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Former Tigers

Interview: Tigers TV color commentator Rod Allen

02.26.2007 21 comments

Rod Allen has had a very varied 30 year career in professional baseball. His current gig is as the color commentator for Tigers broadcasts on FSN alongside Mario Impemba.
The 2007 season will mark Allen’s 5th season in Detroit. While he, along with pretty much everyone associated with the Detroit Tigers, toiled [...]

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Baby it’s cold outside – Tigers 2007 Spring Training round-up

02.19.2007 2 comments

This is what a month old ice sculpture looks like
I was getting jealous of all the reporters and photographers down there in Lakeland taking in baseball and sun and palm trees. So I did the best I could and went to Comerica Park today to take pictures of ice sculptures…Leftover from Tigerfest…Which was a [...]

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Spring Training 2007 Day 1 wrap-up

02.16.2007 10 comments

PFP
The first day of spring training every year brings pitchers fielding practice. Today was no different, except for the fact that there were 50 media assembled to see if the Tigers pitchers could throw the ball to third base. Now let’s move on.
credit: Roger DeWitt
They wear many hats
That section headline reminds [...]

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Tigers Miscellaney

01.25.2007 6 comments

This, that, and the other…

The big news in baseball is the impending exclusive deal for the Extra Innings package with DirecTV. Here is a roundup of what some columnists are saying. Living in Southeast Michigan this isn’t a big deal to me. But with the Tigers surge in popularity I’m sure there [...]

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Tuesday Linking

01.23.2007 6 comments

Short and sweet…

Sam swung by Tiger Stadium and as usual performed photographic wonder-ness.
Bryan Smith has his top 75 prospect list up. Cameron Maybin is at #8 and Andrew Miller #12.
Interesting article in the Washington Post on Nook Logan. Logan talks about the difficulties of losing his starting gig in Detroit.
Brian and [...]

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Midweek Linking

01.09.2007 1 comment

Jason Beck blogs that the Tigers are about to announce their new radio deal with WXYT and WKRK. Dan Dickerson and Jim Price will be returning.
Beck also notes that Jason Johnson will be playing in Japan in 2007.
John Sickels Yankees prospect list has Humberto Sanchez at #3 and Kevin Whelan at #12.
Baseball Analysts put [...]

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Quick Links

12.27.2006 13 comments

The New York Times takes a look at the Ilitch’s team and casino owernship.
My interview on the Daily Fungo Podcast is up. I listened to it, and it seems clear that I’m much more comfortable talking about the Tigers then myself. The um’s, and so’s seemed to go away as we went on.
Also [...]

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Opening Day Eve Link-up

04.02.2006 1 comment

Okay, so it isn’t opening day eve if you’re a White Sox or Indians fan. But we’ll look past that little fact for now…
The Bird
Detroit Tiger Tales is hopping on the diary theme. This one takes a look at Mark “the Bird” Fidrych’s magical 1976 season. Here’s the first paragraph of the first [...]

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Cooperstown is in Detroit

03.10.2006 2 comments

A traveling collection of Cooperstown artifacts titled Baseball As America has come to The Henry Ford. At a special preview today, media were able to view the Hall of Fame exhibit, as well as some Hall of Famers. Former Tigers Al Kaline, George Kell, and Sparky Anderson were joined by Fergie Jenkins and [...]

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The young and the retired

02.28.2006 3 comments

Feeling sick, need sleep, short post…

While there has been plenty of talk about prospect rankings, what about the players who broke in last year. Who are the sophomores to watch? Bryan Smith at Baseball Analysts has compiled the top 20 sophomores. Detroit Tiger Curtis Granderson checks in at #12.
Do the Tigers really [...]

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Tiger Links

02.24.2006 5 comments

Some Detroit Tiger related links from the last few days that you might have missed:

Baseball Analysts on the Central: Aaron Gleeman and the Cheat join Rich and Bryan to break down the AL Central. The consensus was that the Tigers are probably the 4th best team in a pretty good division.
Aaron: Right. Detroit [...]

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Detroit Tiger-ish News

01.24.2006 1 comment

Juan Samuel finds a job: Juan Samuel will be the manager of the AA Binghamton Mets. The former Tiger 3B/outfield coach is the second member of last year’s staff to find work in the minors. Bruce Fields will be the hitting coach in Buffalo.
UPDATE: It appears that Lance Parrish will also [...]

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