What did we do to deserve this? Rays 3, Tigers 2
by Kurt Mensching on Jul 27, 2010 10:34 PM EDT
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OK, seriously. The baseball gods are just toying with us, taunting us. The past year they've been pushing pins into a Tigers bobblehead.
I won't list the litany, you're all too familiar with it.
Nevertheless, we add to it when yet again when the Tigers -- say it with me -- threaten but fail to score.
More than once, actually. Runners on second and third with no outs? No problem. They're not coming home.
How about runners on first, second and third for feared hitter Miguel Cabrera in the ninth inning ... down by one ... with just one out? No problem either. Just your run-of-the-mill webgem 5-4-3 double play to end the threat.
And if it's not former Tiger Matt Joyce hitting a key home run, it's former Tiger Carlos Pena doing it. Oh, but Joyce is hitting a key double too this time.
Ugh. Seriously. Ugh.
Justin Verlander throws a complete game and ends up with the patented Zack Greinke CGL. The Tigers out-hit the Rays 12-5 and yet lose.
Watching the Tigers has something akin to torture lately. How, specifically, the fans are flogged, we don't know until it happens. We just know something bad is going to happen if we don't start confessing fast.
I don't know what we did to piss off the baseball gods, but it must have been something pretty bad.
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Someone is telling me that we have one of the best farm systems in the league.
Is this true? Please tell me it’s true, I need something.
Because I'm the Lynch... and I'm awwwesome!
by Terrence J. Lynch on Jul 27, 2010 10:37 PM EDT reply actions
Farm system
Our farm system is practically the major league roster…
by Let's do this! on Jul 27, 2010 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions
most definitely is not true
far from true. Bottom third.
by Kurt Mensching on Jul 27, 2010 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions
So is our future pretty bleak?
In terms of what our prospects can provide?
Because I'm the Lynch... and I'm awwwesome!
by Terrence J. Lynch on Jul 27, 2010 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions
So. How exactly does this team get better?
Because I'm the Lynch... and I'm awwwesome!
by Terrence J. Lynch on Jul 27, 2010 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
It doesn't.
Free agency can help in the short term, but quality drafts are needed and those won’t deliver for a few years.
The problem is that we were in contention last year, so we couldn’t be sellers when we desperately needed to be last year, and that we’ve continuously avoided drafting quality infielders so now the cupboard’s completely bare.
by metatron5369 on Jul 28, 2010 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions
This
Assist. Editor, Minor League Division, Bless You Boys
Daniel Fields is better than you.
by David Tokarz on Jul 28, 2010 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions
"Quality Drafts"
as in NOT the one we just had.
(God, scab picked again! I need to stop thinking about that! As in…. Allie, Cole, Cabrera, Wilson…. all there…)
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by DetroitTigersGeek on Jul 28, 2010 1:10 AM EDT up reply actions
We got Castellanos
Don’t worry so much.
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Daniel Fields is better than you.
by David Tokarz on Jul 28, 2010 2:35 AM EDT up reply actions
Not yet
He will.
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Daniel Fields is better than you.
by David Tokarz on Jul 28, 2010 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions
BUT I DO WORRY!
and I really like Castellanos. He will sign, at least I’m not worried about that.
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by DetroitTigersGeek on Jul 28, 2010 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
We'll have a couple pitchers ready next year
Charlie Furbush as a #4 and maybe Andrew Oliver at midseason depending on whether he sorts out that secondary stuff issue. Brayan Villarreal in 2012, but with an undetermined role. Not much in the way of position players. Ryan Strieby in LF or DH next year, maybe.
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Daniel Fields is better than you.
by David Tokarz on Jul 28, 2010 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions
Nothing
is the answer, we (7 by we I mean the front office) has done nothing & that is exactly why we deserve this. I keep hearing about how they don’t wanna mortgage the future, well if this is any indication of the future, the future looks grim.
Scoring runs
We just don’t seem to be driving in the runs, even when Guillen and Maggs were still in the lineup. I have no idea what’s going on and why it’s happening but we need to shake this team up to get something going…
by Let's do this! on Jul 27, 2010 10:37 PM EDT reply actions
We are a tortured lot, that is for sure
Btw just saw that Bautista hit two more HRs tonight, putting him at 30 for the season. Starting to look like Miggy may not be able to catch up.
by ryan_matthews28 on Jul 27, 2010 10:47 PM EDT reply actions
This game makes me angry
I usually forgo angry in favor of upset, depressed, worried, frustrated, or confused. This time, I’m angry.
Our ace does what aces do…he contains the other team, gives us quality innings, and keeps us within the scoring threshold, which I feel is <3 runs.
We get hits, even with our mediocre (at best) cast of hitters.
We lose. Ugh!
What I’m most angry about is that I can feel what JV is feeling…ie…“This is the team that promised me a competitive lineup for my 5-year contract? This is what I deserve instead of win #13?”
