Will Rhymes leading off as Detroit Tigers open home series against the Texas Rangers (http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2011/04/will_rhymes_leading_off_as_det.html)

must win?

Inaction Jackson.

normally i'd be worried about having to replace his 3 strikeouts, but i have a feeling the rest of the team will pick him up.

too snarky?

is there a stream for this one?

cmon fellas wake the bats up.

it'd be fun to see verlander right now, but im thinking im glad not to see the tiger batters (note: did not say hitters).

ack.

I'm starting to think that Doc Ray is right. Actually, I've thought he was right since he said 'it'.

what?

gotta be careful here, don't want to jinx them or piss off Vinny Chicago

Damn, thought this was a 4PM game.

AJack!

Also, Tigers haven't won since Gores announced he was going to buy the Pistons.

Also, Magglio - Achilles

rayburn should start over mags. i dont care about the errors.

So basically our offense is Cabrera, Martinez and the local t-ball team.

rayburn should start over mags. i dont care about the errors.
Raburn can't possibly be worse in the field than Maggs.

Maggs really doesn't look 100%, he might be too old to ever get there again.

its early, and maybe texas' pitcher is just that good. but i think if this year is anything like last year some significant changes will have to be made. i like leyland, but im not sure about his staff. and im not really sure about dombrowski anymore, either.

not quite freaked out, but not happy either.

If .300 makes a great hitter, then why can't .300 make a great baseball team?

Let's not get too down here, embrace this!

This is a bad, bad team, fellas.

How many guys on this team really should be in the minors?

Not because of their youth, but because of suckitude?

i like our lineup today, at least.

raburn/santiago carrying the tigers.

Fuck these day games. Thats why we're losing.

have i ever mentioned that im not a big brandon inge fan?

Miggy with a walk off base hit.

Love these day games!

big mig!

i can imagine the crowd at the copa was rather excited when he came in bases loaded. when was the last time thats happened?

Yeah. If Raburn had knocked in the winner that would have cool (and he would have deserved it too), but I have to admit I was hoping for that walk to see the big guy up with the bases loaded. Fun game I thought.

Thank you for ignoring Gene Lamont, Santiago.

gene's pretty bad at what i consider to be a pretty easy job.

Thank you for ignoring Gene Lamont, Santiago.

Yeah, no kidding. I would have shit if Santiago didn't score on that. The left fielder took forever with it.

j-ho with a broken arm. thats a tough break, with him not able to take any pain killers.

50 pitches in two innings for Max

a good sing for t-bro would have been "why-o why-o why-o did we not start santiago?"

or atleast, i would have liked it.

man, fuck Michael young.

im going to be sad when raburn gets benched in favor of mags. if cabrerra could get a hit the top of our order wouldve been real productive the last few days.

the big boys need to do something this time around, right?

Max really needed a good start like that. If he can return to his form from last year, this team can stay within striking distance regardless of the offense.

did not anticipate many walkoffs from inge this year. guess ill have to shut up about him for a bit.

funny how a couple wins can make you feel so much better about a team. two walk offs is the difference between 5-7 and 3-9. guess we can thank washington for not using his closer in either game.

also, nice to get a win with big mig doing nothing. last year, we wouldve been flirting with getting no-no'd.