Posted in detroit tigers, jason grilli, suss on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Whoa.
Jason Grilli is leaving the team that has been a big part of his family since his father pitched for Detroit in the late 1970s.
The Tigers traded Grilli on Wednesday to the Rockies in exchange for Minor League prospect Zach Simons, a Class A right-handed reliever.
Wait a second. You tell a first-person story about a [...]
Posted in Official Recognizers of The Big Tilde, big tilde, detroit tigers, dingers!, jerkwheat, son of grander on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, uh, it’s been a busy few days in the world of The Big Tilde. As evidenced in the previous post, we finally cracked televised media with Fox Sports listing “The Big Tilde” as one of Magglio’s nicknames. We’re pretty happy about this development considering we are just three guys who randomly decided this should [...]
Posted in Official Recognizers of The Big Tilde, big tilde, fox sports, magglio ordonez, suss on April 29, 2008 | 13 Comments »
This completely dodged me during Saturday’s win over the Angels, but in the bottom of the 5th inning we got this player profile from Magglio Ordoñez:
We befriendeth you, Rupert Murdoch. Kind of.
Posted in jason grilli, off day tales, suss on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Okay, so we didn’t really feel like talking about the series against the Angels. Can you blame us? Mothers, did you notice your babies stop crying right around when Justin Verlander was pulled from the game? And the players with more than 1 win on the team: Armando “non-non-Hodgkins” Galarraga, Clay Rapada, and Aquilino Lopez. [...]
Posted in big tilde, dingers!, food metaphors, magglio ordonez, suss on April 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Nothing silences food critics better than twice-baked potatoes. Just look at ‘em. Melts R.W. Apple’s heart every time. Moreover nothing silences baseball critics better than twice-baked home runs. And nothing certainly welds a baseball article together better than food metaphors. Wilmer Tilderrama had himself an appetite for destruction on the caloric Jason Jennings, smashing two [...]
Posted in big tilde, brandon inge, clay rapada, dingers!, jerkwheat, magglio ordonez, mig tilde, miguel cabrera, oh snap, son of grander on April 24, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What a game last night at Ford Field Comerica. Things were not looking too good early on, as The Gambler was getting hit early and often. The Rangers jumped out to an early 5-0 lead as we headed into the home half of the 2nd…and that’s when things got interesting. BInge knocked in a run, [...]
Posted in big tilde, dingers!, magglio ordonez, milestone cufflinks, suss on April 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
And with one mighty swing toward the heavens, the Swoosh Buckler himself, Los Tilde Maximus, Magglio Ordoñez, collected his 1000th career RBI, by driving himself in with a “homed run.” His Tildeness’ solo homer prompted The Mig Tilde to swing for a dinger of his own in the very next at bat, enabling the masses [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This moment has been coming for eight years now, the place is even more run-down, and the end appears to be finally near…Tiger Stadium could start to fall within a month.
The demolition contract has been awarded.
“The current plan calls for one corner of the stadium, from dugout to dugout, to be saved for conversion into [...]
Posted in detroit tigers, dingers!, jerkwheat on April 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Soooooooooo close to a shutout - thank you, Todd Jones Experience, for being the bigger man and allowing Toronto to score a meaningless run at the end of the game. It was a very nice thing of you to do. It has embiggened us all.
The real star of the day was, once again, rookie hurler [...]
Posted in jerkwheat, oh snap on April 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Once again, it all came down to one bad inning. Take away the fourth, and the Tigers inch another game closer to .500. Then again, take away the fourth and you’ve only got eight innings and an incomplete ball game. Gum Time fell to 0-2 on the season and A.J. Burnett improved to 2-1 as [...]
