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January 2012

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The Point is to Win

28.01.2012 6 comments

Not to make money. The fallout from the Prince Fielder bomb has been full of back row Joes claiming that this was a terrible signing by the Tigers and forecasting that the Tigers will rue the day they set up Prince Fielder’s off-springs’ off-springs for life.  The fatal flaw that I find with these numbers-based [...]

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WOW

24.01.2012 32 comments

9 years, $214M…(SI) CBS Sports story here. Fangraphs blog by Dave Cameron.

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DTW News and Notes

24.01.2012 1 comment

This is not the time of year when hope springs eternal;  it is more the time when things seem infernal. As we all know by now, the Tigers will be doing 2012 without Victor Martinez.  As if that isn’t bad enough, the interim between this disaster and the eventual response is being filled with headlines [...]

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VMart Likely Out for the Year

17.01.2012 9 comments

VMart managed to tear his ACL in off-season workouts…he’s likely out for the year. Just sat in on the DD conf call (thanks billfer), DD didn’t say anything too unexpected.  They just found out over the last few days when VMart called Kevin Rand to tell him about a knee injury. There is a chance [...]

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DTW News and Notes

11.01.2012 7 comments

A few notes amid the clearing bowl fog and settling NFL storm. – JV will be on Conan tomorrow night. – Mario Impemba won the Michigan Sportscaster of the Year award today.  This should look nice on his mantle next to his “World’s Most Patient Man” and “Least Likely to Point Out Grammatical/Journalistic/Fact” awards given [...]

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