27th March 2008

Clouting Clete?

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Franky Guzman was put on waivers, cleared waivers and was assigned to AA-Erie today. That means in all likelyhood either Clete Thomas or Dane Sardinha will have his boyhood dream come true Monday when his name is announced to the cheers of an opening day crowd. Or the Tigers could — and they’ve gotten quite good at this lately — make a total change of mind and fool everyone again. At this point, I wouldn’t put that past them either.

*Technically clout means hit, and in my region of the country, which is to say the Upper Peninsula, some folks still believe in saying “He has 21 clouts.” Which bewilders me to no end because I’m pretty sure some people use it to mean home runs, too.  So technically speaking anyway, my subject line makes no sense.

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  1. 1 On March 28th, 2008, Birdy said:

    A circuit clout is a home run. A “non-circuit” clout is just a hit? You yoopers
    are making stuff up. Not that I have a problem with that. Maybe when you meet
    with your fellow writers you can discuss introducing baseball to the concept of
    the “half-circuit clout”, aka a double.

  2. 2 On March 28th, 2008, Kurt said:

    Don’t look at me, someone gets a hit, I say they got a hit. Someone gets a hit that goes flying over the fence and hit a wind shield, I say they got a home run.

    I still can’t tell you the difference between harrier and thinclad, to be honest with you.

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