Archive for March, 2008

If you spend time looking through old Tigers yearbooks, especially those from the 1970s, and you have no recollection of the barren period of Tigers baseball, you might think those teams were this close to pennant contention.

We’ve all been exasperated by Jeremy Bonderman’s apparent inability to shutdown hitters in the first inning.

Today The Wall Street Journal and ESPN’s Rob Neyer take a closer look at Bonderman’s first-inning baggage.

With one week to go, Jim Leyland says his team isn’t ready.

Okay, we get it. The Tigers bullpen is to the team’s championship aspirations as an anvil is to a skydiver.
But what, pray tell, if it’s not?
I, for one, refuse to buy into the bullpen as Achilles’ heel conspiracy theory, and here are three reasons why:

Healthy starters
Dave Dombrowski
Zach Miner

1. Healthy starters. Among the many problems last [...]

Happy 31st Birthday, Fernando Rodney. You’re going on the DL.

Three quick hits:

This past weekend my wife and I traveled to Indian Wells, Calif., to watch the second round of the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament.

When you take away the two-hour line to park and the gale-force winds, we had a great time watching some big-name players including Lindsay Davenport, Ana Ivanovic, Carlos Moya and [...]

After about 36 hours of nonstop computer rehab, I’m back online and putting my time and energy to good use: following the never-ending trail of minutiae available from the Internet. Settle in, friends, and follow me on this one.
Back in December I wrote that the date of the Willis/Cabrera trade, Dec. 4, was a popular [...]