Those Leads Don't Just Roll Over, Zumaya

by Ian Casselberry on Jun 27, 2009 12:31 AM EDT in News Comment 25 comments

We'll have a proper recap tomorrow, but after Joel Zumaya tossed three walks tonight, one of which brought in the game-winning run for the Houston Astros, we think he should be driven back to the hotel by the Rollover Minutes Mom. And what look might she give him from the front seat?

Not everyone gets to keep those wins after building a 4-0 lead, Zumaya. You can't afford to be wasteful!

(Zumaya's bases-loaded walk was the Tigers' 15th of the year, by the way.)

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Ya....

I am pissed. It’s 1:40 AM. Just got home, after watching that pathetic excuse for …..well, I will hold judgment, even in my state. But Zoom Zoom, you ARE a major league pitcher, right?

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by Zappatista on Jun 27, 2009 1:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

it’s 4:30 central, so I’m not going to read the game thread right now….but I just checked out the recap on espn.com, and I can just imagine the commentary after Magglio GIDP’d.

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by ahtrap on Jun 27, 2009 5:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I actully think there was more

disappointment when Zoom Zoom walked home the winning run. No excuses for Maggs either. He’s now GIDP’d 13 times this year. I feel sick to my stomach. We can’t play this kind of ball when we face the Twins next weekend. We need to be on top of things or they will take over the lead in the Central.

Welcome to Detroit>>Where the weak are killed and eaten.

by Detroitchik on Jun 27, 2009 7:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So, doing the math ....

In 73 games, with 15 runs walked in, over a full season …

33 runs.

I think I’m going to go throw up now. :(

(I also think that the entire pitching staff should get THROW STRIKES shirts – since they clearly need the reminder.)

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with." -- Tennessee Williams

by Baroque on Jun 27, 2009 7:45 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I am inclined to agree

and since they probably have inflated egos and would never come up off any of those millions they make to do so, maybe we could take up a collection and donate the shirts to them. We should also find someone who knows how to help Leyland make decisions, since he doesn’t seem to know how to make them himself, when it comes to the pitching staff hemorrhaging, anyway. I also did the math and if Maggs keeps up this GIDP crap he will average 28 this year….so sad from a one time great :o(

I have already thrown up…welcome to my world

Welcome to Detroit>>Where the weak are killed and eaten.

by Detroitchik on Jun 27, 2009 8:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have already thrown up…welcome to my world

When I was in college, I could never understand the students who went out boozing on the weekends specifically to get drunk, because they were so sick and miserable on Monday morning (it was a pretty challenging school, so they were usually either sober or gone within a semester or two). I wondered how much fun it could possibly be if you needed someone to refresh your memory about how much “fun” you had, and I had never really associated “fun” with “vomiting.”

Perspective changes when you get older, I guess. :)

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with." -- Tennessee Williams

by Baroque on Jun 27, 2009 8:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Like you

I am not a drinker, and I have watched many of my friends do they same thing. I would always think “you really can’t be enjoying that”. Too many other things in life to enjoy. Like say, for instance, baseball? Well, not last night anyway. I could feel that loss coming on. Once they started catching up I started thinking “no way”.

Welcome to Detroit>>Where the weak are killed and eaten.

by Detroitchik on Jun 27, 2009 8:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yup.

Once it was clear that Detroit wasn’t going to get any more runs, the chipping away of the Astros made the eventual outcome inevitable and painful. :(

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with." -- Tennessee Williams

by Baroque on Jun 27, 2009 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What I can't understand is

How can we go from playing great ball one day and look like the bad news bears the very next day…there needs to be more consistency. I really thought we had the win last night. Maybe that’s it, like me and some other fans, Detroit just became a little to complacent…

Welcome to Detroit>>Where the weak are killed and eaten.

by Detroitchik on Jun 27, 2009 8:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was never much of a drinker in college...

…even though my alma mater was a party school (Don’t get me wrong; their academics were good as well). Too much alcohol makes me sleepy and mean, and I tend to go out of my way to start arguments. There’s not a whole lot of fun to be had with that combination.

http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com

by SabreRoseTiger on Jun 27, 2009 8:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Besides alcohol is expensive. It would cut into my budget for books and yarn. That is unacceptable. :)

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with." -- Tennessee Williams

by Baroque on Jun 27, 2009 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Who buys textbooks?

lol, didn’t need’m

by Tagne13 on Jun 27, 2009 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wonder...

How many of those bases-loaded walks rest on the shoulders of Dontrelle Willis, Brandon Lyon, Ryan Perry, and Joel Zumaya? It seems those four are the main culprits (though Brandon Lyon tends to walk in other people’s runs, not his own). I don’t recall Bobby Seay walking in any runs, nor any other member of the starting rotation (save for the one bad start Edwin Jackson had in Anaheim).

http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com

by SabreRoseTiger on Jun 27, 2009 8:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

However Lyon.....

….has turned the corner and is probably the the 2nd most reliable man in the pen now behind Rodney.

by BennieBladesFan on Jun 27, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gang.....

…..Its only one game….We just had a 7 game win streak….yes im disapointed in mags And Zumaya…..But remember weve been playing great ball and this was a little hickup as well….even JV was off tonight….he was wild and didnt have much command….all in all a bad game….Figaro will get us back on track…GO TIGS!!!!

by BennieBladesFan on Jun 27, 2009 10:54 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Seriously

it’s only ONE game…I’d rather have a team come from behind to beat us when we are scoring then lose like we were a couple weeks ago when we couldn’t even score more than a couple runs

by Tagne13 on Jun 27, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and you can join in tonight.

by VegasTigers on Jun 27, 2009 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

We shall overcome

Come on, although we all saw it coming, (squandering all those base runners), I agree with Bennie. We can’t win them all. STAY POSITIVE FOLKS. Look at one thing you all can do, and I can’t….you can go to the copa!

by VegasTigers on Jun 27, 2009 11:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

BTW....Ian

I love the photo of the rollover mom. I was definately LMAO.

by VegasTigers on Jun 27, 2009 11:31 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My only regret in the loss is that it didn't come in the ninth inning

Every team gets suck-punched with ninth inning losses eventually, i’d like to get ours out of the way when we’re not playing a central division contender.

Mack Avenue Tigers

by MackAveKurt on Jun 27, 2009 11:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I hate her and her oddly jewish son almost as much as the loss last night

Some of the most awful commercials on television recently, right next to d-bag Chad and the other idiots.

…sorry, a lot of pent up rage towards idiotic commercials.

by Kmann on Jun 27, 2009 2:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

so like 95% of them?

Mack Avenue Tigers

by MackAveKurt on Jun 27, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, somewhere around there

Those two are the worst though.

by Kmann on Jun 27, 2009 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can I add one (or two)?

I would like to complain about the idiotic “Don’t forget the sides” commercial for Little Caesar’s that we have to watch at least twice every game. Those Great Clips commercials are starting to get to me as well, mostly because they seem to run nonstop (they’re even worse on the radio).

By the way, we aren’t alone:
http://forums.commercialsihate.com/

http://tigersamateuranalysis.blogspot.com

by SabreRoseTiger on Jun 27, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs