LET'S GO TIGERS!

by zknower on Sep 15, 2007 11:08 PM EDT in Commentary & Analysis

With the Orioles long since buried, and their pitching staff in tatters, what will you do for the last two weeks of baseball season (I mean, except for Sundays, when you're watching football?)

I'l' tell you what you should do: root, root, root for the Motown Tigers.

By dint of the MFY's spectacular bullpen suckage today (see it happens to other teams too! It happened to Boston yesterday), coupled with the Tigers' nail-biter over Santana and the Twins, Detroit is within 2-1/2 games of the wildcard.

The schedule, no doubt, favors the MFY who, among other things, have six games against the hapless Birds, and three more against Tampa Bay. But Detroit has won 9 of 12 and is coming on strong. And although I accidentally placed him in Minneapolis a week or so ago, Michigan is SC's turf, and I'm sure he won't object to some of you spending the next two weeks over at Bless You Boys.

So deal out some big love for Pudge, Ordonez, Bonderman, Verlander, and the rest of the crew. Cheer extra hard for the O's in their games against the Evil Empire. Detroit is kind of who we want to become: a mid-market team that got there with sound pitching and defense and a few timely FA acquisitions on offense. True, we're a few years away from that (still), but that's no reason to be a Tigah hatah.

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lets not

go mets maybe
go mariners maybe

GO ORIOlES

Jeremy Guthrie is better then you! Go to hell Rob Bell!

by westcoastOfan on Sep 16, 2007 12:21 AM EDT reply actions

Go Tiges, a sympatico bunch.

And Westie? Two numbers for ya: Stanford 37- San Jose St.- Nada. Next up for the Fighting Robber Barons: Orygun.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 16, 2007 1:24 AM EDT reply actions

We will chew you up and spit you out

like michagin and idaho

Jeremy Guthrie is better then you! Go to hell Rob Bell!

by westcoastOfan on Sep 17, 2007 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Dream on, Orygunian. OU is good

this year, no doubt-- but not that good. Don't get yourself deluded into a Joey Harrington fantasy or something. They won't beat Cal or USC (even with both games at Eugene), and next week they're going down to Palo Alto thinking "Ho-hum, time to wipe the floor with these punks."

Kind of like undefeated UCLA waltzing out to take on winless Utah...and finding themselves nipped at the buzzer, er, 44-6. These things happen.

Watch your back, Oregon!

p.s. Uh, when exactly did OU chew up and spit out Idaho?

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 17, 2007 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions

my bad it was fresno

OSU was idaho

Jeremy Guthrie is better then you! Go to hell Rob Bell!

by westcoastOfan on Sep 17, 2007 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions

The best view of Fresno is

in the rear view mirror of your car.

Oregon was lucky to catch FSU early, actually. Now that they've lost to 2 ranked teams in a row, they play 6 mediocrities; they'll win at least 5 of these, and eventually go to a bowl-- and a pretty decent one if they beat Hawaii.

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 18, 2007 1:28 AM EDT up reply actions

OK, Westie, let's see the color of your $

The Fox Pac-10 Picks service has Oregon by 25 over Stanford. I bet Sanford will beat that spread-- you name the stakes.

p.s. Good thing Oregon isn't overconfident!

"This year is more like the year I came in with Kellen (Clemens). You just knew you were not going to lose, especially with Kellen in the huddle. He had poise, and it seems like a lot of people on this team now have poise."
-- Oregon tailback Jonathan Stewart on quarterback Dennis Dixon.

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 21, 2007 5:04 AM EDT up reply actions

Screw 'em

I ain't rooting for nobody else in the American League.

Go Dodger Blue!

"And I'm respected in da hood like a 'G'..."
- Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. & FNM

by duck on Sep 16, 2007 7:53 AM EDT reply actions

NPL: Yuck. If I had to not detest a team

that was DH-challenged, it'd be the Cubs, for all the sentimental reasons everybody's trotting out and for my own as well (I saw them often at Wrigley as a kid-- Ernie Banks and a revolving cast of woeful incompetents).

