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These Walenwanders come to you with visions of a Chipotle burrito dancing in my head. Meanwhile, the mercury rises in the desert.

Despite MLB’s efforts, I realized that I still hadn’t cast my All-Star ballot. Voting ends tomorrow night, so vote late and often.

As we watch Magglio Ordonez’s swing atrophy, I’m thinking that he might personify [...]

For a two unfortunate years, I was a resident of the greater Houston metroplex. In fact, it’ll be 10 years this December that I moved there (and it was seven years ago this week that I escaped).
My stay in Houston coincided with the April 2000 opening of a new baseball stadium, then Enron Field, site [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — I think I survived LegoLand and, with any luck, will never need to return.
…A five-game lead? The 2009 Tigers continue to confound. How this team has managed to pad its lead in the Central is nothing short of baffling. But we shall take it.
Fact is, they could pile-up the Ws over [...]

The Diamondbacks are looking at a fire sale here soon. Would the Tigers have any interest in free-agents-to-be Doug Davis or Jon Garland? Who knows what Arizona would want in return, but methinks it’s prospects galore. In that case, Detroit should pass. I wouldn’t mind seeing Conor Jackson in left for the Tigers but he’s [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Checking in from the land of Google and Apple, on the border of Mountain View and Cupertino, Calif.:

It’s a shame that I read the USA Today only when I’m traveling, as I am today. There’s usually one or two outstanding pieces in each edition and this morning proved it: a feature [...]

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Did they burn cars in ‘68 too, or is Bobby mixing his championship metaphors?

Brandon Inge, after today’s game:
“Right now, Verlander and [Edwin] Jackson have been carrying us, and there will be a time where we carry them.”