Tigers: 1-8, 5th in AL Central
White Sox: 5-3, 2nd in AL Central

Game 1: Friday, Apr 11, 8:11 PM EST, FSN+, Willis (0-0) Vs. Contreras (0-0)

Game 2: Saturday, Apr 12, 1:05 PM EST, FSN-HD, Verlander (0-1) Vs. Floyd (1-0)

Game 3: Sunday, Apr 13, 2:05 PM EST, FSN-HD, Rogers (0-2) Vs. Vazquez (1-1)


Buehrle got pushed back to Monday, so thats a plus for us...hopefully we can take advantage of it...

Injury Report

DET- Zumaya, Rodney, Granderson, Wilson

CWS- Richar, Owens

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh...

Tigers-White Sox gets old after a while, especially since it seems like we get the lead first and then blow it in every game vs. them.

Tigers-White Sox gets old after a while, especially since it seems like we get the lead first and then blow it in every game vs. them.


Well maybe tonight will be different...:cornbread:

Gum Time an hour and 20 minutes before the first pitch?

Gum Time an hour and 20 minutes before the first pitch?


I don't have any gum.

If we can go 14-7 the next 21, we'll be .500...

that's doable...

http://dimmykarras.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/we-believe.jpg

Hopefully Willis keeps the walks under 7...

Hopefully Willis keeps the walks under 7...


That should be a prop bet on Sprtsbook, easy win

I'm so excited and I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4280/mljs5.jpg

I'm so excited, I'm so excited
I'm so...scared!



Fixed.

Ok, I'll roll with apprehensive.

This is going to be a wild one...

Christ, how many double plays have we hit into this season?

Good to see Dontrelle throwing strikes.........oh, wait........

Can you say bust? lol

shit, now what?

Achilles?


Nope slipped

Good to go...

I know it wouldn't be funny, but I'd laugh if he ends up slipping again.

Dontrelle needs Wild Thing Ricky Vaughn glasses.

Willis is pitching like Chet Steadman when everyone was convinced he was done...

JL was saying something in todays paper about Starting pitching not very good this year either. When have they gotten us into the 7th or 8th with a lead this year?

Its might be a long game. Past midnight for east coasters???

:lopezowns:

Aqui's slider looks filthy.

Baseball will never cease to amaze me. Take a guy like Lopez, he's 33, bounced all over the place and all of a sudden something clicks for him. I'm not calling him the second coming or anything, but he's pitched pretty well so far this year.

Just like Tim The Truth Byrdak last season.

We need to give Lopez a new nickname.

I wonder if he's scuffing or what.

WHERE THE FUCK WAS THAT PITCH...other than across the plate.

looked like right down the pipe but Pudge didn't complain

Everything goes well until our guys give up hits, then it starts going downhill from there...

Come on Aqua Man...

:renteriaowns:

Renteria has been doing ok at the plate.

Inge to catch Sunday...weird.

An Ingesprational performance.

lol

I guarantee you that if the Tigers were 8-1 instead of 1-8, Inge would be everyone's choice for MVP.

Inge will land us someone good though...relief pitcher? if he's moved

We need an 'Ask Vinny some baseball shit thread' Like when do clubs start thinking about trades? A month or so or not till the AS break?

I'm not saying a full-on forum cuz thats reserved for Bukky, but just a thread.

He really hit the shit out of that one.

Did you see that Inge went to 3rd?

Remember when Contreras was unbeatable?

Bases loaded, time for a granny.

I'll take an RBI walk at this point.

Yeah baby.

We are all Maggots.

Yeah baby YEAH

Come on Cabs

Now we just need to patch together 7 more innings out of the pen.

Quit pissin on my cheerios

Interesting fact brought up by Mario: Miguel swung at the first pitch 90 times last year and had 40 hits.

bottom of the 3rd, 9:30

AL with a nice inning...really nice inning after we scored.

Oh fuck, Grilli is up in the pen

FUCK!!!!!

Great, now it's going to go downhill for us. Someone gets on against our bullpen, and it all turns to Hell.

