West’s crew in Anaheim...
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Monday Morning Manager: My Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last week: 4-3 This week: CWS (7/15-17) So, What Happened? The Tigers finally won a series! They beat the Royals in three of four games in Kansas City over the ...
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Compared to Derek Jeter, Al Kaline's Quest for 3,000 Hits Done in a Vacuum
The 39-year-old outfielder reported to spring training in Lakeland, Fla. —except he was an outfielder in your heart only, and a designated hitter in your program. Al Kaline was prepping for his 22nd and final season as a Tiger...
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Detroit Tigers Firing of Pitching Coach Rick Knapp a Move Worth Trying
When Curtis Granderson was in Detroit flailing away futilely as a Tiger against left-handed pitchers, the cries for the head of batting coach Lloyd McClendon were aplenty...
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Chris Osgood: Detroit Red Wings Goalie Unlikely to Go Gently into Retirement
If Red Wings GM Kenny Holland were afforded the luxury of managing his roster strictly by heart and by emotion, there’s no question that Chris Osgood would be the team’s backup goaltender for 2011-12 until proven otherwise...
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Monday Morning Manager: My Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last week: 3-4 This week: at LAA (7/4-6); at KC (7/7-10) So, What Happened? Hurricane New York Mets blew through Comerica Park on Tuesday and Wednesday, after the ...
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Mark Howe: Proof That Mr. Hockey's Genes Were Pretty Strong, After All
Mark Howe and Jesus Christ have a lot in common; they’re both sons of gods who did pretty well in carrying on the family tradition...
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Alex Avila of the Detroit Tigers Proving April Fools Were Wrong
Now I know why they call April 1, April Fool’s Day. For that was the date, after just one game had been played in the 2011 season, that sports talk radio was lit up with ...
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Monday Morning Manager: My Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last week: 3-3 This week: TOR (6/27); NYM (6/28-30); SF (7/1-3) So What Happened? First, MMM apologizes for the brevity of this week’s edition, as real life reared its head today...
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Detroit Tigers: Retiring Sparky Anderson's Number Nice, but Late
Posthumously is an empty word, full of regret. It’s a parade rained on; a celebration muted. Someone’s being honored in death, and so often the death wasn’t too long prior to the honoring...
