We're Entering a World of Pain: Royals 2, Tigers 0

by Ian Casselberry on May 14, 2008 11:33 PM EDT in Detroit Tigers News

I was ready to begin this recap with a picture depicting rage, because it's infuriating to see this Tigers lineup unable to push a single run across the board. But since we had something of a Big Lebowski theme going on in tonight's GameThread, we have The Dude. And he minds. This will not stand, man.

I don't know how Justin Verlander didn't absolutely erupt in the dugout when he left the game down 2-0, giving up just six hits. (And the big hit, if you even want to call it that, was a single that Joey Gathright flipped over a drawn-in Carlos Guillen at third base.) Maybe that's called being a professional. I think some Gatorade barrels, space heaters, and baseball bats should've been fearing for their lives.

To revise a point I posted before tonight's game , the Detroit Tigers have scored just four runs in Verlander's last four starts. Four runs. Total. No starting pitcher is going to overcome such an utter lack of offense. It's obscene for Verlander to be dragging along a 1-7 record. No way is he pitching that badly. I don't know how his teammates can look him in the eye right now. At the very least, somebody in the Tigers' clubhouse should be taking him to Arthur Bryant's for some barbecue. Let him mask the pain with a pulled pork-induced food coma.

And chew on this: This is the sixth time the Tigers have been shut out in 40 games. Some runs would really tie this team together. Luke Hochevar is good, but Detroit made him look like an ace tonight. Four base hits. All singles. That's all the Tigers could manage. The bums will always lose.

Roll Call

Well, despite the result, we had some fun in the comments tonight. And we have The Big Lebowski to thank for it. Who do we blame for that, by the way? rock n rye? (Apologies to those who hadn't seen the movie and left to wonder what the hell we were talking about. Hey, you could rent it for Monday's off-day.)

Strong men also cry. These guys are shedding tears for abysmal baseball tonight: spotstarters, Zappatista, pfuhrmeister, ThaWalrus9, Grant E., HavocRox, rock n rye, Tigsfan, ahtrap, cherub_daemon, Tony K, and bradm.

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Pathetic

I’ve moved beyond anger at this point and am actually just so disgusted that I don’t care to watch right now. I’m not a fair weather fan and will always love the Tigers, even when the worst team in the league but this is pathetic. So as to avoid having a stroke from watching the tv I now just flip back and forth to catch snippets of the game.

by grck76 on May 15, 2008 7:49 AM EDT reply actions

This is what happens Larry...when you F* a stranger in the a*

That could pretty much sum up Mr. V’s thoughts, ya think. He could have uttered this to his team and then just started smashing everything in sight.

by Zappatista on May 15, 2008 7:56 AM EDT reply actions

That's it.

I’m turning to the bottle. 6 shutouts in 40 games The Tigers offense is more of a flop then Major League II.

Jeff

by cannonad03 on May 15, 2008 9:30 AM EDT reply actions

Bottle

I turned to the bottle after last nights game too, it seemed like a good idea, until this morning…

by busta on May 15, 2008 11:04 AM EDT reply actions

This team is turning me into a nihlist

I read over the game thread, funny stuff. You can never have enough references to The Big Lebowski. Never. (I need to watch it again, it’s been a while)

You needed a sense of humor to get through that game. I was focused on the Wings last night, and watched very little of the Tigers. I’m glad I made that choice, even if the Wings lost.

One more thing… Why isn’t Sheffield on the DL?!

waynefontes.com sidelionreport.com

by BigAl on May 15, 2008 11:32 AM EDT reply actions

When do we say?

When do we say ok, this is just a bad team?

What’s ripping our hearts out this year (Kali-mah!) isn’t that the Tigers are bad, it’s that we all truly expected them to be good. This is the first year in about twenty that we actually went into the season favored to win anything. Well, everyone was wrong. The Tigers aren’t going to win anything. They aren’t going to suddenly come out of nowhere and win 50 out of 60.

They are a bad team.

Lucky for us, we’re used to it.

by pfuhrmeister on May 15, 2008 11:36 AM EDT reply actions

and still, with all that...

...we’re only 5 games out….granted, the Indians have now ascended to the top of the oddly putrid heap that is the AL Central, so that’s a little scarier than having the Royals up tehre, who you know are going to come back to you….but still, a 16-24 record deserves worse than being a mere 5 games out.

What worries me is that the Tigers are now below 500, even excluding the 0-7 start.

Some sports talk guy just casually tossed off the idea that, hey look, runs are down this year, as are home runs, perhaps in the wake of the Mitchell report coming out, and maybe players being scared to juice, and hey look, the Tigers were supposed to be an offensive juggernaut, but they’ve been shut out 5 times already (6 now), and my first reaction was to award him a giant STFU, but….now I’m wondering….it could just be age, as Sheffield and Pudge have to figure on any steroid suspect list, and both are also getting on in years….but it sucks that you have to wonder, y’know?

by ahtrap on May 15, 2008 12:33 PM EDT reply actions