My computer crapped out and when I finally fixed it and got the game back on Grilli's on the damn mound. How the HELL did that happen?

Grilli got a break man...that was low

That was a horrible call, wow.

Toss that bitch

Holy shit that was bad.

Oh my goodness that was god awful.

at least we got THome out of the game...win/win

....But I'll take it. pwnt.

It was a strike... viewing it from Sacramento

That was thigh high. STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERike 3!

Konerko's going deep.

my god, you have to be kidding me...

this loss will be on leyland...if Dye happens

I'm more comfortable with Jones being in to save a 1 run game than I am with Grilli on the fucking mound at any time.

I'm more comfortable with Jones being in to save a 1 run game than I am with Grilli on the fucking mound at any time.
:cogent:

Renteria just saved Grilli's ass.

God is Grilli one lucky mofo

SDB, do you think Grilli will get another inning???

something tells me Jim is going to trot him back out there...

Yes.

Ozzie is steaming right about now. Love it.

Seriously man, someone needs to kick the shit out of Grilli.

Ozzie prolly could and he's half his size.

I'm sick of this motherfucker.

Getting rid of him would definitely be addition by subtraction...

And this is WITH us still having the lead!

I couldn't believe it when he was on the roster opening day.

It'd be nice to get rid of Contreras...AT SOME POINT

Here's a funny Jason Grilli thing I read on Deadspin...(from a while ago)



Any athlete with his own Web site has several options. He can be entirely weird and wonderful. He can speak blandly about this team and life As A Baseball Player. He can sporadically update and ask for charitable donations. Or he can just try to sell shit. Or, if you're Tigers pitcher Jason Grilli, you can encourage your "fans" to attack people.

Grilli has his "official" MySpace page, which he uses to ... well, we're not sure what he uses it for. But the other day, he received the following email: "YOU ABSOLUTELY SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We'll see you in Toledo soon......enjoy the bus ride, pal!"

This is a little rude, but, considering Grilli is is having a horrible season — he has given up runs in his last five appearances — perhaps understandable. But Grilli didn't handle it well, sending out the following MySpace "bulletin."

Buy this guy a beer for me and dump it straight over his head. tell him it was from the CHEESEMAN! HAHA. Help play a game with me fans! Need your assistance! HAHA

As I said, I dont get mad, I get even. I thought it would be a nice gesture to bombard this guys email account with some nice letters from you all, THE TRUE FANS! I think hearing from you guys would be much better than coming from me. I will have the last laugh on this one. Put a bat in his hand and see if he can hit 95mph! Thanks to you all who will have fun on this one with me. Hey Mike, hope you enjoy keeping up with your email.

The Cheeseman!

And then he lists the poor guy's email address. Well, we'd say "poor guy" if, you know, Jason Grilli had any fans. We imagine the emailer seeing Grilli's message and then clicking "Send/Receive" all day, receiving only some expense reports and emails from pals saying, "Heard from anybody yet? No. Man. Beware the Cheeseman."

http://www.myspace.com/official_jasongrilli [MySpace]

lol

Dear Jason,

Eat a bag of shit

your #1 fan

I will have the last laugh on this one. Put a bat in his hand and see if he can hit 95mph!

I'm sure he could if Grilli's throwing.

Grilli's bitch ass is rolling!

We really need a Jason Grilli smiley. Also, "The Cheeseman"? We couldn't have come up with that if we tried. Who the fuck calls themself the Cheeseman?

The Cheeseman...

And really, does Grilli even have any "true fans"?

HA! The Cheeseman!

More like Jason "My Dad Should Have Aimed For The Wall" Grilli

Yeah, Cheeseman! Strike him out!

I know Zeks a fan of Grilli.

Friggin Mario..."Grilli with another 1, 2, 3 inning"

He said it like its an everyday occurence.

Hell, like it's even happened before.

Certainly not on this team.

Can we get Grilli tested for roids or something? Because he was OK in 06, but all of a sudden turned into utter shit in 07 and has been crap (save for two innings in this game) so far this season.

