There are quite a few reasons to be pessimistic. 31 so far this year But being in first without much production from 5 out of your top 6 salary guys says something.

And I disagree with your last statement. I think he’d be trying hard to win either way, and most likely harder without the security. Still a lot of it comes down to how the guys perform. It is hard to manage into a loss when your team scores 10 as they have tonight, or when a guy throws well (ie Porcello/pen of yesterday).

I really don’t see why people are so pissed about it and why people are happy about it. To me, I don’t really care.

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Feel free by the way to refer to Cabrera as The Hammer (or el Martillo if you prefer)

He’s going to make what he feels are the right moves whether his contract was extended or not. This is in response to the earlier comments who felt an extension took away his “incentive or motivation.”

We’re not talking about a guy hustling out singles here. We’re talking about a guy who writes on a clipboard and raises one arm as he walks out to the mound.

David, while stephen is easily the most eloquent writer we have, he’s an eternal pessimist who bet the farm on Miguel Cabrera being in a Yankees uniform by now, so take his venom with a bit of antidote.

I’m not happy with JL and am pretty sure that drunk billfer could make better decisions, but it’s hard to argue with the results. And, as I posted above, you have to give managers security in order for them to make any kind of effort these days. It’s a low risk, I’m glad they did it.

I don’t think this in anyway guarantees that Leyland will be here through ’10. The $5-$10 mil the Tigers would owe on a guaranteed contract is a pittance, relatively speaking. And it doesn’t count towards the luxury tax.