TIGERS 08 SEASON THREAD

[OLD SKOOL HQ]

Originally Posted by ggazoo69

I hate to see that worthless TV show getting all this pub.

YouTube - Eight is Enough season 3 intro

I CAN POST AGAIN!!!!!WOOO-HOO! I told myself I wouldnt post until we won a game! Now I can attack black (inside joke...see "the Nutty Professor")...

1. Gazoo- I used to have fantasies about the daughters on "8" show. Not one of them looked alike!!! Ah, to be 15 and not in control of my facilities again! Sigh......(did u know the original mom thay died was dating Henry Winkler who was 12 yrs younger at the time? The joke was that only Tv could give Dick Van Patten a wife like that!)

2. Tigers look so.... scared? Its still a lonnnng season. Lets see if we can win 2 of 3 for a while.

3. Here's a tough stat. Lets say Detroit wants to win 90 games. We're 1-7 ..to go 10-10 after 20 games (my goal) we have to go 9-3, a .750 pct. To get to 90 wins, we need to go 80-62, a .567 pct. Not to hard to do, eh?

feel better?

[mikhail1973]

Originally Posted by OLD SKOOL HQ

I CAN POST AGAIN!!!!!WOOO-HOO! I told myself I wouldnt post until we won a game! Now I can attack black (inside joke...see "the Nutty Professor")...

1. Gazoo- I used to have fantasies about the daughters on "8" show. Not one of them looked alike!!! Ah, to be 15 and not in control of my facilities again! Sigh......(did u know the original mom thay died was dating Henry Winkler who was 12 yrs younger at the time? The joke was that only Tv could give Dick Van Patten a wife like that!)

2. Tigers look so.... scared? Its still a lonnnng season. Lets see if we can win 2 of 3 for a while.

3. Here's a tough stat. Lets say Detroit wants to win 90 games. We're 1-7 ..to go 10-10 after 20 games (my goal) we have to go 9-3, a .750 pct. To get to 90 wins, we need to go 80-62, a .567 pct. Not to hard to do, eh?

feel better?

Hey, HQ, if it is not too hard to go 80-62, why so few teams manage to do so?

[mikhail1973]

I guess Tigers farm system is not all that depleted after all.

Tigers roving instructor likes makeup of Whitecaps - Extra Base Hits - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

Roof said the No. 1 goal for the players is to develop enough to warrant moving up the Tigers' minor league ladder. Many of the current Whitecaps have that potential, Roof said.
"You have to take ability and mesh and mold it into that Detroit kind of player," he said. "This team has a little more experience, but the Tigers don't look at ages."

[mikhail1973]

Tigers-Red Sox: Finally! Tigers Are off the Schneid | Bleacher Report

Go ahead and call me a foolish optimist, but after tonight, I am very confident in the Detroit Tigers' playoff chances.
Yes, the Tigers are now 1-7, a record nobody would have predicted before the season, and have played some sloppy baseball along the way, but I have to say that I have never felt so much confidence in a team with this record.
Tonight, I think that the Tigers got over the hump. They beat a pretty good pitcher in Jon Lester, and held the mighty Boston lineup to two runs.

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playoffs are along ways away but some positives

Boston 4-5
Yankees 4-5
Cleveland 4-5

So none of the favorites are gettting away to a great start either....

[OLD SKOOL HQ]

Originally Posted by mikhail1973

Hey, HQ, if it is not too hard to go 80-62, why so few teams manage to do so?

thats why i said it would take that JUST to win 90 games....note not myy sarcasm did you?

[LA Dre]

Originally Posted by OLD SKOOL HQ

I CAN POST AGAIN!!!!!WOOO-HOO! I told myself I wouldnt post until we won a game! Now I can attack black (inside joke...see "the Nutty Professor")...

1. Gazoo- I used to have fantasies about the daughters on "8" show. Not one of them looked alike!!! Ah, to be 15 and not in control of my facilities again! Sigh......(did u know the original mom thay died was dating Henry Winkler who was 12 yrs younger at the time? The joke was that only Tv could give Dick Van Patten a wife like that!)

2. Tigers look so.... scared? Its still a lonnnng season. Lets see if we can win 2 of 3 for a while.

3. Here's a tough stat. Lets say Detroit wants to win 90 games. We're 1-7 ..to go 10-10 after 20 games (my goal) we have to go 9-3, a .750 pct. To get to 90 wins, we need to go 80-62, a .567 pct. Not to hard to do, eh?

feel better?

HQ, you can't pull a hollywood comment over on me my astute alumni brother from EMU and CT, so I must correct you here and say that it was actually John Travolta who was involved with the late Diana Hyland who played the first wife of DVP on 8 is enuf, and he was 18 years younger than her.

Diana Hyland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Travolta

Oh yeah, I am predicting an 84-78 season and five games out of the wildcard spot

[mikhail1973]

Cabrera is clearly pressing as he strikes out for the 2nd time. This time in the 3rd inning with bases loaded and 1 out.

[mikhail1973]

And Guillen pops out to leave the bases loaded. After 3 innings Tigers have no hits, but they have 4 walks and a HBP. Wakefield has thrown 71 pitches through 3. Robertson needs to hold the fort down until the bats get going.

[mikhail1973]

Well, Robertson comes through in the 3rd after giving up a leadoff double to our good pal Sean Casey, and Tigers finally break through scoring 2 runs - one on sacrifice fly by Inge and another on a single by Polanco. Wakefield has already thrown 94 pitches in 4.