Statimagician (Free subscription) | 54 minutes ago
Today’s ball players are better. No doubt. Stronger, faster, quicker, better coached, better trained. The incredible money available in today’s game, combined with its global appeal has led to all-around superior players. I won’t try to change your mind if you think Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle or Ty Cobb or Ted Williams were the game’s [...]
MLB (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mailbag: Rotation questions abound
Bless You Boys (Free subscription) | yesterday
So what exactly will the Detroit Tigers be shopping for this off-season? I'm sure we'll each have several ideas to toss around in the weeks to come, and this week's poll question covers that very topic. But Jon Paul Morosi got started on the speculation in yesterday's Freep , with his thoughts on what the Tigers might actually do. The biggest problem, unfortunately, is that the teams with players...
Sportscolumn - (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
So far the Chicago Cubs have survived the Black Cat scare of 1969, and the dreaded curse of the Billy Goat in 1945. All that is left is to banish the Bartman curse and make it farther into the playoffs then their dreaded history has allowed them since 1908.
Wizbang Sports (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
An excellent gloveman, but a light hitter, Brinkman played spent most of his career with the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers. Brinkman was part of the deal that sent Denny McLain to Washington after the 1970 season. More recently Eddie Brinkman worked for the Chicago White Sox. Living in New York till I was 15, I saw Brinkman play when I sometimes watched NY Yankee baseball. He was an excellent...
MLB (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Tigers have their work cut out for them
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear follows in a long tradition of sportsmen losing their cool, as Channel 4 News online explains.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Evan Longoria says he'll probably have to make the phone call to his former hitting coach. Longoria's home runs on his first ...
The Wayne Fontes Experience (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
OK, I admit it isn't quite as contentious as my headline, but there is definitely some tension between the Tigers and their manager. Jim Leyland has gone public, letting everyone within earshot know that he deserves a contract extension, while conveniently forgetting he turned down extra years not all that long ago. The Tigers think differently, and refuse to give the Marlboro Man anything more. In...
Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright, in the Forest of the Night You're Dave Drombowski, GM of the Tigers. You were supposed to be in the post-season in 2008. Instead, you found yourself in last place, even behind the Kansas City Royals. What do you do to turn this team around? Was it just a bad luck fluke? Or are greater changes needed? How is the condition of your farm system? Should Jim Leyland be retained...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
October 2, 1970, is a Friday. A plane carrying 36 members of the Wichita State University football team and a crew of four, en route to a game in Utah, crashes in Colorado. Only nine survive. (Six weeks later, a plane carrying 75, including 37 members of the Marshall University football team, will crash in [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
DEARBORN, Mich., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Ford Motor Company is proud to sponsor CATCH Night of Champions XIX, Wednesday, October 15, at 6 p.m., at The Ritz-Carlton in Dearborn. The event features the CATCH Hall of Fame induction ceremony for local heroes for their service to the community. This year's inductees are Detroit Tigers' center fielder Curtis Granderson; Beaumont Hospital major donors and...
Baseball Analysts (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Due to some technical difficulties, we will have to hold off on posting the other NLDS preview until after Game One tonight of the Dodgers-Cubs series. It's some good writing, though, so be sure to check back tomorrow morning. Rob McMillin of the Los Angeles baseball blog 6-4-2 and David Mick of Another Cubs Blog will be your contributors.
ArmchairGM (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
It comes but once a year, and it is finally here. It is October. And October means one thing: the MLB playoffs... and they are ready to begin. On the last day of September the playoff picture got taken. And it is a weird one, with some great story lines. The story lines to end the season were
MLB (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Leyland's contract status unchanged