Someone say something positive to make it all better. Kiss my proverbial boo-boo. (I’d prefer the kiss from alli or detroitchik or some other lady, but I’ll take it from anyone. I’m not above bending my sexual preference in the name of consolation.)
Granderson was my Tiger, then Sizemore, then Willis. Since they're all gone, I'm taking Raburn and hoping the pattern holds.
JV knows the team has lost 4 key players.
If we had a healthly roster we would be ok. He knew this year was going to be a rebuilding year, which it has been. To say the lineup prior to injury was not competitive is not fair.
by BennieBladesFan on Jul 27, 2010 11:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Awww...sweetie
Not a bad smootch
Granderson was my Tiger, then Sizemore, then Willis. Since they're all gone, I'm taking Raburn and hoping the pattern holds.
JV knew the deal.
The team is built to contend the next five years. The first half start threw everyone.
It’s a good thing that a players average with RISP is useless like tigerdog1 said…
Because we sure didn’t need any of those runs that we stranded tonight!
Oh wait a minute, actually WE F’N DID!
by JAYRC on Jul 27, 2010 10:54 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
well let's exam that
he said average is not a good indicator because it treats everything the same.
In this case, if average is such a good measure than what do you make of a single with a runner on second not resulting in an RBI?
by Kurt Mensching on Jul 27, 2010 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah yeah
sorry im f’n frustrated !
I watch Tampa a lot (being that they are the local team). They are one of the top teams in average with RISP and they seem to do all the little things like run first to third and steal bases, heck they even play defense!
I am so sick of getting no runs support and losing games!
sigh
Sorry for being such an ass! I think we all deserve a pass. The next two months on the diamond are going to be very depressing.
I'm just happy they were in the game late
After the last game, I thought it was over after Pena’s homerun.
Here's a theory...
Baseball is full of ups and downs. It MIGHT be better for the Tigers to head tough sledding NOW rather than in August. (lighting pipe) But it’s just a theory.
I've had the last 3 days off from work...
and I told myself I was gonna take a break from life and actually watch a game of baseball. Needless to say I haven’t watched baseball. And as a notation to that previous sentence, I’m not getting any inspiration to watch baseball.
But…for positivity sake, I may have a semi-optimistic fan post in mind that I need to look in to. However, if you don’t see a post from me in the next week, assume we suck and I couldn’t find positive.
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by DetroitTigersGeek on Jul 28, 2010 1:08 AM EDT reply actions
at least
we did help a team gain on the damn yankees…….
PLUS we’ve lost the last two but KC has lost 3… so we pick up a half a game on them !
ohhhh yeah babe.
hey, can Mike Modano play 3B ?
At least the Mexicutioner has the Yankees on his no-trade list!
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Scott Sizemore liberationist.
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by madpoopz on Jul 28, 2010 10:26 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
That booger's going
Back back back back back…gone!
by handsomerob1 on Jul 28, 2010 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions
Ring finger?
That’s a new one.
Granderson was my Tiger, then Sizemore, then Willis. Since they're all gone, I'm taking Raburn and hoping the pattern holds.
perhaps his fingernail on that finger was the proper length
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No Run Support
Why is this not green?
Like his boogers…
by handsomerob1 on Jul 28, 2010 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions
The really frustrating thing, for me, this past week is that the games have been good.
The Tigers have played good teams and, except for the 0-8 game against Texas and the no-hitter, they have been playing tough with a Mud Hens lineup. Scherzer beat himself on Monday with walks and HBP. JV got hosed last night with a good game and no key hits.
7 of the 13 games since the ASB have been decided by less than 3 runs. 4 of the 5 since Magglio and Carlos were hurt have been less than 3 runs.
I would actually feel better if this was 2003 and I knew ahead of time that the game was a joke and the Tigers was the punchline, but nothing I see so far makes me believe they can’t stay competitive if they execute.
sigh… I wish we had a bar here at the plant
Even that 8-0 game didn't become a blowout until very late
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by SabreRoseTiger on Jul 28, 2010 1:57 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Fire Lloyd McClendon
Is the answer to the question!!! Lloyd is by far the worst batting coach in the history of Major League Baseball! Well maybe not that bad, but consider the number of hitters that are now pulling the ball instead of using all fields and hitting for average. Raburn, Laird, Avila all used to hit the ball to all fields, now they are all hitting for an average near their weight and pull the ball!!
yawn
Do we have a BYB version of the WDFN old bit siren?
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by rock n rye on Jul 28, 2010 12:52 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Sell Sell Sell
Time to trade away some of the dead weight LAIRD, RABURN, DAMON, BONDERMAN for prospects at catcher, short, starting pitching!!!
How?
Who would possibly see a typical Laird or Raburn moment and give up even a mediocre prospect?! Maybe if DD and Co. weren’t so obsessed with drafting RP galore every year we wouldn’t be in such dire straits right now.
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by Panic in Detroit on Jul 28, 2010 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Again
Could somebody please tell me what the bloody frick Bondo did?
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Daniel Fields is better than you.
by David Tokarz on Jul 28, 2010 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
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