But I can't root 'em all the way in any case: I'd really have a problem with another 83-win WS champeen. Last year's anomaly should, like chewy-chewy Tootsie Rolls, last a long time.

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 16, 2007 9:58 AM EDT up reply actions

I've been rooting on the Tigers for weeks

And sorry, Westie, but I'm pretty sure your Mariners are done.

by Stacey on Sep 16, 2007 9:37 AM EDT reply actions

I saw the Cubs play Arizona at Wrigley

a coupla months ago. The usual 1:20 p.m. start. It felt like the World Series, from the pre game lube-up at Sluggers to the post game at Murphy's. We were Riverdancing on the tables fer chrissakes. You need to get caught up in that happy fan stuff once in a while to remember what it felt like in Baltimore a mere 10 years ago. I'm a fan of the fans of the Cubs now. They were a hoot!

by Big Al on Sep 16, 2007 1:11 PM EDT reply actions

Sorry, the Pink Hats are the real enemy

And NYY plays them tougher than Cle, LA or Det, so that's who I'm for.

"You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever." - Ron White

by Sluggo @ Camden Chat on Sep 16, 2007 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Fight the real enemy!

"And I'm respected in da hood like a 'G'..."
- Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. & FNM

by duck on Sep 16, 2007 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions

At the risk of dating myself

I get that reference!

"You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever." - Ron White

by Sluggo @ Camden Chat on Sep 16, 2007 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions

that was only 10 or 15 years ago

"If you're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job." -Brooks Robinson

by exitfare on Sep 16, 2007 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Definitely closer to 15

It was '91 0r '92.

And in pop culture 15 years is like 50 years for normal events.

"You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever." - Ron White

by Sluggo @ Camden Chat on Sep 16, 2007 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Oct. 3, 1992, if anybody cares

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 16, 2007 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions

I have no idea what's going on here

by Stacey on Sep 16, 2007 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions

See, getting yourself born in 1979

has its advantages!

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 16, 2007 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions

The Crazy Bald Lady...

... was named Shinade O'Conner, and she tore up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live for some reason. It was controversial.

"Baltimore? That's like being hit in the head with a crowbar once a day."

by spike2131 on Sep 17, 2007 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Sinead

It's Irish. They pronounce stuff weired. Like Seamus and Sean. But they've got good beer, so good on 'em.

"And I'm respected in da hood like a 'G'..."
- Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. & FNM

by duck on Sep 18, 2007 6:21 PM EDT up reply actions

Weird...

kinda like how I type.

"And I'm respected in da hood like a 'G'..."
- Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. & FNM

by duck on Sep 18, 2007 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes.

Guinness is good for you!

Don't be afraid of the dark.

"You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever." - Ron White

by Sluggo @ Camden Chat on Sep 18, 2007 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions

you know what they say

A Guinness a day turns your shit black.

by Scott Christ on Sep 21, 2007 7:31 AM EDT up reply actions

duck may soon qualify as an Honorary Geezer

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 16, 2007 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions

1968 is da hizz-ouse!

"And I'm respected in da hood like a 'G'..."
- Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. & FNM

by duck on Sep 16, 2007 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions

I have similar feelings

Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.

by drj on Sep 17, 2007 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions

The Jays' announcers are dissing Victor Santos!

Even before the back-to-backers!

As in "How long can you continue a major league career with a lifetime record of 23-47 and an ERA over 5? The guy has played for everybody except Jamaica."

But then they answered their own (rhetorical) question: "The Orioles have used 27 pitchers this year."

That's 27 [twenty-seven]. And we ain't done yet.

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 16, 2007 1:46 PM EDT reply actions

p.s. Disregard this post! Wrong thread!

Right vodka, though.

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 16, 2007 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah, the Tigers are ok by me

I've found that they have picked up very, very few bandwagon fans. None of the Cubs or White Sox hats here became Tigers hats. Hell, none of the Yankees or Red Sox hats did either. Maybe a lack of big time superstars (in terms of marketing, anyway, because Ordonez and Guillen, at least, are superstar players) affects that, I don't know.

Plus, they really are a fun team to watch.

by Scott Christ on Sep 17, 2007 4:40 PM EDT reply actions