“I’m an idiot.”

No name-calling, please. Site rules.

I thought it was pretty hilarious that Bush mentioned the Tigers in the context of the World Series, too, until I realized the article was from 2007.

“Clayton Michael Rapada is ‘Loony Panchatantra Day’’

That’s pretty funny, and I don’t to spoil anything, but where’s the M? Yeah. Let’s see you explain that one away with a link. : – )

http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2007/0.....el-zumaya/

Antarctica. Cold and dry. He’s good.

“As for Zumala”

Well, I’ve heard of him, I think, but I don’t follow the Olympics that closely. Let’s talk about Joel again instead.

Ah, Chris, but you need to put Basic Faking Thug in the anagram machine before you draw any such quick conclusions.

I have come to the rentative conclusion that a guy such as Basic Faking Thug reaching on errors unusually often may be coincident with a) often putting the ball in play (few K + BB), b) often hitting groundballs to the left side, and c) often hitting groundballs with men on, which would lead to not only more double plays but possibly more infield errors as well, as the situation is more complicated for an infielder with a man on any base.

I liked billfer’s line about Al Kaline the Oriole, and can you imagine how good they would have been with an outfield of Robinson-Blair-Kaline instead of Buford-Blair-Robinson or whatever other combos they had?

I also think the players aren’t being given enough credit, considering they really DON’T, on the whole, get a choice; think of Inge, who seems sincere when he says the Tigers and the Detroit area are home to him now (well what if we don’t WANT you, says the fan)…and the one example that doesn’t appear to have been mentioned yet, the wanted-to-be-a-Tiger-from -the-time-he-could-walk-Jason Grilli….

Not to mention that baseball players are generally from 4 places; Florida, Texas, California, and Latin America; and what would we do with the glut of free agents demanding to play for their home teams?

And while you can’t get much cooler than Granderson’s consecutive triples, I can’t help noticing how many runs he scored yesterday…none…and the 1st triple was with 1 out…

And I don’t like the idea of Granderson as Dude of the Game, without a co-game-dude for Sheffield, Joyce, and Inge, who were on base 9 times between them, and all had excellent baserunning days. (Although I guess it’s not full Whipping Boy powers with Edgar playing Edgarly).

That was just cold.

Sure, the baseball sucks, but have you seen the Tigers play lately?

I punched out Vin Scully before I double-checked your post. Sorry.