Can we get Grilli tested for roids or something? Because he was OK in 06, but was utter shit in 07 and has been crap (save for two innings in this game) so far this season.

Just make sure somebody slips him some before the test.

Magglio's going to take this guy deep.

Deep to short

That works too...

I just keep thinking about TJ in the 9th. We need some runs.

Cabrera! With the ribby!

Pinch run for MC...he's gonna hurt himself worse than he is.

Looks like Cabrera is having a pretty hard time running. That his hammy or quad?

Well, our offensive woes look fixed.

How about this Clete Thomas character?

He hurt his hamiquad and quadraham.

Looks like Pudge's spring patience is gone.

Yeah, lol. After he struck out I said to myself, "Typical Pudge..."

THROW A FUCKING STRIKE

How was that, Tahoe?

Good

Again...trow da ball ober da plate

He is lucky not to have walked that first hitter, that would have been a kiss of death...

Cleveland about to fall to 4-6...all of a sudden we have just 2 more losses than they do...

CC Sabathia's about to go to 0-2 and have an ERA well over 10...dude's been getting shelled

Man Bautista doesn't look like theres a lot to him. I guess what i mean is that he is the definition of a lanky pitcher.

Clete Thomas can't do anything wrong.

Thomastastic!





....no?

Man Bautista doesn't look like theres a lot to him. I guess what i mean is that he is the definition of a lanky pitcher.


He's like Andrew Miller except he's a righty and his fastball is faster...if you think about it, thats what Bautista is

OT serious question...

Are they going to do these fucking commercials all year long?

May in the D?
June in the D?

I'm sick of them already.

That's because you aren't here to experience APRIL IN THE D, Tahoe!

OT serious question...

Are they going to do these fucking commercials all year long?

May in the D?
June in the D?

I'm sick of them already.


God me too...lets hope it's just an FSN+ thing...did they play them during the Wings/Pistons games on FSN this past week??

:webelieve:

Well we got Verlander goin against Gavin Floyd tomorrow, how about a winning streak???

I should probably wait until Todd Jones gets the save first...

I beeweeb

^^I was going to say... That's a lot of faith in a failure.

Clete Thomas #1.

CLEAT!

CLETE 'R US!

Its baseball so i call him Cleat!

128 lol

How much cloth did it take to make that head-sleeve Polanco is wearing?

Clete Thomas looking Good in what I've seen. I think we should keep him around. Great utility outfielder, does he have the potential to develop into an every day starter? I haven't heard much about him.

Polanco just got hit by a pitch.

I know Zeks a fan of Grilli.
God no!

Just hackin on ya a lil bit.

Fuckin cold weather causing us some injuries

Come on, another run here would be GREAT for us, lets go Mags.

Not what I was thinking dammit.

Yeah, I fucking hate hamstring injuries, they suck real bad. Especially up near the glute like that.

Zekyl = Maggot.

Maggot? Something to do with Mags?

Jonesy.

Two out Todd in for the 9th

Jones fucking up game is just embezzled in Tiger fans brains.

Or 1.

So what happened to Willis?

Jones...........strikeout???

TWO STRIKEOUTS BY TODD JONES!!!!!

BELIEVE!

I wonder who they give the W to? It's gotta be either Aquilino Lopez or the Cheeseman.

Good to see Denny voted in the poll from jail.

We went ahead when Acquino was pitching I think.

We went ahead when Acquino was pitching I think.

Oh yeah I forgot.

Zek: Dontrelle hyperextended his knee when he landed wrong on the delivery.

Tigers have won 2 out of their last 3 and are averaging 6 runs per game in that span.

The universe has been restored. Now it's only a matter of time before we get to .500.

Party time!

You know, I should be more concerned, but I'm not. He hasn't done well.

Damn ... Now I can't edit the spelling of Acquilino's name Vin.

I'm so excited

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4280/mljs5.jpg

I'm so excited

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4280/mljs5.jpg

Glenn, smiley please?

:tahoe: would work.

Lineups: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=280412104

Sheff is back, Cabrera at 1B, Guillen with the day off.

Also, why are we playing these games in March?

