Tag Archives: Detroit Tigers

NY Times writer calls blown call “courageous”

June 3, 2010 – 8:12 am

After last night’s blown call with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th of a perfect game by Armando Galarraga, umpire Jim Joyce ruined an extremely rare event in baseball history.  There had never been 3 perfect games in one season, let alone in one month, and now that is still the case because [...]

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Bleeding Kansas (City Royals fans)

April 11, 2010 – 11:24 pm

I attended my first-ever opening day last week, making the drive to Kansas City up from my current abode in the Ozarks to see the Tigers take on the Royals at Kaufman Stadium in KC.
As we all know, the Royals have some…. problems. The Kansas City Star devoted their entire baseball preview section [...]

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It’s so cold…

October 7, 2009 – 12:42 am

There is a no more succinct way of talking about the game I do not want to discuss ever again than this video (sorry Deadspin… guess I also could have chosen this song from everybody’s favorite Detroit band… the Twins pulled the plug on the party, damnit!).
I smoked about a quarter of a pack of [...]

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Tigers and Twins Fight for Who Goes on Vacation First

October 6, 2009 – 8:58 am

The MLB playoffs teams are set except for the AL Central winner, who will face the Yankees.  It’s almost like the teams are trying to lose this one just to get the season over with.  It reminds me a lot of this South Park episode.  The Twins have technically come back a long way to [...]

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Baseball Violence Rears its Ugly Head (UPDATED)

August 16, 2009 – 8:36 am

For those of you who missed it, I wrote a piece a few weeks ago detailing why baseball is definitely a contact sport.  Well my point then still stands that, although baseball is violent less often than in other sports, its level of violence is often spectacular and has major consequences.  Well, the baseball gods [...]

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