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Sunday Night Frights: White Sox 13, Tigers 2

 

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You don't really want to read a recap of that game, do you?  Because I sure as hell don't feel like writing it.

Just two pitches in, it became clear what kind of night it was going to be for the Tigers when Nick Swisher blasted a Justin Verlander pitch down the right field line.  And even though Detroit came back to tie the game, it was all downhill from there.  The White Sox blew the game open in the sixth after Carlos Guillen (future Gold Glove first baseman, according to Joe Morgan) dropped the ball at first base (and again on Carlos Quentin's three-run triple in the ninth), but the tone was set from the very beginning.  Right away, the Tigers had to play catch up, just as they have throughout these first six games of the season.

Oh, and they hit into five double plays.  Nothing like helping Mark Buehrle - the type of soft-tossing lefty the Tigers pounded last year - look like a pitching magician.  And if not for a couple of Joe Crede errors, he might have thrown a shutout.

This team definitely need an off-day and a road trip right now.  Get away from the booing fans and home crowd expectations.  Huddle up together, without the comforts of home and family.  Have the routine shaken up, and maybe it'll make these guys a little mean and cranky. 

Is that wishful thinking?  Probably, but after that kind of nationally televised humiliation, there's not much else to work with.

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ugh

I'm glad I missed most of this one. Through the first five losses, we never really got routed. Outplayed, sure, but never demolished.

Then that happened.

by Krazzid on Apr 7, 2008 12:26 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

meh

it's not like we went into the season with everyone right behind us either with a bunch of analysts switching to the indian bandwagon. i just don't know man... jeez.

Doin' work since... ever.

by CardiacCacalacki on Apr 7, 2008 2:25 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

back to the future

0-6. Are we back in 2003 or what.

Maybe now on the road we'll enter the win column, although the Red Sox are not the best to start the road trip after they were swept by the Jays. go kenny

Greetings from Germany. Dirk

by Germantiger on Apr 7, 2008 8:20 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Dirk!

Glad to see you back. I was hoping we'd have you around this season.

by Ian Casselberry on Apr 7, 2008 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

So let's hear it for all the morons who wanted to toss Brandon Inge of fthe bridge...

Alan GOldsmith

by alangoldsmith on Apr 7, 2008 10:02 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

He is doing very well. I don't think it was in any way wrong to assume that Cabrera would outperform him, though, and I still think that will be true within a few weeks.

by Krazzid on Apr 7, 2008 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Glad I was drving all last night

Had I been listening to the game I might have some serious road rage

"WOO HOO HOOOOO...HOO" - Rod Allen

by rock n rye on Apr 7, 2008 12:35 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

It was brutal with a capital B

I had to go to bed, and then I made the mistake of turning on the XM broadcast while I was lying there.

Ugh.

by ViolaHalo on Apr 7, 2008 2:59 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Morons

Guess I'm one of them. Can't stand Inge and think he's a cancer. The sooner he's gone, the sooner the team will gel.

by densogirl on Apr 7, 2008 4:53 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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