Comments on: Game 39: SUPER MEH

By: Flying J

Flying J — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:45:00 +0000

Man. Pina Coladas actually. Coconut cream still couldn’t help timely hitting. Man.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:41:18 +0000

They definitely lost, it wasn’t Jim Beam lying to you.

By: Flying J

Flying J — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:40:08 +0000

It may be the amount of alcohol I drank tonight, but I think the Tigers lost again. Can you confirm? Ok all — Back to the best of the Pet Shop Boys. Go Tigers.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:10:21 +0000

I’d love to get Sheffield out of town as much as the next person but how are they going to do it? I don’t see many clubs beating the door down for a 39 year old guy who can’t hit anymore and is on the hook for about $15 million next year. The only team that would ever do that is the Yankees and I’m pretty sure they want nothing to do with him, again.

By: antisheff

antisheff — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:52:13 +0000

sheffield DID contribute to the loss as far as I can tell…he hit into a double play (yet again) in the early inings and darn near did it again a couple innings later (he ended up beating out a throw to first after the K.C. third baseman bobbLED INITIALLY. i AGREE 100%…STOP THE SHEFFIELD EXPERIMENT….

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:50:26 +0000

It’s kind of like quicksand, it just keeps getting worse and worse.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:06:54 +0000

I can’t make myself go quite as far as saying they’re done for the year just yet. It’s still early. That being said, things aren’t all that promising. I wonder what the real issue is. Are they just not that talented? Are they trying their hardest? Do they think they’ll be able to turn it on in June and still make a playoff push? I don’t get what’s going on.

By: Flying J

Flying J — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:14:55 +0000

I hate to say this, but it really may be time to close the book on the hopes for this year and start thinking about how to get the team back to contention next year. Right now the team is dealing with BOTH big trades smacking them about the neck, chest, face area. Both Jair and Miller are starting to hit grooves (Marlins in 1st place btw) and we’ve got a pudgy 1B man who is learning the position and a creaky/streaky SS. It’s just not good. And frankly? Nothing is working right now.

The central — though odd — is too talented to keep hovering around mediocrity. At some point, one of these teams is going to pull away. The problem for the Tigers is that EVERYTHING has fallen apart.

Now the changes:
(1) Leyland? Maybe after this year he doesn’t want to manage this team anymore. I could see him walking out of frustration.
(2) Chuck? I agree it would be scapegoating but I think you’ve got to try a change. The pitching staff is just uniformly bad. To do nothing is just to accept it. I think they’ve got to unload him.
(3) Trade the old bats? Try to dump Sheff to a streaking contender at the end of the year? Maybe do that with Pudge?

I hope I’m wrong, but there’s just no juice right now. Maybe the team needs to play “I Will Survive” in the locker room with a bull dog wearing a tiger sweatshirt that rhythmically covers his eyes with his paws. Maybe not.