Amazing Al kissed the final out and ticked off the Oakland A's - might not have been real professional, but it sure was good.
Two sloppy wins, but we accept them both.
Sure is fun to be in the post season and weonly have to win one of the next three to advance.
"We're all behind our baseball team .. Go Get 'Em Tigers
A discussion of the Detroit Tigers past, present and future.
Le Grand Orange
Best DH Season for a Bengal
Guillermo is Tops in Our Opinion!
Willie Hernandez posted the best relief season in the history of the Tigers.
The Best Season in Left?
The Rock, no doubt
Ty Cobb
Clearly, we picked Cobb as having the best year in center
Kaline narrowly wins our poll
for best season in right.
George Kell, 1949
The best Tiger season at third
It's Unanimous, Tram had the Best Season at Short
By Acclaim!
Who had the best season at first?
Hammerin' Hank Greenberg, that's who
My Kind of Town
Toledo is our favorite minor league stadium
Old Yankee Stadium - Our Favorite
Winning our poll for favorite non-functioning ball park-Yankee Stadium
Wrigley Field: Our favorite (non-Detroit) operating MLB park
By narrow vote over Fenway, it's Wrigley Field
Sparky Anderson - The Greatest Skipper
With the election of Spark, we complete our little Hot Stove project of selecting the Greatest Tiger Team. This was fun.
Who Was the Greatest Tiger Reliever, DH/PH
We resoundingly agree that Willie Hernandez was the best reliever, but we tied on Rusty Staub or Daryl Evans for DH or pinch hitter
Kaline is the Unanimous Rightfielder
In our second consecutive unanimous vote, Al Kaline, is chosen as the Greatest Tiger Rightfielder!
Cobb is Unanimous!
Nobody liked him, but we agree he was the best in center
Willie is Our man in Left!
Willie Horton is our choice for the greatest Tiger in left field
Good Ol' George Kell, the Best Tiger at the Hot Corner
At least by our vote, he's been elected. (BTW, thanks to Tom Haggerty for the write up on all the third basemen.)
Tram Stands Tall at Short
Tiger's Super Second Sacker - Gehringer in a Lanslide!
Once again, I was overwhelmingly out-voted, Charlie Gehringer wins.
Heaven's First Baseman
Hank Greenberg, elected as the Greatest Tiger firstbaseman in History
Our Tiger Hall of Fame
Bill Freehan, catcher
Posted on behalf of our pal Jim Domzal:
ReplyDeletewell, I guess I would have rather seen him kiss that ball at the end of a win securing the series versus yesterday. yes, kid stuff, yes, bush league, and yes, you could kind of see the kid in all of us doing it-if we were 17 and playing high school ball. frankly, in 60 years I have never ever seen anyone do this. now if rose had done it, it would have been intimidating. course pete wouldn’t have stooped to something like this, but this untested drink of water kissing the ball, hailing from the capital of new mexico no less, well it just doesn’t sit well. it’ll be history by the end of the series, but, as we all know, you don’t want to give anyone anything to be fired up. playing in that nut house out there tomorrow will be intimidating enough. those fans and that team in that environment will be all the tigers can handle. I hope, miggy, the prince, and a few others are hot at the plate as well as in the field. it will be a big task to take this team in 3. we need a good start, strong pitching, at least into the 7 th and hopefully, whoever smoky jim puts in there, notel dotel or been-oint, they come thru. I will watch with the volume off. I cannot take the insanity of a boisterous home crowd. I get so worked up I cant relax I want them to win so bad.
Sunday's game was not on free TV: you guys gotta explain this to me.
ReplyDeleteball hit back to Al. Just a little dribbler. He fields the ball for an obvious out, kisses the ball and flips it to Prince -- Ballgame!!
ReplyDeleteAh. I read the background on the Freep's website. Much ado about nothing. When the Tigers win tonight, the entire team should stand in front of the A's dugout, and kiss baseballs.
ReplyDeleteA more eggregious (sp?) offense of sportsmanship would seem to be the increasing offense of a batter starting a trot to first when he has a 3-0 or 3-1 count, and takes a close strike. If I were the ump, that would drive me crazy, and tempt me to call everything a strike his next AB.