August 2002

Well, my friends and I were tired of watching the Tigers lose at Comerica, so we made a road trip down to Cleveland to visit Jacobs Field. Well, the Tigers did get beat, badly. However, the Jake was a great place to watch a game. The sitelines were great, concessions were adequate, and it just [...]

Transaction Analysis: (On Jeremy Bonderman) In short, he’s that rare high school pitcher that you want to take a flyer on early on in his pro career. It’ll be four or five years before he’ll get to the chalk board to erase Jeff Weaver’s name, but he’s an outstanding pickup.

Peter Gammons Tigers president and GM Dave Dombrowski now realizes he inherited one of the worst messes in all of the major leagues. That one player flew from Oakland to Las Vegas and back on the Saturday night between day games is still the move of the year in that visiting clubhouse.

Whatever happened to that happy clubhouse from spring training? Now Weaver is ripping Luis Pujols and saying that nobody respects him. Then this past weekend Bobby Higginson ripped into Randall Simon for some baserunning mistakes. Then Bobby and Pujols get in an argument on the field. Also let’s not forget the whole Dave Dombrowski-season ticket [...]