Lineups: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=280412104

Sheff is back, Cabrera at 1B, Guillen with the day off.

Also, why are we playing these games in March?

Good Cabs at 1st.

April?

Looks like I'm not getting this one. Maybe Fox picked it up or something.

Thread title.

Doh!

Glad I didn't go to the game today. Not sure how I would've managed watching Polanco suck so much.

I will be very embarassed if Floyd no hits us.

We're taking it up the ol' poopshoot.

PLEASE END THIS.

Lose the game for all I care, but don't let Gavin Floyd no hit you!

1-0 is taking it up Hershey alley?

Verlander is dealing today.

Too bad it's on a day where a guy named Gavin will no hit us. Just been that kind of a season so far.

When you need a hit, Renteria's your man.

http://www.candyfavorites.com/pi/tastychewy.jpg

When you need a hit, Renteria's your man.



PWNT

Floyd is history.

Oh yeah, still losing.

This has been a really quick game BTW.

Yep. I wish we could win or something...

OT: Homeward Bound is on CW50.

Zek, you watching?

Godnight Cabrera.

Fortunately he was able to get up.

Is JV's stuff great today? Or what? 2 hitter so far.

Believe.

Muttafucka, pull Verlander now. He sucks!

DRay or anyone else thats watching...is JVs stuff that good today?

Douche bag is being a douce bag and won't answer my question. That is his job btw.

Hard to believe this hasn't been delayed so far..

DRay or anyone else thats watching...is JVs stuff that good today?

Douche bag is being a douce bag and won't answer my question. That is his job btw.

You answered your own question.

His fastball's been running pretty well, but he doesn't have much control or break on the curve (to be expected in the weather). His control's been okay until now, he just hit in another run.

That might have hit Pauly's jersey, but nothing more.

thx...I see he only has 3 strike outs.

I just noticed the weather is in the 30 somethings. Hard to get a good bender going when its that cold.

Game.

http://z.about.com/d/atheism/1/0/m/3/3/OK-Not-to-Believe-s.jpg

Yikes. A gem from Verlander turns into 4 ER thanks to being left in far too long.

Pierzynski > Tigers

Anybody but AJ, fuck this is frustrating to watch.

Make that 5.

Yikes. A gem from Verlander turns into 4 ER thanks to being left in far too long.

Pierzynski > Tigers

:cogent:

...6

A HR to clear the bases here would really top things off.

When it rains it pours...

Well, time to go to the crapper.

IT'S NOT OVER YET!

God dangit, Brandon is so darn ingespirational.

jenxed!

k now its over

"We" are going to lose today.

ERent with a basehit up the middle. Great pickup by DD

Wow...thome just rocked one, it was a rocket, but it went foul.

I didn't realize how grey Rogers hair was. He's looking old.

This has to be his last year...

I've got gray hair and I could still pitch

But his stuff just doesn't seem to be all there anymore...

We'll have to see when it gets warm out. He might be through.

5-0 Sox

Sheff opened up the inning with a double, mags and cabs fail to even advance him.

We suck.

We suck.

Sad, but true.

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How did we get that dude?

Miner had to throw strikes in that situation...he did.

^ Unfortunately

I wouldn't just judge via record that we're the worst team in baseball at this point, but at this point, we look like the worst team in baseball.

Friggin Marlins are doing pretty good. I bet Cabs takes a look at the stangings once in a while. Let alone the weather in Florida.

Yea, we're down 11-0 but lossed in this loss, the silver lining to our cloud is ...of course Brandon Inge caught today and was amazing.

Yea, we're down 11-0 but lost in this loss, the silver lining to our cloud is ...of course Brandon Inge caught today and was amazing.
Fixed, because it took me a bit to figure out what you were trying to say.

Spelling is a lossed art.

lol^

Wow, we got raped today.

Guillen's got a hammy and is going to miss some time.

sigh

By the way, they shouldn't have re-signed Kenny.

Guillen's got a hammy and is going to miss some time.

sigh
I'm going to go ahead and guess everyone on the team has a hammy. Maybe even 2.