2012 Season

2 more to the WS, 6 more to a championship. How’s everyone doing out there? Feeling pretty good? I sure am. I don’t think I can get enough of the MLB Network these days, though Dan Pleasac breaking down Paws’ YMCA dance did seem like they had run out of things to discuss. Game 3 [...]

ALCS, Tigers 1, Yankees 0. Well, that was certainly exhausting, and it seems so soon to pick it up and do it all over again.  And I’m just speaking of the fans; imagine how draining that was for the participants. Well, the big topic of last night’s game among many, is the potato in the [...]

Well, relaxing didn’t seem to help. Sure, Max Scherzer seemed relaxed and efficient, keeping the A’s to 4 base runners and no earned runs through 5 1/3, while striking out 8. Unfortunately the bats were a bit relaxed as well, as the Tigers only managed to score 3 runs despite 10 hits, and although Fielder [...]

The Tigers swept the home series with the A’s and now have 3 tries to finish the job in Oakland. John Lowe gives 3 reasons why we shouldn’t assume a Tiger series win: The Tigers haven’t really hit the A’s well yet Joaquin Benoit Home field advantage–the A’s just swept 3 must-win games there against Texas [...]

It was a long road, and never easy, but the Tigers did it, and the playoffs are here! Let baseball’s second season begin! Because of the peculiarities of this season’s scheduling, even though Detroit is the away team, they get the first two games of the best of five series at home, beginning with Justin [...]