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Game One – Royals 5 Tigers 4

Posted in dingers!, jerkwheat, magglio ordonez, miguel cabrera on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Alas, Opening Day was not kind to the followers of The Tilde. While our hero went 2 for 5 on the day with a double, sadly the Tilde was not able to bring anyone across the plate this afternoon in Detroit. In better news, Miguel Cabrera (aka The Mig Tilde) may have only gone 1 [...]

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Inge-nious

Posted in brandon inge, jim leyland, son of grander, tuffy on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

“A real shame about Son of Grander breaking his finger like that. I know he won’t be gone long, but we’ll still miss his…”
“Wait, Son of Grander is hurt?”
“Yes, only this past eve, he…”
“His spot is open?”
“Well, for a few weeks, there will be a need for…”
“I’ll do it.”
“I… okay. What?”
“I’ll take his [...]

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Sit and Spin, Fate!

Posted in oh snap, son of grander on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Noooooooooooooo.

That pitch (Son of Grander) took off of his hand on Saturday? It turned out to fracture his middle finger, right around the base. The hope at this point is that he’ll be in a split for about two weeks and hopefully be able to return to action soon after that once he gets back [...]

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BFF4EVA!

Posted in big tilde, little tilde, magglio ordonez, miguel cabrera, oh snap on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Heavens.
Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers reached a preliminary agreement Saturday on an eight-year, $153.3 million contract extension, a source close to Cabrera told ESPNdeportes.com on condition of anonymity.
Big Tilde, meet your running mate for MVP ‘08 and the VP of your administration for the next two terms.
Also, in case anyone in the AL was [...]

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