A tremendous season ended with bitter disappointment as the Tigers more or less threw the World Series away. I’m not taking anything away from the St. Louis Cardinals, a playoff-tested team that answered the bell and punished the Tigers for each and every one of their many mistakes. I’d be lying if I said I [...]
Filed under: Baseball (Data & News), Detroit Tigers, Off-Season, World Series | 3 Comments »
I haven’t made it any secret that I’m not a huge fan of Bill Simmons. He’s very hit-n-miss and for the past few years, his miss rate is much higher. I think he runs out the same tired jokes time and again and focuses far too much on reality TV jokes that often miss the [...]
Filed under: Baseball (Data & News), Detroit Tigers, Playoffs, World Series | 1 Comment »
How many more bad starts did Chris Carpenter have in him? The answer, unfortunately, was none. After two un-Carpenter-like starts against the New York Mets in the LCS, the Cardinals ace was back in form last night with eight shutout innings. It is disconcerting that the lineup was absolutely man-handled by Carpenter, but not completely [...]
Filed under: Detroit Tigers, Playoffs, World Series | Leave a Comment »
I was taking a look at some books on Amazon.com to pick some things out for my birthday when I stumbled across the most aptly named book I’ve seen in some time. It’s not that I don’t think the 2006 Detroit Tigers are worthy of a book, but isn’t it a bit early for this [...]
Filed under: Books, Detroit Tigers, Playoffs, World Series | 1 Comment »
Phew! Now that’s more like it. Kenny Rogers threw yet another playoff gem to run his postseason scoreless innings streak to an astounding 23. It didn’t come without controversy. Dirtgate, as it’s being called, is on the tip of everyone’s tongue this morning as Rogers defends a brown smudge found below his thumb on his [...]
Filed under: Detroit Tigers, Playoffs, World Series | Leave a Comment »
