2007 Season, Game Post

Game 136: Tigers at Athletics

39 Comments

PREGAME: Afternoon tilt tomorrow with Justin Verlander and Dan Haren doing battle. It seems so long ago that there was debate about who should start the All Star game and both pitchers were in the discussion.

Game Time 3:55

39 thoughts on “Game 136: Tigers at Athletics”

  4. anyone noticing that verlander’s velocity is a little off today? he’s only getting up to 94 on the gameday radar

    anyhow, who’s your tiger today?

  6. looks like verlander’s arm finally loosened up; he’s back in the mid to upper 90s…gotta go with verlander for today

  10. No matter what the Tigers do the rest of the season, nothing will top the abortion I witnessed at Michigan Stadium today. The Tigers look like the ’04 Pistons in comparison.

  12. Ok, I bow to Leyland’s madcap playing of Timo. He’s like the dude who hits on 18 in blackjack and gets a three. It pisses off all the other players, but he’s up 500 bucks. Now Leyland, do what those casino guys rarely do: cash in your chips and go home!

  13. Madcap. I love it. Who’s printing up the Timo Tshirts??

    Now can we please get out of this inning???

  15. Leyland is an idiot. Not only doesn’t he look at the standings, but he apparently avoids glancing at pitching charts, stat sheets, batting orders or any other type of baseball related reading material.

  16. Seay does the job, but there was absolutely no reason for that situation to arise in the first place.

  21. Baseball Almanac is a good site. That triples record will never be broken.

    I guess if Timo is going to play, and why wouldn’t you the way he is hitting (although keeping him off the field by having him DH might be an option), having him in the 9-hole might not be such a bad idea since this should give CG more opportunities to drive in runs with his propensity to get extra base hits.

    Can we get past the Cameron Maybin experiment?

  22. Man I miss Rod and Mario. The FOx Announcers are discussing how Curtis ought to instruct Cameron on the best way to wear his sunglasses. They’re right but it’s still annoying!!!

  26. cib: it’s been a while since he pitched. They’re just giving him some work to keep him regular.

  27. cib:

    My doctor says the same thing: eating lots of fruits and vegetables and doing a reasonable amount of physical work should keep me regular.

  28. Jim – right, now that I think of it I can’t remember the last time he pitched. Which means we haven’t had games to save . . . .

    You boys. Always with the potty humor . . . have a great evening.

  30. With Timo Perez coming up early, all of those names added to the roster look like Mays, Koufax, Wagner, and Gibson.

  32. should give CG more opportunities to drive in runs with his propensity to get extra base hits.

    Grandy gets extra bases because of his speed. and that is why he’s the lead off man. we have good hitters in the center of the line up. and that is why Leyland is the manager

    we’ve lost like 900 man game days to injuries this year and I think Jim has done a very good job in working around those with the players available to him

    it’s been a rough season. but this is MLB and nobody said it would be easy.

    we had a good win ysterday and a good game for JV. let’s get out there and clean up this series this afternoon

  33. from the DetNews game wrap

    The Tigers added an insurance run in the eighth off reliever Andrew Brown, who yielded a single to Perez before the right fielder stole second, and then scored on a Granderson single.

    Oakland started to rally in the seventh, loading the bases with two outs as Detroit replaced Verlander with reliever Bobby Seay, who struck out Jack Cust looking.

    it just don’t get no better, folks 🙂 This is baseball at its best.

    a game of characters. and our Tigers have turned into a wonderful band of some of the best characters to play the game

  34. Bill, do you even read what you write before you post it? Leyand is manager because we have good hitters in the center of the lineup? Is that what you are saying? Because that’s one of the dumbest things I’ve read in a while. Goodness.

  35. Keeping Grandy in the leadoff position is what I believe he’s referring to JMD rather than Polly or some other players as has been suggested by some other folks.

  36. I know it’s early but just a quick survey of tiger players who will not be here in 2008 my guess is Brandon Inge,Sean Casey
    Ivan Rodregiuz, Todd Jones,Nate Robertson.

  37. I’m about 99% sure you’re wrong on Inge. Probably wrong on Robertson. Pudge, I lean towards them bringing him back out of lack of options whether or not it’s a good idea.

    Jones, I don’t know. If they move Rodney/Zoomer to closer, they’ll need to buy a setup man or find one in the organization. Not as easily done as said. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s gone. Casey, I agree, is not coming back.

  38. My guess would be Casey, unless he wants to ride the pine in Detroit. Since his kids are still pretty young, he might go the free agent route and see if he can get a multi-year deal. He’s making 4 million now but I don’t know my baseball players well enough to know if there’s a team out there who would offer him more than that or a multi year deal.

    No clue on the other guys.

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