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My friends and I often try to name all the teams that wore powder blues back in the 80’s. What a peculiar phenomenon. (Hat tip Baseball Musings
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A look at the power balance in the respective leagues.
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Randor Bierd is atop the list of players who could be snapped up. Take 75 North speculated the same last week.
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I’m a Michigan guy. I don’t like Izzo. But I do like Kyle J and he just started a blog about Spartans Basketball. So I want to give him a shout out, some traffic, and some link juice. Hope I can help.
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Jose Mesa the sequel? Older Colorado reliever. Declining strike out rates (about 1 K every other inning). A one year cheap contract is fine, but Morosi is talking mutli-year. Early impression is yuck.
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He’s a few years removed from his Twins days when he was good.
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Without clicking the article…Brewers, Phils, Expos, Braves, Cards, Twins, Royals, Jays, Ms.
Does that cover them?
Thanks, Bilfer. I’m an MSU guy. I don’t like Carr. But I do like you, and I love your blog.
That’s actually a nice aspect of the Tigers recent playoff contention–it gives Spartans and Wolverines something to be united about.
P.S. One of the nice things about doing a college basketball blog is that the season runs almost exactly opposite baseball season–so I don’t have to give up my life as a DTW groupie from April through October.
With the stuff he says Bierd has, and with Bierd’s success at his age at that level (Ks, low BBs, lots of grounders), I don’t understand why we haven’t heard his name more often as being at least a wild card for the bullpen. The Tigers’ middle relievers have a nasty habit of walking too many batters and Bierd (10 BB in 45 IP at Erie) seems like he might be able to help shore that up.
I loved the Royals’ powder blue uniforms. It’s the uniform of George Brett, Willie Wilson, and Bo Jackson.
Not a fan of the Blue Jays’ unis, though I have one of those two-color hats.
I clicked on the link. I couldn’t picture the Rangers’ uniforms before, but wasn’t surprised that was one I missed. I was surprised to find out the Cubs used the powder blues in the early 80s as well.
I always liked the old Brewer uniforms when I was a kid because I was the one in my family who figured out the glove that was their logo was made up of a lower case “m” and “b”.
Cool link. Interesting, the poster of the powder blue uni’s rip on them quite a bit. I find them to be among the sharpest uniforms ever donned in the modern baseball era. Absolutely LOVE the Powder blue in most of its forms, particularly the Phillies. The Red and Blue look great together. I think the Red and powder blue look great. Also notice that they didn’t wear ‘pajamas’ like the current trend. Stirrups and all, very classy.
I wonder if anyone has chronicled the Tigers official uniforms over the years? That would be great to see. Graphics of all Detroit uniforms, road and home, since the beginning. All the way back to Cobb’s days. Would love to see it.
The site referenced the Dressed to the Nines exhibit at the Hall of Fame. If you type that into Google (“Dressed to the Nines”), and click on the Hall of Fame link and then enter 1901 to 2007 for the Tigers, you should get exactly what you’re talking about.
It’s pretty cool, and I’m glad you brought it up. Particularly notable are the seasons when the Tigers replaced the “D” with a Tiger’s head and the season when they had a Tiger’s head on the BACK of the uniform.
Oh, and can I just say that elastic banded pants replacing belts for a while was a horrible idea. They look like girls’ softball pants.
Latroy Hawkins is not good. ugh.
Matt is on top of this uniform thing, haha.
There was also a rumor on mlbtraderumors of us being in the Dotel sweepstakes.
Hawkins: No, thanks.
Dotel: Yes, please.
The speculation is Hawkins at 2 years, $8 Million or Dotel at 2 years, $12 million. I’ll gladly spend $4 mil more for someone to not post 4.7 K/9 strike out rates.