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Archive for October, 2011

DAVID FREESE: YOU JUST BECAME A LEGEND!

It just took one swing of his right handed stick for the Cardinal’s 3rd sacker, DAVID FREESE, to enter into the sanctuary of MLB’s HALL OF LEGENDS. It was the bottom of the 11th inning of a tied 9-9 game in the 2011 WORLD SERIES between the CARDS & RANGERS. The date was actually very [...]

DAVID FREESE: YOU JUST BECAME A LEGEND!

It just took one swing of his right handed stick for the Cardinal’s 3rd sacker, DAVID FREESE, to enter into the sanctuary of MLB’s HALL OF LEGENDS. It was the bottom of the 11th inning of a tied 9-9 game in the 2011 WORLD SERIES between the CARDS & RANGERS. The date was actually very [...]

HOW DO YOU SPEND 23 MILLION BUCKS ??

Yep…23M is the amount that the Tigers will have to spend after CARLOS GUILLEN (13M) and MAGGS (10M) wave goodbye. TWO MONSTER GOOD GUYS! That said, lets get back to today’s 23 million dollar question. WBWF feels that their leadoff spot was HORRENDOUS!! It produced just under 200K’s plus a bushel basket full in the [...]

WHY HAS THE TIGER’S OFFENSE DRIED UP?

Just when we’re fighting for a World’s Champioship the Tiger bats fall fast asleep. WHY? Maybe it’s because their missing some important bats,, like for example: BRENNAN BOESCH’S big left handed stick…it seems like his injury has been all but forgotten; CARLOS GUILLEN, his switch hitting ability HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN; MAGGLIO ORDONEZ, just when he [...]

AMY BETH, YOU CAN BREATH NOW!

Our daughter, the marathon runner, who even ran in the Boston M, when asked to predict the score of the Tigers 3-2 victory over the Yankees said, “I’m too scared to do it.” But not our Tiger anylist, Chuck Milhem, from Arizona, who used his crystal ball and wrote: “The Tigers will score two runs [...]