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Looking Back At The 2003 Detroit Tigers-Week 7 (9-32)

The 2003 Detroit Tigers, the team that quite possibly turned around the fortunes of the franchise, actually rode into the seventh week of the season on a high note. The prior week they finished with…Read More

Looking Back At The 2003 Detroit Tigers–Week 6 (8-27)

The 2003 Detroit Tigers, the team that quite possibly turned around the fortunes of the franchise, trudged into another week without much hope. It was hard to believe that nearly five full months of…Read More

Detroit Tigers History Lesson – 1984 vs. 2013

When Spring Training broke 40 days ago, I was convinced this incarnation of the Tigers mirrored the wire-to-wire ’84 squad in enough ways to expect the same cavalcade to the World Series. The everyday…Read More

Looking Back At The 2003 Detroit Tigers–Week 5 (4-25)

The 2003 Detroit Tigers, the team that quite possibly turned around the fortunes of the franchise, finished the first month of the season and began the second month the way they played all throughout…Read More

Looking Back At The 2003 Detroit Tigers–Week 4 (3-20)

The 2003 Detroit Tigers, the team that quite possibly turned around the fortunes of the franchise, limped through the first three weeks of play, enduring two lengthy losing streaks to start the season. The…Read More

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Hereditary Fandom

My prolonged absence Motor City Bengals is in part because of my grandpa, who has recently been having…Read More

Looking Back at the 2003 Detroit Tigers–Week 3 (1-16)

We continue the vomit-inducing roller-coaster ride that was the 2003 Detroit Tigers, the team that…Read More

Looking Back at the 2003 Detroit Tigers–Week 2 (1-10)

We continue our not-so-nostalgic look at the 2003 Detroit Tigers, the team that quite possibly turned…Read More

Looking back at the 2003 Detroit Tigers (0-6)

Last week, we looked at the 2003 Detroit Tigers‘ season, and how that terrible team may have turned…Read More

Guest Post: Call in the Closer: a Grandmother’s Love of the Detroit Tigers

The following heartfelt story is a guest post submitted by reader Ben Axelrad. I’d like to tell a story…Read More

Looking Back at the 2003 Detroit Tigers–The Awful Team That Turned Around the Franchise

Franchises often celebrate anniversaries of special teams of the past. For instance, the Detroit Tigers…Read More

So long Virgil Trucks–an Underappreciated Detroit Tigers’ Legend

If a kid falls for baseball at an early age, it can be all-consuming throughout childhood. This was the…Read More

Does Spring Training Success Really Mean Anything?

By all accounts, the Detroit Tigers are having a very solid Spring Training, as are their Central Division brethren. Heading…Read More

No Need to Bash Boesch

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.’”…Read More

Jason Grilli – Exhibit “A” – Don’t Overpay for a Closer

April 4, 2008 – Coming off a disheartening three-game home sweep at the hands of the lowly Kansas…Read More

Don Kelly – Have Glove, Will Travel

The players we love to hate – Ryan Raburn, Brandon Inge, Jose Valverde, Gerald Laird –…Read More

Infante’s Encore

Omar is back, due to the incumbent  ineptitude of the Bengals second-sackers considerably more than…Read More

Can Miguel Cabrera Lead the Tigers to a Championship?

Recent word out of Lakeland is that bullpen vagabond Octavio Dotel questions Miguel Cabrera’s…Read More

The State Of The Game–Part III–PEDs, Regional Networks and Instant Replay

Today, we conclude our series on The State of the Game. In the previous installment, we discussed interleague…Read More

Spring Training Moves West

When I think of “Spring Training,” Florida comes to mind before its cross-country cousin,…Read More