If you’ve been a long-time Daily Fungo reader, you know that I’ve posted a semi-regular series called The Non Sequiturs. More recently I’ve posted similar items under the Wednesday Walewanders banner (or Friday Fungoes, Three for Thursday, etc.). You may ask: What’s the difference? Truth is, there isn’t any. Just thought I’d come clean on [...]

When I began pulling together this list over the past month or so, it became clear that possibly the only positive story to come out of the Tigers season was the emergence of Matt Joyce. Joyce finished the 2008 season with a .252 average, 12 homers and 33 RBI in 92 games.
At long last, the [...]

Just three weeks into the season — or perhaps sooner — Jim Leyland realized that Miguel Cabrera was no Brandon Inge at third base and, at the same time, knew that Carlos Guillen was not Sean Casey at first.
So what do you do when you have to immovable objects on the corners of your [...]

It’s the end of the year, so that means it’s time for Top 10 Lists galore. So I thought I’d add to the list of lists with my take on the 2008 Detroit Tigers. Actually, this top-10 list — which I will reveal over the final 10 days of 2008 — is for the calendar [...]

Today is the 47th birthday of Jeff Robinson, a once-promising starting pitcher for the Tigers and one of my favorite short-timers.

The 6 ft. 6 in. Robinson broke in with the Tigers on April 12, 1987 with a brilliant performance against the White Sox at old Comiskey Park. Robinson went seven innings scattering just six hits, [...]

In Charlie Manuel’s press conference after the Phillies’ Game One victory Wednesday night, a reporter asked him if he talked to Jim Leyland (or Clint Hurdle) about the effects of long layoffs after the LCS.
Manuel’s long answer eventually landed with “no” but the most damning part of his response was, and I’m paraphrasing: I know [...]

I know I’m in the extreme minority on this one but I think the Tigers should extend Jim Leyland’s contract to 2010 or ‘11.

In the most recent Fungo Pulse Check poll, 67 percent of respondents said Leyland should not get an extension to ‘01 and beyond. Thirty-three percent said he should. Why do I think [...]