Comments on: Game 103: White Sox at Tigers

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:19:36 +0000

Jim and Dave are going to blame this on Kwame.

By: ron

ron — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:08:36 +0000

What could Jim and Dave be discussing when just the two of them are sitting in the office discussing the team’s woes? Are they propping each other up, or is there so much finger pointing going on that they’re both wearing goggles?

By: ron

ron — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:52:40 +0000

Oh, oh, I’m seeing that dreaded word HEART popping up here and there.

By: ron

ron — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:48:43 +0000

Mike R., Chief might have a spare room for you to bed down in and he can hook you up to that Monday Therapy Machine he has sitting in his basement. You’ll come back as Chief R, looking like Randall P. McMurphy but inside you’ll be brimming with confidence.

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:45:20 +0000

Ok, Ron. I will be strong for you and my fellow Tiger brothers.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:15:21 +0000

Three Words. PULL THE PLUG! Send Ordonez to the Rays. It’s fire sale time. This team is gutless and reached it’s pinnacle in ’06. It’s time to change the furniture…..

By: ron

ron — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:12:59 +0000

Stephan, don’t make the move. You’re reputation as a die hard will be ruined. The Yankees will never win it all with A Rod. They have two teams to contend with just like us and we have a better team; just a lousy manager who should have been fired a long time ago. We could have had Girardi, but no one wants to pull the trigger on Leyland. Look at the Mets who fired Randolph, Leyland’s African-American twin. It’s hard reading the sports pages in N.Y. right now, but we need you desperately, now more than ever. DON”T JUMP!

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:56:24 +0000

Hey Chief Monday, pass the dutchie on the left hand side. I want some of that Maui Wowee.

By: scotsw

scotsw — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:52:42 +0000

Sucks. This team needs to get their collective head out of their collective rear… I don’t care what Jimmy L. says, momentum and chemistry matter, and this team doesn’t believe it itself. These guys don’t believe in each other, so they don’t step up often enough.

Todd Jones is a competitor, and no, he’s not been good enough. BUT, before we send him packing, it’s worth asking who is going to take his job. Freddy Dolsi has NOT earned the spot yet, and Zumaya needs to work on the mental aspect of his game. No, you don’t add by subtraction; you need to have a post-Jones plan before you move him.

And finally, Jim Leyland might deserve firing for the way he handles Marcus Thames, if nothing else. When a guy is hitting homers at the fastest rate in the league, he’s in the lineup every day. This isn’t hard. This isn’t even close. This is a (strong language omitted) easy call. And when he’s not in the lineup on a regular basis, that’s when owners should be calling dugouts and having short, one-way conversations with managers. That said, 0-4 doesn’t mean much. Thames gets, on average, 2.5 hits per 10 at-bats, and one of them’s a homer. That means there are 7.5 outs in there somewhere, so no big deal. He ain’t Polanco.

By: RudeMood19

RudeMood19 — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:31:36 +0000

I’ll give you credit, you have outstanding optimism Chief.

AND, the Sox have something like 2 more 10 game road trips?? I think, so the Tiger could capitalize there.

But, I’ve said this before, they lack something different in these games each day. An X factor, so to speak.

The Sox are winning games a first place team wins (close 1 run games on the road in playoff like atmosphere)…the Tigers haven’t responded.

That 8th inning last night was disgusting. No heart was shown there. I’d like to think teams like the Yankees or Red SOx, or even the friggin White Sox would have brought home the leadoff double. Pathetic effort.

By: Chief Monday

Chief Monday — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:24:17 +0000

“Still think the Tigers are going to finish 10 games ahead of the White Sox?”

Absolutely.

By: Chief Monday

Chief Monday — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:18:35 +0000

The best part of the baseball season hasn’t even started yet.

The Tigers are getting primed for the stretch run.

By: Mith

Mith — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:27:33 +0000

C’mon Chief, I expected more spin out of you! After all, you actually got your stated preference- they lost another close, tight one that they could have won. You must be pretty cheery about that! And so what if its another loss, its a GOOD loss, right?

No bold predictions for us? Still think the Tigers are going to finish 10 games ahead of the White Sox?

By: Chief Monday

Chief Monday — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:16:00 +0000

Like I said earlier, this game meant little. Just 1/162 of the season.

We’ll let the other teams do our dirty work.
Chicago has a very tough schedule ahead of them.

Chicago has 7 more tough games on their current road trip. 4 games at Minnesota and 3 at KC. That’s when things will get rough for them.

Then they play the Tigers again and Boston the following week. They are in a world of trouble.

Chicago’s pitching is in pure disarray right now. They have given up 5+ runs in 12 of their last 14 games. They’ve given up 91 runs in the last 14 games. That’s 6.5 runs per game.

By: Mike R

Mike R — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:40:34 +0000

I must say, that I hoped out fate would be “sealed” so to speak one way or another. Either a sweep in the Sox favor or we sweep them (obviously would prefer the latter) just to make us clear cut buyers or sellers.